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iPad Pro 11” with MarginNote 3 (majority of the time) or GoodNotes 5(?)

It does the job. Probably have more than 300 ebooks on the think and 100+ technical papers.

I have the new Logitech keyboard with touchpad. It’s a bit annoying on MarginNote, but still like it.

hey hey hey...

Uhhh what?

Beautiful work. Will be using

I’ve been waiting for a Metal Gear Solid adaptation for over 10 years. Only if David looked like snake, it would be perfect!

LPad was innovation too and that broke everything.

My first thought when I read “feel” in your comment was, “I don’t really care what they feel; if it’s in the job spec, they learn it or get a new job.”

That may be a bit harsh, but I’d rather them learn something they can use forever rather than the flavor of the week. Additionally, by learning SQL, they’d be able to apply that domain knowledge to building out queries in the flavor of the week since you know some limitations of the underlying.

True true

Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs. Abstractions on abstractions on abstractions.

I’m not seeing why I’d use this over sql. Can someone please enlighten me as I find this to be much more gobbledegook than sql.

Shouldn’t that have gone to the state’s Auditor & Controller’s Unclaimed Property dept? If you look at California’s Unclaimed Prop., you’ll see shares sitting in there. Heck, I have a few shares I need to claim.

I'm started the Deep Learning course last night and I too think it's really good. After you finished the series of courses, what did you move on to?

I read this last week (forgot where I read it) and haven't been able to find data to support what I read so take the following with a grain of salt.

Many investors owned gold as a hedge. The market's downturn happened so rapidly and violently, their other positions took a massive beating. That divergence happened because big players needed to get out of their gold position to cover margin for their other positions.

Liquidity injections from central banks, federal governments, risks of the virus are starting to be known, stairs up & elevator down tends to lead to an over reaction, price discovery, oil cuts possibly happening today with OPEC, the FED announced +2T in purchasing of junk debt this morning, and there are going to be companies coming out of this much stronger than before.

Thank you. Powerful

It went up 30%?! Wow!

Those two words have an extremely fluid definition depending on who you talk to.

Think or swim most likely

I had version control and everything

Vba has classes, enumerated, interfaces, events, collections, stacks, queues, array lists, dictionary, and more.

It was extremely easy. For awhile, I used naming conventions to keep everything organized, but then found RubberDuckVBA and there... I found enlightenment.

The codebase was clean and extensible. I built out a standard lib (I/O sync/async, networking, array methods, dictionary class, XML utilities (DOM/SAX). Then built out database functionality that included auto exporting to various formats, many tabs and with optional conditional formatting. Built the UI from the ground up to be async by building all UI components to be ‘reactive’ and have standardized interfaces. Started with just the frame & label and made my version of the modern web design in VBA’s user form. All components were reusable—from buttons, checkboxes, custom filterable drop-downs, tables, and the ability to display a subset of markdown (which allowed end users write their own documentation for the workflows they’d end up owning)

It had standardized parser interface that allowed for quick buildout of a new parser class; same for full pages. The navigation was completely dynamic and handled by the routing/navigation module. The permissions for all users were in a hosted database and the ui would only build out what the user had permission for and nothing more. SQLServer would handle user authentication as it would get the users name from the connection metadata.

I handed over the project a few months back to a former colleague, one who has only been programming for about a year and one who only knew how to do macro recordings. Since leaving, the application has thrived and is used all across the country, supporting hundreds...

Just before I moved on, I started working on a VBA native toy browser that supported basic HTML, but ended up leaving and not finishing it.

One pain in the ass was custom :hover functionality over ui components. Tried a lot... even tried hooking into window messages, but that messed up some async events...

I think I went off topic, but it wasn’t really a problem.

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Nah... why should it? It works and it does what it needs to do and more if you decide to hook into the Windows API or Mac’s API.

Want to parse 500mb structured XML file? Okay. Takes 3 seconds or so.

I had a lot of fun creating a full featured & modern look & feel application using Excel’s VBA runtime as my platform. Sure... I had to create everything from scratch, but learned so much while doing it. Kind of miss it at times since I now work with Java.

By the time I moved jobs, the codebase was +30k lines and even built an auto-updater, auto-installer, diagnostic, and AD type of authentication for the app, but most importantly saved tens of thousands of hours by automating reporting, analysis, detect errors, and querying that analysts, accounting, and some BI’s would do as part of their normal work.

VBA is great for analysts to work in Excel all day & every day who want to get into programming a little more, but want to have it apply directly to their daily work.

Now.... I wish Access does die...

How bad are they disrupted? Any idea when they’ll be back up? If you have backup suppliers, are they down too?

Check out Agenda, MarginNote 3, or Zotero

For the past few weeks, I’ve been going back and forth with the notion of hiring a private tutor/teacher (not in school and not for work) that’s in a PhD program at a local uni for a few months.

For the past +5 years, I’ve been teaching myself programming, math, and any related matters, yet it’s a slow and grueling process with many side paths that I go down. I’m tired of this! I want to dive into a book on financial derivative modeling and have someone next to me explain any concepts I don’t understand instead of me going down the rabbit hole and extending the time it takes to complete my goal.

Have any of you ever tried this? If so, how’d it go?

Stop. Full stop...

This contract would add about $250m in additional each quarter. Their last Q’s revenue was somewhere in the neighborhood of $33b.

Just stop with your nonsense.

Actually, in Excel, you can have unlimited rows by using power query.

Incredibly odd, but so awesome

If rates go lower, current bond’s prices will increase. I’d look into TLT if you believe America’s rates will go lower.

Note that the author is pricing European options, not American options. The standard BSM formula is for European options, not American. If anyone wants to dive deep into a lot of the different models out there, check out The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas by Espen Haug(1).

His site has some wonderful material too(2). I especially like his ‘Exotic Option Fantasy Land’(3)

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(1) https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Option-Pricing-Formula...

(2) http://www.espenhaug.com/articles.html

(3) http://www.espenhaug.com/manhat.html