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by rguzman 16y ago
I would've linked to the original article, but it is behind a paid wall.
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Supercomputer Use at the BGI in China to Study the Genetic Neture of IQ(infoproc.blogspot.com)
9 points by rguzman 16y ago|5 comments
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Startup altruism(gabrielweinberg.com)
2 points by rguzman 16y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 16y ago
I'll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious. This is probably true, yet largely irrelevant. Whether someone's ideas are obvious to them or not matters little compared
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by rguzman 16y ago
Can I buy you lunch in SF sometime? My email is rodguze@gmail.com
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by rguzman 16y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of the amounts. However, they do vary. I recall reading of 100k being considered a 'substantial investment' for software. The main problem is that the investment most likely should not be made in the startup since the inves
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by rguzman 16y ago
E-2 visas are missing from the list which may be good co-founder visas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b... http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/379/in-lieu-of-an-h-.
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by rguzman 16y ago
There is an early-stage stackexchange site for theoretical physics. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23848/theoretical-... It seems obvious to me that something for "physics" questions is too broad to be technical. Even "theoreti
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Bashing The Collective Wisdom On IPOs(avc.com)
2 points by rguzman 16y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 16y ago
There is also this: http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html
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by rguzman 16y ago
I agree that teaching should not be perceived as "overhead". However, the best place to do research is within academia (large research universities), where there is a very complete and strong infrastructure to do research. Yes, the system i
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by rguzman 16y ago
Haven't ticketing systems and bug trackers been around for a long, long, long time?
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by rguzman 16y ago
Yes. A bit less snarky: a good measure of a technical co-founder is him trying to solve the business problems himself. For the same reasons I cited above.
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by rguzman 16y ago
The one thing that I don't understand is how people are willing to be paid in equity. Do you people not have to pay rent? Are you living in your parents basements with someone feeding you? Hint: savings.
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by rguzman 16y ago
I like this: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/advice-on-eq... Though he makes it seem easier than it really is.
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by rguzman 16y ago
Not only that, but what makes a good technical co-founder depends on the business. Le sigh, co-founder dating is hard.
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by rguzman 16y ago
I liked the piece a lot and it is roughly right. However, as a technical co-founder, I think a good measure of a business co-founder is whether he tries to solve the technical problems himself. e.g. by learning a bit of php and hacking some
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by rguzman 16y ago
Maybe this is off-putting because the term business plan has a lot of baggage. However, the point remains valid and correct: you need to have a realistic and executable plan for how to get users. "Build it and they will come" fails way to
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Django 1.3 alpha 1 released(docs.djangoproject.com)
57 points by rguzman 16y ago|7 comments
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by rguzman 16y ago
I've been meaning to post my reading list for, maybe, 2 years now? I've never gotten it to a state where I'd consider it too helpful. Along with the list should come some comments on the books recommended: when to read them, how to use the
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by rguzman 16y ago
Something like this implicitly misses the point that one of the harder things to overcome when trying to do theoretical physics are the details of how research is done. This is the main point of having a PhD-level adviser and research gro
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by rguzman 16y ago
I like the concept and I personally use variations of it. However, I find that 30/30 is not only the wrong ratio (1:1) but also the lengths don't work too well for certain types of activities. c.f. http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.
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Square Now Processing Millions Of Dollars(techcrunch.com)
2 points by rguzman 16y ago|0 comments
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The Web Server Benchmarking We Need(blog.ianbicking.org)
1 points by rguzman 16y ago|0 comments
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by rguzman 16y ago
loosely coupled components are the way to go I disagree. Had you added "in some situations" I wouldn't. The point of the frameworks, which are heavily coupled components with many constraints, conventions and hidden parts of functionality
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by rguzman 16y ago
The falling may be due to the fact that other similar sites have popped up and started gaining traction.
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by rguzman 16y ago
I think you'll find that all of them are very similar in terms of ORM, Session, Cookies, etc -- they are, more or less, the same toolbox. However, the devil is in the details. Once you start managing something sufficiently complex you star
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by rguzman 16y ago
This is also known as hindsight bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
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by rguzman 16y ago
Wow. I wrote basically the exact same comment at roughly the same time. Yours wasn't there when I started and it was when I finished.
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by rguzman 16y ago
"working a room" is actually fairly difficult as there are probably not very many rules of thumb that you can follow that don't have exceptions. You have to be sensitive to social cues and have tact. Getting in and out of conversation circ

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