Category Archives: Get.rich.quick

Project Idea: Dasher for Android

By MattK | Published: February 22, 2010
Dasher is a text entry method completely unlike a keyboard. You just swipe and like a video game you navigate through the possible sentences you could be writing. Check the demo: I like the idea that you are just navigating through the Borgesian infinite library to extract your sentences. Dasher is free and GPL, it just hasn’t [...]
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How to make money from market volatility

By MattK | Published: January 13, 2010
A friend recently wrote me about a strategy he heard for exploiting market volatility.  I get these questions sometimes because I’m in finance, and because I’m in finance let me be up front.  I’m not giving you financial advice here.  I’m not an advisor, I’m not competent, you should probably close this page now and [...]
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The Dark Passenger

By MattK | Published: March 23, 2009
At the party, Blakely said that she had always wanted to do something new, like write a movie. I make things happen, so I got her to imagine a thriller that we could easily film in NYC. She’s probably a bit sick of the subject by now. You can read The Dark Passenger [...]
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Some good advice to my friends who are terrified of this job market

By MattK | Published: March 3, 2009
Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school.. Many of my friends are considering this sort of move. It’s a sucker bet for a number of reasons that Penelope outlines. My basic argument is her last one. Graduate school forces you to overinvest: It’s too high risk. In a world where people did [...]
Also posted in Economics, Incentives, Pals | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

More Horrible Recruiters

By MattK | Published: July 18, 2008
This morning, my inbox melted into a thin runny gruel due to the amazing incompetence of Prodigus Tech. Also, to feed google a bit, Max Archie is a wankstain. update: now we get pieces of flair.  See see the sidebar.
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Offline and online

By MattK | Published: October 25, 2007
Google came out with a good idea a while ago called Google Gears.  The idea is to make some of these new fangled web applications able to function when you aren’t connected to the internet. It never seemed like that great of an idea to me, but I’ve been using a personal Wiki to track household [...]
Also posted in Design, Dev, Hacks | Leave a comment

The shotgun approach to recruiting is counterproductive

By MattK | Published: August 23, 2007
> Hi Matthew, > > I'm very impressed with your rating/experience. > At the current time, I have a few clients that are looking for experienced > Ruby Rails developers (both contract & permanent) like yourself. There > is > lots of room for creativity and growth at these places. > > So, my contacts are below if you're still looking. Also, if [...]
Also posted in Hacks, RubyOnRails, Spam | 1 Comment

Call Nightline!

By MattK | Published: October 18, 2006
My friend Nikki pointed out the MIT Nightline for me and neither of us can get over how good this idea is. I love the idea of a number in your phone that you can call for anything. It’s staffed with volunteers. I think you could set up a non-MIT version of this based [...]
Also posted in Pals, Save.the.world | Leave a comment

Let’s not applaud yet.

By MattK | Published: September 19, 2004
I’m just waking up on sunday morning and I throw on the news. NBC has found this family of butter trolls and given them a nutritionist and a physical trainer man. It’s three months later and they show the before picture of dad. He was 303 pounds, 6′3. Three months [...]
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