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Re: Fun Friday: Coming Up With A Better Name For NYC’s Tech Community

MartinRuiz — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:48:21 -0000

"Beta City" - Beta has a software vibe. Also, if I put some grit on it with my New Yawk accent, it kinda sounds like "Better City"... Yo :)

Re: I blew up a Twitter Bot

MartinRuiz — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:01:00 -0000

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Re: I blew up a Twitter Bot

MartinRuiz — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:00:48 -0000

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Re: "4 Ways To Stop Twitter Hacks That Swing The Markets"

MartinRuiz — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:15:26 -0000

Wanting to prevent future hacks to limit their impact is important... but lets consider the the counterfactual and ask, supposing that the tweet was "truthful", do we want traders and markets to react this way?

Re: "Credit Suisse No Longer Reporting Dark Pool Volumes, Takes Away from Transparency"

MartinRuiz — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:27:56 -0000

It could have something to do with exchanges pushing regulators to effectively slow down trading on dark pools, i.e. off exchange. It'll be harder for exchanges to make their case without the data.

Re: "JP Morgan Forms Electronic Trading Management Committee"

MartinRuiz — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:19:49 -0000

Nice piece. Strong leadership, a coordinated effort to ensure each business feels the benefits, and the stamina to realize the long view are critical for this to succeed. JPM has a good shot. They have the footprint and, judging from Frank's comments, a very strong leadership team too.

Re: http://www.plgna.org/post/1419105190

MartinRuiz — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:31:28 -0000

Hope to see at the next one... in the meantime, stay posted for committee meetings. We could always use more help with those:) And of course, you can always suggest and form a new committee around an issue you feel we should be focusing on.

Re: Wow, Sony’s Google TV Remote Looks Like Ten Thousand Button Nightmare

MartinRuiz — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:46:41 -0000

Wii-like remote with touchpad + BlindType would be great. Wii / Netflix interface is so easy to use.

Re: DIY Twitter Client : Yet Another Twitter Client Hack

MartinRuiz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:30:50 -0000

Are you using Greasemonkey v8 or higher?

Re: DIY Twitter Client : Yet Another Twitter Client Hack

MartinRuiz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:24:28 -0000

twitter's api should only require it once... does it asks for authentication more than once? Let me know.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:54:40 -0000

That's my son, Lucas, in the middle with the dark hair. He and his friends sold ice tea, cake, and cookies. It was fascinating to watch. Lot's of stuff happened behind the scenes, but the interesting part was the sales process.

I learned the following from Lucas about successful sales.
1. Be proud of your product... or create a product you can be proud of.
2. Be honest
3. Don't assume someone doesn't want your product. Talk to them anyway.
4. Be responsive to customers... they never once said "no" to a customer.
5. Have fun

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:43:37 -0000

We've been inspired to revisit our local museums after coming back from our European trip. Frank LLoyd Wright was the main attraction... A genius for sure. The design for a mile high building was spectacular. That would be 4 to 5 times taller than the Empire State Building. Sadly some of his best designs were never realized.

It also brought back memories of friends who studied architecture while at Cornell. I hope to see them at the Guggenheim some day.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:36:17 -0000

Dolca and Alex rode their new bikes to the beach. While Lucas played with his friends outside, I got to simply chill. Just before I could begin to hate my "freedom", I dropped an 8" chef knife on my toe. ouch... Last year I had my finger stitched up due to an accident with that same knife, while my family was out. 'Til death do us part I guess.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:29:32 -0000

Some friends invited us to a BBQ and Movie... both in their yard. The lobster and burgers were amazing. The feature was "Queen or Outer Space" (1958) with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Campy, but I loved it.

Re: rssCloud news (Scripting News)

MartinRuiz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:39:02 -0000

if you use Firefox/Greasemonkey you might be able to use the following script to RT/Reply/fave/follow/sharelinks from tweets in Google Reader

http://userscripts.org/scri...

Re: Getting Started With Posterous

MartinRuiz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:42:58 -0000

nice primer... I've started experimenting with posterous So far so good. I'm fascinated by the Autopost. I like that it's store-and-forward as oppose to the just forward like say, ping.fm. I also like that I collect my content up front in Posterous, then push out. As oppose to pushing out from many sources then collecting, like FriendFeed.

While my experience with Posterous is overwhelmingly positive, I do have two peeves.

No Theme-ing: Simplicity is one of it's virtues, but I would love to have some theme-ing like tumblr.

Lo-fidelity Autopost from Bookmarklet: rather than broadcast to all platforms, I would like to select which services to post to. Other than that, the bookmarklet is awesome.

BTW. their support is awesome too. perhaps they're still small enough to keep support personal and responsive.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:45:13 -0000

My dad impressed me once when he built a kite... a darn good one. We flew it over Central Park in Manhattan, far beyond the park above some buildings. People stood around with binoculars to watch. We also flew our kites above Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. We had hoped to become famous for our kite flying by appearing on TV during baseball games. It never happened:(

I forgot how much fun it was to fly kites.

Yesterday we flew our kite in Prospect Park. There wasn't enough wind to really get it out there, but me and my son Lucas had fun none-the-less. On the way home, he turned to me and said, "Dad, that was so much fun. Let's do it again tomorrow".

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:08:38 -0000

I was in Chicago flying back to NYC when I finished the book. Wow! what a book. Junot and I went to Cornell together, and while it's likely we met (perhaps at a party), we were not friends. Please read this book... I plan to read it again and again.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:53:23 -0000

The irony is that the current business climate is neither a paradise nor healthy. Storefronts are closing down at an alarming rate. I'm hoping to address this as a board member of http://plgna.org and resident of Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:41:08 -0000

We saw "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage. It was better than I expected. But the end of world and alien stuff was all the kids needed to set up shop in our bedroom.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:20:54 -0000

When we bought the house, it had a steal door with two tiny windows at the very top. The door was over-protective and made you feel like you were trying to keep something out. We finally replaced it with a glass panel door.

As for the 4 years, those of you experienced with home improvement projects can understand why a simple project like this took so long. The reasons are somewhat mysterious but common. My neighbor has been working on his windows for 30 years.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:20:23 -0000

That's Dolca in the black dress. Alex is in the distance riding her scooter. Dolca and I wished we had scooters. We walked about 5 miles in Brooklyn today. Brooklyn is incredibly beautiful and diverse. I'm so glad we can call it home.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:12:06 -0000

Dolca and the kids went to the beach today. Most people are surprised when I tell them that I hate the beach. Really, it's the sand. Never liked it. So I didn't go, and instead celebrated a moment of independence.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:35:27 -0000

My neighbors have 2 kids and I can always count on them having 5 parties per year. One for each birthday and the fifth to celebrate MLK.

Re: 93 Photos of Summer

MartinRuiz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:50 -0000

We have pizza every Wednesday night at our house. Dolca and Alex were out so it was just me and Lucas. Okay with us because we were able to add a movie and some gaming to the night:)

We saw Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood and played some Naruto and Monopoly on the XBox 360.