bradshaw1965

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by bradshaw1965 3y ago
<<The existence of call-center work, which is intrinsically dehumanizing and unrelentingly laborious, is considered a failure of our society The people in the article find it one of the best jobs available and a path to a middle class
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by bradshaw1965 5y ago
If by wealthy having 90th percentile investments 10 years before normal retirement age then these plans are well equipped to make you wealthy. Get rich slow totally works.
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by bradshaw1965 7y ago
Glancing at the abstract it looks like 97% lose money, what larger number in a more suitable sample size would make a difference? I've heard low single digits of traders and investors deliver Alpha. Impossible? no. Highly efficent? Yes
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by bradshaw1965 7y ago
What's the point of even building a website if Google is just going to scrape the information and put in a SERP? You need to add value and build a relationship with your customer.
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by bradshaw1965 7y ago
It's important to distinguish market cap based indexes and other asset class indexes. Small and micro-caps are notoriously hard to trade but mega-caps typically have much higher liquidity. There is a much higher chance of a micro-cap p
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by bradshaw1965 9y ago
Growth of 10K tool on Morningstar is really handy so that you aren't comparing apples to oranges with dividends, splits, etc.
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by bradshaw1965 11y ago
... Google is valued highly today because they print money today. They print money because of search and advertising. They are really good at this and that's why their market cap exceed's Apple's today. ... That would be corr
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by bradshaw1965 11y ago
Both companies will struggle for the kind of revenue growth Wall Street is looking for. Ad sales account for 99% of Google revenue, with speculative ventures generating less then $500 million. It's all about finding products and servic
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
There are pressures from both the earn and the spend side, but the surest path to misery is living above your means. Dickens had it pretty much nailed with, "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
I love how the engineers in "Halt and Catch Fire" are always talking about "the laws of physics".
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
The More Cocoa Programming for OS X: book has been in O'Reilly Rough Cuts beta for several years and the tech is pretty old at this point. Not sure if it ever will see the light of day. The Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is updated reg
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
At least part of the problem was the resentment that people felt about needing to sign up to paid service to keep their identity and follow their friends. Their was implied social proof in the very beginning but with a pretty big arm twis
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
Yep. Should have expressed that it is non-linear.
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
... Chronic lack of exercise causes people to sleep 9+ hours per day. Put those same people on regular aerobic exercise regimes, and they start sleeping <8 hours. Peak performance exercise can demand 9+ hours of sleep. I'd be reluct
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
Who said anything about completely eliminating OpenGL ES? SceneKit writes to OpenGL, OpenGL views are pervasive, WebGL is turned on in Safari, CALayers are OpenGL backed. Metal just lets you tweak the render pipeline.
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
Provocative title, but probably overstated. SceneKit uses OpenGL directly with shaders and deferred rendering. Metal seems likely to become more mainstream as engine developers adopt the tech, but there are going to be lots of developers wh
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by bradshaw1965 12y ago
Maybe people who are overly concerned about their food consumption, of which vegetarianism is a subset, are more likely to be neurotic.
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
Not sure what ...help you keep a level proprietorship with your llc or whatever company you have producing the app... means, but from the read me for brushes from the same developer... One of my motivations for releasing the source code for
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
...a group of professionals have examined you, your team, and your idea and decided that it's worthwhile risking a sum of money backing you... You could make a similar case for mortgage approvals before the financial crisis.
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
I think it's likely that a particular community, language, tooling combination is likely to resonate with a particular person. Although reading a few well reasoned articles might give you a hunch of which one to choose, it's likel
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
The same comparisons were made when Flash was being misused. It doesn't take much to muddy an ecosystem. There were certainly other problems with Flash, but thinking that best practices for JS will filter through to most developers is
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
Dribble Crowd? Yep, what the world needs now is yet another cultural stereotype.
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produced "Red gets read!" lore in d
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
...The bullshit part is trying to apply a geographic model of governance... You could use a VAT, but that won't appease the state constituencies looking for more revenues. Taxes are hard, full of unintended consequences and conflicting stak
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
When they are they laugh in the face of the peon daring to question his greatness.
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by bradshaw1965 13y ago
Male CEO's can act like alpha animals, take what they want and flaunt blingy perks, but let a woman build a nursery... Employees never get the same perks as CEO's.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
10 year, very lightly hedged, mostly specific prediction is hard. Pretty good job, I think.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
Wasn't a whole lot of spam in 1978 when first published.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
A vast percentage of all companies fail. Take a look at stock market listings from 20,50, 100 years ago. The question is what kind of value was produced from the organization.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
You're correct in the quote being the inverse in intent. It's still a big call on a nascent tech. Big calls on nascent tech tend to be wrong.

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