shoo

52 ms·

541.
by shoo 5y ago
> the FMV and strike price are equivalent at time of grant (now) [therefore] there is not yet any inherent "value" to these options. i think the implication here may not be correct: one component of the value of options comes
542.
by shoo 5y ago
Task queue pattern is not unique to python. Consider where you see physical queues of people in real world: e.g. people lining up to be served at supermarket, to board aircraft, to enter a concert. The purpose of the queue is an orderly wa
543.
by shoo 5y ago
at the day job i see quite a few fresh potential SQL injection vulns when i do code review or when reading through existing code. many of our colleagues in the industry are junior and haven't had to learn this yet or have deep experti
544.
by shoo 5y ago
Buffett also achieved enough scale where he could buy a controlling stake in some small public companies. Amidst some of the folksy quotes, a fair bit of money was also made by Buffett & co sending in a new manager to a freshly acquire
545.
by shoo 5y ago
here's another anecdote you might find entertaining: i invested in one company late last year based on an initial screen using this kind of extrapolation of historical financials, and a bit more reading through the company's annua
546.
by shoo 5y ago
you've identified one of the key weaknesses of this general valuation approach. trying to make forward-looking predictions extrapolating a decade or two out based upon backward-looking financial metrics may only make sense in situation
547.
by shoo 5y ago
tangential recommendation: if you enjoy reading longform articles about logistics, check out Marc Levinson's book "The Box" about the history of the shipping container. there's a bunch of interesting aspects: the shifti
548.
by shoo 5y ago
If you have the time, please share a bit more detail about the modelling approach + assumptions used for the DCF. I'd find that pretty interesting and suspect others would also. Whenever I've tried to run my own DCF analyses, I&#x
549.
by shoo 5y ago
if you regard pure math as "the real thing" when it comes to mathematics, then it is a shame in my country that the first exposure that students have to this is in 2nd year of university studies, if they opt in to analysis & a
550.
by shoo 5y ago
tangent --- it is interesting watching highly skilled players navigating draft in magic the gathering. quite different mechanics to how deck building operates in sts. one idea is having a good working understanding of "the format&quot
551.
by shoo 5y ago
what i'm hearing is that you have insufficient pi. if the dhcp were a pi and the nas were a pi, then they'd be ready before your doing-stuff pi timed out
552.
by shoo 5y ago
that thread has significantly more information: it links to the reuters report that names the supplier, notes Toyota's JIT manufacturing strategy.
553.
by shoo 5y ago
> something that executes the docker build and then kicks the jobs off - right? yep. there's build time and deploy time. build time generally coincides with peer review: build happens because someone changes something, all changes a
554.
by shoo 5y ago
> MARKET VALUE What is the employee worth to another employer? This can be judged fairly easily with some quick googling and job posts. I disagree, I don't believe you can get a clear estimate of the value generated by the role from
555.
by shoo 5y ago
Ansible has a very low barrier to entry in terms of dependencies that need to be installed into the machines you want to manage: they need to have python 2.6+ or python 3.5+, and you need to be able to connect to the machines over ssh. One
556.
by shoo 5y ago
At the $dayjob I don't see anyone use ansible or comparable tools (chef, puppet, ...) any more. It's all managed cloud services and containers. Much of the job that ansible or other config management tools might have done is handl
557.
by shoo 5y ago
In practice, the company is not an entity able to set objectives or make decisions, decisions are made and influenced by individuals, and often the incentives of individuals are _not_ aligned with maximising stockholder profits. In many cas
558.
by shoo 5y ago
lithops activities involve patching cracks with mortar, ensuring adequate stockpiles of stone and tools are on hand to replace any failures that occur due to extreme weather events, centuries of erosion, or physical shocks. which brings us,
559.
by shoo 5y ago
(function(v,e,c,k,a,n,u){v['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=a;v[a]=v[a]||function() ... ha!
560.
by shoo 5y ago
if there is an afterlife and (joy of joys) it is some kind of personalised hell, maybe anyone with the discipline to methodically dekipple during their life finds themselves trapped in a pile of said kipple
561.
by shoo 5y ago
> Having Siberian Huskies I once tried to figure out if I could live off the back of a sled and have the huskies be my means of transport. The sled would have needed to be 5 meters long and about 2 tall so I abandoned the idea! perhaps y
562.
by shoo 5y ago
some of that luckiness is probably due the tree. what we need to do is breed a second generation of especially lucky stools from the same stock. 1. germinate new oak trees from genetic material recovered from lucky stool (1-20 years, say)
563.
by shoo 5y ago
you seem to have a deeper knowledge of the business & organisational context that dictate the true requirements than someone working there. please share these details so we can all learn!
564.
by shoo 5y ago
if i could only afford a single test, i'd much prefer it to be an integration test rather than a unit test. but, some kinds of code can permit a huge number of execution paths with different behaviour and interactions that need to be t
565.
by shoo 5y ago
What's the least testable code you've had the pleasure of dealing with? From my first commercial software job: a few thousand lines of complex C++ (mix of decoding the output of a mathematical model mixed with business rules) stru
566.
by shoo 5y ago
switching job to a new team with different tech and different business/domain context every couple of years can be a way to keep things fresh. you probably get the biggest impulse of variety by switching employer or clients. you can al
567.
by shoo 5y ago
For Australia's national fibre rollout, from about 8 years ago, back-of-the-envelope costs for running fibre were something like AUD 20 / metre to run aerial lines between existing poles, around AUD 100 / metre for new trench
568.
by shoo 5y ago
thanks for linking to the paper, that contains considerably more information
569.
by shoo 5y ago
I did a bit of contract work for a place with over a million lines of custom python 2.x scripts that ran inside of a python interpreter embedded in a proprietary product which made it difficult to do things like write and execute unit tests
570.
by shoo 5y ago
> Anybody who complained or criticized were branded as not being team players or being old-school truly being a team player would be to realise the team identity does not include the company but is instead built around professional ident

More ›