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by carterac 15y ago
Very rough mental math: At a $5B valuation, PG's share of Dropbox should pay for ~10,000 YC investments
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by carterac 15y ago
An intuitive way of calculating the permutations w/o the multinomial co-efficient: For a 3 digit passcode, there must be 1 pair of repeated digits somewhere in the 4 number sequence e.g. 1_1_, 11__, _11_ etc.. so 2 x 3 = 6 different pairs.
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New biography of Steve Jobs comes out March 2012(amazon.com)
28 points by carterac 15y ago|8 comments
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by carterac 15y ago
NYC is an insanely hot market for web engineering talent. Every founder I know complains about finding great engineers. As CEO of a tech startup here, I personally spend ~80% of my energy dedicated to finding the absolute best engineers in
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RoR Win: “Getting Things Done” with MongoDB Mongoid(code.dblock.org)
61 points by carterac 15y ago|8 comments
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by carterac 15y ago
I don't think that's what he's saying. It's not about "making the big leagues" or getting hired by Oracle. It's about growing your startup into a big company that embraces this culture. Look at Facebook. It is officially a very big company
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In Silicon Valley, Investors are Jockeying like it's 1999(online.wsj.com)
45 points by carterac 15y ago|27 comments
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Mongoid_fulltext: full-text n-gram search for your MongoDB models(code.dblock.org)
10 points by carterac 16y ago|7 comments
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This girl asked Investors For $500,000 To Bottle Up Air And Sell It (businessinsider.com)
9 points by carterac 16y ago|3 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
LinkedIn and the social graph in general will really help employers avoid these scams. Every reference I've done is with someone who I have significant connection with between the different graphs of LinkedIn, Twitter, and others. Of course
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DesignSvn: Version control for designers(designsvn.com)
3 points by carterac 16y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Deployment with Heroku-Bartender(code.dblock.org)
20 points by carterac 16y ago|1 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
Such an unremarkable piece of footage, yet I found my 24-year-old self studying every little detail and facial gesture. What was inside of him then that led to where Apple is today?
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by carterac 16y ago
My two greatest passions are also math and art. That's what I started Art.sy. One of our greatest challenges has been finding people whose abilities span the gap between these two, traditionally disparate, fields. If you are interested in w
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Real estate brokers won't share location? Google Earth to the rescue.(carterac.tumblr.com)
1 points by carterac 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best PM/code hosting/bug tracking solutions for a RoR Startup?
1 points by carterac 16y ago|1 comments
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Apple Patent Reveals Plans for Holographic Display(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by carterac 16y ago|0 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
I find that events are a good starting point. You can check out the startupdigest.com for London.
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by carterac 16y ago
It is crazy how perfectly the Matrix script works for this essay. And it's just so true, do you want the red pill or the blue?
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by carterac 16y ago
Better to come to NYC and work on one of the many exciting tech startups desperately looking for tech talent, but I may be biased :). Seriously though, ping me and I'll help make sure you find a great job in NYC.
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by carterac 16y ago
The valley?? The real story of talent drought is in New York City. Recently there has been a gigantic explosion of startups with lots of funding, but _very_ few great engineers available. As CEO of a just-funded tech startup, I am budgeting
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Kinect by Microsoft Keeps You Entertained Hands Free(nytimes.com)
71 points by carterac 16y ago|46 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
The one factor I haven't seen mentioned so far is that Python has more math and science libraries. So if those kind of problems interest you, that is worth considering. On a semi-related note, at Art.sy we use Zend, a PHP framework, for our
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A few comments on Paul Graham re superangels(cdixon.posterous.com)
41 points by carterac 16y ago|0 comments
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A friend wants to jump into the startup world, where should she start?(quora.com)
2 points by carterac 16y ago|0 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
Zach Klein posted a list of Startup Jobs -- Mostly NYC and SF based http://jobs.zachklein.com/
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"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."(folklore.org)
262 points by carterac 16y ago|110 comments
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by carterac 16y ago
I disagree. You're not appreciating the values of serendipity, creativity, and culture that you gain from living in an exciting and dense place like NYC. While seemingly intangible, I believe that these qualities lead to more exciting and i
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by carterac 16y ago
Whenever people ask me who does our PR, I just refer them to Matt.
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by carterac 16y ago
This is a very entertaining and well-written rant. But if you're considering starting a company or joining a startup in NYC, don't take this too seriously. I came from a similar background -- did finance in NYC, hung out with an ivy league

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