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by anateus 14y ago
I've been saying for a long time that things like Startup School and YC (I went through YC S09) aren't about teaching you the path to success, but rather to teach you about known paths to failure. It's always a little disappointing to me to
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by anateus 14y ago
While I agree with the general idea, "customer" implies a specific sort of relation (one where consideration is knowingly and directly exchanged for a good or service). Twitter's customers, for example, are advertisers. What do you call all
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by anateus 14y ago
Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd (physics professor at MIT who likes to call himself a "quantum mechanic"). Here's a relevant paper by Lloyd titled "Ultimate physical limits to computation": http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043v3
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by anateus 14y ago
My intuition is that the recursion shouldn't hurt getting useful results, even if the simulation was allowed to proceed past the point where such a simulation was developed (which they may not have), in a manner akin to the resolution of Ze
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by anateus 14y ago
I see École Normale Supérieure at 59 and École Polytechnique at 62.
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by anateus 14y ago
I finally remembered what Grouper reminds me of! It's the fairly established practice of Gokon in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokon#Japan
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by anateus 14y ago
I honestly don't know how representative the forums are, I've mostly helped out a bit with the conferences and interact with current and former board members in person fairly frequently. My sense is that the desire to have as many comforts
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by anateus 14y ago
I've been a supporter of the institute for a while now, and one of the things I really appreciate about their approach is incrementalism. Build in small individually viable steps that let you evaluate both the underlying assumptions and the
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by anateus 14y ago
At least in Boston, there is a strict rule about having a fixed cost for rides from/to the airport. Cabs aren't allowed to deviate from the posted rates for those.
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by anateus 14y ago
A perhaps too simple explanation that hopefully clears up a few things: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315894
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by anateus 14y ago
To vastly (over?) simplify: Interactive proofs can be used to prove you have a secret without divulging it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_knowledge_proofs ) hence their mentioning of crypto. These systems can be attacked in various way
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by anateus 14y ago
One of the fun things I get from that is that OnLive are going to make an ARM build of OnLive. That means it should be Raspberry Pi compatible! (OnLive have released ARM builds of their desktop service to run on tablets which shouldn't be t
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by anateus 14y ago
OnLive do have many centers spread out around the US (and a few international ones I think? I'm not sure) and their software tells you if you're too far from one (I think they limit at 1000 miles). I can tell you that about 15 miles from on
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by anateus 14y ago
I think there's another factor that is subtle but powerful: comments are forever. You can't edit or even delete your comments. So unless you really screwed up and convince a mod to delete it for you, that comment's going to be up there atta
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by anateus 14y ago
I scanned the thread and surprised no one mentioned the reason I use Zappos so much: Free returns. When buying a new model of shoe, I order at least 2, sometimes up to 4 different sizes. Try them all on, then sent back the ones that didn'
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by anateus 14y ago
Do you remember the official name of the "Golden Orb" or have links related to it? I'm very curious to find out more, but a bit of googling around hasn't turned anything up.
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by anateus 14y ago
The cue app has search as a core, though secondary functionality. It doesn't seem to me that they will phase it out, though they may indeed change the way the app expects you to interact with its search interface which perhaps may run count
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by anateus 14y ago
You mean something like Planetarion or Orion's Belt? To be clear, your phrasing seems to present this as a novel approach, though it is not. Regardless, it's all about the particular game design that makes or breaks a game so I wish you suc
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by anateus 14y ago
I think the invitation into the home analogy Warren Ellis uses works pretty well here so I'll extend it slightly and stay away from the piss aspects. What you do with a comment system is try to host a salon on a topic, which may or may not
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by anateus 14y ago
I find that there's an intensity sweet spot. Usually when you're just starting to work out "for real" you just can't help being worn out the first several times. But soon after the work out actually makes you more energized. If being worn o
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by anateus 14y ago
Typical of the undermathed professions* : they provide high and low salary numbers, but no median! This makes this salary guide vastly less useful than it could be. * This phrasing is an attempt at humor
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by anateus 14y ago
That's either really bad headline phrasing, or a real attempt at linkbait. Did you mean that this is an article on lessons from Angelpad written by a company that was rejected by YC? Because the headline you posted sounds like YC are reject
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by anateus 14y ago
The actual Facebook report says on page 49: "[...] in China, where Facebook access is restricted, we have near 0% penetration." So they definitely know people are using it there.
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by anateus 14y ago
What I took away from the story wasn't so much related to death, but rather its great visceral conveying of the point of the golden rule. The author says he treated her like he would want his mother to be treated. Many of us apply these s
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by anateus 14y ago
I get not migrating the branches, but not migrating the tags, or at least another way to derive specific versions makes it a tad less useful, does it not?
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by anateus 14y ago
The syntax is inspired by/based on that of MATLAB, likely so as to be as familiar as possible.
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by anateus 15y ago
Uh... crowdfunding sounds like the PERFECT model for consumer electronics! It's a business that requires high startup capital, and where uncertainty comes with much greater costs than software. You're going to be making thousands of units o
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Hype Up Weekend - a vaporware hackathon(betabeat.com)
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by anateus 15y ago
Exactly. Only a minority of companies that use those pitches used the same phrasing in their initial creation process. The goal is to solve a problem someone has, the "X for Y" is a shorthand for "don't take my word for it that people have
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by anateus 15y ago
Sounds to me like you're good at creating software small-businesses, but you're not built for the tedium of running them. I find it's often hard to discuss the business of software because of a variety of preconceptions people in the field

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