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Free stock trades...
I've recently stumbled upon a couple of brokerages that offer free, or really cheap stock trades. This is exciting, cause though the commissions from places like scottrade, etrade, ameritrade, etc., are low ($7-$10), they're high enough to make dollar cost averaging into an ETF pretty undoable ($100 per investment means ~7%-10% goes to commission ( Read more... ) -
enums are first class types in c++...
I somehow had always thought that they were some kind of half-type (like arrays) that basically got rewritten into int as soon as possible by the compiler. However, apparently they are treated like real types -- at least by g++.
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Just saw a news headline that said:
"Food Additives Could Fuel Hyperactivity in Kids"
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Video game throughts
I'm a fan of the Wii. Not cause I really love any games on it, but rather cause on principal, I've kinda grown to dislike the videogame industry and their focus on graphically intense, high speed, complex-to-control video games which pretty much caters to a very elitist videogame community. So, when I hear that the Wii's topping out sales and ( Read more... ) -
worst sense of direction in the world.
That's me ( Read more... ) -
Coding priorities
I've been thinking about how my coding priorities have shifted over the years. Way way back, I used to think efficiency was everything. After that, I started thinking perfect abstractions was the biggest thing. Next, I went on to thinking information hiding was the most important...then I went onto the expressiveness of your static typing ( Read more... ) -
post a la Ashes of Time
Monday, the 6th of August.
The Almanac says: Winds from the South
Dark clouds bring heavy rains.
Floods abound.
Beware of subtle fortunes.
This morning, I awoke from fitful sleep.
htang and I ventured to the office. kkchen was there.
He was sick.
He talked of trifling matters -- describing course setup, t-shirt design, and other ( Read more... ) -
Arabs, Islam, Israel, and Judaism
Watching (non-US) CNN last night, they had a little short on the capital of Iran, Tehran, where they mentioned a local Synagogue with a large local following. It spurred a thought ( Read more... )