drelihan

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by drelihan 3y ago
Comparing Python to Perl ( assuming equal experience with both ): If you are a good programmer, you will write good Perl and Python code. If you are a bad programmer, you will likely write terribly horrendous Perl code and slightly less hor
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by drelihan 3y ago
Probably referring to recent articles / interviews that claim how large tech companies over-hired in efforts to take supply out of the market for competitors. https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/google-over-hi
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by drelihan 6y ago
For those looking to make a good investment to “create a desirable urban space”, there are many ways to donate to non-profit (museums, theaters, local schools, libraries, co-ops, etc) to achieve that. A coffee shop, or even funeral home, co
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by drelihan 6y ago
Was expecting more info on how repayment works thru the revenue sharing notes - not clear what percentage of revenue a business is agreeing to pay or how much teeth these notes actually have. I would expect most of these “investments” to en
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by drelihan 6y ago
Pay attention. This is how you rant.
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by drelihan 7y ago
Agreed! Once we automate one task, we move onto the next. Some of the automation requires tending over time, but order of magnitude less than the manual intervention than before. There is always more to do, even if it might not be in your i
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by drelihan 7y ago
I’d rather invest in just that company, one that can continue reinvesting profits in itself at attractive returns year in and out. I can sit back and let compounding work it’s magic ( although at some point in my life I will switch from a
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by drelihan 7y ago
No, the corporation retires the shares after the buyback. Total outstanding shares decrease. All remaining shareholders get a larger percent ownership of the corporation
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by drelihan 7y ago
Buybacks are effectively taxed at the same rate as dividends, at least qualified dividends, just timing differs: Simple case with a corporation worth $200 with two equal shareholders, who each paid $100 for their half of the company and are
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by drelihan 7y ago
My two top ( by dollars and attention ) are: - Walker School ( walkercares.org ) - special education and behavioral care for children and their families. Why Support? This is a local organization that serves a population of young children t
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by drelihan 7y ago
Big difference is that a surgeon cannot fiddle around with a liver, jam it back in the body, wake the patient up, test how the change works, and address (or revert if really messed up) any unexpected and unwanted behavior. I agree "Web
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by drelihan 7y ago
Others.
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by drelihan 7y ago
Have it do one thing very well and document it clearly so users can build it into their own processes. If it is more complicated than that ( i.e. must do several things very well with ever-changing needs ), document it clearly and include a
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by drelihan 7y ago
You own 40% of the company right now and Jim owns 60% ( assuming all common stock ). If you sold the company right now, that should be the ratio to use to divvy up the proceeds due to the common shareholders. Assuming no vesting / claw
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by drelihan 7y ago
Imagine there was a cookie market made up of two types of cookies, tasty and meh. An active investor in cookies would spend time determining which cookies are likely tasty and which are meh. They would pay more for the tastier cookies so th
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by drelihan 8y ago
No really easy way to do it. Just step through in a debugger a bunch of times and pay attention to the call stack and you'll start to get a feeling of the flow and structure of the code. That and try to tackle a number of smaller proje
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by drelihan 8y ago
... actually the U.S. Nuclear System uses 8 inch floppy disks. FISK seems to be too advanced.
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by drelihan 8y ago
How else do you think the U.S. Nuclear System shares data https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479588478... ?
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by drelihan 8y ago
Finishing my first build now. It was a tear down of an old house and replaced with a slightly larger ( ~ 4200sqft ), custom house on the same footprint. A different design ( curved roof and lots of glass ), but less site work ( e.g. drivewa
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by drelihan 8y ago
Shouldn't the criticism for IPO terms like this be directed at the money managers buying these shares on behalf of their clients? It is ultimately those making the capital allocation decision to push back on unreasonable terms. Seems l
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by drelihan 8y ago
Awesomeness?
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by drelihan 8y ago
I still use Eudora... heavily .... maybe this is a sign
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by drelihan 8y ago
Variable interest rates are only disastrous if you ignore affordability in the future as rates increase. You should know at what rates the adjustments will hurt you and at which rates the adjustments will break you. Downside if that most pe
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by drelihan 8y ago
A basic personal finance class in high school would go a long way. Anyone take one of those in high school ( or even college )?
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by drelihan 8y ago
Building the career fair website for my college while in school. There was a lot to be desired, but thousands of students had accounts and uploaded resumes, hundreds of companies registered and paid over $500k per year through the site for
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by drelihan 8y ago
Ok - first thought I had was a big model castle made out of pennies
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by drelihan 9y ago
Most of the comments seem to read a lot more into this that what the author of the article was proposing. The algorithm is sound. Talk to one person, get some knowledge/opinions and a list of other people to talk to. Repeat until no on
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by drelihan 9y ago
If support volume grows, there are three options: 1.) hire more staff 2.) keep staffing levels the same and force workers to take on more for the same pay or 3.) look at why support volume is growing and a) fix some avoidable reasons that r
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by drelihan 9y ago
Let's assume that overall, this does not make the road any more or less efficient ( i.e. the same # of product, i.e. people and goods, still pass through the highway stretch per hour ). For those whose $time_saved_in_traffic > $40,
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by drelihan 9y ago
no, if you can just write scripts to clean up the data used in the ML/AI models, you'll likely spin gold for the next decade or so.

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