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fiveFeet commented on Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline · Posted by u/p3nt3ll3r

westpfelia · 7 years ago

My 'local' credit union does. They dont sell mortgages/loans to anyone and keep them 100% in house. Its why even after moving to Germany I keep that bank for US assets. They just dont seem as criminally motivated as other banks.

fiveFeet · 7 years ago

What is the name of this credit union?

fiveFeet commented on GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf] octave.org/octave.pdf... · Posted by u/mindcrime

std_throwawayay · 7 years ago

I have used Matlab and GNU/Octave in parallel for some years half a decade ago. Octave can do most things that I needed but was slower to run for many things. With Octave you didn't run into licensing problems as those floating licenses had their limits and sometimes I needed to run quite a few instances in parallel.

Now I use Python exclusively. The language is so much better and more sane and almost any library is available. I will never go back.

Today, I would recommend Matlab only in rare circumstances. Currently I cannot think of one use case that I had in the last three years where I would prefer Matlab to Python. Using the Matlab language with a portable Octave installation can be useful for teaching matrix/vector topics to people who have little programming experience and don't know Python. You can get results very quickly. The syntax feels most natural for manipulating matrices and everything seems to be a matrix.

Other than that I think the Matlab language and ecosystem is kind of a dead end. But it will provide profits for a few more decades due to sheer inertia.

fiveFeet · 7 years ago

^ This! Very similar experience here! Moved to Python from Matlab and never looked back.

fiveFeet commented on Larry Fink's 2019 Letter to CEOs: Purpose and Profit blackrock.com/corporate/i... · Posted by u/airstrike

fiveFeet · 7 years ago

I wish there is a mechanism in which investors get to vote on the underlying shares when they invest in funds managed by the asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity etc., Currently, it is the other way around. Investors give money to asset managers and they get to vote on the underlying shares.

fiveFeet commented on Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group and creator of the index fund, dies age 89 cnbc.com/2018/12/14/jack-... · Posted by u/sokoloff

fiveFeet · 7 years ago

RIP! It is a bit weird that cnbc link [1] shows 2018/12/14 in the URL even though he died on 2019-01-16.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/jack-bogle-founder-of-vangua...

fiveFeet commented on Announcing unlimited free private repos blog.github.com/2019-01-0... · Posted by u/razer6

fiveFeet · 7 years ago

My employer, a financial services firm in New York, blocks both gitlab and bitbucket due to their free private repos. Even though they allowed github until now, I am worried that they will soon start blocking that as well! :(