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by birken 13y ago
Minor baseball analogy nit: This year the Oakland A's were 3rd in the MLB in home runs (out of 30 teams), last year they were 7th. In the famous moneyball season (2002) they were 4th. They very much build their teams around hitting h
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by birken 13y ago
I'll give the guy credit for coming up with a creative idea [1], but for a guy who was overly concerned with efficiency, going on 55 first dates and only 3 second dates strikes me as absolutely insane and a waste of time. It would be
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by birken 13y ago
At the early stage of a company, equity is very important to keep people's incentives aligned to work really hard in the best interest of the growing the company. This generally initially expresses itself in the founders, who have a l
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by birken 13y ago
There is a really great article in The Atlantic (from 2011) called "Secret Fears of the Super-Rich" on this topic: Excerpt: The respondents turn out to be a generally dissatisfied lot, whose money has contributed to deep anxiet
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by birken 13y ago
I don't think SS is saying this is the only way to be happy in her book. I think she is saying that if you are a woman and you want to be successful in the business world, here are a bunch of stories and anecdotes talking about lif
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by birken 13y ago
I think it might also be difficult to sell 263 billion dollars worth of ADBE stock today considering the entire company has a market cap of 30 billion.
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by birken 13y ago
These ultra-high value financing rounds are exits for founders though. Not for all of their stock, sure, but if your company is worth 1B+, you don't need to sell all that much to get a security blanket. So founders are doing these
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by birken 13y ago
Just for an anecdote that somewhat differs with the popular sentiment here: Thumbtack paid 5-figures for the domain (thumbtack.com) on seed funding long before any traction. There is no way to prove whether or not we would have been as succ
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by birken 13y ago
And for those that are interested in building their interest in chess in a way that is more entertainment than education, I highly recommend watching "live commentaries", IE chess players playing against other people online while
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by birken 13y ago
One of the reasons computers are so much stronger than humans, especially in the endgame, is because they have incredibly large pre-calculated tablebases[1] of 3, 4, 5 and 6 piece positions. So, if a computer calculates ahead 15 moves, and
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by birken 13y ago
This almost makes it seem like angel investing has some risk associated with it. But seriously, this is about as low content as a post as you could imagine: - Angel investors regret bad decisions - Angel investors want lower valuations - An
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by birken 13y ago
>> "Healthcare.lov came in second and won $50,000 for its service for people" Excellent job picking a big market
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by birken 13y ago
I don't know exactly what situation you are trying to avoid, but with the standard bcrypt, if somebody has the IP hash and a candidate's specific IP, they can positively match the two (something you specifically mention on your pr
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by birken 13y ago
Well it is similar to open source. Just making a project open source doesn't automatically reduce the number of bugs. People need to be interested and capable of auditing it. However, even if only a small percentage of people do aud
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How to make fake data look meaningful(danbirken.com)
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by birken 13y ago
Here are 3 pertinent facts related to your post: 1) When I worked there, long before Larry Page was CEO, 20% time barely existed and Google cared a heck of a lot about making money. 2) The share price going up makes employees, former employ
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by birken 13y ago
Don't go overboard though. The whole world doesn't play out with a hindsight bias, and just asking yourself in the morning "why is this important" wont necessarily actually improve your choices. I have seen some incred
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by birken 13y ago
I think points #2 and #3 are the most important thing. Even if are a great writer, if your potential customers aren't going to be reading your blog, the only person you are helping is your competitors. It just doesn't make sense
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by birken 13y ago
A few comments from an initial glance: - Site could be improved a lot for mobile. If you get a lot of mobile traffic, which wouldn't surprise me, I'll bet it massively underperforms desktop traffic on site engagement and ad reven
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by birken 13y ago
Unfortunately this fails the categorical imperative test. If everybody did this, the system you are using would be much worse off. You are benefitting at the cost of other people's wasted time and effort. So I wouldn't brag abou
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by birken 13y ago
That is great. That is basically the point I am trying to make, which is that you should allocate some percentage of your time and energy to meet new people, which I think in particular in the startup world is not necessarily encouraged as
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by birken 13y ago
I feel this is something that happens when people work at startups, especially early stage ones. There is such pressure to work with your small team and put all your time and effort into this startup (like all of the people who brag about
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by birken 13y ago
I'd be a little careful here. I've personally dealt with the situation of creating a "customer-pleasing" revenue model, only to have to change it a year later because it was leaving way too much money on the table. It
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by birken 13y ago
It certainly could keep happening in the future, it may have happened before also! The web is an open platform, and that has pros and cons. One of the cons is that it is very easy to publish whatever you want, such as copies of somebody e
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by birken 13y ago
Being able to be part of Adsense and ranking for search terms are completely different things. And even if everything were integrated, the bar for kicking somebody out of Adsense would be much higher than demoting somebody in the rankings.
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by birken 13y ago
Are you actually losing any queries to this site or seeing a drop in your traffic? Google is very smart, they probably know your site is more trustworthy and had the content first. If the person is hosting a bunch of similarly crappy page
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by birken 13y ago
I do run a few sites whose goal is to attract search traffic (hopefully by containing useful content to people), and the data in this particular post comes from one of them. I'm no stranger to different strategies of making a site att
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by birken 13y ago
Just a little python script: https://gist.github.com/danbirken/7047504 Apache Logs --> Python script --> CSV --> Google spreadsheets --> Manual labor --> Blog post
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by birken 13y ago
This is a fair point, however blacklisting isn't necessarily a perfect solution either. It would require continuous manual effort in going through the logs and blocking bad bots, and if some new bot were to misbehave and crawl too agg
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by birken 13y ago
I was just going by this page: https://ahrefs.com/pricing_plans.php It is possible I am misinterpreting what they are offering.

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