mwerty

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by mwerty 16y ago
I wonder if he wrote it himself. It's really well written.
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by mwerty 16y ago
I think what we learned was that its really hard to tell 'which' crazy idea will make it. Even google was dismissed as a feature, not a company.
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by mwerty 17y ago
link to book is broken
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by mwerty 17y ago
Two counter examples: 1. Mark Pincus was successful 3 out of 4 times he got funding. 2. Jim Clark is the only person in the world to create three billion dollar companies. What I've read of them suggests that they were exploiting trends, no
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by mwerty 17y ago
All I got out of the article was that a hedge fund was hedging.
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by mwerty 17y ago
3 ways people make (or claim to make) money in equity markets: 1. Technical analysis - trend following, etc. I personally was unconvinced but some people swear by it. 2. Fundamentals/value investing. Read the intelligent investor and securi
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by mwerty 17y ago
Agree. Sounds like you have leverage. Put in weird clauses that protect you if/when you get fired/replaced.
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by mwerty 17y ago
I have a hypothesis that one way to drastically reduce the amount of volunteering going on is to not consider it in college/MBA admissions. Every one of my friends who has volunteered has coincidentally highlighted that experience in some
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by mwerty 17y ago
> That means 2/3 of the time- mutations do nothing or help the organism. Imagine you have a series of integers being multiplied. Each step, you increase 1/3 of them and decrease 1/3 of them - you leave the remaining 1/3 untouched. After
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by mwerty 17y ago
There is a lot of priming going on.
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by mwerty 17y ago
Not sure what you mean. Which successful (non-acquired) startup do you consider typical?
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by mwerty 17y ago
Thought this was a solved problem. Why did they not just buy a portion of Patzer's stock?
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by mwerty 17y ago
It's also a non-goal. I used to work there. It was hard to see stuff ship since researchers seemed incentivized on some value of 'prominence' (research community and MS-internal). Even in the cases where they productize it - the Program Man
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by mwerty 17y ago
traffic.com owned by navteq owned by nokia is your friend. The data is not free though. INRIX may have something but I'm not sure.
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by mwerty 17y ago
'See randomness'
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by mwerty 17y ago
and non-cringeworthy dialogues.
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by mwerty 17y ago
> but is it really possible that Microsoft wouldn't have noticed how blatant the ripoff was before pushing the site live? It's pretty likely actually. Doubtful a random person in ops knew what code was being pushed out (assuming that MS
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by mwerty 17y ago
www.yauba.com
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by mwerty 17y ago
My guess is that there is an M&A department that is goaled on acquiring startups (i.e. someone gets a bonus for closing deals within certain parameters).
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by mwerty 17y ago
This has saved me a lot of time: http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/
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by mwerty 17y ago
"Whether this really constitutes fraud depends on who knew what, and when did they know it."
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by mwerty 17y ago
My intro to him was http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051838/ God bless the bbc.
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by mwerty 17y ago
> They could slap a dial-pad on the Zune software and ship a product in 6 months or less. I'm guessing you have not worked there.
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by mwerty 17y ago
What is the class action lawsuit being referred to?
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by mwerty 17y ago
It would not work for involved things. My hypothesis is that if it's really quick recall, I'll be fine: I'm trying to reinforce the map from numbers to sounds (Harry Lorayne).
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by mwerty 17y ago
I tried anki and while I liked it, I want to be interrupted while working on code/browsing to test/reinforce. Is there an app that does that?
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by mwerty 17y ago
"..showed that the average founder of a high-growth company launched his venture at age 40." Have not read the paper but this sounds like survivor-ship bias. The number you'd want is what percentage of old guy companies succeed.
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by mwerty 17y ago
Not sure what your eating habits are but I went from 140 => 200 pounds when I spent a year mostly in bed (my eating habits were not too healthy to begin with). Make sure your activity/eating ratio is adjusted as necessary.
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by mwerty 17y ago
Read the chapter on sense making from The Black Swan for a possible reason for why we normally don't see randomness.
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by mwerty 17y ago
zero insight.

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