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Nothing changes except the number of shares you own. The total amount of money you have in AAPL will remain the same. Your dividend check will remain the same (assuming an equal percentage the next time a dividend is announced). You'll own more shares, but each individual share will be worth less (but again, the total worth of your AAPL stake will remain the same).

Will it go up or down? (EDIT: apparently "up" if afterhours is any indication.) Used to be, back in the dotBomb days, a split announcement drove the price up. Now remember from above that nothing has really changed. AAPL's market cap is still the same, there's just more shares out there. One thing that has changed is that Joe Sixpack doesn't need to drop $50K to buy a lot of 100 shares. But Joe doesn't drive the market, institutional investors do. And when Fidelity's mutual fund is buying $10,000,000 worth of AAPL, they don't care if the share price is $1 or $1000. So there isn't much rational reason for the price to go one way or another.

A split could be taken as "management thinks...". I don't know, could have some weight to it, could not. At the end of the day, as someone who has traded stocks for over 15 years and traded AAPL since about 2003 (yea, me! Mostly...), I'm not making any decisions one way or the other on this news. I'll keep an eye on AAPL for sure, though, just in case the market disagrees with me.

Would now be a good time to buy? No, yesterday was a good time to buy (that's okay, I didn't either) because it's up 8% in afterhours. Earnings are tomorrow, and never ever never buy AAPL the day before earnings (it almost always go down the next day). WWDC is coming up, so it could be "AAPL announcement means they'll soon own the $WHATEVER market. Buy!" or it could be "AAPL announcement shows that a post-Jobs Apple is doomed. Doomed!"

No offense, but if you have to have a stock split explained to you then you're probably not suited to trying to time the market on AAPL. Hell, I've been trading AAPL for over ten years, and I'm not suited to trying to time it (I've done it, and mostly come out ahead, but I attribute it to getting lucky and not to my 133t trading skillz). Just hang on to it, see how it shakes out, and if it hits a good price for you at some point, sell it. Or if it takes a dip (say, after earnings maybe?), buy some more. If it opens up 8% tomorrow morning, you might even consider selling what you've got. Then if it dips after earnings, buy some more then.

But I am in no way, shape, or form a financial adviser. My advice isn't even worth what you paid for it. For entertainment purposes only, do not under any circumstances make trades based on what some anonymous dumbass on the internet says, because we're a dime a dozen, and if I were so smart I'd be hiking the Cascades today and not working a day job.
Yea, thinking about it, many of the old UNIX workstation vendors used the same 68K CPUs but then they decided to develop their own RISC architectures, fragmenting the market and reducing the economies of scale.
To be fair, those figures have been disputed and also called outright fraudulent by a number of parties.

An advertiser recently had an $800,000 invoice struck off because he threatened to sue Facebook. They decided just to let it slide instead of have the public debate.
thanks! will definitely check it out!
They point they were making that wasn't clearly elaborated upon is that the code in OpenSSL for FIPS compliance is a charade and is only there to satisfy FIPS requirements. The presence of that code doesn't guarantee or ensure the anything.

These compliance standards generally exist to deflect liability in the event of a breech and aren't necessarily there to protect anything. Take PCI for example, much of the DSS requirements are verified by audit and if you've ever gone through the audit, it's mostly certification without verification. The auditor usually trusts that things like segmentation diagrams are accurate. There's a level of accountability but it's primarily about deflecting liability.
Instead of just bashing Zynga and the fact that it went public and dumped a bunch of stock on the public, while insiders rolled away fat with cash...let's switch the discussion to something more interesting...

What would you do if you were given the helm of Zynga today? You had to save the company of 2000 remaining employees (just a guess). How do you generate another Number #1 Platinum Album in fickle market of online social gaming? Or is there another business angle you move in to? Would you sell the company to Facebook or Yahoo!?
Buying after will make your taxes/accounting easier since you won't need to remember what to divide by 7.

Source: SUNW + stock purchase plan + multiple splits = headache at tax time
DESIGNATION has begun
It's actually not that easy... There are other factors at work. Often antibiotics only avoid growth depression, and in many cases the space requirements are higher anyway. The robot doesn't come into this discussion at all...
You have to applaud this app. The title alone has value.
The main reason it hasn't moved out of the 1960s is it works pretty damn well. It's a bit slow, but money goes where it needs to go, and there's a good audit trail to trace in cases of fraud.
No cringing.

Secure-ftp is not the only security measure used in transmitting ACH files. There other measures too - including but not limited to: Checking source IP in a stateful way, Out of band confirmation by email/fax/phone, hardcoded limits and out-of-pattern detection mechanisms. I won't mentioned the specifics of some of these since this is a public forum but defrauding the ACH system by hacking into sftp is neither trivial nor scalable.

