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by Shooter 17y ago
I'm also a real estate broker. And a programmer. And a few other things ;-) We looked at this exact market a bit. In the course of doing our research, we found a company with a similar (but better...or at least more functional) offering
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by Shooter 17y ago
My Dad used to be a farrier. He went to a blacksmith college in Oklahoma, which was the only post-HS schooling he has had. It's a very dangerous job, and most guys who are farriers for any length of time end up with serious wounds. All t
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by Shooter 17y ago
The name sounds like it's a site for liberals...or an operating system for left-handed people. Or a cereal. Or something. It doesn't sound like a name for what it is.
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by Shooter 17y ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond. That helped me immensely.
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by Shooter 17y ago
I also understand where you're coming from...we actually use Django (or other Python frameworks) for most of the simpler sites we have to do. CL can be both painful and overkill when tackling certain types of projects. We haven't built a
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by Shooter 17y ago
I get your point, but that is essentially what my company does. We primarily use CL for bank software (not just the website, but for payment processing/fraud detection, trading algorithms, etc.) We've also used it for occupational medicine
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by Shooter 17y ago
Any complaints about the Tour? I'm thinking of getting the Tour on Verizon (and an iPod Touch for 'iPhone' apps and wifi.)
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by Shooter 17y ago
"Finally"? He must have abused it somehow...mine is still running fine. So are my SE and SE/30. I just wish new equipment had the same lifespan.
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by Shooter 17y ago
1. I'm MOSTLY pissed at real estate agents and the industry in general. Don't get me started. There are simply far too many lazy, ignorant, greedy idiot agents. There are some amazing professionals who are evolving, but they are vastly o
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by Shooter 17y ago
2. I'm pissed at the arrogance and ignorance of some consumers. You simply don't know what you don't know. You know how some people who know essentially NOTHING about programming will offer to pay you $500 to create, say, a "better" Google,
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by Shooter 17y ago
3. I'm pissed at some Flat Fee MLS companies. [This is basically a throwaway, but I bring it up because of the guy posting everywhere at TechCrunch.] Flat fee MLS is a way to save money if you're 100% sure you know what you're doing in se
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by Shooter 17y ago
I was going to try to respond to a bunch of points people made here and on the Techcrunch site about the Redfin story, but unfortunately I didn't have the time to do individual responses while it was still a relatively active thread. So, i
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by Shooter 17y ago
Ah..understood. He was in the wrong. One of the issues with having a commercial or business broker acting like Redfin is that there are different laws about compensation for commercial real estate than there are for residential real estate
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by Shooter 17y ago
I agree the guy sounds like a condescending ass, and I think maybe you should file a complaint. That said, he MAY have a point about changing the wording on the legal document. Most states have had strict laws about real estate professional
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by Shooter 17y ago
A GOOD real estate agent performs various professional tasks requiring expertise that save you time and money, protect your interests, and keep you out of trouble, at a cost that is less than doing it yourself. Kind of like a GOOD lawyer (
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by Shooter 17y ago
EVERY industry needs to evolve along with technology or suffer the consequences. I think there should be far few real estate agents working in the US. And that the level of innovation should dramatically increase. But agents will not becom
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by Shooter 17y ago
Not necessarily true. I've helped several friends with less than US$1000 in startup funds open restaurants/bakeries...within 2 years of when they started out to do so. Ego, lack of creativity, and laziness are among the only impediments to
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by Shooter 17y ago
Clarium is leveraged about 3.2 to 1, according to industry databases. Not my cup of tea, but less than many of their colleagues, especially given that Clarium is so active in debt and currency markets. Buffet and Soros both invest in deriv
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by Shooter 17y ago
I didn't actually get to try spezify out yet, because it crashed my browser (but that MAY be because I had something like 200 windows open at the time.) Is it a really heavy UI?
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by Shooter 17y ago
Instead of thinking "specify" when I saw the name of this search engine, I somehow assumed it was a new app from the brain of a certain Reddit co-founder. "Have you dugg up all the old news and reddit all? Are you so googled out that your
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by Shooter 17y ago
Baling hay and detassling corn for about $4.50/hr. I think I was about 12. The bales of hay were heavier than I was, so I had to use leverage to stack them and always ended up completely covered in debris. The cornfield job was easy...bu
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by Shooter 17y ago
Billy Mays was a guest at a hotel where I used to work in the 90's. He asked me to copy some documents for him, and verbally acknowledged the hotel charge for copy services. He was in a hurry and was very impatient. When I finished copying
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by Shooter 17y ago
They have several other "core" patents pending. I hate this BS...companies patenting obvious things, often with blatant prior art. I'm waiting to get a "cease-and-desist" letter for breathing from some industrious patent troll.
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Core technology patented for mobile social networking
2 points by Shooter 17y ago|1 comments
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by Shooter 17y ago
A recent HN thread bemoaned the fact that there are very few investment groups in Chicago that will fund startups. This a list from Crains showing some of the investment groups in Chicago, some of which DO fund early-stage companies. I not
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(Incomplete) Chicago's Venture Capital/Private Equity List(chicagobusiness.com)
1 points by Shooter 17y ago|1 comments
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by Shooter 17y ago
Yep. I used to read any HN post from Posterous, because most of those early ones were from the actual Posterous founders and I was interested in what they had to say. Most of the more recent "Posterous.com" links are just from people with
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by Shooter 17y ago
I think it would be easier for you to convey the idea of your site to potential customers if you had a more descriptive domain name. 'Browseology' is a good name, but not for what you're doing. In fact, 'Browseology' could be almost anyt
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by Shooter 17y ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly about the mixed signals thing. I definitely experienced that phenomena because of my science pursuits. I can also understand your point about how certain students would develop a "Well I'm NEVER going to do
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by Shooter 17y ago
RE: "Well, I was never good at math either!" Even more upsetting to me (as a horrible math student in K-12) was: "Well, you'll never really use this in the real world anyway. But you should learn it. Now stop asking 'Why?'" It is almost

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