brianobush

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by brianobush 18y ago
funny thing was just the other day I was showing my children how to make fire with two sticks. Didn't work. Father failure, though they did understand the idea of friction and the result: heat. Now, my second attempt is using a boot lace wi
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by brianobush 18y ago
No easy route that is legal. if you are innovative, you can find unique business idea - but the sole goal should not be to make money quick, since those endeavors typically don't embody the passion to be successful in the business. See: Th
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by brianobush 18y ago
actually insurance companies have many rules put in place by the states that will assign the accounts to a different servicing company. but that is US, I am sure Canada has similar rules. check out coffee house investment strategy, I have b
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by brianobush 18y ago
does this guy ever do anything else but talk about himself? HN is going downhill when narcissists are now on the front page.
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by brianobush 18y ago
possibly an inside job? or by a competitor or contract channel (quest, etc.)
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by brianobush 18y ago
wish I could've had him for physics...
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by brianobush 18y ago
yes, if it was moderated by a editorial staff - not crowd rated. otherwise, no.
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by brianobush 18y ago
well, at least real-estate prices would rise.
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by brianobush 18y ago
starting a porn site is much cheaper than 5k, unless you are generating content (photographer, equip, studio, etc). register a domain name, throw up some purchased content (acquired legally for a small fee per set), add an interesting logo
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by brianobush 18y ago
yeah, that is the first text I looked for too. Looks as if all lisp/scheme books aren't there (On Lisp, etc) - maybe since they aren't text books?
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by brianobush 18y ago
his anonymous blocks ( 1 + ) look straight from false, http://wouter.fov120.com/false/ with different syntax, but the same idea: 2 [ 1 + ] ! leaves 3 as top of stack.
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by brianobush 18y ago
This company is from the guy who started/funded monitor110.com - which ultimately failed. Interesting post-mortem found here: http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008/07/monitor110-a-po.... Seven deadly sins of a startup: 1. The
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by brianobush 18y ago
spend more time with my kids: hiking, skiing, building robots, volunteering with school. Then do it again, except this time I want to control the money AND the math.
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by brianobush 18y ago
The Wedding Toccata Theme by ModeSelektor - very minimal kraftwerk-like beats.
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by brianobush 18y ago
uhh, well, there are a lot of people using it. they rant on about images they post, whatever they are doing now. complete waste of time. don't really see ads generating a huge revenue for them.
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by brianobush 18y ago
The title is chilling. A computer scientist creating algorithms that solve problems. Bet he is using one of those computer things too.
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by brianobush 18y ago
Microfinance tends to be concerned with micro-loans, which would be more akin to bonds. The topic here is equity, which is partial ownership of companies and other enterprises.
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by brianobush 18y ago
The reason maybe is that Nintendo focuses on ONE market and do a reasonable job in delivering what people want: good games. Goldman has different units in different markets all trying to make money: investment banking, securities, research
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by brianobush 18y ago
Emacs is a great editor, but word of caution: you will spend countless hours customizing it. I think after 15 years of use, I have gained those lost weekends hacking elisp :)
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by brianobush 18y ago
There is the D programming language, but it hasn't caught on. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
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by brianobush 18y ago
actually, it is a media harvester - i was hoping to see actual page/element capturing.
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by brianobush 18y ago
In my experience, the problem with Java is typically the code that is written. Average coders generating enormous numbers of classes/interfaces and not really understanding the problem/machine/etc. Java that I have written by myself or in s