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fiveFeet··on Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline
What is the name of this credit union?
fiveFeet··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··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··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··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··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··on Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
I use mr [1] for this

[1] - https://myrepos.branchable.com/

fiveFeet··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··on BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
Is there a free version of the article available? The link requires paid subscription.
fiveFeet··on How to Remember Anything Forever-ish
That is awesome! Very engaging, informative and useful!
fiveFeet··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··on Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?
Zim is awesome for note taking. Highly recommended.
fiveFeet··on Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?
Thank you!
fiveFeet··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··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··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··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··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··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··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?
fiveFeet··on eBay Is Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the Bay Area
Thank you for mentioning this. It gives a much better perspective.
fiveFeet··on Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about – and they're weird
One thing to note is that all the newfound moons are small, between about 1 and 3 kilometres across.
fiveFeet··on GitHub is down
Haha! Good joke!
fiveFeet··on Teaching R to New Users – From tapply to the Tidyverse
New users should probably learn Python instead of R.
fiveFeet··on Vim Cheat Sheat for Programmers by Michael Pohoreski
That is super cool! Thanks for sharing!
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?
I used to be a big fan of octave until I learned python + numpy + pandas dataframes. After that I did not have much need for octave.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
Gives good results. Thanks for providing the link.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: What is your favorite way of taking notes?
Zim is awesome on a local machine. For remote work, I stick to vim. All the notes are stored in a gitlab repository which makes it easy when switching across machines.
fiveFeet··on Updated Linode Plans / New Larger Linodes
Are the cloud hosting services profitable at these very low prices or are they reducing the prices just to gain market share? If it is the latter, sooner or later they have to increase prices, no?
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?
This book is a great read. It is about how homo sapiens became the most powerful species on earth. It changed the way I used to think about various things such as religion, capitalism, nationalism, race, gender, equality, independence etc.,
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