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by arbuge 11y ago
I'm from Malta. This reminded me of a certain incident in the local news several years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/18/davidward
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by arbuge 11y ago
>> No one accidentally builds a Billion dollar business Actually some do. The classic example is Google's founders - they tried to exit to Yahoo! for a million or so, but were turned down. Perhaps "accidentally" is not
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by arbuge 11y ago
I believe this version of the facts is the correct one. I remember reading that he had taken a Dale Carnegie class on public speaking to help him with doing that. In his own words, more or less, it didn't stop his knees from knocking h
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by arbuge 11y ago
Those taxes only apply if you sell though. If not, you get the full $20B, less 15% at the end (i.e. $17B) if you decide to quit cold turkey and convert it all to cash on the final day.
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by arbuge 11y ago
I know of no long-term successful VC that thinks this way. None. Zero. Few have billion dollar funds to begin with by the way. Only an elite group of top tier VCs command that kind of capital and you should be prepared to be thoroughly gril
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by arbuge 11y ago
It is actually far more likely than an alien civilization would detect our radio and tv broadcast signals than our space probes. Those broadcast signals have been sent out in all directions from earth pretty much continously for almost a ce
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by arbuge 11y ago
I'm not exactly sure what it is about existing cofounder search sites, but I do feel that they leave much to be desired. Certainly they never worked for me. Online dating sites attempt to solve a problem of approximately equal difficul
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by arbuge 11y ago
You mean, positive feedback loop. Negative feedback tends to be self-correcting.
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by arbuge 11y ago
In a sense, it's an example of the tragedy of the commons at a national level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons No one nation feels it should bear the burden of doing this alone, and so none is
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by arbuge 11y ago
Sites like GitHub thrive on the community they engender. Google no doubt has the tech chops to compete with anybody on a pure technical basis, but community is not their forte. Witness Google Plus.
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by arbuge 11y ago
PHP, on the other hand, seems to have been in a decline which has finally levelled out. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=nodejs%2C%20php&cmpt... Note that this is on the same scale as node, which is no longe
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Choice of words on a loan application can help predict defaults(qz.com)
1 points by arbuge 11y ago|0 comments
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The story of Amstrad’s amazing CPC 464(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by arbuge 11y ago|1 comments
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by arbuge 11y ago
As an aside, since this is HN, I thought some portion of the audience here might be interested to know that the code for the Silk Road marketplace appears to have been in PHP, using CodeIgniter as the framework: http://www.wired.
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by arbuge 11y ago
Going to crowdfunding before contacting factories and thinking about design for manufacturability seems dangerous to me if you haven't done hardware products before. Real products are rather different than arduino / raspberry pi p
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by arbuge 11y ago
Next question is how to go from final prototype into production... that can be pretty hard in practice. Indeed, calling a prototype "final" before looking at the manufacturing side of things might not be wise.
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by arbuge 11y ago
In all fairness, the Arduino name is itself originally take from the name of a bar in Italy where the project founders used to hang out. Think about how that bar owner would feel about this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by arbuge 11y ago
Not sure what recent strong performance you're referring to. Here's a comparison against the S&P 500 for the last 5 years: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MCD+Interactive#{"compari...
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by arbuge 12y ago
>>The business is modestly successful. I have a particular number in mind for it, which I’d be crazy to quote publicly prior to selling it, for the same reason that you’d be crazy to quote your desired salary in a salary negotiation.
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by arbuge 12y ago
Good for them. I think the grandmother space has been ripe for disruption for a while.
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by arbuge 12y ago
Offendy is my favorite: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=841700001154 Perhaps targeting the defense sector... Plantlink on the other hand looks viable: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=11714700372 F
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‘Flash Crash’ Charges Filed(wsj.com)
1 points by arbuge 12y ago|0 comments
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Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables(bloomberg.com)
2 points by arbuge 12y ago|0 comments
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Europe is running low on children(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by arbuge 12y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> “Rest assured, we analyze all of our competitors in excruciating detail – so we can learn what they are doing and develop our own strategies accordingly,” he said. Perhaps worrying more about analyzing their customers needs and les
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New Hedge Fund Strategy: Dispute the Patent, Short the Stock(wsj.com)
3 points by arbuge 12y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 12y ago
>> Buying a house with a mortgage is just a market transaction. There is no moral dimension, and it's naive to inject one. It is obviously immoral IMHO to voluntarily fail to pay for a house, or for anything else for that matter,
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by arbuge 12y ago
I also migrated away from mailchimp recently. Similar situation - I had a list with around 3000 subscribers, growing around 1,000 per month. In the end I went even cheaper than the author and chose PHPlist. Free and also works with Amazon S
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by arbuge 12y ago
AFAIK, Mention just does the real time monitoring part, not the sentiment analysis on top of that.
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by arbuge 12y ago
Gage went in the other direction, from well balanced to exhibiting many negative qualities. He survived, but other than that I'm not sure it was very positive for him personally.

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