jorgeortiz85

10 ms·

31.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
I understand it's intentional. What your original post made me realize is that transfer restrictions have become standard terms. More people should understand what that means. Secondary markets have issues, but so do secondary offerings ove
32.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
One clause that's gone uncommented: Transfer Restrictions: Bylaws and option plan documents shall include limitations on certain transfers, including on secondary markets, to competitors, or that may trigger public reporti
33.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
Many people raise families on programmer salaries at large tech companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, etc). Do startups generally pay below market? Yes. Is finance even more lucrative? Yes. But you certainly won't be "unemplo
34.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
If you refuse to work for finance in, say, NYC, then you'll be unemployed often because that's a lot of what's out there. Nonsense. NYC has a blossoming startup scene. Many prominent startups (Tumblr, Etsy, 10gen, Foursqua
35.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
Overture?
36.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
You should add options for negative quantities too. You can pay money to exercise options and never get that money back.
37.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
Have we totally forgotten Keynes? My spending is your income. The resources of an economy (in this case, many of Spain's workers) are lying idle. The entire country would be wealthier if they were put to work. Further, I don't know what you
38.
by jorgeortiz85 13y ago
An equal equity split does not mean you don't have vesting. Even founders should have to vest.
39.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
The Constitution is supposed to protect the rights of individuals from the tyranny of "the people".
40.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Advocating for a $1 trillion coin is a recognition that, if interest rates are effectively 0%, there is no difference between short-term government debt and government-issued currency. Minting a coin is just a hack for the Executive to get
41.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Windsor v US (the DOMA case up for a SCOTUS ruling) only challenges Section 3 of DOMA, not Section 2. Section 3 forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. Section 2 says states are not required to recognize the same
42.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
"Functional programming" is one of the most ambiguous and misunderstood terms in software. If you ask someone coming from ML or Haskell, Scala is more "FP" than Clojure. If you ask someone coming from Lisp, Clojure is more "FP" than Scala.
43.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
This chart is a huge oversimplification. The immigration process is complicated, confusing, and arbitrary. I moved to the U.S. in the Fall of 2003 (nine and a half years ago!), to enroll as an undergraduate at Stanford University. I graduat
44.
Learning to build(christinacacioppo.com)
9 points by jorgeortiz85 14y ago|0 comments
45.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Kara Swisher says she got the same statement from him. http://allthingsd.com/20130125/keith-rabois-long-statement-o...
46.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html
47.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
The Scala compiler itself is written in Scala, so improvements in performance will also benefit compile times. Or so I hope.
48.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
You are definitely confusing prediction confidence with winning margin. Nate Silver's model gave Obama a 79% chance to win Virginia, and predicted that the vote share would be Obama 50.7% - 48.7% Romney. He predicted that the election would
49.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
I expect we may reveal what kinds of things we take as good signals, but the exact recipe will probably remain a secret sauce. Even if we don't, most of the components are really quite obvious: what kinds things would people do if they real
50.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Foursquare can recommend places based on your personal history of check-ins. Our recommendations for you need not be the same as our recommendations for your friends. (That said, the venue ratings product we announced today is globally cons
51.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Foursquare ratings are indeed based on these kinds of implicit signals that we can infer from the data. There is currently no way to explicitly rate a venue on Foursquare.
52.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
We use many dozens of signals to determine venue quality, not just raw number of check-ins. And there's definitely manual rules for offices, homes, airports, and other categories that receive disproportionate numbers of check-ins.
53.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
NYC has been allowing black cars to pick people up off the street during the crisis, so there isn't a shortage because of "medallions". There's a shortage because 5 million daily subway riders have to find alternate forms of transportation.
54.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Amazon has more information about these companies' business than anyone else in the world. They'll have an edge in knowing whether a loan is a good investment or not.
55.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Foursquare's experience developing apps that use background location has been the exact opposite. The iOS background location APIs are so restrictive precisely so that you can't drain the battery. The OS, which is running anyway, can listen
56.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Exactly.
57.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
This presents an interesting problem. Do individuals who accept payments in bitcoin have to verify that the bitcoins the accept haven't been stolen? If they fail to verify the provenance of their payment, are they at risk of forfeiting thei
58.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
I don't think he was claiming that $100k was a good or bad offer. He was doing napkin math. If the offers were within the ballpark of $100k (a nice round number), then there were about 300 offers. Which makes the given $30m number not usele
59.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
That's like saying a carpenter that has an affinity for his saws and hammers is more of a physicist than a carpenter.
60.
by jorgeortiz85 14y ago
Alex is one of the most thoughtful students of programming languages I know. I know he's spent time learning countless languages, he literally wrote the book on Scala, and for three years now he's organized the Emerging Languages conference

More ›