arthurdent

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by arthurdent 16y ago
Groupon China will be a huge failure. Groupon doesn't care a ton since they have boatloads of money, and they'll feel like they HAVE to take a shot since "China's a huge and growing market, blah blah blah" but it'll really be chalked up as
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by arthurdent 16y ago
i called it but couldn't figure out what the business actually was.
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by arthurdent 16y ago
yep. i like betting on myself better than betting on most other people. its sort of an "all your eggs in one basket" strategy, but if you're going to put all your eggs in any particular basket and you're good at what you do, you're as good
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by arthurdent 16y ago
1. a lot of people argue for things without backing it up. 2. it depends what you mean by " risk ". arguments claiming bond allocation in your portfolio are less "risky" describe risk as "volatility of returns", which in finance are measure
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by arthurdent 16y ago
This sort of response is exactly the type i expect from "all talk" types. When I read your reply, I see, I'm awesome. I know so much about what you want to know that I can't even figure out to start. Oh btw, how cool am I?
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Love the idea -- details are important here. I've tried a few other services for my properties, but the UI tends to be really sloppy for other "apply online" web services. You need to make it easy for me to use and inviting for my potentia
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by arthurdent 16y ago
I have my own trading algos, but I do not trade my own funds. I have a single investor, so you could imagine that he's the web startup equivalent of an angel or venture capitalist. He's extremely knowledgeable about markets, and we keep op
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by arthurdent 16y ago
I know trading isn't a popular topic, but I consider quantitative finance my one man startup. I have to wear a lot of hats, am constantly learning new things, get frequent feedback that I have to use to refine my product, can't do everythin
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by arthurdent 16y ago
note: i can't sign any NDAs or anything, i invest in a lot of companies, etc. so please don't think that any idea you send is really that important… Not that he's wrong, but just an example of how he comes off as abrasive. The "so plea
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by arthurdent 16y ago
i filed 0 for several years in a row (before 2009), I will probably file 0 for 2010.
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Its fun to look back and enumerate the reasons for success or failure, but dumb luck is just such a huge part of this game as well. Marc had a vision, stuck to his guns, and the competitor "won". If Wesabe had won Techcrunch 40, we'd be re
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Drinking and partying and dancing a lot will make you get better at drinking and partying and dancing. People worry a lot about [achieve task X] optimally , when really its probably fine to just [achieve task X] somehow/eventually . For e
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by arthurdent 16y ago
This just boils down to "what are you looking for in life?" 18 months ago I was at a "high paying job" by most standards. I worked 45 hours a week, had great coworkers, and even generally enjoyed my work. I left because a regular job gets
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by arthurdent 16y ago
do it. bcc was one of the steps on the way to me realizing that building the site is almost none of the business. as a friendly and encouraging wager, i submit that you can't or won't get a bcc clone business with >$500 revenues/mo.
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by arthurdent 16y ago
i've been working on trading algos for stock. interested in collaborating?
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Talked to my vendors and I'm just updating this thread in case someone runs into the same problem and finds it. 1. Its NOT an Authorize vs Braintree issue. Your gateway doesn't care at all. It has everything to do with your Merchant Servi
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by arthurdent 16y ago
my understanding is that braintree is a gateway, and replacable by authorize. either way, its independent of my merchant service provider, which is the problem here. if you think this is incorrect and switching to braintree solves this pro
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by arthurdent 16y ago
any recommendations for a merchant service provider?
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Ask HN: Help? Problem taking credit card info before start of 30 day free trial.
8 points by arthurdent 16y ago|6 comments
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by arthurdent 16y ago
sort of silly to try to keep the metaphor as a financial instrument. its really a simple message: write bad code, and you might pay for it later. sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't. "technical debt" as a term isn't intended to cap
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by arthurdent 16y ago
I am almost done implementing cc payments on a small app I'm doing, and it was my first time. Advice: First, read revorad's list. I basically found as many HN posts as I could on the topic. They didn't help me come to a decision at all, b
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... This really spoke to me when I was a kid. Young me was really attached to the notion of cre
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by arthurdent 16y ago
non PEP8 for mixedCase instead of CapWords for classes.
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Ask HN: First $100 in a SaaS app?
2 points by arthurdent 16y ago|2 comments
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by arthurdent 16y ago
Sage advice. More generally "work with people you like." Life's too short to work with jerks. Making a point to surround yourself with quality people will enrich your life. I sometimes forget this and almost always regret it.
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by arthurdent 16y ago
"I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice." This really
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by arthurdent 16y ago
think it just depends on where you are personally. bezos' speech really speaks to me, probably because i sometimes struggle with being kind despite cleverness and i'm often riddled with doubt about my decision to pursue a dream instead of
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by arthurdent 16y ago
i've outsourced software dev and had a range of results, but i think i've got it down now. outsourcing isn't any different than any other task where you rely on other people. just like traditional in-house employment, dating, personal rela
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by arthurdent 16y ago
i'll vouch for total immersion. i can't float while laying still in water (my legs sink). i could barely swim 2 pool lengths. friend got me the total immersion dvd, there's a series of exercises that help you focus on balanced weight dist
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by arthurdent 16y ago
I would be interested in finding out more about your approach to this or chatting about ways to make this happen. I found this old thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911853 but couldn't find your contact information.

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