andrewchoi

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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Sorry if this is a silly question, but what are "toasts"?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
I was under the impression that it happens at 0:40, when he pulls the left hand off the stride pattern. When it comes back in, the beat is corrected.
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
The switch happens around the 0:40 mark, for those who may have thought that they missed it (as I almost did)
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Unsure if OP is the maintainer, but a quick point: Benchmarks without any indication of underlying hardware don't convey a huge amount of information.
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
After I fail a challenge, the screen disappears too quickly for me to continue looking at the challenge and figure out the correct solution. Is there a way to enable feedback or solutions?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Doesn't Coltrane (as the most prominent musician to have a religious movement inspired by him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane#Religious_figure ) qualify more so as the high priest of jazz?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Sorry if this is a silly question, but by "algorithm agility" do you mean abstracting away the algorithm into some module?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
2 hours and no reference to the relevant XKCD? http://xkcd.com/910/
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Is this a new kind of holy war? First we warred on what platform to run, then what we run on the platform, and finally how we display what we run on these platforms?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Isn't that what Summly was supposed to be? The startup founded by the 17 year old that got acquired by Yahoo for a chunk of change?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Isn't that what SOAP is for?
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1172/
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
One of the takeaways of the article for me was that it's a small subset of all mosquito species that are conveying this disease. I'm not an ecologist, but wouldn't the elimination of one sort of (disease vector) mosquito lead
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
I would assume they would be in the keynote? EDIT: just checked: only hardware they unveiled in the 2013 keynote was a Google Play Edition Galaxy S4, but in 2012 they introduced the Nexus 7, among other things. Unlikely, but possible.
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by andrewchoi 12y ago
Exactly; my first thought when reading the article was an escrow service. Reducing counterparty risk is exactly what they were designed for, right?
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Sorry if this is a silly question, but is this simply the Heartbleed bug? Or is this a different memory leak bug?
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
When they introduced ORCFile, I was kind of hoping that the next iteration would be the URUKFile.
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
In God we trust; all others bring data.
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
I would assume that the write assumed that "online collaboration tools for businesses" is a single market, and ostensibly both companies can be said to sell products in that space, but yes, I agree that it's less than apt.
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Thanks for the info, I knew something was a bit off!
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
I can't speak for the PE side, but VCs aren't investing their own money. They have limited partners (LPs) that provide the money, and expect returns on it. This LP money goes into funds (vehicles to make investments out of). Each
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Nitpick: VCs are optimizing for % return, not on an dollar return basis. I would say that the risk profile is not irrelevant: if you're betting that 1/10 of your investments are returning your fund, then just one miss is the diffe
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
The difference is that YC isn't investing $15m into companies, they're investing $20k. The corresponding valuations for the companies that they invest in is $1m on the high end (20k / 2%), not $100m. The risk profile for diff
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
I agree, especially in light of the preference structures that she mentions (and that I believe are industry-standard). But these arguments seem to lead to the conclusion that you shouldn't be an LP, not that you shouldn't take ve
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
What I'm saying is that there are very few VCs that are hoping for a 30x on one investment to make up for 9 failures. It's an order of magnitude difference, which I think is nontrivial. If it was a general point, it would have bee
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Just some examination of the math: If the VC firm is taking 15% of your company for $15m, then you've got a valuation of $100m. As far as I know, the "We all know that nine out of ten startups fail" applies to all startups, n
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Good to hear! I was thinking of doing something similar, but no reason to duplicate effort
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Mattermark is fairly new, so I doubt that many companies would have had a concrete track record of success.
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Perhaps a more appropriate word is "rebalancing"; I'm sure that the code has been refactored to some extent, but the balance issues are what are salient to this article.
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by andrewchoi 13y ago
Somehow the blue is more soothing than the yellow/red that the original had.

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