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by pge 16y ago
The reality is that no one knows how to do any professional job when they graduate from college. What we learn in college is mostly how to learn and how to problem solve. The problems we solve in college, whether stumbling through our fir
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by pge 16y ago
To apply directly to the venture capital world, LPs are the ones who provide the capital to the fund manager to invest. Other than providing the capital, they normally have no role in managing the fund (except perhaps an advisory committee
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by pge 16y ago
you can copy and paste from the system clipboard as the + register - use "+y to yank to the system clipboard and "+p to paste from it (depending on OS, you may need to use * instead of +). This allows cutting and pasting between vim and ot
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by pge 16y ago
"been around since 1991"?! while that's probably correct for vim proper, that ignores the much longer history of vi...
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by pge 16y ago
It would be interesting to see if the data from the poll match the log data. I'm always curious about the accuracy of self-reporting in polls like this, with the ingoing assumption that people tend to be more estimators of frequency either
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by pge 16y ago
<grammar weenie>Just noting a common misconception - "wherefore" as in "wherefore art thou Romeo?" means "why" not "where." In the often repeated quotation, Juliet is bemoaning that Romeo is a Montague and she a Capulet, not wonder
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by pge 16y ago
Logo - first taught me that computers were programmable. that little turtle actually went where I told it to! BASIC - Forget the turtle, this machine can actually do real stuff - interaction, graphics, solving my rubik's cube. For a young
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by pge 16y ago
The lack of interdisciplinary collaboration is one of the major flaws of the US university system (I can't speak to other countries). The grad students I knew each had a specific toolkit that they had learned in their field but there was l
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by pge 16y ago
as someone who has written webapps in both lisp and python, I would recommend sticking with python. you have to choose the right tool for the job and get comfortable working with different languages. I am a huge fan of CL, but if you go d
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by pge 16y ago
Tiny core linux is the smallest one I know of that is fully packaged (at 11MB). I use it for a similar purpose. Another option is to install a server version like debian and add back only those pieces you need.
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by pge 16y ago
A ticker with the year would be a great addition.
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by pge 16y ago
I disagree with the conclusion that the return distribution is bimodal. My own analysis* is that it is instead lognormal. This shape makes sense to me - a lognormal distribution is the result of the product of random variables (whereas a
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by pge 16y ago
e^(i*pi) = -1
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by pge 16y ago
Two memories from the Hardy Boys: 1) first reading the word "rendezvous," which I never heard anyone say, so for years, my brother and I talked about secret "rend-a-visses" 2) never quite figuring out what a "jalopy" was, as chet's car was
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by pge 16y ago
ctrl-[ is also equivalent to Esc
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by pge 16y ago
there are two effects, the lean and the trail. A front-steering bike with trail is self-correcting through both effects. A rear-steering bike with trail will correct itself to a straight line as long is it is perfectly vertical, but will
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by pge 16y ago
a simple experiment can demonstrate what really keeps a bike up. Hold your favorite bike by the seat and give it a hard push forward (even better run a few steps with it to get it going and then let go). Then repeat, pushing it backwards.
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by pge 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. I have seen too many fund managers succumb to the temptation of ever larger funds (and salaries), leading to inadvertent but fundamental changes in investing practices (more mgt fee/partner => more dollars to dep
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by pge 16y ago
"3.6x" math is not accurate. If I have time, I'll write a longer explanation (full disclosure - I'm a partner at a VC firm). Short version - returns are calculated from the moment of investment to the moment of exit, so getting a 2x in 1 y
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by pge 16y ago
When working overseas and immersed in a foreign language, I found the processing power required for translation occupied my brain enough that I was less filtered and, as a result, more outgoing. I also picked up a new set of social cues an
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by pge 16y ago
latex-suite; it's a must have if you write LaTeX docs. If you work in an office where everyone uses Word and PPT, being able to write docs in Vim, format with LaTeX and compile to PDF for distribution to others is handy.
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by pge 16y ago
Before you go worldwide, you're missing huge sections of the US. Major cities such as Seattle, LA, DC, Austin, and Atlanta all have active early-stage tech funders that don't appear on the map.
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by pge 16y ago
This blog is an entertaining rejoinder to Tim's claims and book. Tim's book is thought provoking, but don't take it at face value. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-t...
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by pge 16y ago
Perhaps I'm naive, but I went to another institution of higher learning just down the street from MIT. I was physics major, and I was not aware of any cheating among my peers. Again, perhaps I was oblivious, but my impression was that high
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by pge 16y ago
A great rule of thumb I learned in Wilderness First Responder training: "1 minute, 10 minutes, an hour" It's catchy and easy to remember, and it means: * 1 minute to deal with the panic response (i.e. first keep yourself alive for the first
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by pge 16y ago
Happy Hacking Lite http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/haphackeylit1.html Good feel, small foot print, and an old style key board layout that keeps Esc within reach of the home row for Vi-ers
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by pge 16y ago
I just want to reinforce cperciva's last point. My observation of 100+ startups that I have worked with or known well is that the growth of a single product often peaks at year 4 or 5. After that, it tails off. Good companies are the ones
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by pge 16y ago
The original discussion was about expected value, not maximum value. I continue to believe that the expected value of finance exceeds that of startups, but the answer to that is not in the Forbes 400, which shows those who are at the extre
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by pge 16y ago
Using twins as the anecdotal sample for whether children have best friends is another point against the thoughtfulness of the author. As a twin myself, I would argue that twins have a built-in best friend and thus rarely have another "best
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by pge 16y ago
I wonder how much increased startup activity is a result of increased unemployment. I would speculate that startup activity peaks in the best of times (when people have strong financial resources and high degree of certainty that they can

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