jw2013

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   by jw2013 13y ago

   If these four teams are equally competent. Then you have 50% chance to choose each of three correct (2 final four games + 1 title games correctly). So the chance to win it all is (1/2)^3 = 0.125. Your expected return is $1B * 55% * 0.1
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   Now they are all done. Thanks, SF Austin. I got it wrong, too.
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   No. Just took a random look at a couple of them, and one of the poster registered 5 days ago. I am guessing maybe 7 days?
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   wow, just upvoted your helpful reply. Can I ask what/how to prepare for the Stripe interview? Looks like cramming algorithm questions is not going to work. And it looks like, through your and OP's experience, Stripe is looking for
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   john resig- secrets of javascript ninja absolutely the best
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   I think for the crowd you described, why not use Prolog? Prolog's idea is very much like what Math is to me (I only have a undergrad math degree, so don't count what I think is by any means absolutely correct)- here are some truth
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   They left the most valuable gift to their children - great education from their parents, and they gave the most valuable present to some less priviledged children in the world - the chance to be educated with the help of Bill&Melinda fo
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   Tango Raises Massive $280 Million Series D(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by jw2013 13y ago|0 comments
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   by jw2013 13y ago

   I deployed many apps on Heroku including but not limited to: Ruby/Rails, Python/Flask&Django, Ring/Clojure, Node.js/vanilla without framework&Express(I haven't tried Hapi there, but yes Heroku support it),
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Thanks so much! That really helps.
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Thanks for the great article and congrats on your Stripe offer. Great company to work for. Despite the great story of your general interview process, I am quite interested in the hiring process of Stripe. What is its interview like? What do
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    he is probably talking about using hashtable, but that needs linear memory so there is a trade off.
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Gmail is free to you, but their ads can earn more money by mining the info in your email. Is this really free here? Your email content has value.
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    >> "trying to kickstart things again past your formative years seems futile" The point is almost none of these successes come overnight. Admitted, for example, many of success founders graduated from Stanford. But a lot of t
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    I agree with all of what you and Patrick said. Still most likely the student on OPT is in a much better position to start a startup than most people on H1b. Once you are hired by some company on H1b, you want to start your own startup? You
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Thanks for the comment. I am not proposing using OPT as a founder visa, all I am saying is using OPT is one viable alternative, maybe not as cool as a founder visa, but you can still pull it off in the condition I stated in my other respons
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    I am pretty sure even after you graduate and get an OPT, you are still on F1 visa. But the point is 29 months (if you are a STEM major) is enough for your startup to generate some revenue, and then you can apply for H1b (as long as you prov
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Some points on my mind: a) Most adventurous student entrepreneurs don't really MUST need a founder visa, they can use OPT. I think founders of Stripe did that. b) Most non-immigrants already working (mostly with H1 visa) needs a founde
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    > My training set is specifically designed to be conversational interview and personal questions, but I think a lot of the people who reach the site don't grasp that. I did not either, as soon as I start to ask about general questio
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Wow, ddod your voice>>text is awesome. Did you implement it all on your own? Some improvement text>>comprehension will be great. Right now it does not understand many of my queries. Keep it up the good work!
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    For those of you wondering what were they doing in the huge gap from S11 to two months before. Here are some info: 1) The startup they applied to YC is called Yardsale, and it's still alive: https://www.getyardsale.com . &qu
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    "It’s been just about two months since FOBO launched its local marketplace app for consumer electronics." So they were probably making the app before launching.
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    Google fixes 'Catastrophic' server disk-destroying cloud glitch(theregister.co.uk)

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    by jw2013 13y ago

    Is that a coincidence: https://twitter.com/tpdubs2/status/444509011522891776 Just last Friday his wife's startup is accepted to Techstars NYC, and she is going to be at NYC. It may be a good timing for Tom to
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    >>> This narrows down the choices: the "founder" who is the cause for all this drama is either PJ Hyett or Tom Preston-Werner. Any guess?
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    I am not assuming everything Julie states is right. For statement "the culture of Github needs some fix" to be true, it only needs only some of Julie's statements to be true. And looks like from Chris's statement, that i
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    "the relevant founder has been put on leave... The founder’s wife... will no longer be permitted in the office." Almost exactly what I expected. As the startup grows larger (200+ employees now for Github?) it's not uncommon t
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    When you type in some querying strings the backend just fails, for example: http://inf.demos.dam.io/sdfsdfs I have yet to find a pattern, but I guess the author did some sort of hashing to the query string and use the hashc
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    I understand that the difficulty of making this new feature is scaling the backend, but at this point wouldn't Facebook already have sort of some processes or "frameworks" to follow when making a new feature.
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    by jw2013 13y ago

    just did a quick galance on feburary whoishiring post: Kaggle - San Francisco, CA We're hiring our next Software Developer - Web Platform (C#, ASP.NET). REMOTE within US timezones or E3 is a possibility for the right candidate. Kaggle