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by npalli 13y ago
So, I updated to Mavericks. Ran python and it Segfaulted. I think this is the first time I have had python crash like that. Python 2.7.5 (v2.7.5:ab05e7dd2788, May 13 2013, 13:18:45) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type
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Selection of research by NobelPrize winners is freely available on Elsevier(elsevier.com)
2 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
I think Dell m3800 might be what you are looking for. Not sure how they will price it though. Specs seem pretty nice. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/precision-m3800...
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by npalli 13y ago
Most examples given are for VP of engineering and other technical management roles. If you are a plain-vanilla engineer (from the article), no $10 million or $1 million for you. Maybe a time slot for playing ping-pong. Please don't try
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China's Cram School from Hell(foreignpolicy.com)
5 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Clay's nytimes article summarizes the points that he makes in the talk. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/business/a-capitalists-dil...
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by npalli 13y ago
I don't think your numbers will work out. It is going to be very difficult to raise $5M on AL. Here is an example of someone who raised $250K. He needed 35 backers[1]. This is during the heady starting days. At an average investment of
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by npalli 13y ago
It is interesting that a16z is making a public announcement following the angelist syndicates announcement a few days back. The initial sentiment with the angellist event was that it will drive down VC fees, angels and founders will be king
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When it comes to landing top job at Twitter an Engineering degree is optional(forbes.com)
2 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Sure, he was a great mind. However he was getting started by the time of All things considered, published 1908. Let's put it this way, he published far more after this essay than before, so on a relative level he was rookie author when
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by npalli 13y ago
Wowza, that was some Inception style mind bender out there. At the top you have a rookie author using an early 21st century platform (svbtle) to dispense bon mots about life and ingratiate himself with his readers who are turned off by curr
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by npalli 13y ago
Additional data points: Jeff Bezos over 30 when he started Amazon Marc Benioff 34 when he started Salesforce.com Peter Thiel was 32 when he took over Paypal (his first startup) Adobe founders were over 40 Cisco founder was over 30 Intel fou
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by npalli 13y ago
“I'm a crotchety old guy. I worry about all these new companies. I'm glad that they're easier to start, but the problem is, they're just as hard to finish as they have always been” This is a great observation from Mike O
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Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls, Hang Up(linkedin.com)
56 points by npalli 13y ago|78 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Ok, so lets go with your use case. You can run basic java ("hello world") under 3MB with a startup time of about 0.1 second. So that is the true overhead if you really care about tight code. The default values are pretty large. Ev
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by npalli 13y ago
Without knowing what your program did, it is hard to see what language features caused the difference. In any case, why was Java not a better option than Golang?
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by npalli 13y ago
That's interesting. I had the opposite reaction regarding Golang capabilities while following this saga. Not sure how 'idiomatic' the Golang code is, at first glance it just seems less expressive (more lines of code) than eit
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U.S Poised to take over Russia as largest oil-and-gas producer(online.wsj.com)
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Truth in consulting(ribbonfarm.com)
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The depressing reality of Spain's Youth Umemployment(businessinsider.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Smugmug -- started 2002 Freshbooks -- started 2004 37Signals -- started 1999, basecamp in 2004 FogBugz -- started 2000 Point being, these are "old" business. If you are starting something today with all the hundreds of thousands o
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How Junk food can end obesity(theatlantic.com)
4 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Poverty Can Trump a Winning Hand of Genes(online.wsj.com)
3 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
It should be noted that Yahoo owns 20% of Alibaba. With Alibaba announcing its IPO plans earlier this year, yahoo's stake is worth between $13B to $18B. Most of the share price increase is because of this. Not because Yahoo's core
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The rich get richer through the recovery(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Noise bottleneck: How noise explodes faster than data - Nassim Taleb(dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
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by npalli 13y ago
It was so confusing figuring out what this service is supposed to do. Had to look up the documentation. In summary, from what I can gather 1. It doesn’t do any speech recognition (speech -> text), so not sure why they put Siri in the tit
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Five Cognitive Distortions of people who get stuff done(quarry.stanford.edu)
11 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Both are important and both will be around. However if you are starting out today I would pick mobile app development. Two main things 1. Web development is primarily about presenting document oriented information to users. The future is se
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The psychiatric drug crisis(newyorker.com)
156 points by npalli 13y ago|145 comments

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