BrentRitterbeck

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by BrentRitterbeck 14y ago
Thank you, Jon. I have heard similar comments before. It's really frustrating to know that something is so horrible, yet culture allows it to stay in place. I wish I was naive and believed that I could do this by myself in my free time.
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by BrentRitterbeck 14y ago
Cleveland; however, I have no issue in working remotely with someone.
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Ask HN: Looking for a Financial Startup?
13 points by BrentRitterbeck 14y ago|11 comments
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by BrentRitterbeck 14y ago
I will agree on the timing of benefits to mankind; however, I'm willing to bet far more humans benefit from advances in rocketry over the long run. Consider what we have done already with rockets. There are many satellites orbiting the ear
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by BrentRitterbeck 14y ago
It's certainly possible; however, today's showing already has some media outlets discussing whether or not the IPO was horribly over-hyped. When you consider that we still have the issues in Europe, growing losses at JP Morgan, and a weak e
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I graduated from UF in 2004. This was the exact reason why I did not pursue a degree in computer science alongside my finance degree. The only course I took in the computer science department (Something like Problem Solving with MS Office
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Just give me some interesting data to work with, and I would gladly come to work for any of these firms for $125K flat salary just to get into the place.
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I'd be interested in meeting some business-minded people in and around Cleveland. I currently live in Akron, but I am moving back to the Parma in two weeks. I'm just learning how to program for Android, but I my background is in financial
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Brent Ritterbeck; financial engineering background; currently working as an interest rate risk analyst in Cleveland; willing to move to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles; would love to work for a company developing new risk m
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
The point of posting was simply to show that a database of this information exists. Nothing more. EDIT: If it bothers you so much that this information is tied to the AFLCIO website, I'll pull the proxies myself along with the companies'
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Their list consists of publicly traded companies. The AFLCIO is not a publicly traded company. Also, I have no idea why you are bringing up anything about politics.
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Executive Pay Watch(aflcio.org)
1 points by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago|4 comments
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
The media team was looking for someone who may have a spare server and the ability to set up Red5 http://www.red5.org/
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Tim O'Reilly on OccupyWallStreet(plus.google.com)
305 points by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago|91 comments
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I don't particularly have a problem with the Bloomberg Terminal; it's the price with which I have a problem. There is no other source currently available that provides the same information density as Bloomberg. The navigation within a ter
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I have thought about the targeted audience portion of your comment. That is fully addressable through the use of templates. My daily work is in the interest rate risk space for a bank. As part of keeping up on the space, I read the finan
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I hope that a competitor hangs around long enough to revolutionize this industry. The system does not serve retail investors well at the moment. This is a space with low hanging fruit.
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Build out a system that organizes all of this financial information. Make it freely available. Build a pay service around it: top notch, cheap retail brokerage. What other services could you get investors to pay for if they had all the i
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
We do a great job at locating resources. This has created a new problem: we have too much information to wade through. I would now like to see some sort of effort to structure this information. You make the comment that the financial in
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
It's a shame that one would have to pay such a large amount for such a data set. Let's not forget that the SEC exists largely to protect investors. Somehow, today's SEC framework/accounting rules seem to favor the filers of financial info
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I haven't had a chance to check out the site yet, but I can tell you from personal experience that putting these filings in a more usable form is definitely an area that is underexploited at the moment. I often comb through filings for the
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Check out http://www.tickit.com/webinars.html It reminded me of LabView.
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
I fully agree. I often wonder why the posts are something similar to the following: Young company looking for C++ programmers to help create a small fraction of the functionality provided by a Bloomberg terminal for a small fraction of the
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
How would you fix the Bloomberg terminal? I'm simply curious as trying to figure out how to develop the same type of tools for retail customers has been something I've been looking at for quite a while. Note: I use a Bloomberg terminal at
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Now that being said, I have no idea how this would work in practice. That's the problem. No one else knows either. Monday is not going to be a good day.
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
These high-frequency traders are not parasites. They are providing liquidity. Essentially, they are providing you a service. If your friend had not come along, perhaps you would have been holding onto your netbook for a lot longer, or it
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
Personally, I would love to be recruited by Stanford to study CS. I have a Master's of Science in Financial Engineering, but I have always felt that I probably should have picked up a more solid CS background on my way to that degree. Als
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by BrentRitterbeck 15y ago
This includes a brief sketch of Euler's argument as well as a several formal methods of proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_problem
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
There are people with strong scientific, mathematical, and technological backgrounds working in the FIRE space. This is directly the result of a lack of funding for traditional science. FIRE didn't take people from traditional science. F
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An Architect Squeezes 24 Rooms Into 344 Square Feet (Video)(theatlantic.com)
81 points by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago|30 comments

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