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by erdevs 10y ago
Wow. I'm a pretty big MvC fan, but never knew about this guy. http://marvelvscapcom.wikia.com/wiki/Norimaro Thanks for sharing!
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by erdevs 10y ago
Well played by Didi. This was a years-long chess game with enormous stakes and Didi came out winning. Make no mistake, Uber's goal was absolutely to dominate in China, if they could. That was a big part of their pitch to investors o
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by erdevs 10y ago
I'm so happy to see the a good deal of skepticism of Gladwell here. What a change from ~10 years ago when he was near-universally lauded. Gladwell is an amazinglh eloquent and convincing writer. I only wish I had his talents there.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Thanks for your kindly and thoughtful reply. I'm glad you learned through your experiences and it's nice of you to want to share what you can. Regarding "Skynet" and automation at Amazon, I think this is fertile ground f
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by erdevs 10y ago
I didn't read a lot of these. And I'm a naturally skeptical person, so forgive the following observation. In every story I read, you seem to offer sage advice which people are almost immediately receptive and responsive to, even
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by erdevs 10y ago
It is stressful. But handling the stress effectively is a big part of the job and is a defining characteristic of success in such endeavors. Gotta know what you're signing up for, so it's good articles like this highlight it.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Connecting something like this to github and other large public repos would be fun. Similarly for pseudocode rather than only ins/outs. Maybe code analysis for similar implementations to (or optimizations of) what you're in the mi
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by erdevs 10y ago
If accurate, the description of British moral culture at this time sounds abhorrent. I wonder when and how it evolved to be more compassionate toward the less fortunate.
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by erdevs 10y ago
Of the two, between math and code, code is the more obfuscated form of the pair. Can not most code be expressed as pseudocode? Most pseudocode as an algorithm? And algorithms as math? Math is the purer, more fundamental, less obscured form
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by erdevs 10y ago
Aaronson is awesome. Intellectual honesty like this is to be admired in any field.
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by erdevs 10y ago
I wish that more of silicon valley would penalize people for reprehensible behavior. If Uber execs were ostracized rather than lauded... if investors pounded the table about legal risks and the importance of ethical business rather than c
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by erdevs 10y ago
The article asks "can possessions stand in the way of fulfillment?" Experience tells me the answer there is certainly yes, they can and often do. I think achieving a cultural shift away from the accumulation of possessions is ach
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by erdevs 10y ago
Well... several possibilities. Could be that they are lying about revenues being small and just trying to squeeze you. That would be a bad thing. Or, could be they're telling the truth and revenues are struggling. That is a bad sign
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by erdevs 10y ago
I think a little personality from the products/services you use is nice. And some personalities are cutesy. As long as it doesn't get in the way too much, I don't see what there is to fuss about. Personally would rather take
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by erdevs 10y ago
I doubt the business policy is that you can't take partners out for meals and/or invest in relationship building via meals and entertainment expenditures. Nor is the policy likely that you cannot participate in such activities wh
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by erdevs 10y ago
It is enjoyable to negotiate with people who view "concession" in this sense. You can get them to agree to terms of greater business value in exchange for terms of smaller business value, and they don't even think they "
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by erdevs 10y ago
The thing that unstuck the negotiation was conceding to the disputed term (agreeing to pay the credit card fees). The "steak dinner" trick seems to have little to do with it. Basically this boils down to "if you're st
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by erdevs 10y ago
The headline for this post is far too broad. More accurate would be to say that "very early stage startup technical diligence is usually a waste of time". That is often the case, for many of the reasons the author outlined. Late
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by erdevs 11y ago
This was my take exactly. Also, the strategy seems ineffectual, focusing mostly on influencing discussion communities when the real rub with Bitcoin has been disagreement among the core devs. If someone's goal was to stop or slow Bit
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by erdevs 11y ago
Are you sure? This company sells Windows-based security software. While we can't speak definitively to their intent, it is possible to objectively observe that they stand to gain from the impression that Windows is less secure (and m
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by erdevs 11y ago
I had the same thought exactly. :)
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by erdevs 11y ago
We need a new term for "unicorn" ... "Paper unicorn", perhaps. A better comparison would remove the confounding variable of valuation. Instead, it'd be interesting to look at start-ups in each region with >$200M
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by erdevs 12y ago
Yes, but that's kind of my point. I was replying to people speculating that SF must have more than ~526 people with liquid net worth above $30M. 526 doesn't seem a low estimate to me. Unless your counting unrealized paper Gaines
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by erdevs 12y ago
There is an enormous difference between paper money and real, liquid money. There is an enormous difference between the headline price an investor invests at, with all their Preferred rights, and what an employee can actually cash out at.
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by erdevs 12y ago
Moscovitz did not say that employee #100 made $200M at FB. Read the article. First, this was an overly simplistic analysis. It assumes a strike price of $0.00... Which never happens, and certainly wouldn't have happened by the tim
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by erdevs 12y ago
Perhaps another takeaway from this article is that it'd be nice if more research papers benchmarked with vastly larger data sets. Many researchers would love to do just that, of course. However, as many researchers will lament, it&#x2
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by erdevs 12y ago
I'm surprised the author doesn't ponder the following: Perhaps higher IQ means a person has more ability to solve these sorts of problems, if they take the time to exert the effort. That ability doesn't guarantee success i
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by erdevs 13y ago
This was a great post. Having seen several apps deployed in the app store myself, it seems to me OP is right on that discovery is bad (beyond editors' features, search and recommendation systems are terrible). It makes it really hard to g
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by erdevs 14y ago
Well, Unity was always easier to use. They focused on slick editors and tools early on. It used to be that Torque had higher-end features, better performance and source access.. while Unity lacked many graphics and other high end features
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by erdevs 14y ago
That's great. The Torque engine code improved tremendously over the years. In the early days, the code was rough, as it was inherited from a game studio that built it in a rush to ship a game and carried over from ~2001. It got better an

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