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brosephiuson Ask HN: Review our webapp: AirDropper

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...just overall looks a bit weird, definitely not like what nickstamas posted above.

this is in FF 3.6.8 on XP with cleartype enabled, btw.

brosephiuson Ask HN: What if I missed the good stuff in my undergraduate education?

does your employer offer any tuition benefits? maybe you could pick up a night class on their dime :)

brosephiuson Ask HN: Review our webapp: AirDropper

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 :)

brosephiuson Ask HN: Review my weekend project - MobilePly

just a small side note, doesn't work for me if I put www. in the address

brosephiuson How to Take a Walk

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 sample. but, putting that aside, I could use some new friends anyway.

brosephiuson How to Take a Walk

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.

brosephiuson Ask HN: Review QuoteSentinel, personalized stock price notifications

yahoo finance already does this for free, as do many brokerages. what's your competitive advantage?

brosephiuson CompassionPit.com, Share your feelings without fear of judgment

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.

brosephiuson Goldman's traders use a proprietary programming language called "Slang"

I thought the employer pays that fee?

brosephiuson Ask HN: Would you buy Facebook stock?

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 inflated by lack of supply.

brosephiuson Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

interesting story, thanks for sharing it.

brosephiuson Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

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 regretting making that drastic change and having it ultimately fail me also. I guess I desperately want change, but perversely also deeply fear change.

brosephiuson Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?

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.

brosephiuson Ask HN: Is it feasible to do high-frequency trading as an individual?

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.

brosephiuson Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants

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.

brosephiuson Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

- 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 likable. if, like many on HN, you want to be an entrepreneur, never stop selling yourself.

- never, ever put off pursuing things that interest you, because if you get in this habit you'll find years fly by where you did nothing but work and watch tv. and on the same token, never ever let regret about your past decisions hinder you from making the right ones going forward.

- never feel superior because you're younger. yes, society is biased when it comes to age, but focusing on your age as if you're some sort of wunderkind is immature and a huge turnoff.

brosephiuson Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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 user through the design? I noticed an "Add note" feature in the screenshot of the editor, but it's not clear if those get copied to the online shared version.

brosephiuson Critique My First Start-up? (Not yet public)

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 with the look-and-feel comments, it's a bit amateurish with the gmail address and godaddy logo. there's also very little information on what this actual is outside of the API docs - how about some screenshots of the control panel?

brosephiuson The Web isn't Brought to You By the Letter "T"

are these frequencies excluding common stopwords? site doesn't say...

brosephiuson Ask HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million?

>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.

brosephiuson Palantir Raises $90 Million

wow, not bad. interesting product, smart engineers. bombed an interview with them some time ago :P