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Pepsi is giving away lots of money for beneficial ideas(refresheverything.com)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
An interesting read for anyone contemplating taking money. Shameless plug: if you find this confusing, I posted a thread on Sunday that provides a good way for founders to broaden their legal knowledge. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.
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Want to know what a VC term sheet looks like? Sample here.(technologystartuplaw.com)
3 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|2 comments
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Becoming an educated legal consumer (a guide for founders)(alexwestholm.com)
1 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
An overly optimistic valuation can also lead to a down round later on. I'd recommend this as further reading: http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/asymmetric-risk-and-the...
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The Economist: Did the Internet kill rhetoric?(economist.com)
4 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|2 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The project seems to be dead these days, but if you're interested in writing OSes, take a look at the Flux OSKit: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/ OSKit aims to be a set of libraries that dramatically lower the barrier to entry on OS de
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
At first, I though "Man, this sounds like a recipe for technical debt" but then I realized I'm guilty of exactly what you're talking about. In fact, I was browsing hacker news as a break from googling the best way to implement a feature tha
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Live at Verizon's iPhone Event (VentureBeat)(venturebeat.com)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Thanks for reading it, and best of luck on your project!
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Our First Pivot (or: Don't Give Up)(alexwestholm.com)
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Think People Are Too Negative Online? Welcome to the Internet(associatesmind.com)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
While I get your point about volatility, I'm not so sure I agree with the idea that large companies ought to have absolute control over who owns their shares. That's fundamentally contrary to the idea of open markets, and sets up too much p
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The Technium: Immortal Technologies(kk.org)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The article notes that solitude should be balanced with participation and awareness of one's space. Upon reading that, I realized that's why sites like HN are so valuable to me: I get both without much hassle.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Why not do this stuff pre-emptively? I understand that moving content out to a CDN when it's not necessary might not be the smartest plan, but shouldn't most sites be optimizing the number of apache procs as a rule of thumb?
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Certainly not an exhaustive list, but: 1) Open source, even if you're only helping find bugs 2) Launch something 3) Blog your expertise 4) Volunteer tech projects
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Sony to launch PlayStation smartphone in spring(breitbart.com)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I had no idea that Myspace had relaunched as a media hub 6 weeks ago. Not that my own awareness is really a solid metric, but I am a relatively trend aware 20 something. That should say something to Myspace.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I think it's very true that most people are overstimulated, but I don't really get how people find a lack of stimulation boring. The things described in the article definitely do not sound interesting, but I can only imagine letting my mind
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Interesting. I hadn't seen that before, but it's a case in point. Thanks!
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My life, in brands(alexwestholm.com)
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Outside Magazine: Raising the Dead(outsideonline.com)
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RFC 1882 - The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas(faqs.org)
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I think it would depend on where you're working. If you're at a startup, you must be a generalist because there is a need to do as much as possible with the least amount of resources. A generalist who can perform 3 functions reasonably well
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
This could definitely use more discussion, but the code samples are interesting.
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Meta Programming in Ruby - Part 1/16(learnbysoft.blogspot.com)
1 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|1 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
You could take a look at the source to figure it out yourself: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc The code for processing a submitted story starts on line 1484.
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Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python(humani.st)
2 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|0 comments

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