RockyMcNuts

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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
Won't someone think of the children??? I have yet to meet anyone who started a company and is not a little crazy, and a little less risk-averse than most. Where do you draw the line for acceptable behavior? Is flying a plane OK? Riding a mo
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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
Those are really important and good points...but they're also why the two amigos don't invest in tech - hard to predict if LinkedIn will be around and in what form in 20 or 30 years - Munger's statement is true if the company can keep reinv
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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
it's a good tool... working in a small industry, if I am in a position to hire or do business with someone, I can usually find someone I know who worked with them and do my own due diligence without depending on their hand-picked references
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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
Also recruiters, sales drones, and professional networkers lol ... get lots of contacts from those. not as much for entrepreneurs and senior management types
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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
Been going through a similar process, here are some links highly recommended - MIT OCW Python course http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Learning Python, Fourth Edition, By: Mark Lutz http://my.safaribooksonli
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by RockyMcNuts 15y ago
if you want to play in HFT you want 1) wicked chops 2) collocation with exchange computers to pick up nickels faster than anyone else (was going to say sub-millisecond but my knowledge is not that granular) 3) access to historical tick data
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Also strongly recommend! Amazing ramble through the weird intersection of information theory, financial markets, degenerate gamblers, and gangsters. Kelly, when he wrote his paper at Bell Labs, was three degrees or less of separation from C
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
ha! I can't tell if this is a joke. Maybe you didn't estimate your edge correctly, or didn't have one? Or is this really dry British humor, as your handle leads one to suspect?
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Ask HN: What will be the impact of the emerging USA wireless duopoly?
2 points by RockyMcNuts 16y ago|0 comments
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Not sure I follow the math, since beginning of December NOK is up 14% against the USD, about 3% against the EUR http://www.google.com/finance?q=CURRENCY%3ANOKUSD
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Norway has oil and a huge sovereign wealth fund, compared to certain countries that import lots of oil and have lots of debt. See page 5 where they are listed as the least risky sovereign debt in the world (USA still #5, although the people
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Been going on for a while - http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/dollars-biggest-decline... during the crisis the dollar strangely stopped declining partly due to a 'flight to quality', a lot of other countries were in even worse shape. W
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
unconventional? synonyms from thesaurus.com: anarchistic, atypical, avant-garde, beat, bizarre, crazy, eccentric, far-out, freakish, freaky, free and easy, idiosyncratic, individual, individualistic, informal, irregular, kinky, kooky, nonco
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
kind of like a Kelly criterion bet http://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/336_10/papers/jane.pd... if you bet like a mouse, you get cheese
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
sorry, couldn't find any other watchable links, looked like Fox had DMCAed the others . Hulu used to be cool, but the networks crippled it.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
+1 - Amazon is the one left standing because they totally changed their business model from being a store to being a platform. Plus, their stock is huge because of stuff like Kindle and AWS, not because of selling books. If Amazon had kept
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Given the choice between a feature being highly viral, and respecting an appropriate level of privacy, Facebook will choose highly viral every time.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Or you could be seen as just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him ... http://www.hulu.com/watch/12638/office-space-peters-intervie...
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Possible security vulnerability in Dropbox?(thenextweb.com)
1 points by RockyMcNuts 16y ago|1 comments
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Welcome to the brave new mobile/cloud world, where everyone has to ask permission from everybody before anything gets implemented.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
I call BS to some extent, to both the original post and this comment. I went to a major Ivy. I know firsthand of someone who got early admission without doing senior year (from an elite foreign school); in honors calculus we had a high scho
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
I didn't downvote, but the value of HN is that it usually doesn't have this type of self-promotional claptrap or borderline content farm BS. Maybe users should be able to block certain domains/contributors.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
In Japan and other Asian societies, individuals have stronger social ties to their families, neighbors, coworkers. In the US, economic ties are more important. The US was built by people who left their families, neighborhoods, and existing
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
A few women wear the niqab, and quite a few more dress in low-cut tops without drawing a second glance. There is a women-only 1/2 car on a long metro, ie men are prohibited, but women can use any car they want. Women don't have to be escort
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
A buddy did a top-of-the-line instant-on gas water heater, I'm sure it saves money but it does take a minute or more for water temperature to stabilize and get to the 2nd floor and actually be able to take a shower. YMMV.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
After using one of these I don't even know how other toilet manufacturers stay in business. It's the gift to your private parts that just keeps on giving.
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
I would put architectural moldings that hide easily accessible duct where can run Ethernet for now. On house time scale, not sure Ethernet is future-proof, might want to run fiber or who knows what in 20 years. Twisted pair is only mass mar
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
And spend days trying to explain to people how to not screw invites up on their Blackberries and then have fits that their meeting vanished. People don't understand that they have to manage their calendars and that meeting requests are a co
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
The key question seems to be, if n is the information content in the page (ie number of bits needed to distinguish from a random search engine results page), what fraction of n would not be there without Google's ranking algorithm. In the c
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by RockyMcNuts 16y ago
Another possible great moment in Facebook security and privacy - unpeel image URLs of shared pictures to see albums that are marked private http://i.imgur.com/d44kb.jpg

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