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by lincolnq 13y ago
No, the math is slightly different (sama was approximating). http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
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by lincolnq 13y ago
This article makes a strong case for that. Things like "grab me before you check this in" and "we need a design fix-it day" are indicators that this problem has a high communications cost between the designers and engine
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by lincolnq 13y ago
This is a great point, but it's hard to be confrontational in a place where you're already worried about your social standing. I agree that things would change faster if people were more confrontational but it's kind of a lot
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Great examples of what not to do. I would guess that many of these are fairly easy mistakes to make if you haven't been inoculated. For most people, I think a single article like this is enough to "inoculate" -- to make the r
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Huh, interesting! I just looked up the parameter - "the planner's estimate of the cost of processing each row during a query". So increasing this will tend to cause the query planner to forgo complete table scans in favor of
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by lincolnq 13y ago
The limiting factor is concurrent video chatters. We only got into the four figure userbase, so we didn't have even enough to push a single AWS C3.large instance to its limits. Contact me privately for more info.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Custom server or public? We created a custom server. We wrote our own server code, that's just how it was designed. Android If you think it will be hard, you're probably right. Thanks for the info. Resolution Yeah, 144x144 i
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by lincolnq 13y ago
No shipping restriction. I'll see if I can fix the ebay thing.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Contact me privately, it's a distraction from this thread, but I'm happy to talk about it.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Yeah, I considered it. We even had an offer. We just can't afford the support/maintenance burden, it's too big of a distraction from what we want to do with our lives. (Any entrepreneur with the cash is, of course, welcome to
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by lincolnq 13y ago
We didn't consider anything else really, we just copied what Justin Kan did. (Also yeah, Greg Morrisett is awesome, I got a lot out of that class as well.)
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by lincolnq 13y ago
We think maybe! We actually filed a provisional patent app (just did it ourselves on the cheap) covering the technology. We haven't talked with a patent lawyer yet about whether the tech is actually patentable though.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
That's the new business. The old business was group video chat targeted at middle schoolers. We are putting the cash towards the quite heavy regulatory burden on money transmitters.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
It certainly helps :) but there's another advance we made on the back-end which helps more.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Yes, great idea. We considered this - and maybe a different company would do very well doing that path. Unfortunately it seems like too big of a distraction from the business we wanted to start.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Yep, a bidder could pay with Bitcoin if they really wanted to!
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by lincolnq 13y ago
In case you’re curious, I’ll be starting another business with the proceeds. We spent a long time getting this group video chat to work really well - ours is the only tech which actually works and doesn’t get choppy when you add more people
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Our startup is selling our iPhone video chat tech on eBay(trywaveapp.com)
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Frustrating, isn't it? To be fair, subway travel in dense cities like NYC tends to be substantially cheaper than road travel in most cases. (Think taxi vs. subway -- the taxi can sometimes, but not always, get you there faster, but you
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Rethinkdb is a really well-designed system. I've been using it (not in production currently) as a better-designed MongoDB with a proper query language. I would recommend checking it out for new projects where a document datastore is ap
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Hang on. I hear everyone recommend against stock trading by rolling out "you don't know more than the market". But the market price reflects an average, an expectation. And in certain conditions, it doesn't require much
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Yes, most people aren't Nick Winter, and shouldn't be doing 60 hours a week. He is a self-improvement machine. His ebook "The Motivation Hacker", which I highly recommend, explains how he does it. http://www.n
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by lincolnq 13y ago
I don't quite understand why you're demanding this. As I see it, Watson is still pretty experimental and we're probably still learning what kind of stuff it's good or bad at. Why not build a few apps, throw it at hospita
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by lincolnq 13y ago
This is fantastic! To save the most lives, select Against Malaria Foundation as your charity. It's the current top recommendation from Givewell ( http://www.givewell.org ), an excellent charity evaluation organization. They f
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Most companies fail without hiring a single non-founder! How can management be a factor in these failures? I would suspect that poor management is a contributor to high-profile failures. But only a minor factor for startups in general. No
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by lincolnq 13y ago
A programming languages troll would be someone who suggests using obscure programming languages or techniques (you should use Agda here, you should write a type checker) to solve systems problems "because it's safer" regardle
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Um. "Paying less taxes" is unlikely to be a motivator here, because you still end up with more money if you don't give it away at all :)
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by lincolnq 13y ago
YC is really demonstrating thought leadership here. It would be super exciting if we started to see overlap between Y Combinator and the effective altruism movement ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism ), wh
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by lincolnq 13y ago
If I bought software and they were going to send me a postcard with a license key, I would be pretty annoyed.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
I think the difference is that we have models that actually predict things. Science isn't just "combine stuff and see what happens" - it's "test hypotheses that lead to generalizable, simple models". We can see

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