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Re:Ask HN: What kind of personal financial investment do you do?
on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @03:39PM (#2199217)
Not always true, According to WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/02/07/depressing-chart-... "Through the close of trading Monday, the investors in 7-10 year Treasurys would have seen a return of 76% percent over the last 10 years, versus a return of 17.4% for stocks. So you could have socked your money in supersafe U.S. Treasurys and reaped a risk-free 80% gain. "
Re:Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone
on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @12:50PM (#1934613)
Touchdown (for Android) http://www.nitrodesk.com/dk_touchdownFeatures.aspx keeps all of the Exchange Activesync'd data separate from the main email on the phone, so when you get wiped only corporate email/calendar get wiped. I don't think anything similar exists for iPhone.
Re: Please beta test our iPhone medical app (improved based on HN feed...
on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:24PM (#1857824)
I hadn't seen the earlier version, but I just got the latest beta. It would be nice to have a more detailed grade for each case, so that I could learn in better detail about the investigation & management choices I made vs what the ideal choices were.
Re:Ask HN: Code for America
on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:16PM (#1784759)
Actually, donations come out of your post-tax income, and then you get a tax deduction (not a credit) for them, if you itemize your taxes.
Re:Foursquare iPhone app sends passwords in plain text, don't use
on Sunday August 22, 2010 @07:38AM (#1624514)
it's been an issue on their getsatisfaction page for 10 months ... http://getsatisfaction.com/foursquare/topics/https-o65c ...
Re:Fires in Flint MI since public safety layoffs
on Sunday April 04, 2010 @08:13AM (#1240060)
why not have a volunteer fire department? these are quite popular in NY/NJ/CT.
Re:Facebook Chat supports Jabber now
on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @08:20PM (#1116596)
yep. they could have at least supported SASL to have the login info encrypted and then transport the rest of the stream unencrypted, but they did not.
Re:Rugged software - security's response to agile programming?
on Saturday February 06, 2010 @07:07AM (#1106151)
the manifesto is cool. this is a great way to market writing secure code.