Again no system is full proof but ACH fraud is typically 1/3rd of the fraud in Credit Card networks and has been the same percentage for decades.
Here you go: http://www.moonviews.com/2012/06/printing-the-moon.html
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Postgres is getting there, with JSON columns. You can do hstore if you like key-value, or mix it with plain old SQL tables. This combination works well for me.
There's no risk of going to jail for 10+ years.
>> Postfix is actually a beautiful piece of software

Couldn't agree more.

I've also learned a ton from the source code. If anyone has even a passing interest in security, i'd highly recommend browsing the postfix source code.
Since the foreign countries tax the sales, they (and the earning of all Americans overseas) should not be taxed again to get the money back into the US. It is a BS way to operate and the US is the only country who tries it.
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Facebook is not a software company.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2012/06/29/rip-sof...
:/ The flappy number is bigger than the block/hole it's trying to merge with. This annoys me more than it should.
This is the reason I stopped going to malls. The olfactory assault emanating from some of those stores is quite unpleasant and will give me migraines. Applies to the weekend bar scene, too, but I was never wont to hang around drunk people anyway.
While I agree that the GP paints with an overly large brush, I think the core of his argument could be that, as engineers and coders, we think of and create things based on __rules__. Something is either in your collection or isn't. The bridge can hold that much weight or it won't. My program's tests pass or fail. The rocket has enough delta-v to make orbit or doesn't. There is no "maybe" in MANY aspects of what we do as engineers or as programmers. Much of our work involves making sure that rules are kept inviolable, etc.

In contrast, acting on empathy often involves deciding to bend, suspend, or redefine rules or exceptions to them. No TV after 6, except on weekends. It's okay to leave time-out if the two year old needs to use the potty. (This has been especially apparent to me as a parent, hence my examples ;))

Un-empathetic behavior by admins or developers of a system like the one described here can probably partly be explained by a thought process like this:

- Cheating must never happen, or be ruthlessly punished, to protect the "good" players
- We can undo / fix things, but we need some proof, since cheaters could say that they had $ZZZ in our system.
- screenshots are about the only proof that a user could provide
- Ergo, screenshots required to get things restored.

Like most security theater, the goals could very well be good (stop cheaters). The trouble is, in a case like this where the devs/admins were clearly at fault, good customer service should trump that. I think most of us agree that restoring what customers have lost -- even if it means some cheaters get back more than they had -- would restore a lot more goodwill from the community than taking a hard line to prevent cheaters will.
Easiest version of any of these games I've played so far (524288 on my second go). Quite compelling, though.
So that first time, the rice is dry? I would not have thought to try that at all.
Have you traded the minis? I just looked after reading MichaelApproved's comment and the quotes I saw for the minis were way outside the standard contracts.
What about trying to work for a different type of company rather than the usual startup/blue-chip/software shop?

I worked for about 6 years in the industry, but I got thoroughly bored in every single job. Either the work was too boring, or I finished it too quickly, or a combination. I never lasted more than a year or two in any job.

For the last 14 years I've been running my own business, which is a lot better (more interesting work, less stress, etc.) However I will admit that I got quite lucky in building a niche product that people wanted to pay money for.

If I had to get a 'proper' job again, I think I would be in the same position as you - there just aren't that many interesting and fulfilling software jobs out there. I would probably consider doing something completely different, like driving taxis, being a commercial pilot, or manual labour.

If you're in a full-time job, consider doing contracting. Depending on what country you live in, it can be very lucrative and easy to find short-term work. The UK has lots of opportunities, Canada and the US less so. Unfortunately most of the work is pretty boring, but at least you only have to do it for a while before moving on.

Also consider taking a lower salary but working in a more fulfilling environment. Maybe working for a non-profit or something along those lines.

Or going to the other end of the scale, consider working for google. You get an incredible salary and work on fascinating projects.
I agree with several points you made, but I can't help but worry about the context of "Made Me Rich." Your last two paragraphs basically state that the design business elevated you to a management role and a chance encounter in Seattle brought you to untold success. Those two scenarios scream "I was lucky" and are unlikely to be a common scenario.

I understand that learning to code helps enable folks to expand their careers, but I would hesitate to tell them it'll make them rich. Your points about how spending 1 month building something and using e-learning are spot on however. I think that definitely the biggest take away.
It might but I dont see how M&A helps the general public.You could make a argument that they have a negative effect actually.
Clicky: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/band-releases-album-as-kerne...

But the text was just a direct quote.
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To answer my own question - this board (the ODROID) has a USB 2.0 OTG port.
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And... there goes the internet.
The collapse will not come from this, it will come when all the companies (gaming mostly) stop making money and can no longer justify spending $10-15 per install. It will all tumble quickly, but not because FB over-saturated their ecosystem with ads.
Well, considering various 3-letter-agencies' interest in online games [1], I would guess... defense contracting?

