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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
I think it helps to understand investing. A lot of the emotional hangups I hear from founders is that they are afraid to let down their investors. It sounds harsh, but you shouldn't care about investors because they shouldn't overly care ab
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
Actually, this is what I believe is the place of Go (the language) in HTML5 programming. I don't know if this was done with Go on the server side, might as well be node or gevent, but Go would be faster and easier to build a multithreaded g
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
In this case they don't have any trouble with cheating because the game logic seems to be entirely server-side. Also cheating is only trouble when it degrades other player's experience or when they are hacking/hurting the monetization.
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
This is basically medical advice, given by someone without any medical training. Would these people he is talking about have committed suicide if not in a start-up? There is a link between stress and depression, and between depression and s
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
It's still bias. This is something medical professionals have to be reminded of over and over again: Your perception is not a double-blind study! You have no randomized control group and not enough cases.
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
"Risking" everything seems to be part of the "lean startup" mentality. Incubators and early stage funding is intended to trade equity for exactly that risk.
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
There is a big problem with this article: The writer assumes too much: * Depressive founders don't get treated * Avoiding doing a start up minimizes failure and stress * Minimizing stress and failure minimizes risk of suicide All these assu
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
Sounds like you are out of luck, mostly. If you don't have time, skills, freedom or money for a startup, can't make someone else to do the hard work for you otherwise, then you can't really start up a programming something business. Solutio
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
This was a particularly dumb thing to do, but to be fair to Amazon, it was hardly intentional or part of the company policy. Luckily there was very little "evil" done or intended, at least compared to similar work places in Germany, and the
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
On localbitcoins.com, the price of 30 Dollars is already exceeded, at least if you convert between Euro and Dollars. Doesn't mean that trading in Bitcoins isn't simply money laundering. And no, the standard argument "cash is used for ml too
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by bayesianhorse 14y ago
You don't see anything comparable to Pandas, Numpy or Scipy in Rails. Yes, there's SciRuby, but they aren't quite there yet.