DevX101

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by DevX101 15y ago
It's hard to say what facebook's intentions here without inside knowledge, but I wouldn't discount it. The founder of modern propaganda and advertising, Edward Bernays, performed many extremely subtle experiments that had dramatic shifts i
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New VC fund invest $30M into strange company owned by same VC. Scam?(techcrunch.com)
4 points by DevX101 15y ago|1 comments
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by DevX101 15y ago
If Google has another infographic, I hope they swap it in. I'm looking at the full page version of takeaction.pdf and the font is way too small. I can't read the text unless I zoom in to 200%.
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by DevX101 15y ago
Thanks for the response Marci. Brewer's article was really useful for putting into context the problem with communicating to congress. I've never contacted Congress as I presume my input will have no meaningful impact. I think what you're
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by DevX101 15y ago
This was a good response. It obviously doesn't solve the issue, but I wouldn't expect it to do so from a simple internet petition. What this does is block support for one of the more egregious parts of the bill and invites internet engine
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by DevX101 15y ago
This is a pretty important point. I doubt more than 10,000 people in the U.S. read PIPA and SOPA in their entirety (only a handful of congressmen/women are included in the 10,000) Our reactions to proposed legislation are almost entirely b
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by DevX101 15y ago
Is there a regular online community where they share thoughts & discuss?
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by DevX101 15y ago
They're still tweeting as of 2 weeks ago. http://twitter.com/wakemate Lots of apologizing in that stream.
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by DevX101 15y ago
For now, it's only code sharing. I may add text w/ formatting in the near future. No plans to add drawings though.
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by DevX101 15y ago
I'm working on codemeet.com to solve this problem. I'm looking for beta testers. Contact me.
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by DevX101 15y ago
Hedge funds across the board lost more money since that post came out. Its hard to tell exact performance on the bet though since they don't disclose exactly which hedge funds are in the basket being evaluated for the bet. To give a sense
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by DevX101 15y ago
The managers are more likely to close the fund, open up a new fund under a new name and start the game over again. From this morning: http://darien.patch.com/articles/collapse-of-darien-hedge-fu... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c
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by DevX101 15y ago
The biggest source of hedge fund money are pensions. I'm quite certain the workers didn't volunteer to put their money into hedge funds.
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by DevX101 15y ago
Warren Buffet made a bet that a market index (S&P500) would outperform hedge funds. So far, he seems to be winning the bet. http://longbets.org/362/ As the hedge fund market grows by 10x, its all but certain returns will decline. Th
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by DevX101 15y ago
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor print colored('Hello, World!', 'red')
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by DevX101 15y ago
Despite my differences with much of the Republican party platform, one thing that they are damn good at and I respect them for is an ability to communicate with their target base. Where's there's a hot topic issue, the Republicans will come
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by DevX101 15y ago
I'm actually surprised that the median founder of a venture funded firm only owns ~5% of the company. Do others' experience confirm this?
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by DevX101 15y ago
I briefly thought about starting a business like this a couple years ago. During this thought exercise I came to the conclusion that an embedded GPS would be essential to maintain security. Another idea would be making your social network y
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Great example of crisis management in action (AvengerController)(reddit.com)
6 points by DevX101 15y ago|0 comments
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by DevX101 15y ago
900 upvotes and 92 comments on the reddit thread, yet not one comment that is critical of this action. To release the emails of private individuals and firms without any a priori evidence that they have committed any sort of crime is distas
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by DevX101 15y ago
Frind was making $10 million USD per year when he had 1.2 billion page views. If his revenue scales directly to pageviews (which I think it does), he should be bringing in about $50M per year. Not bad.
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by DevX101 15y ago
| you need something more than being mocked and misunderstood. you need traction, usage, momentum, etc. Companies that have traction, usage, momentum, etc and ARE NOT mocked and misunderstood certainly outperform the ones that fit those cri
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by DevX101 15y ago
How interesting will this be if i've never read the Harry Potter series? (i've seen a couple of the movies)
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by DevX101 15y ago
I read the report. I think they had the big ideas right, but the quantification of the opportunity was a bit hand wavey. The biggest chunk of that $300 billion was clinical operations, which they said would lead to a $165 Billion savings.
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Strong candidate for worst graph of the year(money.cnn.com)
3 points by DevX101 15y ago|1 comments
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by DevX101 15y ago
Excellent comment. I'd also point that there are democracies in the world that are orders of magnitude worse places to start a business than Singapore. Singapore is consistently rated by the World Bank/International Finance Corporation as
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by DevX101 15y ago
I love webfaction. I'm building my app solo and I'm not a linux expert so when the shit hits the fan, they're a good last resort to help me figure out where I screwed up. Great customer service.
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by DevX101 15y ago
I want to see that traditional investment banking IPO die. Investment banks surely deserve compensation for their role in securing financing from institutional investors, but 7% of amount raised seems awfully high for what amounts to a few
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by DevX101 15y ago
The site is down so if you can't read the article, see here [1]. The author is actually pointing out two distinct problems, which are both having a real impact on tech companies. The first and most difficult problem which every company fac
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by DevX101 15y ago
You'll never find a politician worth his/her salt taking cash from a company. The way its done is to push through favorable laws for a company with a wink and a nod, and then come back and work for the company as a consultant/lobbyist with

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