fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline
What is the name of this credit union?
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fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]
^ This! Very similar experience here! Moved to Python from Matlab and never looked back.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Larry Fink's 2019 Letter to CEOs: Purpose and Profit
I wish there is a mechanism in which investors get to vote on the underlying shares when they invest in funds managed by the asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity etc., Currently, it is the other way around. Investors give money to asset managers and they get to vote on the underlying shares.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group and creator of the index fund, dies age 89
RIP! It is a bit weird that cnbc link [1] shows 2018/12/14 in the URL even though he died on 2019-01-16.
[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/jack-bogle-founder-of-vangua...
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Announcing unlimited free private repos
My employer, a financial services firm in New York, blocks both gitlab and bitbucket due to their free private repos. Even though they allowed github until now, I am worried that they will soon start blocking that as well! :(
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which domain registrar and hosting provider do you prefer?
Another happy customer of namesilo.com here! I have three domains with them for about a year. No complaints. Everything just works.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
I use mr [1] for this
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Q: Run SQL Directly on CSV Files
Came here to tell about csvkit and the csvsql that comes with it. Highly recommended. It is one of the first things I install on a new system.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
Is there a free version of the article available? The link requires paid subscription.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: How to Remember Anything Forever-ish
That is awesome! Very engaging, informative and useful!
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
Touch typing - got me interested in programming
Python - made programming enjoyable
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?
Zim is awesome for note taking. Highly recommended.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
Thank you!
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: The Most Notorious Towing Company in Chicago Gets the Boot
Exactly what I was wondering. Looks like it has been going on for more than half a century as per the article.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Online brokerage stocks sink on JP Morgan's plan to offer free trading
"Free trading" here is a bit misleading. Only the first 100 trades are free.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: 25 years and counting – Bits from Debian
Debian is a great OS. Kudos to all those involved in making the project a tremendous success.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
Hmmm... why? What is so different between trading 100 shares vs 1,000 shares vs 100,000 shares? Trading is automated enough that a linear cost is not justified.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
The cost to run an etf does not (or at least should not) increase with Assets Under Management (AUM). So if anything the providers should be charging a fixed fee for the whole index fund instead of charging based on the AUM.
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: David Einhorn: Hedge fund's performance 'far worse than we could have imagined'
Where is the investor letter referred to in the article?
fiveFeet | 7 years ago | on: China kills Qualcomm's $44B deal for NXP
Qualcomm is an american chip maker and NXP is a Dutch chip maker. Why do they need approval from Chinese regulators to merge? Can someone please clarify?
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