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by diego 15y ago
The obvious question is, how many of your older friends are founders? The fact that someone is an older founder means he/she is less risk averse than other people.
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by diego 15y ago
This essay is very disingenuous. Businesses are hard work, Paul Graham wants to invest in the next Facebook, he needs younger founders who are ridiculously ambitious and won't take an early exit. http://diegobasch.com/stop-the-presses-essa
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Stop the Presses: Essay Shows That Hard Work Can Be Unpleasant(diegobasch.com)
54 points by diego 15y ago|28 comments
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Journey to the Center of an Espresso Machine(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Yes, there's more to it. The experiment was done with 70/30 and 30/70 ratios for different subjects. The book doesn't say whether they specified they were all males, my guess would be that they did.
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by diego 15y ago
Exactly. Here's the example used in Kahneman's book: "Dick is a 30-year-old man. He is married with no children. A man of high ability and high motivation, he promises to be quite successful in his field. He is well liked by his colleagues.
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by diego 15y ago
In my opinion Google App Engine is a non-starter for serious applications. I only know of experiments and toys running there. Look at their gallery of successful applications: http://code.google.com/intl/it-IT/appengine/casestudies.html C
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The case of the missing gas mileage(web.mit.edu)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Here's my naive Ruby version for what it's worth. It took me way too long, perhaps because I have a nasty cold. I've been programming since 1983. If I showed up for a code interview today, I'd probably fail miserably. def print_pascal(r
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by diego 15y ago
They did see it coming, probably in the same way that the movie and music industries saw the inevitable future of digital downloads. Who knows what political battles must have been fought within that company. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07
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by diego 15y ago
I also enjoyed that book very much, and I'm trying to expose it to people who otherwise would not come in contact with it or the general topics it discusses. We're probably preaching to the choir here :)
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Kodak Sees a Future Where Film Is Optional [1995](nytimes.com)
3 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?(edge.org)
87 points by diego 15y ago|53 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Warning: lepra means leprosy in Spanish.
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Ask HN: if you could invest in any startup today, which would you pick?
3 points by diego 15y ago|2 comments
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by diego 15y ago
LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA. INTERN, H1B welcome. We're hiring software engineers and data scientists for search, network (graph) and analytics. Of course there are tons of other openings. Why LinkedIn is interesting? - We have unique data
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by diego 15y ago
An improv class is a good start. See: http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/02/18/improvisation.busines...
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by diego 15y ago
For that I go outdoors. Restaurants in San Francisco are not precisely quiet :)
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Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read(dbasch.posterous.com)
63 points by diego 15y ago|77 comments
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by diego 15y ago
The answer would be that some people will pay for it. They obviously don't care about selling a ton of memory chips, so their price is optimized for something else. A similar situation may happen as a contractor: there may be gigs that yo
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If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right(dunn.psych.ubc.ca)
2 points by diego 15y ago|0 comments
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by diego 15y ago
Why should that offend him? Are you offended by a thumbs up picture? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbs_signal G+ is an international social network. It's interesting how you assume that what's offensive to a large number of people in th
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Study finds link between airlines' profitability and their accident rates(physorg.com)
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by diego 15y ago
Fixed, thanks. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-mi...
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by diego 15y ago
So many cognitive biases here that I had to write a blog post. http://dbasch.posterous.com/vcs-also-succumb-to-cognitive-bi...
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VCs Also Succumb to Cognitive Biases(dbasch.posterous.com)
22 points by diego 15y ago|3 comments
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by diego 15y ago
* Thinking Fast, Slow by Daniel Kahneman * Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson * Slack, by Tom DeMarco (also re-read Peopleware). Both of these books are fundamental to anyone developing software within an organization. * Delivering Happiness, b
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by diego 15y ago
This means nothing. I initiated transfers away from Godaddy a week ago, and they still haven't gone through. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3393263
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by diego 15y ago
I just got this from a namecheap customer service chat: "Please let me explain the transfer mechanism in order to make it more clear. On the first stages of the transfer process our system needs to obtain the full domain contact information
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by diego 15y ago
Don't learn the wrong lesson. You might as well be saying "never try" or "never be unlucky." That would be the main lesson only if you somehow could assert that the failure of your business is due largely to the fact that it was based on ad

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