brosephius

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by brosephius 12y ago
I know he has an investment vehicle of some kind to manage his wealth (I think it's called Cascade?) but does anybody know what it has stakes in? And his quoted wealth figure doesn't include what he's given to his foundation,
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by brosephius 13y ago
the depiction of "wall street jobs" isn't very accurate...most people are not wearing many "hats", and quantitative modelers certainly aren't getting coffee for execs. outside of a small trading firm, you'
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by brosephius 13y ago
There's a huge spectrum of what a "workout" can be depending on your goals. The original title of the post said it was "amazing" and "beautifully designed", which is a bit of an overstatement. It's a
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by brosephius 13y ago
Anybody want to venture a guess as to what those 350 million daily messages are worth as far as advertising goes? I feel like they would be relatively "low quality" ad impressions but could they be worth a 0.1 cents per? I'm
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by brosephius 13y ago
There's no guarantee that all the IPO shares would have been placed at $46 (I'd doubt it).
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by brosephius 13y ago
US Cellular has a program where you can bring your phone to any retail store and swap out your battery for a charged one. No need to return to pick up your original. Granted, that's for a $10 battery, but why wouldn't this work fo
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by brosephius 13y ago
Wouldn't readers be better off if the author wrote about this problem with PCA in the book, instead of ignoring it entirely?
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by brosephius 13y ago
Pretty fascinating reading the comments here about how big WhatsApp is outside of the US. I've never encountered anybody using it here, never would have guessed it's so popular elsewhere that it's been turned into a verb. I think this is a
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by brosephius 14y ago
So we can't discuss for-profit startups on HN either, since they're walled-gardens that try to make money off their apps and services, without open sourcing their entire codebase?
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by brosephius 14y ago
Wouldn't this cause spreads on stocks to get very wide? Liquid stocks are a penny wide now, I could see that going up to five or ten cents with such a tax. While the average investor isn't going to get hit much, in aggregate it seems like
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by brosephius 14y ago
Sorry, I still can't agree with #1. It assumes that all workplace programming is gluing things together, fixing/maintaining legacy crap, or writing generic CRUD apps, which is untrue. I know some great programmers who never code in their sp
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by brosephius 14y ago
I wonder if they're thinking of going to a for-profit model where users pay to take a class and earn a certificate. On a side note, who owns the course material a professor creates while employed at a university?
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by brosephius 14y ago
Sounds like your complaint is against mediocre programmers and enterpriseyness, not C# (which in my opinion is a technically superior language to Java). I use it all the time for simple one-off tasks and while it can be a bit verbose it's n
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by brosephius 15y ago
Yep...why go through the normal interview process to work at Google when you can get acqui-hired, get paid the same, but get a million-dollar "signing bonus"?
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by brosephius 15y ago
For all the times I've seen people on HN say "ideas are worthless", you would think HN would love this. I myself think it's a great experiment.
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by brosephius 15y ago
What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?
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by brosephius 15y ago
Maybe it's just me but I like the "Strong use of color" better. I find it hard to quickly find the tool button I want when they're all monochrome. I'm sure I'd get used to it, but I can't really say the colors in the GUI are my primary dist
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by brosephius 15y ago
You found companies willing to wait a year for you to start? That's surprising, I wouldn't have guessed that would be easy to do. I'm thinking about this myself, but I'm looking to join a startup and I can't imagine that would be feasible g
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by brosephius 15y ago
Visual Studio compilation times are ridiculously fast for me, are you talking about Mono/Linux in point #2 also?
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by brosephius 15y ago
In the accepted answer, what's so bad about the "non-restful" approach the author describes? Who cares if I use GET/DELETE/PUT/POST vs putting the "verb" in a query string argument or the name the file that's being called?
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by brosephius 15y ago
I wasn't cool when tech wasn't cool, and I'm still not cool now that tech is cool. Maybe I need to start wearing sunglasses when I code.
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by brosephius 15y ago
While there isn't enough trading history to say with confidence, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that GRPN has a pretty high beta to the broader market, so I would expect it to rise (or fall) several times the % of (most of) the rest
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by brosephius 15y ago
Not necessarily. It's completely normal for borrow rates to be ~100% shortly after IPO, it takes a few days for the stock borrow market to settle on a more realistic rate. I wouldn't read much into the drop, and remember that rates differen
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by brosephius 15y ago
is anyone else a bit skeptical at the number of countries averaging over 3,000 calories/day? wouldn't such a person consistently gain a pound or two a month, every month?
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by brosephius 15y ago
not much of a vc scene compared to SF/NY, weather sucks almost half the year, and chicago is generally underrated as a place to live for various reasons. a lot of it is chicken and egg - the top talent doesn't see chicago as a place to go t
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by brosephius 15y ago
hah, I though this was going to be about a site where you can rent someone's dog for a few hours here and there. there are already dog rental sites, but how can individual pet owners monetize the hours they're not at home to enjoy their fur
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by brosephius 15y ago
sorry, but I think this is an arrogant and insulting attitude. I get the value of side projects, but assuming that someone who doesn't have any is an inferior candidate is bullshit. I know the blog post says "Not having pet projects doesn’t
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by brosephius 15y ago
I like that they separated it into basic/advanced, originally I was thinking of signing up and skipping the homework when I didn't have free time for it, but now I can just do the basic and not feel bad :)
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by brosephius 15y ago
anybody know if it's inappropriate to sign up to be able to watch the lectures and check out the homework, but not actually intend to submit all the assignments? it's not clear if the course materials will be accessible without being offici
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by brosephius 15y ago
how does this work? is he using stark's card balance to buy a new starbucks card?

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