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by klochner 12y ago
This is relevant to an argument two friends were having last night. Their opposing viewpoints: a) bitcoin is a great investment b) bitcoin is worthless You're both wrong! Even the possibility that darkcoin supplants bitc
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by klochner 12y ago
There's http://longbets.org/
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by klochner 12y ago
>where do the results come from? Contract outcomes are determined in a trustless and decentralized way, through a weighted vote based on present and past consensus with a unique Nash Equilibrium where all voters report accurately on the
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by klochner 12y ago
It's great, but it's not $19B great. [edit] Seems my comment is being misunderstood. My point was that FB wouldn't pay $19B unless they planned to monetize beyond the $1/user/year model.
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by klochner 12y ago
Talented technical teams can raise money fairly easily (presuming a somewhat plausible business idea), so yes, it is remotely true.
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by klochner 12y ago
The point is that it's not aspirational, it's not original. It's intentionally mundane. His point is that the life of an average start-up founder is kind of crappy with no sexy outcome ("no-exit"), working as
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by klochner 12y ago
Risk also depends on how you're using the gem. If it's a bug in a YAML parser but you're not loading YAML from untrusted sources, then it would be a false positive.
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by klochner 12y ago
API docs or it didn't happen. Looks like a cool project, I just find it hard to believe he used wireshark to figure out the API on his own, given that he acknowledges: I took a few bits from @n1mda's project: https:/&#x
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by klochner 12y ago
simple but unenlightening - I guess you hope no one asks you what's really happening and just give up if you get a conflict. It's not that complicated - rebase applies your commits to another branch as if they were patches. Inter
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by klochner 13y ago
It's illegal in SF even if you own your own place: San Francisco bans all residential rentals of less than 30 days unless the hosts have a conditional use permit - an expensive and cumbersome process that virtually everyone ignores. T
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by klochner 13y ago
If we're all going to cite Vanguard, we should at least get the quote right: There are literally hundreds of strategies that are high-frequency trading, ranging all the way from those that really perform much of a market-making and li
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by klochner 13y ago
That's private information. It is an important distinction. You're saying the market should have a right to know whether I plan on selling my shares next year.
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by klochner 13y ago
Chris, can you at least read the NYT excerpt? I have to agree that your post does little to settle what may or may not be controversial, and it would be interesting to hear an informed response.
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by klochner 13y ago
Totally agree, that's why I said 'if all methods are class methods...', in which case class<<self should go at the top of the class body. If there are instance methods I prefer def self.bar .
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by klochner 13y ago
Ruby shines because it is a terse/expressive language that doesn't need heavy use of patterns, so you can grok a lot of logic at a glance. You want a hash? Write it inline, you don't need a lazy-loaded memoized function. The
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by klochner 13y ago
there's a bug in level 9 - you're enforcing an order on the tags overall this is great
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by klochner 13y ago
Certainly a lot of start-ups take advantage of engineers, I was more making the case that Box isn't really a start-up so I wouldn't expect them to have a big upside on IPO. There are some specific reasons to join a start-up, and h
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by klochner 13y ago
The average engineer likely wasn't taking a (cash) pay cut to work there. Working at a company that has raised $400M is closer to a post-IPO experience than a startup.
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by klochner 13y ago
And if it fails? It's obvious that founders prefer to keep more of the company, however tortured of a phrase you use to express it.
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by klochner 13y ago
Not surprising given they raised 11 rounds, including series A-F, and have cumulatively raised over 400M
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by klochner 13y ago
The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. Hence the behavior you see inside many startups - non-founding members questioning the mission/purpose/intention/success of the company is typically taboo.
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by klochner 13y ago
From this week's "Corner Office" in the NYT, about hiring: What I’m mainly listening for is: Does this person believe things are happening for them, for a positive reason, regardless of what actually happened? Or do they bel
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by klochner 13y ago
I still can't decide if angular dependency injection is more amazing or revolting. It's magic, it's non-intuitive, it breaks the standard paradigm that function arguments have no external significance, and it doesn't add
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by klochner 13y ago
I've never heard this "pressure destroys the bean" theory. Are you claiming all espresso is burnt or chocolatey?
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Why we all should be following high frequency trading (zocontrary.com)
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by klochner 13y ago
His point was that they're morally equivalent, and that you shouldn't do either.
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by klochner 13y ago
not very profitable compared to the acquisition price.
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by klochner 13y ago
If this were an all stock deal, and the market cap had fallen by $12B (assuming $12B stock given out), that would mean the market were valuing WhatsApp at $0 as an asset. If facebook had fallen in value by more than the purchase price, th
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by klochner 13y ago
Venture as an asset class has underperformed the S&P over the last 10 years[1], so you probably aren't missing out on much. It's only the top firms that have been making good money. [edit] - added source [1] http://
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by klochner 13y ago
That whole "money-as-substitue-for-all-valuations" thing is an underlying assumption of nearly all of modern microeconomics. In technical terms, it's a quasilinear utility function[0], where preferences are linear in money. [

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