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by gjmulhol 13y ago
No mention of Chamath Palihapitiya or Eric Migicovsky. I think the title and intent of this article are spot on, but like so many things Business Week, the reporting doesn't hit the important datapoints. Why focus on BlackBerry, which
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
This is more a question of address space. If I have 1 bit, I can address 2 things (0, 1). If I have 2 bits, I can address 4 things (00, 01, 10, 11). With 2 bits, you can also address 3 things, but then you are wasting precious bits, so it m
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
It could fund good projects, and a side benefit is that scientists would have to connect what they are doing to real value for people. Might be healthy for the industry as a whole.
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I find the idea of crowdsourcing scientific research really fascinating. Not sure if it is a scalable model, but I love to see good science funded.
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Evolution of Promiscuity in Angiosperms(microryza.com)
5 points by gjmulhol 13y ago|3 comments
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Most people outside of this community are not using disk encryption. With that said and the caveat that I am not an encryption expert myself: given an infinite amount of computing power and an infinite amount of time, can full disk encrypti
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I have accidentally seen basically all of my friends' passcodes as they type it in at bars etc. I could get into their phones easily. TouchID is more secure than that simply because someone needs to take a 2400dpi image of the person&#
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
No teacher is willing to tell a parent that their child is a dullard unless the kid is completely off the bottom of the scale. Parents will try to bully teachers into bumping their child into a higher class. Unfortunately, as with so many t
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Apple's Sapphire/Glass Laminate Could Made an Unbreakable Phone(gizmodo.com)
1 points by gjmulhol 13y ago|0 comments
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
The internet, my friends, is a series of tubes. We must not forget this.
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Agree. Maybe calling them "computer programs" makes more sense. Just from the frame in the picture, it appears that they are just trying to decribe to their viewers why Github has such a high valuation. To answer that question, th
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Why does that audience need to know what fork and pull are? It isn't really useful information to them. Knowing that Github is a place to store versions of code might be useful because the name is batted around a lot, but the average n
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Woah. This is terrible on a variety of levels, not least of which is that they spelled repository incorrectly.
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I like what is said here, but this isn't what first principles are. First principles are fundamental laws from which all else can be built. They are the underlying assumption in a proof or the laws of thermodynamics. They are not the h
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
But then that founder is making the decision to reveal those details. A judge has a right to ask whatever he or she wants about the business. It is on the founder to be responsible in answering it. To preemptively answer your question, yes,
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Joshua Bell, one of the greatest violinists of our time, as a busker has only 2 people take any notice, and only one person realize how great he is -- and that is because she recognized him, not his playing. http://www.youtube.co
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I've been out for about 5 years. Graduated with my MPhil in Materials Science in 2008 (after having done my undergrad in Electrical and Computer Engineering) and went to work for a few years. I am now back in school getting my MBA. My
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Does this work otuside the terminal in interefaces like browser windows? I could imagine a case where it makes sense for security purposes to not allow pasting.
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
These are SEC forms. The S-1 is the form that a company files when they are ready to have an IPO. It is several thousand pages long and has everything from several years of financial statements to market analyses by third parties so investo
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Truth, but they did a good job convincing people of the present value of their current assets (users) and future revenue. In B2C, users are value, even if they are not revenue. It is still a challenge to monetize, but it is easier to think
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
It is all about negotiation, but there are 2 rules of thumb: 1. Don't break 6 digits, stay below $100k. Anything more is a "good" salary where you might not be hungry enough -- or at least this is the perception. 2. Make sure
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
VC money should be for scaling, not initial build. This is where the lean startup is a great philosophy (I have other issues with it) but making sure that people want -- and are willing to pay for -- what you are making is the way to build
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
They can for a short time. Pitching is a bit of a game, and if and if you are a compelling technical person, you can probably get money a few times from non-savvy investors. The problem is that most founders have this feeling of relief wh
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
Intel was known many years ago for buying 2 first class seats on a plane for its validation chips for new runs from a fab. They put a person in one seat and a wafer carrier in the other. If you have something sufficiently valuable or import
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I totally agree with you on all fronts. The fingerprint reference was written more in jest and sarcasm than sincerity. To me, this product reeks of the "lukewarm tea problem". This is a neat engineering project, and I am sure it i
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
This, my friends, is an electric moped. I wouldn't pay 600 euro for it, let alone 6000. If you are looking for fuel economy, regular old-school gas mopeds can get >100mpg. Admittedly, though, they do not offer a tablet and fingerpri
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Use Bitcoin(youtube.com)
4 points by gjmulhol 13y ago|0 comments
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
I don't actually, mostly because I have been in school since I learned about it and haven't made any money since then to put in an account. Realistically, my understanding is that they are essentially using Vanguard ETFs. Their tr
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by gjmulhol 13y ago
wealthfront.com or another such service. Automatically rebalances for you.
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Your Summer Intern Is Here. Now What?(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by gjmulhol 13y ago|0 comments

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