diego

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by diego 14y ago
The N. Virginia datacenter has been historically unreliable. I moved my personal projects to the West Coast (Oregon and N. California) and I have seen no significant issues in the past year. N. Virginia is both cheaper and closer to the cen
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by diego 14y ago
No, it's not silly at all. For example, what if Apple pissed off Sequoia and was always second in line to acquire Sequoia companies? This is a very nuanced topic, especially if you don't know the ins and outs of M/A and VCs. 5M (or that mag
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by diego 14y ago
Do you know the history of Apple, Sequoia, and the Silicon Valley? Does the name Don Valentine ring a bell? http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/apple/info
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by diego 14y ago
Your comment suggests that you are not very familiar with the nuances of Merger and Acquisition processes. As someone who has been involved in a significant number of M/A deals in different capacities, I can tell you that your speculation i
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by diego 14y ago
Doubt it. Why would Apple want to alienate Sequoia of all venture funds? It's more likely that Sequoia called Apple and they worked out a soft landing for some people.
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by diego 14y ago
I can only speculate, but these things can get messy. Investors could find a way to sue Apple. 5M is peanuts to Apple compared to the value at stake. If they bother with the acquisition (which takes lawyers, due diligence, lots of boilerpla
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by diego 14y ago
It's called Coolvetica. http://www.dafont.com/coolvetica.font
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by diego 14y ago
I used the newsyc250 feed on Twitter, last 1000 tweets.
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by diego 14y ago
An explanation of how this deal probably works: Color had 41M in funding, of which $25M are left. That money goes back to investors. Apple threw in maybe $5M. That also goes to investors. Apple interviews each employee and decides who stays
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by diego 14y ago
No, it's my own tool written in Clojure, using WordCram. http://wordcram.org
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by diego 14y ago
As an interesting aside, I created a word cloud with the last 1000 Hacker News headlines to cross the 250-point threshold. I found Google was in 49 of those. Hacker News seems to care more about Google than any other company. http://images
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Public Sharing vs Private Sharing(avc.com)
1 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
"I wish we'd get over this ridiculous assumption that we must hold people to a higher standard based on who they are." I agree that it would be nice, jspthrowaway. Unfortunately you, Emmett (whom I've met in person), and I are not represe
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by diego 14y ago
That is an idiotic reason for downvoting a comment. However, I wouldn't downvote you if I could. By the way, as the CEO of Justin.tv you may want to be more mindful of your personal image. I wouldn't want to see comments like the above if I
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by diego 14y ago
This post does not deliver what it promises in the title. It gives no reason why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT. It's not particularly insightful either. I'm trying to guess why it has 53 votes. The only explanation I can come up with i
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by diego 14y ago
Not for me, I only back up my original content on Arq (video and pictures, mostly).
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Red Bull Stratos: Why Didn’t Felix Free Fall for 5 Minutes?(wired.com)
2 points by diego 14y ago|0 comments
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by diego 14y ago
The problem for Dropbox is that they use S3. It's really easy to bypass Dropbox entirely and save money, even if you're non-technical. I use Arq on OSX, and pay only for the amount of data I have on S3 (about $10 per month right now). Dropb
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Can You Work in Netscape Time? (1995)(fastcompany.com)
46 points by diego 14y ago|19 comments
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by diego 14y ago
I agree. My team at LinkedIn was awesome in that respect. There were several women on it. They were extremely talented from a technical perspective, and their communication skills were great. I'd echo what you said.
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by diego 14y ago
Technically this is more like a thread with comments.
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by diego 14y ago
I did, a week ago: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=b...
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by diego 14y ago
That really depends. On the internet nobody needs to know that you are 40 or 50. Finding a permanent job at a SV company may be harder, but freelancing / contracting is not.
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by diego 14y ago
I trust the tool, and I'm pretty confident in the margin of error. I would bet that there are a significant number of people with multiple / fake accounts.
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by diego 14y ago
I don't think old stats from other sources are comparable. In order to evaluate changes I would only compare my results against the exact same question asked with the same tool at a different point in time.
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by diego 14y ago
I wouldn't have received significant numbers about usage. In surveys you don't want to conflate questions, and these questions are asked independently to different people. It's hard to formulate a question about usage of Facebook for the ge
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by diego 14y ago
I think it's barrier to entry. It must be very frustrating to join Twitter today, see people with thousands of followers and not having any. Most non-famous people I know who joined Twitter recently follow 50-100 people and have a handful o
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by diego 14y ago
Does Twitter suggest an alternative username? Even if they do, the problem with Twitter growth is that nobody will follow a new user unless they know you in real life. I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with
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by diego 14y ago
Netbot is causing quite a stir at app.net. Here's a word cloud of the past hour's global timeline: http://adn.loqix.com/appwords.17:00-03.10.2012.png
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by diego 14y ago
That's like saying that John Deere won't be a successful company because most people won't buy tractors.

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