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No sympathy for him.

Both are fads. Give it another year and we'll be onto another FB app and another social network website that lets you only send 80 characters at a time (it fits into a nice *nix console window!)

He's buying more stocks.

Why would I pay $100 for this instead of using a free website like ComputerJobs.com, Dice.com, Monster.com etc? I'd think the quality of employers would be about the same.

So far I see zero benefits for me but lots of moola for JoS.

i like it -- pretty impressed as I'm learning Silverlight atm and is inspirational to keep on doing some more coding in it.

The converse is should 'small boned' people pay less to fly?

I read DHH awhile ago and he mentioned only working 2 hrs a day (and not even everyday on your side project). I think most people even if they're octomom if they plan and schedule well enough could probably find 2 hrs a day (early in the morning or late at night) to squeeze in some work.

There's no requirement that it has to be an extra 6 or 8 hr marathon everyday for 6 months or year, etc.

That last comment on his blog about the guy whose wife is about to leave him is sad. One of the main reasons it's important to have a supporting partner in life.

Looks like all of the other crap search engines by Yahoo, MSN, etc.

Why anyone would want to copy those other crap search engine layouts is beyond me. Too much clutter. KISS. (Keep it simple...)

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The details and implementation are key to making it a success. If you're bringing more than just an idea like funding, connections, and have committed sales contracts already in hand then you'd be worth more than 50/50.

A 50/50 split just says I haven't really thought it through what both of us will really contribute. No offense.

True. Each side has their own set of advantages/disadvantages. And so you'd have to adapt and take that into consideration in addition to bid/ask spread. It's not impossible (nothing is impossible), and you'd only get killed by brokerage fees if you're overtrading.

If you can find an algorithm that can trade only a few times a day and ride stocks that has a volatility of 1% or more then even at retail commission levels you can still do pretty well as you slowly build up your account to trade strategies that require more churn.

Being a "small fish" is actually an advantage since you have less capital you need to put to work and thus can more easily get fills and catch the bigger waves generated by the bigger fish institutions like mutual and hedge funds.

The institutions have to hold on for longer periods and can't really "scalp" trades per se given that the bid/ask volume would collapse if they didn't distribute and "average in" slowly overtime to accumulate a position vs. buying or dumping their entire position all at once.