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by ericb 9y ago
Can you put a finer point on the two different concepts of consensus for me and maybe elaborate on how they can't be made the same?
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by ericb 9y ago
>AFAIK the definition of a Ponzi scheme is a fake investment where no actual investment in productive activities takes place and all profits are paid out from increasing intakes. The way to tell your understanding is wrong is that it wou
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by ericb 9y ago
Wow!!! I considered that possibility, but figured they were too good to be something that wasn't honed over the years. They'd make a good template for the other groups--I would absolutely go back to them for thought-exercises fo
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by ericb 9y ago
I was in Startup School--there was no suggestion to come here. This thread is what you get when you mix rave-reviews, public thank-yous, and self promotion. :-)
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by ericb 9y ago
Startup school was super helpful. Mike Robbins from Circuitlab/Pantelligent was an amazing mentor! Every week before our group meetup, we had a few questions to fill out that really got us thinking deeply about our business. I wouldn&#
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by ericb 9y ago
Keep in mind, these videos are nice, but unlike demo day, they are unlikely to result in funding. For companies that are working on getting stuff out the door, the video is probably not the highest priority.
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by ericb 9y ago
They aren't backing any of these companies financially. It is hard to tell what is in it for them yet. The only way this makes sense is if it is a pre-filter for their application funnel to increase the quality of their selections. Co
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by ericb 9y ago
True, but is "my buddies' buddies" the smartest filter you can apply to increase the chances of finding a company that can return the fund?
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by ericb 9y ago
I totally agree. One could argue that one way to view the value proposition of YC from a VC perspective is that they apply a smarter filter than "the buddy system."
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by ericb 9y ago
I believe it. I also know that Realtors aren't too fond of For Sale By Owner houses. I suspect this comes down to a similar effect.
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by ericb 9y ago
I think this bias is mistaken--because VC's use their network as a filter, it falsely equivocates strong business/strong founder with individuals who landed on a social graph that happened to have VC connections. Biases like this
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by ericb 9y ago
Can Cockroach be plugged into a Rails app where mysql was? I'd be interested in hearing: - the backup story - the replication/failover story - horizontal scaling story (is it plug and play)
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by ericb 9y ago
Reproductive fitness is less scary--it doesn't always mean "prevented from reproducing" * Imagine 20% of the population has adaptations that make them better suited to mars--they keep their teeth, their bones are stronger, th
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by ericb 9y ago
Great advice. I once let a company license legitimate software (a history cleaner before browsers offered this functionality) I wrote and they wrapped it in adware and caused a lot of people headaches. It felt gross . They didn't make
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by ericb 10y ago
Would this run as a chrome driver for Selenium? What is needed to make this work with Selenium?
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by ericb 10y ago
There's a lot more to it--this is just a tiny part we're giving away, not something we'll make money on. We do real-browser load testing in the cloud using the same scripts folks use for integration testing. Because they can
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by ericb 10y ago
I'm open sourcing a Java Selenium library with page performance assertions built in as part of my startup. It will let you do things like: test.config.setSLAMaxTime(2000); // set time in MS assertSLAMet(); /&#x2
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by ericb 10y ago
I think our goals come in because we have evolved drives vs. being programmed, not because of processing power. At the same time, giving an AI a goal is the moment when we become subject to an indifferent genie who doesn't share our va
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by ericb 10y ago
Computer programs don't have goals unless provided with them. They don't have wants, or needs, or interests or hopes or dreams. Even if they start "thinking" the default would be a zen lack of attachment to "existin
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by ericb 10y ago
Not the op, but your comment did not make it clear which company's investors you were name-calling.
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by ericb 10y ago
I think you need to listen to more of his interviews, look over his plans, examine his side businesses... They are all remarkably consistent with a long term vision he lays out years in advance of any business dealings. For example, The B
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by ericb 10y ago
It's hard to predict when these bubbles will end. For example, the massive bubble in green pieces of paper with pictures of presidents (people are trading houses for these things!) will end some day, but you never know when.
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by ericb 10y ago
- You can ask hard salary questions beforehand without offending a recruiter. Nothing worse than going through a long process to find out the company expects to pay below-market. - You can set salary expectations with the recruiter directly
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by ericb 10y ago
Quoting current inflation is misleading--adopters know the eventual plan for bitcoin is capped, whereas ethereum is uncapped. A turing complete virtual machine is infinitely complicated--it can run anything. The implementation is "tr
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by ericb 10y ago
Thanks, I already have some. I think there is value in alternative cryptos with strong dev teams and desirable properties. If bitcoin disqualifies itself through certain failings, second tier contenders hold value through their optionality
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by ericb 10y ago
Rebuttal: Ethereum has far worse properties as a store of value. -More complex codebase, which makes assessing vulnerabilities more difficult, and security more difficult. -Ethereum broke trust and "code is law" when self-interest
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by ericb 10y ago
Do you load test before each release? Who does that, and what is the stack?
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by ericb 10y ago
Do you do automated load tests? What is the frequency on them if not. Also curious what your stack is?
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Ask HN: Web devs, how many times a week do you deploy? CI? CD?
3 points by ericb 10y ago|7 comments
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by ericb 10y ago
What is the due diligence? Why are these things wrong? Are there sources you can point me to understand your point of view better and educate myself.

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