DaniFong

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by DaniFong 17y ago
Hmm, Try as we might, IQs don't actually follow a bell curve. There are many more on the high and low ends than would be expected by looking at the curvature in the middle. Whether this is a measurement error or something else, we don't kno
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Very good points, I suspect that programming and other forms of concentrated work will require a phase shift in order to continue a high level of productivity, and the type of productivity won't be the same. But, as DHH of 37signals points
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Even if men are less likely to take time off, the fact that they still can is a significant positive for women.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Do you have proof?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
It may tend to have different effects if paternity leave is available state or country wide. Then social norms may begin to change. See, for example, Iceland: "…if you are in a job the state gives you nine months on fully paid child leave,
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I'm referring to two handed chorded keyboards, for example of the type used by stenographers: stenotype machines. "A stenotype, stenotype machine or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Perhaps it's worth considering chorded keyboards? They're smaller than regular keyboards, and the rate of input is much faster. For a certain segment of the population the tradeoff could be worth it, but you can't find them in the right for
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Isn't the sizing of markets something of marketers need to do, all day long? You can't blow $20k for a Gartner report every time you imagine a new market. You need to be able to make some ballpark estimates. These 'stupid impossible questio
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by DaniFong 17y ago
LightSail Energy. There isn't much on our website. We're stealth.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
My cofounder Steve tried to hire me for a videogame startup. I ended up hiring him for my compressed air energy storage startup. He brought on Ed, a partner he worked with more than two decades ago; they created a startup, Cubicomp, that p
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Breaking news from the office of fallacies: People are fungible! Seriously speaking, however, money is a pretty major problem. It is hard not to feel unfairly treated when the lawyers working on translating your product into patentese make
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I tend to phrase the question a little more humorously: Why do bankers have all the money?
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Hey guys, this looks super great :-)
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Cheaper than coal if you've already built the thing.It's a sunk cost, sure, but for policy going forward you can't ignore it.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
There are plenty of people who wrote x who don't, for the moment, want the moral weight, commitment, instability and uncertainty of starting a company. And GitHub probably doesn't need a bazillion engineers.
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LumaDerm, Skin Cancer Detection Startup, Pitches Women 2.0 (Winner, Pitch 2009)(vimeo.com)
1 points by DaniFong 17y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I don't know much more about the history of the proof than this, but in the following talk, Malcolm Gladwell describes the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as the work of 13 smart guys in collaboration, rather than one lone genius. http://ww
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Streets give up secrets on 'Scenic Route' app(sfgate.com)
1 points by DaniFong 17y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
As I understand it, for MRI (and other devices which need high fields, such as magnetic confinement fusion), the biggest limiting factor is not cooling, which is not terribly expensive relative to the cost of all the other equipment (liquid
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Not if alternatives achieve unsubsidized competitiveness, which is precisely what some are trying to achieve. The internet is a chaotic system if you choose packets as your unit of granularity, and yet this message still came over the wire
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by DaniFong 17y ago
A wage from what? I said prefunding :-) You're right though, I probably should have said 'prewage' :-p
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I don't think an even split is expected (or even suggested -- consider that Sequoia takes around 30% only!), but a good rule of thumb is that, prefunding, someone who joins is a cofounder. It really changes your perspective when you're part
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I just don't understand the reasoning of the many who call themselves climate change skeptics. Let's pretend it's not about earth, for a moment, and just some black box, hovering in a vacuum, with a big lightbulb shining next to it. Practic
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Maybe the reason this guy is pissed off constantly is because he just doesn't like his work.
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Quantum computing may be useful for systems of linear equations(web.mit.edu)
4 points by DaniFong 17y ago|0 comments
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by DaniFong 17y ago
If you make brick cheap enough the market volume will grow. Currently aluminum siding is used, primarily for cost reasons.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The interface for Mathematica, which typically consists of bracketing special characters with escape characters, is a lot less cumbersome than LaTeX for writing something quickly. For example, the integral of the square root of x is entered
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by DaniFong 17y ago
That which does not make you stranger will kill you.
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by DaniFong 17y ago
I think there's a pretty good case out there for the fact that sexism hurts men as well as women. Sometimes profoundly. I can only imagine how devastating it would be to want to devote one's life to caring for, raising, and teaching childre
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The strategy may be in fact to take down a smaller case and use it as a precedent to go after larger companies.

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