joncooper

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by joncooper 12y ago
Both. And low portfolio concentration.
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by joncooper 12y ago
I remember back in the day /dev/audio had bad default permissions on, I think, SunOS, and you could just cat it to a file to record.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Or to do a streaming parse with json.Decoder.
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by joncooper 12y ago
OT, but, I have a 2001 (996) 911 which I bought used for ~$20k in 2009. It's been hassle-free since then and the largest expense has been tires.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Lawyer up. It's worth the $10k it will probably take you to paper this correctly. Since it will be difficult to estimate damages should this not work out, consider writing a liquidated damages clause with clearly spelled out triggers.
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by joncooper 12y ago
John Ratey wrote several good books on ADD/ADHD as well as this one: _Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain_ http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B... - it is pretty good.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Tips for the prospective founding CTO working from a clean slate with a non-technical cofounder: * Get it in writing, and sooner rather than later. * Do not work for free. A business cofounder should be in charge of finding money. If they c
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by joncooper 12y ago
We use Duo at work and it is awesome. Bravo.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Effectively they issue a bond bundled with a bunch of options that may be exercised in exchange for giving up ownership of the bond, "converting" it to equity. This isn't necessarily driven by a view on the equity valuation.
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by joncooper 12y ago
If you're interested in this, definitely read the book _Suicide_ by the sociologist Emile Durkheim. (Published in 1897). It's an incredibly incisive analysis of several of the flavors of depressive thoughts that smart folks have.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Yes.
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by joncooper 12y ago
I'd love to hear about your startup and/or beta test.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Out of curiosity, does "burner & co" mean the same thing it'd mean in the SF Bay Area, i.e. the Burning Man scene? Or something else?
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by joncooper 12y ago
> My biggest issue with Swift is that there often seem to be too many ways to do things. This is my biggest issue with the Apple libraries in general. It's an artifact of the software's bloodline running back to the 80s.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Talent != IQ. And I'd argue "smart" != IQ.
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by joncooper 12y ago
How did you identify the vertical that you've successfully targeted?
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by joncooper 12y ago
My understanding is that the Go team isn't opposed to generics, and in fact is quite aware of their value, but that: - it isn't a priority - it is a tricky thing to get right in the context of Go - there haven't been any sati
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by joncooper 12y ago
Pretty sure most people thought that was a joke.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Another +1 for godep.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Exactly. In either case there's nearly 30 years of libraries to learn to be effective on Apple platforms. (Significant traces of work done at NeXT remain, which started in the mid-80s, I believe.) The language itself is the least of yo
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by joncooper 12y ago
This is what regulation is for.
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by joncooper 12y ago
Agreed. As you work with the libraries you run across many different ways of doing things, and folks often just use the last one they saw instead of working to understand the options and making a choice on purpose. I'm thinking especia
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by joncooper 12y ago
Count me in the "happy to not have exceptions" camp.
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by joncooper 12y ago
I am going to require job candidates to read one of these and discuss it with me.
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by joncooper 12y ago
That alone would be helpful. Thanks!
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by joncooper 12y ago
Do any of y'all have an opinion on which of the tools mentioned here is the most robust to junky input?
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by joncooper 12y ago
As an aside, anyone got recommendations on learning the skills scottm01 mentions? "people skills, budgeting, planning, and politics"
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by joncooper 12y ago
I'm working on the Coursera compilers class right now, which is excellent: https://class.coursera.org/compilers-004 The code generation portion of the class covers this material from the other end, i.e. at the point wh
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by joncooper 12y ago
Ansible Tower.
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by joncooper 12y ago
A related Quora answer I wrote a while ago: http://www.quora.com/Investment-Banking/Why-are-there-so-man...

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