mdda

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541.
by mdda 16y ago
Because what he's buying (for $0) is the selection and mentoring skills of YC, and the valuation skills of the Series A investors.
542.
by mdda 16y ago
And that's why this move is a smart one : Yuri has effectively outsourced all the valuation work for the investments onto really smart people that he doesn't have to pay anything for. While that doesn't seem particularly fair to the rest of
543.
by mdda 16y ago
IMHO not the best example : If they can sell today and buy it back lower tomorrow, then that's pretty smart. They own the same thing, but have $$ left over.
544.
by mdda 16y ago
My cat rolls over (full flip) to get fed. She's recently figured out that even if it's not food time, then a flip leads to food. FINALLY.
545.
by mdda 16y ago
IANAL, but: Banking law isn't relevant here : This is to do with offerings of securities. The SEC regulates offerings in the US. Goldman is no longer offering these securities in the US, so the SEC is not involved. As someone else points
546.
by mdda 16y ago
Quick differentiator : Do UK banks charge you for a cheque book?
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by mdda 16y ago
Seconded : But they really don't emphasize the possibility in their main materials. The way I found to get on the program is to apply for the standard account, and then apply for the change to micropayments. In my case, they didn't tell me
548.
by mdda 16y ago
Minimum wage for a year is approximately $10k. Ten thousand times that is $100MM. Hedge Fund salaries are not of that order - topping out at $10MM. I agree that Hedge Fund bonuses can be large, but as far as the fixed salary component go
549.
by mdda 16y ago
That is an argument. However the article doesn't have that conclusion. It concludes: "I'm with Matt Yglesias, who writes that it's hasty to blame the nation's financiers for literally stealing from the middle class' wages. It seems much m
550.
by mdda 16y ago
Ctrl-Shift consistently works for me iff I press and hold Shift before Ctrl. (Fedora 14, FF 3.6.13)
551.
by mdda 16y ago
Please split them out. What many people here are looking for is a snapshot of the choices a group of smart people have made : Going to rackspace.com is a whole different choice than heading over to slicehost.com.
552.
by mdda 16y ago
If you're having to rely on the ability to walk away from a commitment (to a supplier, say), then that needs to be built into the contract initially. In California (say), where the culture is 'built for failure', the contracts already embed
553.
by mdda 16y ago
To me the right solution is to have an 'umbrella company' - that startups can live under. By law, they'd be divisions (so bankruptcy law would never get involved). But, internal to the umbrella company, there would be a culture of experim
554.
by mdda 16y ago
It is well known that people rate the opinions of those that are taller/prettier higher than others. So, to adjust for that natural bias it might make sense to treat attractive people's opinions with greater scrutiny. But maybe attractive
555.
by mdda 16y ago
Lawyers are just programming in a language that looks like English.
556.
by mdda 16y ago
If you like, you can follow the author's suggestion to jump to the graphs to avoid the methodology. But then you'd miss the following important adjustments being made to the figures : """ So ... let us compare Americans with European ances
557.
by mdda 16y ago
Naturally, this could be a clever PR campaign - and I would be more suspicious, apart from it appearing in this edition of the Economist : The Christmas Economist is a special two-week version : the content of a regular issue makes up about
558.
by mdda 16y ago
I agree with everything you say - except for the part where you cite the Economist for having a stupid list of hot jobs : That's not their style at all. You're thinking Business Week or Forbes, etc. The Economist is (despite having offende
559.
by mdda 16y ago
If a positive is a hit on one of the seven words, then aren't you saying there are a lot more "f"-"uck"s than there should be (via "suck")? I would have thought the reverse : than there would be more "f"-"hit"s - i.e. false negatives.
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by mdda 16y ago
It's certainly easy to connect up an Android phone to by Fedora desktop. As for compiling iPhone apps, I agree that OSS sucks. But that doesn't really commend OSX as a platform : It's just something that's being forced on me by Apple.
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by mdda 16y ago
I don't want to appear too critical, but you've just outlined the reasons not to persevere with the write-up. The point is that you are right in every respect : except for the part that doing the last 10% is only a modest amount of work. W
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by mdda 16y ago
I've interviewed a fair number of people that claim that they completed 90% of their PhD, but didn't quite get to the finishing line. While I sympathize, they haven't really grasped that the last 10% of the distance takes at least 50% of t
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by mdda 16y ago
Agreed - and I'd be the first to admit that I personally took getting competent too far (and that in itself starts getting less social, since it's hours of practice each week with just one partner). However, the basic initial win for the OP
564.
by mdda 16y ago
Seconded for Dancing. But you don't have to be good at it... Everyone who starts learning the Waltz or ChaCha (or Swing, or Tango) is appalling at it. And it's pretty liberating to be in a group of people all of whom are happy klutzes. At
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by mdda 16y ago
The benefit for a coder of having it built on blueprint is that it can be worked with immediately - otherwise one might as well be working with a template from a theme site with unknown/inconsistent markup. Basing it off a well known framew
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by mdda 16y ago
Would you be cutting it up onto a 'backbone' of our choosing (like 960.gs or blueprint) ? (Obviously this will depend on the overall design, but hopefully the idea is clear).
567.
by mdda 16y ago
The discussion forums seem to be the place where the ideas are being iterated. Here's how 'Super Focus' differs from Auto Focus : http://www.markforster.net/forum/post/1317396 But there are iterations from there... ('approved' current su
568.
by mdda 16y ago
That diagram is showing something related, but not really directly applicable. The important extra feature the controller has is the ability to add energy to the pendulum - which is akin to being able to move between locations on the plot.
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by mdda 16y ago
AFAIR : Truecrypt is designed so that changed plain blocks map to changed secure blocks : i.e. the whole secure image doesn't change if one plain file does. (Makes sense from a speed perspective too).
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by mdda 16y ago
BC = British Columbia. It's pretty remarkable that abbreviation isn't spelled out on the front page of Bootup labs, nor BCIC. Maybe I'm on the wrong coast to understand it intuitively.

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