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/nsa-world-of-warcra...
Every ten minutes or so I think. It adds twenty minutes to the length.
The whole idea of 'double-taxation' is a canard. That's another topic though.

> Is this how it really works? At least for personal investments, IIRC you get some sort of foreign tax credit.

Any money Apple pays to foreign governments as income tax on profits is included in the calculation of their domestic tax liability. So if Apple had $1B in overseas profits, paid 5% in Ireland as income tax, then wanted to repatriate the remainder to the US, the government would seek $300M in tax -- not the $350M that would be indicated by our 35% corporate income tax rate.

People trotting out the 'double-taxation' nonsense are promoting the idea that Apple should be able to venue-shop for an ultra-low-tax locale to claim their profits, then be free-and-clear of their US obligations.

Two more things worth mentioning:

1. The 'overseas' money typically isn't physically overseas. The money is in US banks, circulating as loans in the US economy, but is only overseas on an accounting ledger for tax purposes. This greatly blunts the potential impact of tax holidays.

2. If Apple takes out debt to fund operations purely to avoid repatriating money, the US taxpayer would then be subsidizing Apple even further. Interest on debt is a deductible expense, so that 2.5% per year Apple is paying, would be deducted from their income in the next tax year.
21 high score. this is silly
While I am against the lack of learning and internet usage that inmates get (missing chances to prepare them for the real world and raising rates of recidivism), my point is that drug dealers in particular have the skills to be self-employed and run their own business. They already engaged in sales and formed customer relationships, etc. They can do that in other fields.

You know, Adam Smith talked about being self-employed so that people wouldn't turn into mindless employees of companies, and the productivity of man could be unleashed. I really doubt that the only options for people with such a mindset are to turn to crime or get a job. There are plenty of enterprises they could embark on that are legal.
Ask HN: Who hosts your email?
Over time there's been lots of discussion on here about running your own email servers, hosting email yourself, GMail alternatives, etc. I have been wondering if GMail is something I want to stick to or if moving elsewhere is the better choice. If not GMail/Yahoo Mail/Hotmail/free ad based email provider/etc., where do you host your email service? Are you happy with them and do you feel secure enough in knowing that your email will be treated well?

I ask the last bit of that question from my second hand experience with FastMail, who apparently delete your account if you for whatever technical reason do not make your payment on time.
Cannot locate the item right now, but didn't the entire brain-trust leave with him, too? Sucks working for an org that ignores the results that don't suit their ends.
> If you want to stay at step 1 forever to keep things simple, groovy.

You can use Grails with Groovy to go to steps 2-5, tho all Grails does is use Spring which it bundles. In fact Grails started off as a thin wrapper around other software like Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate, and was really intended as a vehicle for its despot to muscle in on the consulting and conference markets for the bundled products, tho it's since grown its own codebase by signing up volunteers willing to sign the onerous VMWare contributors agreement signing away all copyright and patent claims over to VMWare.
My main issue with Balanced is that since I don't use them to collect payments, it takes forever to get the money moved to them. And it is a manual process.

So every Monday morning I get a file with payments. I have to move that amount over to Balanced. This can take 3 to 5 business days, but almost always takes 5 or even 6. Meaning I cannot pay my customers until the Friday (5 days) or the Monday (8 days) later.

Also, Balanced cannot process ACH for payments from clients. Having to verify an account with micro deposits is simply not workable for our clientele, many of which do not want to take credit cards because of the high fees.

While our volume right now is too low, it is interesting info to have, and something I'll look into further.

Thanks!
I have reasons to believe that Facebook earnings correspond to unstable practice: namely, both brands and games have bad metrics (i.e. uninformative) of their activity, and both are re-considering how their price fan- and user-acquisition. There is a stunning lack of understanding of social network dynamics among Facebook client companies. I have been through a lot of interviews lately, and no one to whom I talked seemed to know basic things like the Friend paradox, avalanche thresholds, or that the first fans are naturally more engaged -- Facebook ad purchase interface doesn’t really help either.

Nothing about game session duration, rhythm? Nothing about the thousands of odd Pakistani accounts liking the page of random family restaurants in the North of Ireland?

Some people at Facebook know those very well, but as far as I can tell, no one has connected that issue with a Wil-E-Coyote moment: strong sales out of momentum, filling an inflated inventory but widespread skepticism. There is indeed far more ads in the Facebook mobile thread, but almost exclusively for miss-targeted offers (I recently moved to a different country, twice, and I keep seeing things for local apps in a city 2,400 miles away) and for mobile games with Zynga-like gameplay: pay or… well, you can pay too.

