brosephius

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by brosephius 15y ago
a startup fired you for showing initiative and doing more with less? messed up.
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by brosephius 15y ago
we’re a tech co - meatheads are nowhere to be found so programmers can't be athletic? I'm sure that's not what he meant, but that's how it comes across. also, the idea of group pushups as a "team building" activity - seriously? th
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by brosephius 15y ago
the hardware itself, not much. I don't like the magnetic latch on the 13" plastic macbook, it makes it annoying to open with one hand and occasionally when I'm closing it if my hand slips it slams down. I would also love bigger arrow keys.
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by brosephius 15y ago
if I want to meet up with someone, wouldn't I just give them an exact location? if the nearest landmark is 5 miles away I don't see how that would be useful.
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by brosephius 15y ago
which is a pretty progressive decision by music companies. it's like they're accepting that people will pirate music no matter what drm scheme or lawsuit wave they throw out there, so they're trying to find a way to live profitably with it.
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by brosephius 15y ago
would be awesome if there were an android client :) but seriously, I think I need to see more details on how this works. can I choose to download just one song at a time? can I create a playlist of my cloud'ed music, play it, and delete it?
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by brosephius 15y ago
why do you say years? wouldn't all the earliest employees be partially vested right now, and vesting more each month? and as long as the share price stays bubbly through the end of the lockup period they can cash out at/close to the top.
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by brosephius 15y ago
I guess I can see some value to the complete beginner, but I don't see the point of conferences dedicated to the topic (aside from the usual networking, vendor schwag, and food and travel paid for by your employer, of course)
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by brosephius 15y ago
I skimmed a bunch of passages in this, but I honestly don't get the whole "software craftsmanship" movement. all I see is common sense ideas dressed up with vapid motivational speakerisms. what am I missing here? am I just lucky because I'v
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by brosephius 15y ago
I don't get it. this app seems to be more about making a statement than innovating. I don't agree with the premise that stripping down an app necessarily makes it better. when I use microsoft word, the many features of the app don't cause m
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by brosephius 15y ago
programmers at high frequency trading firms can make well into the six figures and still spend most of the day coding. firms like these usually don't have much in the way of management tiers. though I wouldn't expect a programmer to make mo
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by brosephius 15y ago
I would say only 1) and 2) would actually make you "rich". the others would just pay very well (though for many that's rich enough, I guess)
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by brosephius 15y ago
what 3rd party? banks usually are the third party in these sorts of transactions.
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by brosephius 15y ago
that's where it opened. the $45 price is where stock was bought before it started trading publicly; once the stock opened on the nyse it first changed hands at $83.
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by brosephius 15y ago
you mean the underwriters of the IPO are not subject to a lockup period? that seems unusual, but I'd believe it I guess.
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by brosephius 15y ago
except that's not how shorting stock works. it's not a person-to-person deal.
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by brosephius 15y ago
there was higher demand for the shares than anticipated?
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by brosephius 15y ago
there's a lockup period, nobody is selling their pre-IPO shares now.
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by brosephius 15y ago
>there were market makers and other outlets offering CFD's and derivatives at just above the list price do you have an references for that? were these offerings available to small retail investors?
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by brosephius 15y ago
and assuming you can find shares to short, and are willing to pay the borrow cost.
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by brosephius 15y ago
brains and markets are both complex adaptive systems. they aren't similar in high-level function, but they are with respect to low level dynamics.
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by brosephius 15y ago
>What's going to stop us from building a human body, including the brain, once we have the manufacturing technology to do so? it's that we don't know what "manufacturing technology" we need, because we don't have a deep enough understan
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by brosephius 15y ago
whenever I hear about robots or software agents "inventing" or "evolving" some aspect of human intelligence, I'm always skeptical because it sounds like they were programmed such that this outcome is almost pre-ordained. for example, evolut
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by brosephius 15y ago
nice idea, but what's the incentive for me to submit a summary?
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by brosephius 15y ago
according to ebay, my 2-year-old macbook is worth half the original purchase price. not quite free for me :(
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by brosephius 15y ago
an IPO is just a way to raise money (oversimplified, but still true), and unprofitable companies raise money from VCs all the time, so is this really all that different?
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by brosephius 15y ago
fyi, http://tasskr.com works for me, but when I initially went to www.tasskr.com, it didn't
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Ask YC: how many of you want to be rich?
15 points by brosephius 16y ago|22 comments
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by brosephius 16y ago
assuming, of course, that the people you interact with all have smartphones with the color app running. as far as I know "passive" social networking or "let's interact with strangers" apps never gain traction, because most people don't find
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by brosephius 16y ago
5% for a currency pair is huge, especially between currencies of two developed countries. daily moves are usually tiny.

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