benmathes

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by benmathes 14y ago
I suspect developers also tend to be familiar with productivity software; Most everyone has used an issue tracker of some kind while writing software, so we think we can do better. You end up stuck in the workflow-software quagmire, thoug
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Yes, Developers and Investors Are Really Different(numeratechoir.com)
6 points by benmathes 14y ago|3 comments
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by benmathes 14y ago
Software can be remade by reloading the page on your dev server. Hardware has to be rebuilt. You'd need to provide a tighter iteration loop on designs. 3D printing could do this, in theory. There's a company trying to do this for life scien
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by benmathes 14y ago
I can imagine a lens where the Occupy protesters are a warning shot, specifically the "we are the 99%" mantra.
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by benmathes 14y ago
Read all about it: https://angel.co/help/docs#free-closing
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by benmathes 14y ago
Lots of details here: https://angel.co/help/docs
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by benmathes 14y ago
alias g='git';
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by benmathes 14y ago
They probably group all the investments into one vehicle, with a single shareholder entity. I don't know all the details, though.
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by benmathes 14y ago
Just a heads up, it's "AngelList".
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by benmathes 14y ago
Ignore their dickishness, if not whatever content may be wrapped up in it. Don't argue with the fool/dick/control-freak/etc., you'll have to stoop to their level and they'll beat you on experience.
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Rally Raises Largest AngelList Deal Ever(pandodaily.com)
12 points by benmathes 14y ago|0 comments
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by benmathes 14y ago
Coming up with a better way is trivial, yes, but getting it past the entrenched interests of one of the largest sectors of the economy (Healthcare) is ridiculously hard.
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by benmathes 14y ago
There are tax breaks to providing health insurance through your employer, so companies are incentivized to compensate you with health insurance instead of more cash.
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by benmathes 14y ago
The ability to be more productive via automation is a stronger force than the macro-stagnation of the US/Global economy.
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by benmathes 15y ago
At least in part, this was a defensive purchase. A huge amount of facebook's traffic, pull, data costs, etc. are probably photos. Instagram is a photo-based social network. Actually, this was probably a tech buy for the photo filters. Total
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by benmathes 15y ago
And we already have an API for you: http://angel.co/api :-)
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by benmathes 15y ago
That's a good way of explaining the old addage: Timely, complete, low-defects. Pick two. In software, it does seem like timely and low-defects should be fixed, since "complete" implies some knowledge about what the software should be, and
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by benmathes 15y ago
Bayesian, or other algorithmic approaches (what many call AI), on signals like word frequency can help with separating wheat from chaff. Rarely any better when it comes to such multivariate decisions. Given the uncertainty in startup succe
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by benmathes 15y ago
That seems to be how fashion-conscious women feel about new clothes. And fashion is a major channel of non-verbal communication about status/lifestyle/cleanliness/trendiness. While one may differ about it's philosophical value, it's certain
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by benmathes 15y ago
There's also threadflip.com This market is probably all about getting the critical mass of users so you have supply.
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by benmathes 15y ago
We're hoping the parternship helps complet/polish our coverage when people see their angellist profile up on pando daily, and pando gets a founder-driven source of startup data. Disclaimer: I'm just the eng that built the embed widget. Not
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by benmathes 15y ago
You should check out saucelabs.com
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by benmathes 15y ago
This is right. The startup party scene largely acts as an echo-chamber. However, there are a few events out there that are designed around meeting people instead of pimping a particular company. Super Happy Dev House is a good example: It's
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by benmathes 15y ago
We are the ones making the robots, though.
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by benmathes 15y ago
I've completed a 32 mile trail run on rough terrain that took the average finisher about 11 hours. Does that count?
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by benmathes 15y ago
Have you heard of an ultrarun before? It's a run that's longer than a marathon, maybe 50 miles, maybe 100 miles. It's all dependent on the local geography. You don't run those at a fast pace, you complete them in like 8-11 hours. Perhaps th
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by benmathes 15y ago
Startups are marathons, not sprints; It's about making the right decisions most (if not all) of the time when building, hiring, marketing, etc. Fatigue and exhaustion mean bad decisions; There's plenty of research to back this up: http://l
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by benmathes 15y ago
Learn new tools every few years. Focus on learning tool-agnostic things like how to build abstractions, working well in a team, coding processes, run-time complexity, and tool-agnostic concepts like closures/monads/etc.
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by benmathes 15y ago
After putting a few seconds of thought into it, "In place shuffle" explains what it does better than "Fisher-Yates shuffle". I'm not complaining about Fisher or Yates, who are just following the example their/our research community uses.
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by benmathes 15y ago
Pet Peeve of mine with math: Fisher and Yates have come up with something interesting here, yes. But like most mathematical theorems named after someone, attaching their names to it doesn't help understanding of what it does at all. I don't

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