I’m not sure Facebook is aware of that; I am sure however that Zynga wasn’t, or at least that the people in charge of the financial stability of the company dealt with that issue in an unethical manner. Seeing both a trend and someone to chosen to reinforce it scares me.
Actually the American Dream includes folks that don't need to "come to America"...i.e. Americans.
Actually that says China taxes residents on worldwide income, and non-residents on China-sourced income. The US taxes non-resident citizens on worldwide income.
That's fair. Thanks for the details.
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Just out of interest; if people do not leave due to saturation, why would gaming companies stop making money?

[EDIT: First time I have been downvoted for asking a question. Must have been offensive haha]
"documentation explaining the ACH system is targeted towards bankers, not software developers."

The ACH system itself is designed for the benefit of bankers, not developers, or even depositors.

Bitcoin alleviates the need for the excesses of the described system.
I don't have the best knowledge about the FCC's plan for Net Neutrality, but doesn't this go against everything that the plan stood for?
Fred Wilson wrote some thoughts on this and I fear very much that he is accurate..
http://avc.com/2014/01/vc-pitches-in-a-year-or-two/
Note that this is not an implementation problem but a problem in the general specification of websockets. So there is not going to be a solution to this issue until the specification itself is updated.
Dammit, going senile, this was the one where only the title was better. The title github gives for things is not very descriptive.

Sorry, long - long day

(Thanks, wow every comment in every thread in the last two hours down voted - guess I'll sign off for a while)
Can't a malicious script scan the DOM and send sensitive info via an image GET request anyway?
Honestly—who does this benefit, apart from ISPs?
In the UK, most TV subscription services that sell you a "package" of channels have long-term contracts (12 months is usually the minimum). They try and sweeten this by providing you with a "free" digital video recorder (not really free) and often combine TV, phone and broadband services into one subscription package.

Streaming-based services such as Amazon, Netflix and Blinkbox (owned by supermarket giant Tesco) let you subscribe on a month-to-month basis or film-by-film basis. These services feel more flexible because they're not trying to sell you a whole bunch of channels, some of which you may not have much interest in.

Interestingly, even the BBC can see where the market is heading for many viewers. Their "youth" channel BBC Three (aimed at 16-34 year olds) will stop broadcasting terrestially and become an online-only channel via their iPlayer service. I guess this reflects how more and more people consume content today - they don't consult a TV schedule, they expect to be able to view content when it suits them.
Pure masterpiece, our grandchildren will play this :))
> Part of the problem is that the US is unique in taxing world wide income.

It's not taxing world wide income. Apple hasn't paid US taxes on these foreign profits. That's the whole point. They only have to pay taxes on that income if they bring it back in the US.
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You're either the kind of person who has an investment thesis that you're executing on, trying to time the market for optimal returns, or you're the kind of person who should cost average into the stock. Based on the question the GP asked, they're in that second group.
Wouldn't that be the pessimist in you? The narcissist in you would be bullish on you and neutral on Apple.
Its not clear to me that this is a "turnaround", since it is not clear to me that pay-for-quality offered under the terms that the leaks about this have suggested (commercially reasonable terms open to all content providers equally) would have been prohibited by the previous order (had it not been struck down.)
Color me surprised. I'm actually a buckeye where Mr. Wheeler hails from. This fact and after watching his speech a couple of months ago, perhaps that is why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I guess I was wrong about him.
Yeah it's something that is browser dependent. I wouldn't call it a bug, but it is an annoyance. It's a decision we had to make in order to keep Freeboards secure for customers who don't want their data to be seen. But it does require the API to be available in HTTPS as well.

It's something we'll have to fix— maybe an option to turn off SSL for the freeboard, or like you say, create a proxy.

We'll look into it and have a solution soon.
I was expecting flappy48 (http://broxxar.itch.io/flappy48) but I'm glad to see someone's combined the two games in another unique way.
Are you fucking kidding me? Nearly as many people died due to Stalinism than did in the entirety of WWII. It was a horrorshow. A violent, oppressive regime that murdered millions and caused misery for millions more? Technocratic meritocracy? Bullshit. It was always about political favoritism. When smart people were in political favor maybe good shit got done, when dumb people were in political favor, well, shit got fucked. Lysenkoism is hardly a ringing endorsement for communism. Nor is the Venera program for that matter. Was it worth tens of millions butchered? Tens of millions enslaved under brutal conditions in labor camps? Tens of millions living lives of fear and hopelessness?
In six months FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will be a VP at NBC Universal/Comcast.

Not a bribe; just coincidence.
I fully agree in this case. But am hestitant to call for the same treatment of e.g. A web framework.

Question to answer then is: Where does the plumbing stop and the kitchen begin?
Naver had this for some time now for Seoul street view.
I am short, but congrats on a great quarter! Enjoy it while it lasts. I still doubt the company will exist by 2025, but I've been wrong before so who knows.
Except it was obvious, and there was at least another one of these that came out weeks ago.
I could see a "number munchers" style one for kids. "16/8" and you have to go to 2. But flappy and 2048 are both getting pretty old.