jayro

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When Milliseconds Make Millions: Why Wall Street Programmers Earn the Big Bucks(adtmag.com)
1 points by jayro 15y ago|0 comments
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Using 'Freakonomics' approach on sports(chicagotribune.com)
1 points by jayro 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 16y ago
We just did a podcast interview with a nuclear engineer (my brother actually) on the subject of Japan's nuclear situation that's worth checking out I think: http://techzinglive.com/page/694/114-tz-breaking-news-jay-ro... [Edit] For added
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Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down(unicornfree.com)
61 points by jayro 16y ago|1 comments
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Shell Study Contends Evidence for Peak Oil Theory(thepelicanpost.org)
2 points by jayro 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 16y ago
It would be great if some enterprising designer created a poster out of this concept with some cool graphic depicting a sequence of sieves. Going further I think that you could create an entire collection of Hacker News posters that would f
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Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government(arstechnica.com)
209 points by jayro 16y ago|39 comments
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Trading System Testability(howtohft.wordpress.com)
3 points by jayro 16y ago|1 comments
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by jayro 16y ago
Thanks for that. I'm trying to apply a lot of the lessons I learned from Preezo and I think it's going to make the difference. Also, I think have a good blog post brewing on the subject, so stay tuned. ;)
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by jayro 16y ago
Yeah, I remember Numbler! It sounds like a very similar story except that you just got a little further down the road. If you'd be willing to tell it in more detail it would be fun to interview you on the podcast I co-host - TechZing (www.t
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by jayro 16y ago
I agree. He seemed like a very friendly and intelligent guy when we spoke on the phone. The same goes for Jonathan Rochelle.
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by jayro 16y ago
Thanks, I really do appreciate that. It was more difficult than I thought to actually write the story down once and for all. I'm still sitting here wondering what my mental block was at the time because it's not like I'm at all introverted
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by jayro 16y ago
I do agree with Josh's advice (not that I considered anything like that at the time), but just to clarify, Jonathan was in New York with the rest of the Google Spreadsheet team, was due to fly somewhere else (I think it may have been Europe
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by jayro 16y ago
Google only became aware of Zenter at their YC demo day, months after my initial contact with them, and snatched them up very shortly after that.
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by jayro 16y ago
Yes, do that! I now send status check emails to all of my consulting clients and prospects with great regularity.
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by jayro 16y ago
I just wish I could be inspiring in some other way. ;) But thank you for that.
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by jayro 16y ago
That's why I'm building Appignite now. It's something I want for myself and I know it's something other people need. I'll definitely talk in-depth about that in my "Lessons Learned from Preezo" post. Stay tuned. ;)
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by jayro 16y ago
Yeah, we were trying to coordinate that. Jonathan was anxious to get me up there and thought I'd be a big hit with the Writely guys who he seemed to hold in very high regard. But he had to fly back to New York (we were in SF at the time for
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by jayro 16y ago
I think (and this is just speculation) that they may have already developed a lot of similar technology in-house in addition to the Zenter acquisition. By the time I got around to contacting them again they probably just didn't need it anym
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by jayro 16y ago
You're absolutely correct. I started to write about my lessons learned and "don't build to flip" was one of them, but the article started to get a bit long. I'll summarize the lessons learned from Preezo in another article as there are a lo
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by jayro 16y ago
No, Jonathan Rochelle was a really nice guy. I think he just knew that that demo was going to be a big deal for me and that it was probably something I had been hoping and waiting for. He was right.
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by jayro 16y ago
Yes, in retrospect I was stupid not to at least have sent a short email or two. Honestly, I look back and wonder what the hell I was thinking.
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How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition(codusoperandi.com)
472 points by jayro 16y ago|103 comments
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by jayro 16y ago
The full story is told in my next post, which should be done tomorrow and will be entitled "How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition".
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by jayro 16y ago
Yeah, it was you! I couldn't remember your full name or Omnidrive for some reason, but I remember you were sleeping in one of the bedrooms at the time. Cool, I'll update the post.
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by jayro 16y ago
Fixed! It's amazing that no matter how carefully I check for mistakes like that I never seem to be able to catch them all.
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How I Ended Up Sleeping on Mike Arrington's Couch(codusoperandi.com)
26 points by jayro 16y ago|8 comments
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How Performable is Succeeding by Charging More [audio](techzinglive.com)
2 points by jayro 16y ago|0 comments
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by jayro 16y ago
... in accordance with the prophecy (cue evil laugh). ;)
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by jayro 16y ago
Wow, that's kinda cool! What's funny is that by simply coining the term "luck surface area" I've actually managed to increase my luck surface area. ;)

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