byrneseyeview

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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
I started getting technical when I realized that life was more fun when I can outsource the boring parts to a computer. This isn't especially rare, either: Excel/VBA wasn't designed to be a financial modeling language, but it's one of the s
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
"It's easy to look at Paul Graham and think - hey, he's one of the boys! He's a hacker, just like us! He cares about the technology! Well, if you ever were put in Paul Grahams position as a partner in an investment portfolio, you would stop
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
So far, mainstream coverage has been sparse. Forbes has an article, and some of the British papers do, but the Washington Post and NYT don't have stories. If I had to guess, I'd say that this is huge news to people who know what Digg is, an
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Because as far as we know, an arbitrary sequence of digits will eventually show up in the decimal expansion of pi. So if you can copyright a number, anyone who can calculate pi is a criminal.
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
"This is actually why I left reddit. As the site grew, I became increasingly frustrated that anything I said contrary to popular opinion was mercilessly downvoted & derided, regardless of the actual quality of the comment." I hadn't noticed
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
The Money Game Early Options Tech entrepreneurs looking for seed money have more places to turn these days By JACLYNE BADAL April 30, 2007; Page R6 The world of dot-com financing is changing, and entrepreneurs are reaping much of the benefi
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Since a social network's value increases at something approaching the square of the growth rate in users [1], it makes sense for wealthy backers to be active participants early on -- which is probably why Peter Thiel has a LinkedIn profile
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The Hacker's Guide to Investors(paulgraham.com)
59 points by byrneseyeview 20y ago|46 comments
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
I'd put in a link to Google and some adsense ads.
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
This works both ways. There are lots of laws that are easy to violate and exist almost entirely so unpopular people can get sued (Michael Milken was barred for life from the securities business and fined $600 million for violating an obscur
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Zawinki's covered his Netscape time pretty extensively on his site. One of the better sources for financial train wrecks is "When Giants Stumble" ( http://www.amazon.com/When-Giants-Stumble-Business-Blunders/dp/0788199439 ), which is a bit
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TheStreet.com acquires Stockpickr(biz.yahoo.com)
3 points by byrneseyeview 20y ago|0 comments
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
This market is probably sewn up -- an original algorithm can be the core of a thesis, while a useful one should be the kernel of a business plan. So you're competing with arXiv.org and YCombinator. Good luck?
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Livejournal uses something vaguely similar (a special HTML-y tag that creates an automatic link to a particular user's journal). If you use a known schema like "Getting Things Done" ( http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
It worries me that this is important. It's like saying "When you go to a restaurant, don't concentrate on how many menu items you order, or on how big the kitchen is. Make sure you get the food you want in a portion size that's big enough."
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Maybe he's running a billion-dollar company because he cares more about the company than about where he sleeps.
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Paste it into Textedit.app?
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
I like it -- a CAPTCHA for stupidity. You could do pretty simple problems (like the Project Euler stuff), with a few random elements to keep things interesting -- especially because the smartest people would come up with shortcuts and be ab
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Why you need a degree to work at Bigco(weblog.raganwald.com)
13 points by byrneseyeview 20y ago|4 comments
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
I think he means that threaded comments encourage flamewars, since they let you respond to responses, instead of to the original article. When reddit added comments, I think that was one of the complaints. But Digg's awful "@userX..
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
Community is vastly overrated, since the easiest way to appeal to a larger group of people is to be comfortably generic. The best tools for a community because they're versatile and extensible, so the community provides value. If that isn't
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
He used the assignment operator instead of the equality operator -- is the fact that choices are headaches *all Joel Spolsky's fault*?
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A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom(ycombinator.com)
7 points by byrneseyeview 20y ago|0 comments
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by byrneseyeview 20y ago
There is some sampling bias in terms of what's discussed, but you can still get good information about the good moves and missteps each company has taken. I suspect that mistakes like "Didn't listen to users" are valid mistakes whet