dcurtis

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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Here are a couple of quotes from his talk: http://dcurtis.posterous.com/ He really is an an inspiring guy.
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   It's not random. It's funded by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel, and Max Levchin.
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Considering that about 70% of startups fail, shouldn't this actually give you a negative valuation most of the time?
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Yes, it looks ok, but it takes five times longer to load.
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Nokia has huge interests in VCs.
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Interesting how they're posting to Tumblr, their competition. I guess this shows how much they value openness and user happiness. Well done!
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Thanks for clarifying that. I was sure after I realized the charts are split-adjusted my calculations were off, so thanks for redoing them properly.
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   Ahh! I am not. That's why it seemed so low...
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   by dcurtis 18y ago

   At Yahoo's height, December 24th, 1999 (hilariously, almost the exact date the options were released from escrow after Viaweb's purchase), the share price was 101.81, which would have made the 393,591 shares worth about $40,071,499. That's
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    Interestingly, the number of shares given outright for Viaweb (393,591), not including options, would be worth only $7,915,115 today. edit: (not taking into account splits) Considering the four splits since the end of 1998, the total number
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    I have never heard anyone ask about AI rights or free will/rationalizations to a politician. What makes you think they get asked all the time?
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    Sure, in the same way that being located in San Francisco instead of Oakland is part of the value of a company.
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    I've been following Silverback for a while. The parallax effect on their site has kept me entertained for hours (just resize the window, it's crazy). But the app will be an invaluable tool to user experience designers. It works well, it's s
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    As a side note: Arnold Kim is a regular reader of Hacker News.
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    No, the thing you put before .com is part of the brand. The .com just adds legitimacy.
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    That's the thing with open source... you don't have experts to fix the deficiencies because usually big companies gobble them up with high salaries. Saying "it's your fault for not fixing it" only applies to experts in the field, and 99% of
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    Had Sam Altman done other projects before Loopt?
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    As much as it pains me to say this, I think Google's lack of design sense might be their strong point in search. There's no extra crap to get in the way of search results. (Although I should say that in their other non-search products, it i
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    Although the title is cheesy, these are really great points. I wouldn't call them "secrets" as much as common sense and great advice. While I respect him as a businessman and as a person, it kind of surprised me when he gave all of his mone
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    V.S. Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain changed my life. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks solidified my interest in neuroscience And The Three Pound Enigma solidified my fascination with medicine in general. If you o
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    Why? If someone is searching for "mesothelioma treatment," that's a pretty specific thing. And if they click your ad, you might make thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars off the patient. If you make money that way, it's totally worth
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    If the doctor was accused of negligence, the court would be able to requisition all the medical records of his patients. (Actually this might not be true of a doctor, but in any other industry this would be perfectly legal.) We're talking a
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    OK, webapps are cheap to build and can be built in a relatively short time. I get it. From now on, can you please advertise your app for its features and benefits, not for how quickly or cheaply you made it? Although, this app has a nice de
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    I don't think the applications of jgrowl are the same as the system growl alerts. I imagine this being used for webapp-specific notifications, much the same way as iminlikewithyou.
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    What are they using to analyze the queries like this? It looks pretty useful.
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    I've found that my limited PHP knowledge has been great for little tiny projects. For example, something like http://soindie.com (which isn't mine) would be a huge pain to set up with some enormous framework. But with a few lines of PHP,
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    But they're only "harming privacy" because Google, supposedly, allowed copyright infringement to take place. That's how the law works-- in order to investigate crimes, your privacy is sometimes invaded (when there is due cause). I'm on your
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    What if we had search? (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    That's an extremely scary statistic. 60% an enthusiastic "no"?
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    by dcurtis 18y ago

    I love fountain pens. The idea is that a ball point pen is far more practical for every day use.