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by npk 18y ago
Question: Do they have any intention of going public? If not, then what's the point of equity? Profit Sharing?
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by npk 18y ago
Not really -- I use plain HTML because otherwise the AJAX requests eats 50% of my CPU and a huge part of my memory. The HTML browser is just plain faster.
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by npk 18y ago
The choice seems to be, do you plan on building a leveragable product or not ( http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_truth_about.html ). If the answer is no, then you bootstrap, if the answer is yes, then leverage the hell out of it -- and so
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by npk 18y ago
Great post. Two questions: 1) So, presuming you were at startupschool, did you notice the people who were there tended to be more enthusiastic than is typical? If you did not attend, was it because you are just too busy and/or tired/grump
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Where are the unhappy founders?
23 points by npk 18y ago|7 comments
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by npk 18y ago
I volunteered for a local team of the US FIRST Robotics Competition ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Robotics_Competition ). I felt especially proud, as my team was all girls. My suggestion is go for quality rather than quantity, unles
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by npk 18y ago
Post on cragislist? Your project seems like a nice way for a young, up and coming, designer/hacker, to get his or her hands dirty. Good luck.
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by npk 18y ago
There are a number of computer controlled glasses. Adaptive optics for example: See: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70181
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by npk 18y ago
My opinion is only academic, but the conclusion I've formed from reading news.YC is exactly opposite of yours markbao. The VCs claim they fund people . So you have to ask why? The best developers know what features are necessary for 1.0,
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by npk 19y ago
Mean Salary at Goldman Sachs last year was $650K. Obviously, the distribution is non-gaussian, so the median salary is significantly lower. Meaning, you start working at GS for $100K/year, because, in a few years (if you're good) you'll gr
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by npk 19y ago
Interesting, but I have the impression that The Street likes to hire "PSDs." As an anecdote, check out this posting: http://www.schlaikjer.net/reviews/100.htm "I would also remark that many of these now very wealthy people were not born
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by npk 19y ago
Cool post. Should be titlted, "A New Path to Liqudity" because of the interesting "private liquidity markets" - I've never heard of one. And it seems these have not been discussed before on news.YC. (at least, GSTrUE, oaktree, or OPUS-5.
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by npk 19y ago
Roald Amundsen --- The first man to reach the south pole. It's not the accomplishment itself, but the way it was accomplished. If interested, read "The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole."
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by npk 19y ago
Learning electronics was much, much, harder for me than programming. Electronics seemed magical. I couldn't break complex circuits into the little components, circuits didn't seem to be built hierarchically. I felt like, if a circuit des
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by npk 19y ago
In the context of "The people who come to us from big companies often seem kind of conservative." --- how do founders coming out of academia fair? Specifically, founders with, at least, a few years towards a phd.
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by npk 19y ago
I think you answered your own question: "Isaac Asimov said that humanoid robots will have an advantage because the whole world is already build for humans." Given the choice, do you really think we would rebuild the whole world's infrastruc
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by npk 19y ago
It's truly amazing the quantity of information in the images you are looking at. Basically, we're trying to explain how galaxies form. The progress that's been made on the problem has been tremendous over the past 10 or 20 years, but we s
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by npk 19y ago
How much effort is put into into collecting, tracking, and analyzing lunch orders?
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by npk 19y ago
Assuming "calculating the bias" is a well posed question (and I'm not convinced it is) then measuring that bias is a noble goal for alexa engineers. Surely this is a multi-phd-thesis kind of problem though :)
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by npk 19y ago
Ok, I'm now being overly-pedantic :) I don't think alexa "scales up." If they do, then, you're right, there is uncertainty. If they don't, I don't think there's a concept of an error bar here. They track how many people go to what sites.
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by npk 19y ago
Though this probably sounds pedantic, it's not intended to be. How would one define an error-bar for alexa's report on octopart? Isn't the whole problem with alexa, in this case, that the cross-section alexa trackees, is not necessarily th
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by npk 19y ago
Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden
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by npk 19y ago
A lot of comments here have focused on implementation details. Let's ignore FPGAs, startup costs, etc... One huge advantage of hardware, is that you actually have something you can sell. As an interesting hardware startup archetype, con
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by npk 19y ago
How can one do relevant science without the support that comes from a research institution? Research professor (I clump lab researchers into the professor term) is certainly a new thing. So is "big money" science (a consequence of WWII.)
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by npk 19y ago
Of course it's hard. Harder than people who aren't trying can imagine. Chance of success is low. But there are a number of success stories. Perfect example: the search for extra solar planets. Twenty years ago, Geoff Marcy, a prof at a
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by npk 19y ago
I completely disagree with your first sentence. At least in the physical sciences. There is a spectrum of academics out there, that map to a spectrum of different personalities. Some work on stuff few people care about, some work in the
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by npk 19y ago
I'd like to second Michael's point. My research is genuinely exciting. It's enthralling for little kids, grandparents, and everything in between. More importantly, I find my research fascinating. The career path is challenging. Salary
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IM 2.0(blog.limewire.org)
2 points by npk 19y ago|0 comments
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by npk 19y ago
"I think we've all been hearing about index funds for quite a while now." Agreed. "The most mathematically sound thing to do (if you have 200K or more)" your basic assumption here is a problem. Index funds allow you (well me, maybe you do h
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by npk 19y ago
These plots are begging to be placed on a log-log axis!

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