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by diego 14y ago
I'm interested if you still have it. If it's gone I may still buy the book, it looks very promising.
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by diego 14y ago
Your math is off. You could do 3500 requests per hour with 10 accounts. You'd still need thousands of hours (i.e. a few months) because we are talking about millions of API calls.
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by diego 14y ago
That would require several million API calls. This sample was taken with only 12500 calls.
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by diego 14y ago
What I did was to measure the difference in yield between uniformly generated ids that would correspond to the time after Snowflake (when ids were at 380M) and the ones before. It's true that the yield is less. It went down from about 86% t
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by diego 14y ago
Good catch. I just checked the data. The effect of Snowflake is not too high, the error in the estimate because of this is perhaps 10M to 20M accounts. It's almost in the noise considering Twitter's daily signup rate. Also, it may even offs
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by diego 14y ago
Microsoft underperformed the market indices in the past ten years (SP500, Nasdaq, Dow Jones). That means its shareholders would have been better off selling the stock and investing in a diversified fund.
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by diego 14y ago
tldr: Marissa Mayer is strongly connected to lots of extremely smart people. Wired needs clicks, so they call this a "Secret Weapon." Hardly.
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by diego 14y ago
Deep knowledge takes time and effort. There's nothing more to that post.
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by diego 14y ago
(+) Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Edit: to clarify, the intro paragraph is extremely misleading. This analysis looks back in time several years; he might as well tell you to start a social network or a search engine. I
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by diego 14y ago
Those are his criteria, not yours. He lives in the Bay Area and wants to be close to all the companies he invests in. As an entrepreneur, you'd have to start a company here if you'd like Manu to invest in you. If you want to start it some
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, and it's dishonest. It happened to me once too.
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by diego 14y ago
Just what we need: generic advice from Michael Arrington. Sorry Mike, but you are not the mold from which everyone else was made. It works for you, great. Other people may do better focusing on addressing and improving their weaknesses.
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by diego 14y ago
I agree. It seems like the author of the post threw together a list of books that came out of a cursory search on Amazon. This is linkbait, and I'm flagging this post.
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by diego 14y ago
"You are missing a HUGE opportunity to extend and control your brand." Why? The article doesn't touch on this. Craigslist is already an extremely successful business. It's not a small startup looking to gain traction. An API has pros and
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks. I've been in the US since the 90s, and by now my writing is about the same in Spanish or English. My early schooling in Buenos Aires was bilingual. Jorge Luis Borges once said "let others brag about the pages they have written; I'm
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by diego 14y ago
Thanks.
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by diego 14y ago
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - Dan Ariely. Read all his books and papers, for that matter. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman I also liked Jonah Lehrer's Imagine, a book about creativity. If you're into programming, I recommend
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by diego 14y ago
No worries, you make a fair point and I take no offense :)
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by diego 14y ago
Possibly true. However, I'd argue that the quantum difference between student debt and a few million in the bank is higher in terms of utility than the one between $5M and billions. Most of your money problems are solved with a few million:
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by diego 14y ago
Of course it's awesome to work on those problems. The point I was trying to make is that in this case the company has to choose between innovating for the long term, and solving urgent problems that mean lots of $ in the short term. Interna
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A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004](dssresources.com)
26 points by diego 14y ago|7 comments
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by diego 14y ago
Have you ever tried to sell anything to a brick-and-mortar chain? Price is not a concern, they have money. The sales process involves convincing a number of stakeholders, and this is much costlier (to them) than whatever they end up paying
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Greplin Recasts Itself as Cue, an Intelligent Personal Assistant App(allthingsd.com)
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by diego 14y ago
Betteridge's Law applies to this post.
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by diego 14y ago
If a comment like that can discourage you, you are not ready. It's like starting to train for a marathon and quickly forgetting the idea because you don't like your shoes, or something equally trivial. If you think I exaggerate, try staying
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by diego 14y ago
It's not that different in the US. OP explained the case in which you're setting up a company for VC investment. It is only slightly more complicated than an LLC. In fact the time consumed by the whole process of setting up a company is neg
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by diego 14y ago
Remember Hotmail, for example?
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by diego 14y ago
Yes, I wrote this post because I've chatted with a few first-time founders who haven't experienced life at BigCo. As a result, they are creating solutions to problems nobody has. To me, it seemed obvious that you had to know BigCo from the
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by diego 14y ago
The investors in the initial round usually have some sort of anti-dilution provision, so the founders get diluted much more. See this, for example: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2009/sb20090...
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by diego 14y ago
Not always the case. Some of us simply need a break to clear our heads. I have absolutely no idea what I'll do next, and I like it that way. I know it will come to me in time.

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