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by revel 8y ago
This is the opposite of surprising and writing scare headlines betrays an extremely shallow understanding of the mortgage market. Simply put, the GSEs were created to underwrite high quality mortgages, in fact they are legally compelled to
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by revel 8y ago
I'd agree with you if the point of the survey was to collect information, but I think the structure of the survey makes it pretty clear that this isn't the intent. Just from my own experience, I have used the overwhelming majority
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by revel 8y ago
Since there are already quite a lot of responses to your original question I'll instead address a specific aspect of your post: when you have an old legacy system that you don't want to build on any more it is almost never the r
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by revel 8y ago
I agree with you but I do think the problem has become significantly worse since ES6.
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by revel 8y ago
Since ES6 JS has been attempting to satisfy two radically different models for software development: the classic Object Oriented Programming (OOP) style and a Functional Programming (FP) approach. Some frameworks are better suited to an OOP
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by revel 8y ago
I like the "Where did the plastic come from?" section in this article. Pretty sure it was a fish that carelessly tossed away the bag after going grocery shopping.
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by revel 8y ago
Are you sticking up for yourself by pretending to be a different poster? *Edit: reworded this
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by revel 8y ago
On the investing side, being excessively conservative with your money is often worse than being too aggressive. By holding all your wealth in cash you're trading an explicit set of risks for an invisible set. Holding lots of cash or fi
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by revel 8y ago
I also had a hard time finding performance. It's listed in the grey bar at the top of each language. I'd love to see this comparison expanded to a few other languages (particularly C/C++ with custom memory allocation).
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by revel 9y ago
Injecting a delegate into an otherwise vanilla smart contract doesn't seem like the hard part of creating an upgradeable contract. The hard part is coming up with a consensus model for agreeing to the change. Bilateral agreement doesn&
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by revel 9y ago
It's not the job that's hard to explain, it's explaining the willful lack of income that's hard.
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by revel 9y ago
This article is about revolutionary technology that we all expect will show up at some point, but when that will happen is uncertain. I don't think we're all that close to true conversational computing -- I think that would herald
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by revel 9y ago
Express Scripts is primarily a PBM. It's not the same business
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by revel 9y ago
I started a company and chose couchbase. We haven't launched yet, so I've been using the community version and cobbling stuff together. In this context: please, for the love of God, improve your documentation and dev tools. I love
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by revel 9y ago
The unfortunate reality is that the 20th century legal code is ill equipped for dealing with software firms. Up until about 1980-1990 it didn't matter all that much, but tech firms are now the largest, fastest growing and most powerful
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by revel 9y ago
I, for one, am shocked to hear this. Shocked I say
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by revel 10y ago
The point of the article is really that using bitcoin means using a lot of wildly dysfunctional intermediaries. USD to bitcoin and back again is, almost certainly, the most liquid market there is. It's a scalding indictment of bitcoin
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by revel 11y ago
Starboard telling us with action what they thought of Melissa Mayer's 3 year plan
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by revel 11y ago
Yahoo has already transitioned into being a niche advertising and media company. That's not necessarily a problem, but Yahoo still fancies itself as big tech player and that hasn't been the case for over a decade. It may make sens
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by revel 11y ago
I think you should consider trying to find a different specialist. Mental health conditions are notorious for requiring highly individualized treatment. From what you've said it also sounds a bit like you might have a panic disorder an
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by revel 12y ago
I liked the part where he quotes himself