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by diego 14y ago
I have different amounts of equity in different startups. All else being equal, I prefer to help the ones in which I have more equity. I like to help companies that I invest in, but my time is limited. I've had to make that call.
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by diego 14y ago
If I were to start a company today, I wouldn't touch the space of "social" with a linked list of ten-foot poles.
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by diego 14y ago
Why? What country is close enough to the US in size, heterogeneity and number of guns so that you can make a fair comparison? Edit to answer to the comment below: think what you want. Don't try to convince me. I'm skeptical, you're not. Wri
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by diego 14y ago
You phrased that in an ambiguous way. I believe you mean that the gift is being able to feel love, not the love itself. Loving someone may cause you to give "gifts" to that person, but the love itself is not a gift to them. You are the one
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by diego 14y ago
Exactly. All I said is that I don't know if there are any fixes to the problem that wouldn't cause potentially worse problems. That's why I mention iatrogenics: unintended side effects of a cure that are more damaging than leaving a disease
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by diego 14y ago
Author here, see my previous post plotting homicides vs gun ownership across countries: http://diegobasch.com/homicides-vs-gun-ownership Yes, the average American (not necessarily you, it varies a lot depending on where you live) is more
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by diego 14y ago
It seems to me that the post is more about the former than the latter. It's not like he built an airplane from scratch by himself; he contributed to building tools for internal use at a small company.
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by diego 14y ago
I find it sad when someone talks about "learning to making things" as if he had discovered the moon. Humans have been "making things" since the dawn of times out of necessity. Going through life without the need to "make things" is a relati
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by diego 14y ago
I was and I do. My company (I was the CEO and single founder) was acquired by LinkedIn. However, "verbal offers" are very tenuous ground. You'd have to prove that the offer was believable, and that finding out was not a waste of time. Also,
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by diego 14y ago
Agree. This is nonsense. Furthermore, according to the article Systrom said they had not received any formal offers, which is confirmed by the Twitter sources. "Verbal offers" don't count. They cannot be binding, because an offer to buy a c
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by diego 14y ago
And the reason it's not big enough is because they don't want to invest in it. They found out search is not as monetizable as they thought it would be, and at the same time they cannot take away the functionality. The compromise is to keep
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by diego 14y ago
No, it's bunk. This is one case in which Betteridge's law of headlines applies. For most people, your MB type changes with your mood that day, or with the way you interpret the ridiculously ambiguous questions in the test.
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by diego 14y ago
If Hacker News stays the same, it may be a contender in a few years. It's starting to look like the Craigslist of social news sites.
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by diego 14y ago
You may be interested in my post from yesterday. http://longposts.com/1990082
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by diego 14y ago
You think my question is nonsense? How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?" Especially if you had been on the site for years, when it was actually about music news? FYI I play several instr
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by diego 14y ago
Is every famous musician death going to make it to the top of Hacker News from now on?
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by diego 14y ago
The author of this article is a jerk. He calls someone a loser because he or she may not be a good fit for a job. This is not someone you'd want to have as a boss. A good manager would write a more compassionate and empathetic article with
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by diego 14y ago
This post is short-sighted and simplistic. Worst in what sense? The decrease in equity is countered by the increased stability because the company has money in the bank. There are people whose risk profiles make it unacceptable for them to
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by diego 14y ago
Kids today. The Raspberry Pi has a 700Mhz processor and at least 256M of memory. In 1999 I was running an mp3 search engine that processed 200k daily queries at its peak, on a Pentium II with 128MB. Serving static pages at the rate HN can g
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by diego 14y ago
Honest question to the author: given that you haven't been successful yet (at least from the information in the article), why do you think you're qualified to give advice about how to be successful?
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks, I wonder who is the idiot who downvotes an honest question. Still, I would pay $9.99 for mobi or epub. PDF is inconvenient for the Kindle and the iPad. Converting with Calibre is a chore, and rarely yields good results.
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by diego 14y ago
This makes it slower, so it's more pleasant to watch: echo 'loop do print ["\u2571","\u2572"].sample ; sleep 0.001 end'|ruby
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by diego 14y ago
Ruby: echo 'loop do print ["\u2571","\u2572"].sample end'|ruby
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by diego 14y ago
Can this book not be available in digital form? Amazon and MIT Press only list the hardcover edition. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10-0
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Understanding Search Engine Relevance(linkedin.com)
3 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, and in addition it's also a system to ensure that elected officials and their parties have accountability. If you win an election and then "betray" your voters, you won't be reelected. If you can't be reelected, you could damage the ch
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by diego 14y ago
It's not clear from your comment if it was an interview situation, or if it was casual conversation. If the latter, you should call them out. I'm a fellow 43-year-old. I invest in early-stage startups, and that includes YC companies. I woul
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by diego 14y ago
This is an example of an article that doesn't belong in hacker news. For one, the title is an example of bait-and-switch. The article doesn't explain why the author walked away from a million dollars. Even worse, it's incredibly vague and s
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by diego 14y ago
Sounds catchy, but it isn't true. Hallucination is seeing things that aren't there, and believing that they exist. Vision without execution is more like laziness, procrastination, or apathy.
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A Very Dramatic Reading of Francisco Dao's Tale of Startup Failure(theawl.com)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments

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