A few weeks ago, I sold about $4,000 in stocks that I had been holding for a little over a year. It was quite a significant profit, as the cost basis of these shares was $1,700. Let me tell you how ShareBuilder ruined the party, and why I am not going to be investing any new money with them ever again.
Posts Tagged ‘incompetence’
#define talent
Recently I contributed to a discussion on a PHP mailing list about how to identify great programming skill. A lot of the discussion centered around previous experience, organizational ability and accomplishments. You can tell a lot from these, but I chimed in with a different take. In my experience, the programmers who I think are great have invariably had the traits I described in my post.
Creator.