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by bobjordan 11y ago
On my 2nd child now, also soon to have 3rd in a few months. As I've grown older and learned more about deep learning tech, I've realized child starts out similar to untrained neural net for deep learning, and progresses in similar
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by bobjordan 11y ago
Guard must always be up here in China and even more so in Beijing or Shanghai. Once, when I was a single man, I got of the plane in Beijing, checked into hotel, and came down for dinner. Two beautiful women immediately approached me, chatt
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by bobjordan 11y ago
I'm a bootstrapped entrepreneur CEO with ~30 employees in my company now, growing quickly, expect to have ~60 in next 12 months. I am not so interested in previous salary. Rather, I always directly ask "what is your salary requir
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by bobjordan 11y ago
"What can we do? Help!" Well, that response from Apple seems pretty clear in describing the solution. Its the iPhone marketplace, not a mall, Apple owns it. They make the rules in their own store, being anticompetitive is allowed
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by bobjordan 12y ago
I just wish they would stop attacking google products. I have a China legal enterprise, we pay China taxes, employ 15 people, expect to double size again this year. But since January 1st I had to scramble and buy VPN service for all our e
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by bobjordan 12y ago
This is business-as-usual for suppliers over here in China. Just yesterday I had one supplier we were quoting send a text message to one of my lead project engineers asking him for inside information on pricing for a quotation. In each of
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by bobjordan 12y ago
I've lived in China 5 years now and our skill levels are comparable so I'm pretty impressed. It's really just basic conversation but the Chinese people will love him for getting this far with it. This along with move to join
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by bobjordan 12y ago
Here is a video I made a while back in a Shenzhen "cybermart" for those who may be interested what it's like: http://youtu.be/C9YJBwD0geA
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by bobjordan 12y ago
This is great. Patrick Byrne is doing a great service here. Development of crypto-security tools being pushed by an already successful publicly traded company adds instant credibility to the project and will lead many more successful busin
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An Apple Watch(martiancraft.com)
1 points by bobjordan 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobjordan 12y ago
Wow is this timely. We've been mucking around with openvpn on our debian server for a few days and was planning to try to get employees windows machines working today. We'll try this instead.
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by bobjordan 12y ago
This post got 4 votes in the first 2 hours, on 2nd page, then quickly disappeared. Obviously the HN mods put the high decay rate mojo on it. Not sure why.
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Dwarf Fortress update 2 years in making to be released next week.(bay12forums.com)
4 points by bobjordan 12y ago|1 comments
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by bobjordan 12y ago
In any case, would be much better to be answering to 40 paying B2B customers. I'd imagine if founder is not able to get focused on that, there won't be another round.
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by bobjordan 12y ago
As a bootstrapper with 100% equity in company that just passed $1M YOY revenue and should hit $2M this year, I read these articles on HN and cringe. To me, it would be a special kind of hell to have 40 investors to answer to, no less in a
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by bobjordan 13y ago
I came to Shenzhen China because I'm a manufacturing guy and this is the place to be for that. Plus the 8% YOY growth and low labor rates here give a better chance for bootstrap success. And finally, yes, I got a hot girlfriend during
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Haha, well I started out as a warehouse worker at a chemical factory in West Virginia, where I worked for 7 years. We didn't have a parachute policy at the chemical factory, and given my experience with and without a parachute policy,
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by bobjordan 13y ago
About 5 years ago during worst of the downturn, I took $20,000 USD option our consulting firm gave and voluntarily quit a $120,000 base salary job. At the time, I thought that job sucked pretty bad and was looking for an out anyhow. I'
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Take it with a grain of salt but at least there is a rumor that MtGox has found 670K more coins: http://theblogchain.com/news/mtgox-found-bitcoin/
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Here is an interesting semi-technical read relating to how Turing's work helps to explain drug-induced hallucinations: http://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-hal...
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Just as capital investment can lead to increased efficiency and drive growth and prosperity within a firm, public infrastructure can lead to the same type of net gains for society at large. Ultimately, it increases the rational real options
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by bobjordan 13y ago
An American ex-pat in China here. I came to China during the economic crash in 2009 and have seen it all progress the last 5 years. Yes there are random empty apartment buildings and a few absurdities like --> http://en.wikipe
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Problem with bitcoin security right now is the truly secure self storage tools are immature. For example, I've been trying to get this armory program ( https://bitcoinarmory.com/ ) to complete building database for more
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by bobjordan 13y ago
I consider myself a far left liberal and I certainly don't condone abusing farm animals. However, taking a paying job under falsified pretenses with a made up resume and then spending your working hours secretly filming internal opera
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by bobjordan 13y ago
From my view, this is a case where random big box mgt consulting firm (McKinsey, PWC, Booz) found some loose cash on $xM engagement. Tim then publicly regurgitated much of the internal deck logic. Obamacare may have been his own (questionab
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by bobjordan 13y ago
My grandpa once told me there are two things you can't really trust anyone to hold for you: #1) your lady #2) your money. I laughed it off at first, but over the years, it's repeatedly proven true. These exchanges are a weak poin
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by bobjordan 13y ago
...and the developer lives on about $35K/year, which is far less than what he could be generating with that franchise.
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Great material for a business school case.
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by bobjordan 13y ago
Time seems ripe for open source networking equipment movement. Can't trust closed source solutions.