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The difference is 1.09%, not 9%. Also, what was the time delta between those quotes?

I have no way of predicting Snap’s future, but I am certain that tomorrow, the founders and VCs will take hundreds of millions off the table through share sales, the investment bankers will earn fat fees, ditto the deal lawyers, some people will buy in hoping for a quick buck on a first-day big pop, and founders and VCs all around will be looking for increased pre-IPO valuations. That’s what this show is, and the rest is just speculation.

Of course you have the right not to tip, it's optional after all, but many people do choose to give tips, and then the question is whether part of the tip is being skimmed off by Instacart.

Restaurants have paid large fines under the Fair Labor Standards Act for tip skimming; I have no idea if FLSA applies here, but if a consumer chooses to tip, s/he has a reasonable expectation that the money will be going to the person providing the service and not to the person's employer.

That was the motto on the Washington family coat of arms before he was born. It's a quote from Ovid.

Taiwanese companies such as Foxconn with extensive operations on the mainland may be particularly vulnerable if the Trump government insists on making the one China policy a bargaining chip in trade negotiations. We’ll see how it all plays out, but the worst case would obviously impact Apple and a few other US tech companies.

I'm looking at the excepts in his post, which are broken.

The “optimized” functions have a bug when the number of remaining bytes is less than the block size.

'Laid off' is ambiguous: it can mean either a temporary suspension (i.e., a factory lays off some workers until conditions improve) or a permanent job loss. I haven't seen any suggestion that these job loses at Theranos are temporary, so I have no problem with the use of the word 'fired' in this context.

Perhaps as a proof of concept they can do a native implementation of GNU grep in Haskell and publish some timing stats.

Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems. NeXTSTEP ran on Intel, Sparc and PowerPC. And most of all, NeXT gave them Steve Jobs.

The article specifically mentions commercial bank lenders, which are regulated. While I'm sure there are non-bank lenders in this space, a commercial bank can't delay repayment without a charge to the loan-loss reserve, and taking stock in lieu of payment, unless the stock is good as cash, is also a loan impairment. Unregulated commercial lenders have more freedom, but they are also constrained by GAAP.

I'm confused. The CEO of Persado is quoted as saying "interest rates are low," while the article says that Metamarkets is paying 14% on a loan cut in Oct--for comparison, the Merrill Triple-C-Rated index ("extremely speculative" junk bonds) is under 12%. So while it's true that UST base rates are low, that doesn't seem to be a factor in this funding. Sounds like a story about a few banks goosing earnings with risky loans and company insiders/VCs getting more upside "if things work out" and far less of those pesky loses if they don't, very much like the speculative real estate development loans in the 80s that made for a big but very short party.

I agree that reading code is extremely important for improving as a programmer, but the code has to be read analytically. That’s hard work, because it means understanding the problems and subproblems that the code is solving. For example, you may have seen the longest identical subsequence algorithm used by diff, but analyzing the implementation in V7 Unix is a different learning experience. Or if you’ve studied interpreters, you could look at the awk sources maintained by Kernighan to see how a fairly complex interpreter fits together.

There's plenty of 20th century organ music, a lot of it is religious (my father was an organist). It's hard to record pipe organs, particularly the low bass, and without excellent playback equipment the presence is lost. You might be interested in Messiaen's organ works or in the music of his predecessors Franck and Dupré.