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by diego 12y ago
Sounds similar to my thoughts. I've been trying to get a ride for the past two hours (I'm in the office, no rush to go home). I got canceled three times.
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by diego 12y ago
I just tried Lyft line in SF. The first request got canceled after five minutes. The second one found matches after a few minutes and told me to be outside 6 minutes later. At some point someone else joined the ride, so the 6 minutes turned
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by diego 12y ago
I'm pretty sure being the smallest number without a Wikipedia page does not fit the Wikipedia notability criteria for an article, so the article for N would never be approved.
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by diego 12y ago
It's not that transactions "incur" a fee. You pay the fee you want, and miners prioritize transactions accordingly. Because transactions take up space in the block chain (and everyone's hard drives), small transactions a
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by diego 12y ago
32-bit architectures have nothing to do with the size of different data types that have existed forever. We had 64-bit longs in 8-bit cpus. Also, there are perfectly valid applications that require numbers of 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits (or variab
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by diego 12y ago
Life expectancy simply means that 50% of those people will be dead by 100. It could be that 99% of them are dead by 110. That's a perfectly plausible distribution. Japan, for example, has over 50k 100+ inhabitants (and probably 0 over
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Microsoft Buying Mobile Email Startup Acompli for More Than $200M(recode.net)
6 points by diego 12y ago|0 comments
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by diego 12y ago
Man, you're selling an investment to a VC. If a stock broker cold calls you to offer you an awesome deal, you hang up. Venture capitalists are just like you in that sense; they have a practically infinite number of investment options a
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by diego 12y ago
I remember when this was posted on FlyerTalk. The author of the post read that British Airways would cease to operate the flights, and promptly booked one with miles just for the experience. I wished I'd done that. The last Concorde fl
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Concorde Trip Report (2003)(samchuiphotos.com)
1 points by diego 12y ago|1 comments
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by diego 12y ago
Sam is probably too young to remember what the world was like before the internet. From my perspective (just turned 45), the technological change in everyday life between 1994 and 2004 is much more significant than the incremental improve
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by diego 12y ago
Factual - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive g
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Bitnami (YC W13) Now Available on Google Cloud(blog.bitnami.com)
7 points by diego 12y ago|0 comments
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by diego 12y ago
The article talks about the Bugatti Veyron. According to Wikipedia only 405 were sold [1]. The owner of the largest private car collection (7000 cars) has one of them [2]. The average is a pretty uninformative number, just like the average
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by diego 12y ago
Pedantic comment: it's not reverse, it's just Polish Notation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation
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by diego 12y ago
It may have to do with the time of the day. I would assume most mods are on Pacific time, and those stories were posted pretty early.
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by diego 12y ago
The article disregards the fact that a car has features that Uber doesn't. One is mobile storage: you can store things in your car that you often need wherever you go. This is particularly important for parents of young children. Anoth
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by diego 12y ago
Genuinely curious about why someone downvote this comment. I'm stating a fact, not a controversial opinion or anything.
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by diego 12y ago
All of you are young :) Being over 30 makes you likely to side with the plaintiff.
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by diego 12y ago
(not-empty coll) is the same as (when (seq coll) coll)
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by diego 12y ago
I don't think patio11 hates BTC for any rational reasons. Nobody should hate or love BTC any more than, say, hacksaws. It's a tool, you decide whether you want to use it or not.
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by diego 12y ago
You're asking a loaded question. Companies spend money on acquisition strategies. Free trials are only a loss if they don't result in the acquisition of customers that justify the expense. As to your question, at IndexTank we had
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What Is A “Good” VC?(blog.eladgil.com)
6 points by diego 12y ago|0 comments
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by diego 12y ago
I'm going to say something controversial, so take it with a grain of salt. I believe it depends significantly on the age/experience of the leaders (I'm 44 years old). One thing that comes with experience is the realization th
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by diego 12y ago
$date->modifiedDate('+ 3 days');
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by diego 12y ago
My former employees from IndexTank would differ. Our acquisition was life-changing to them. They didn't value equity at all when they joined, yet it worked out really well. You can think of employee equity as insurance against "I
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by diego 12y ago
That's the same as asking why do startups bother with starting a company. If the startup succeeds, you want employees to be aligned with the company success and motivated to stay and vest. If the company doesn't succeed, the equit
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by diego 12y ago
Yes. I sold IndexTank to LinkedIn among other things. It was a gradual process for me that started with the first dot-com boom. It wasn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be. I was 41. Cashing out stock from public companies I&#
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by diego 12y ago
I have invested mostly in first-time founders. Serial founders usually don't need my small-time money :)
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by diego 12y ago
I have never invested in a friend, and I doubt I will. I have invested in capable people of whom I'd known for a while but were barely acquaintances. Friendship is separate.

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