I have a OSX desktop and a Windows 10 laptop...I hate using my laptop and am thinking of dual booting with Ubuntu. I just wish I could go entirely Ubuntu but I would miss Lightroom/Photoshop and MS Office too much.
I know that there are linux alternatives but I find them awkward to use and much prefer the Adobe/MS suite.
Interesting that they were generating pretty insignificant returns and their accounts got flagged.
Their bets were not that large $50... wonder what aspect of their play got them flagged.
I would assume the bookies are aware of when they are offering an odd that is above market...they also would know that this is an areas where they are potentially exposed. So maybe they report on that and see who is betting exclusively on those positions?
Confusing though - because they are often offering those odds because they want to balance their position to reduce risk...so wouldn't they want people to be on those odds?
Hahaha... I wrote almost the exact same thing in Go a few months ago (didn't open source it because I am a selfish fucker).
Edit: Actually upon further inspection, mine is a little different in that I have a settings.json file that has the bottoken so it isn't in the code.
Also I have an allowed users list in the settings.json file and only users in that list are able to interact with the bot (/subscribe, /unsubscribe). Once a user is subscribed then they get all notifications. So it is more of a broadcast type usecase.
With the impending split I would probably sell it all now and deal with the consequences of that later because they might be worth significantly less by the end of the month.
I did some video re-encoding for a small side project I worked on last winter and ended up using x265. I really wanted VP9 to be an acceptable option but the encoding times were ridiculous...like 5x slower than the equivalent quality in x265.
Should I quit it (brokeback style), spend some time making it mobile + setting a annual fee and trying to find the magic adwords amount to grow my userbase without losing money or keep on keeping on (trying to make some ad revenue with my current userbase of 150ish)
Thanks... I introduced the popup for facebook sign-in and it didn't change my conversion for new (adwords) visitors but like 10% more signed up with facebook so I kept it.
My site posts a timeline post when a user creates a new round (unless you have turned that off). So it is kind of a free impression so I prefer facebook sign-ups. Maybe that is a project for the winter make it mobile (jquery mobile?) and implement some sort of payment system. $10/year seems fair to me. Just have to figure out an amount that will cover my hosting + adwords spend on a typical month.
"Dear Mr. Woodhill,
I am embarrassed for you writing such an article when GM currently has about $40 billion in cash and liquid assets in the bank and is projected to earn
about $4.00 per share next year which comes to another $8 billion profit to add to it. GM currently has enough cash in the bank and liquid assets on hand to buy back ALL of it’s shares at the current market price if it chose to do so. GM’s liabilities per the balance sheet are maybe $15 billion which is very manageable for a company of GM’s size. The shortfall in the pension and benefits is estimated depending on who you check it out with between
$15 and $25 billion. GM has well over $100 billion on hand in its pension trust fund and the shortfall is payable over many years into the future. There has just been a law enacted which increases the future interest rate expected on the future returns for pension plans that will significantly decrease the present value of the future obligations and GM has billions in tax deferrals to use up.
It doesn’t matter if GM loses some market share as they are downsizing. What matters is how much profit they are making whether they are first in sales or not. A big problem GM had before was that they strove to be #1 regardless of their profit status or the reputation they were sacrificing to remain first in sales. I will be very happy to send you a contribution to enable you to sign up for Security Analysis 101 as it appears you have never taken that course or need a refresher." -- First Comment. This pretty much sums up the article. Bullshit.
If you skip TDD then you should make sure that you take the time to build out test cases with full coverage.
I can't tell you the number of times I have made a change then run regression testing and found unforeseen failures which I wouldn't have caught without my test cases.
I know that there are linux alternatives but I find them awkward to use and much prefer the Adobe/MS suite.