Category Archives: Get.rich.quick
Project Idea: Dasher for Android
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yIquOKQ0 I like the idea that you are just navigating through the Borgesian infinite library to extract your sentences. Dasher is free and GPL, [...]
How to make money from market volatility
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 [...]
Also posted in Economics, Money, Pals Tagged charts, etfs, finance, moolah, tl;dr, volatility, volatility drag 2 Comments
The Dark Passenger
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 in this [...]
More Horrible Recruiters
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.
Also posted in Spam 2 Comments
Offline and online
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 [...]
Also posted in Design, Dev, Hacks Leave a comment
The shotgun approach to recruiting is counterproductive
> 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 [...]
Also posted in Hacks, RubyOnRails, Spam 1 Comment
Call Nightline!
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 off [...]
Also posted in Pals, Save.the.world Leave a comment
Let’s not applaud yet.
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 and he’s lost 28 pounds. [...]
Project Idea: Render Images with Dice Rasterization