brosephius

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by brosephius 16y ago
It seems they don’t understand why it is useful to draw a distinction between control-C, used to cancel an operation in a terminal environment, and Command-C, used to copy content in a desktop setting. anyone know what he's refe
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by brosephius 16y ago
if you think it's too expensive relative to its operating costs, launch a cheaper competitor :)
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by brosephius 16y ago
you're still taking on the risk of waking up one morning to an accounting scandal rendering 5% of your portfolio worthless. unless you diversify so much that you're essentially an index investor anyway. the stock market isn't rigged against
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by brosephius 16y ago
it engages your ego, like every other social networking service. it lets you feel more important than you really are. and by compelling you to contribute, it has the side effect of creating value for others to consume.
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by brosephius 16y ago
http://i.imgur.com/6bcnn.png notice how the r and l characters seem to be a bit higher, and (at least in my opinion) the b and o chars seems to be too "fat", especially relative to the e. also, the bottom part of the a looks too thick...j
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by brosephius 16y ago
does your employer offer any tuition benefits? maybe you could pick up a night class on their dime :)
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by brosephius 16y ago
this is superficial, but that font looks terrible, at least on my screen. honestly, it looks like an amateur's first attempt at making a font. otherwise it's a cool product idea :)
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by brosephius 16y ago
just a small side note, doesn't work for me if I put www. in the address
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by brosephius 16y ago
not sure what you're referring to, but if you're suggesting my programmer friends all say "I hack this/that" I should clarify that I'm mostly referring to bloggers and other web presences, which admittedly isn't really a representative samp
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by brosephius 16y ago
to be fair, programmers overuse the word too. nobody writes code or programs, everyone says "I'm an XYZ hacker" or "I hack on XYZ". the word means nothing, it's just trendy in an odd sort of way.
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by brosephius 16y ago
yahoo finance already does this for free, as do many brokerages. what's your competitive advantage?
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by brosephius 16y ago
how is this different from any generic random-user chat app, other than the "compassion" theme? is there anything technologically unique? not trying to be harsh, just honest.
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by brosephius 16y ago
I thought the employer pays that fee?
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Ask HN: good reads on real-world software design?
3 points by brosephius 16y ago|2 comments
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by brosephius 16y ago
according to some recent techcrunch posts about FB stock trading on secondmarket.com, it's about valued at about $25 billion. but they noted that FB has stopped letting new employees sell their stock, so the valuation is potentially inflate
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Ask HN: can I teach myself the skills needed to succeed in NLP/IR/PA/DM?
3 points by brosephius 16y ago|2 comments
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by brosephius 16y ago
interesting story, thanks for sharing it.
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by brosephius 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/129508/when-did-you-know-... see the top-rated answer. on top of that, I'm basically not fulfilling my dreams, and I'm sort of preemptively feeling intense regret about my life. but I'm also preemptively
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by brosephius 16y ago
I know, but I figured the odds were good someone around here used to be a professional programmer, and is now doing something completely different, but still a hobbyist and HN enthusiast. I could be wrong.
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Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?
102 points by brosephius 16y ago|105 comments
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by brosephius 16y ago
your internet-based API is nowhere near fast enough to compete with legit HFT firms. low to medium frequency with longer holding periods, sure, but real HFT via your broker's API? not gonna happen.
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by brosephius 16y ago
if this means the end of restaurant web sites that are built entirely in flash or have PDF-only menus, I'm all for it.
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by brosephius 16y ago
- one of the keys to success is being likable. skills/talent alone won't carry you to the top. they can take you far, but if you want to be a star, you gotta know how to hustle. i.e., networking, getting your name/face out there, being lika
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by brosephius 16y ago
I like the concept. it's not clear that you have to use an offline editor though, I first thought you could do the mockup work in my browser. maybe I missed this, but can you add notes to the mockups you put online, for example to guide a u
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by brosephius 16y ago
what's your target market? day traders? offering stock predictions reeks of the snake oil trading systems advertised on cnbc, so I wouldn't combine that with a data/execution API (which is actually a serious product offering). I also agree
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by brosephius 16y ago
are these frequencies excluding common stopwords? site doesn't say...
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by brosephius 16y ago
>I'm thinking that trading may be my best bet if you had asked "how do I turn 1 million into 100K?" I think I'd agree with that statement.
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by brosephius 16y ago
wow, not bad. interesting product, smart engineers. bombed an interview with them some time ago :P
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Ask HN: how do you deal with the job skills chicken-and-egg problem?
8 points by brosephius 16y ago|9 comments