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by wagerlabs 16y ago
It's a vague recollection but I think options commissions at Bear -were- $100 per side back in 1995/96. Now, I didn't work in investment banking, I was a lowly programmer in the Securities Lending department. Also, you had to use Bear to tr
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
You are right. I don't need the million euro since I don't know what to spend it on. What I'm looking for is freedom to learn and do new things that interest me. I used to do this by working 6 months out of a year at most but I still don't
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Spanish real estate has been tanking. Over 1.5mm units unsold. I think it's a good time to buy, perhaps towards the end of the year. My wife is a self-employed travel agent catering to the Russian market (I'm Russian/Cuban). I she would lov
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
I just outsourced a project to my brother, a first in a few years. I also know a great local 3D modeler often in need of work. It is sounding like I'll need to transition into running a consultancy. Nothing new, I ran my own offshore develo
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Do you know of any material that lets capacitance through? The other issue is connecting a GPS to the iPad if the internal GPS is not good enough. I don't know if it is yet, will take my iPad sailing this August. Apple requires you to build
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
I don't think it needs to be dirty. I think a "platform" is a good idea.
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Buying to rent should result in income uncorrelated to programing.
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Thanks! I don't hate people, I just get tired of lots of people around me and need the solitude of my office. My timeline is 10 years or less and I could, likely, add 50K a year. I don't have a penchant for gambling, I traded twice in ... u
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Kunthar, did I give you a quote? ;-)
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
I left Wall St with the semi-official title of "Director of Prime Brokerage Technology". I did work on the technology budget and spoke to vendors. I simply don't have the organization required to service Wall St.
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
Some of that already exists, check out the App Store. I'm thinking an iPad would make a decent chart plotter, though :-). Now, if I could only find a weather-proof enclosure!
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
I used to run an offshore development company out of the US and even went through a round of VC at ~1.25mm post-money. The round did not go past a bridge loan since the internet bubble was bursting at about this time. I can judge technical
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
The bottleneck is that I sell a service and I can only offer so much of it. Also, my base rate is 100 EUR/hr, about $125, although I always quote a fixed price. I found a niche in writing Mac device drivers for a big company this year. I ha
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
I don't play poker and I'm not interested in learning. I inherited the software at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpoker/ and tried to fix it. I then thought I'd write a much better server quickly. I ended up writing a server that's s
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Ask HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million?
84 points by wagerlabs 16y ago|134 comments
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Ask HN: Using startups.ch to move to Switzerland. Non-EU citizens?
8 points by wagerlabs 16y ago|3 comments
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by wagerlabs 16y ago
A bit of context is probably due... I wrote a user land USB driver and packaged it in a framework. The framework starts the driver in a new thread upon initialization. I needed the separate thread and needed a way to talk to it. I explored
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Using Grand Central Dispatch and C++ for inter-thread communication(wagerlabs.com)
6 points by wagerlabs 16y ago|1 comments
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
It doesn't cover any Scheme that compiles to C since that would be indistinguishable from regular C/C++ code, at least on Apple's side.
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
The MacRuby team is the one to talk to. This is Mac-specific Ruby on LLVM.
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
-are not- available, mea culpa!
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Uploaded to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26543064/Preso-HLS
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Uploaded to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26543064/Preso-HLS
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Real-world device using Chuck Moore's SEAforth chips [pdf](groups.google.com)
1 points by wagerlabs 17y ago|1 comments
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Eval kits are available since the whole team was canned and went to Green Arrays. FORTHdrive (thumbstick) has a SEAforth chip on it (24 cores). Take a look at the hearing aid presentation in the files section of the SEAforth Google group [2
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Source code http://github.com/wagerlabs/seaforth24 and Forth code to talk to the device http://github.com/wagerlabs/seaforth24/blob/master/USBdriveM...
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Doesn't location data require GPS which takes time to acquire data and need satellite visibility? What happens if I bump in a basement?
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
That's rather un-economical at $1,000 per device, even accounting for the USD/EUR exchange rate. The price, shipping and customs fees are gonna kill me.
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by wagerlabs 17y ago
Yes, I would like to rent iPhones in my local market, pre-loaded with certain applications. Problem is, I may not be able to do this economically and may have to go with Android instead. I suspect it will be far easier to buy hundreds of HT
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Ask HN: Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS
2 points by wagerlabs 17y ago|4 comments

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