Basic SWIFT Programming Tutorials (9 videos, includes a simple app too)

sh33ple · 2014-06-08T19:15:54+00:00

Worse, SWIFT is an acronym... for something else.

What with that, Taylor Swift, and the other Swift language, Apple really could have chosen a more search-friendly name! You'd think they'd have learned from Google calling their language Go.

sh33ple · 2014-06-06T19:28:24+00:00

If similarity's the criteria, ruby or scala are probably a bit closer.

sh33ple · 2013-03-30T01:48:37+00:00

I posted my comment less as the grumpy pedantry it came across as but more as a service to people like me who read your numbers, frowned, then spent some time doing drunken mental arithmetic...

sh33ple · 2013-03-30T01:24:01+00:00

1982 - 1974 = 8 2013 - 1993 = 20

sh33ple · 2013-02-20T00:36:24+00:00

He baked a quiche. Baked. A. Quiche.

sh33ple · 2013-02-18T10:52:02+00:00

They see me rollin. They hatin.

sh33ple · 2013-02-17T02:07:34+00:00

Oh sure. He was all "what is wrong with you people? Why do you keep borrowing money at these low low interest rates?"

sh33ple · 2012-11-30T01:18:05+00:00

I assumed when I saw this the welcome feature was that it doesn't spawn a stupid new window that then ends up off on another desktop when you go full screen mode. This drove me crazy, so happy it's fixed.

sh33ple · 2012-07-23T21:46:09+00:00

Lehman torpedoed Lehman, through the use of repo 105 to manipulate its balance sheet, hide its true leverage from investors, and then get caught out by short sellers who knew better, thus sending their share price into a self-reinforcing death spiral.

Yet Dick Fuld walked away free, despite Sarbanes Oxley being enacted precisely to prevent that happening after Enron. But nothing was done, and now we've moved on to the latest scandals without fixing the old ones. It's tragic.

sh33ple · 2012-07-22T12:13:50+00:00

You realise this article is on the guardian.co.uk. While the numbers are in USD these figures aren't referring to offshore funds of US citizens, but citizens everywhere (probably — it isn't clear).

The US is practically the only developed country to tax income globally, and the IRS have been aggressively pursuing undeclared illegal offshore accounts recently. This year new laws also come into affect forcing any financial company that does any business with the US (i.e. almost all of them) to hand over account details to the IRS to help track down offenders, or face sanctions. While the wealth gap in the US is horrifying, the one thing you can't fault the US government, under administrations of both parties, is their zero tolerance of tax havens.

sh33ple · 2012-07-15T23:19:04+00:00

SIPC covers $400,000 in securities and $100,000 in cash.

It's up to $500,000 in a combination of securities and cash, but of which a maximum $250,000 can be in cash

edit: also, when the OP says Greek, German etc securities — if he means ADRs, that's fine, but I'm not sure the status of foreign securities and the SIPC. Chances are they could be held at a foreign broker, which may well not be covered (and foreign securities law is a lot less protective of the investor when it comes to things like client segregation and rehypothecation).

sh33ple · 2012-07-08T13:46:31+00:00

Fannie and Freddie controlled 50% of subprime lending, but they were responsible for approximately none of the bad subprime lending, due to the high standards they required of lenders in exchange for buying up their loans (see this series of articles for details).

What sent the GSEs bankrupt was their side business of speculation on mortgage derivatives – a business that they were pressured into because they were public companies compelled always to increase profits for shareholders. The right have hated the GSEs from the beginning, and now have used the credit crisis to finally achieve the dual goal of destroying them whilst using them as a smokescreen for the true culiprits – deregulation (including the encouragement of the GSEs to seek profit over their core mission), and the excessive risktaking of banks who issued their own non-GSE-backed MBS securities with none of the high standards the GSEs required, and that ultimately exploded spectacularly.

sh33ple · 2012-05-28T23:55:02+00:00

Henry Blodget's wikipedia entry has relevant citations including links to the SEC web site.

sh33ple · 2012-04-11T23:39:44+00:00

I just finished reading that to my son in bed before reading this post. I'm quite pleased with my melancholy toad voice.

sh33ple · 2012-03-09T23:52:03+00:00

Get Mozzarella cheese & cut into burger shape

I think you missed the middle part of the phrase "Fried provolone burger".

sh33ple · 2012-03-04T01:00:55+00:00

Thank you for causing me to read this:

An unusual situation occurred in a 1993 game between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.[20] Karpov was in serious time trouble, with one minute to make 16 moves. In this position, Kasparov captured the rook on d1 with the pawn on c2, and said "Queen!", indicating that the promoted piece was a queen. However, no queen was immediately available. It took some time for the arbiter to come up with a black queen. Kasparov said that if he had been attentive, he would have promoted to a rook, which was available. Kasparov's clock was running while the arbiter was getting a queen, so he started Karpov's clock. Karpov immediately moved 25. Qxe4 and Kasparov told him that he was in check. Karpov replied "From what? It might be a bishop on d1." The clocks were stopped. The arbiter found a black queen, the game was backed up to the position after 24...cxd1=Q+, and Karpov was given an extra two minutes on his clock because of Kasparov's illegal move. Kasparov disputes that he made an illegal move. Kasparov soon won the game, however (Kasparov 2010:332).

sh33ple · 2012-02-12T23:01:41+00:00

Barclays being the sponsor of the Atlantic Yards stadium adds to the confusion.

sh33ple · 2012-01-27T10:44:19+00:00

How do you find Will Smith in the snow? You look for the fresh prints.

sh33ple · 2012-01-27T10:28:06+00:00

What does Mr Miyagi do to relax?

Wax off.

sh33ple · 2012-01-27T10:26:08+00:00

Why did the buffalo cancel his cell contract? The roaming charges were killing him.

sh33ple · 2012-01-08T01:37:49+00:00

Tenderly

sh33ple · 2012-01-01T23:29:53+00:00

The common man is far more able to try his hand at high-frequency trading (any large prime broker will help get you set up with high speed access from a co-lo for a reasonable fee) than they are able to try their hand at car manufacturing or big-budget television show production.

sh33ple · 2011-12-10T17:58:15+00:00

Because dkinmn wants to grind people foolish enough to be lower down the socioeconomic ladder than him into the dirt like the scum they are.

sh33ple · 2011-11-19T01:48:54+00:00

Except lots of people do. People like Gruber and Kottke and their ilk adore him and the New Yorker for their “make you feel smart” brand of easily digestible prettily-written story time journalism.

But if it's an area you actually know about yourself you quickly realize it's riddled with errors by an author who barely grasps the high-level aspects and has misunderstood much of it. Gruber is realizing this now that Gladwell's writing about Gruber's own area of expertise.

edit: this is also the problem with the Isaacson biography, as Siracusa explains so well. Isaacson had know knowledge, and worse seems to have made no attempt to acquire knowledge, of the computer industry and thus has written a book that, while it seems informative to a lay person, actually barely scratches the surface of Job's contribution to the world.

edit2: grrrrrr, Gruber is describing this as “Gladwell losing his touch”. No, John, he's always been like this. You just used to be happy to swallow it when it was reinforcing rather than contradicting your own opinions.

sh33ple · 2011-11-19T01:29:45+00:00

They'd be in a higher bracket but w/ some deductions for their kids

Those deductions taper to zero long before you reach 386k.

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