sirbetsalot

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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
Twitter is the Ganges River of Social Media. Filled to the brim with garbage, everyone who floats in it drinks the water, dies and joins the floating corpse pile at the end of the data funnel. you can't have a fresh mountain spring
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
Vancouver has a real problem, these company founders aside from dwave and shoes.com are fundamentally weak on the vision side. They often have some bizarre cultural aesthetic that drives away people who can actually perform in high tech
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
BECAUSE THAT WOULD REQUIRE COMMON SENSE.
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
cool what about competing with Harvard and Stanford Grads. I have never been to the Bay area but I really want to work down there. It seems like all data scientist postings that are serious want PhD's from the Ivy league so I figur
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
thanks for the reply, its really weird going from a board member in a startup to searching for meaningful work again. Maybe ill try to pack up and get down to the Bay Area and see who I can meet.
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Ask HN: Tips for a canadian getting a job down south
3 points by sirbetsalot 11y ago|7 comments
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
Just in case you don't get it. This is the typical train of thinking on Twitter. You say something intelligent looking for conversation, and eventually you are going to run into the crazies on the platform just looking to broadcast
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
Satire is not your strong point?
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
So lets see. in about 30 minutes I can deck into the Twitter API and create about 100 accounts and cron job your Twitter account for a post and then inundate you with thousands of crazy insults from random accounts. I can do all of this
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
personally I couldn't care less about Twitter, used it once or twice and bailed, but usually when the CEO tells you its a BIG problem... http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-me..
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
I think you can simply google Dick Costolo and hear him say it directly about 100 times.
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by sirbetsalot 11y ago
of course the author misses the biggest reason twitter sucks. Abuse, fake accounts, and trolling cause more "authentic" real name users to leave every day. Twitter does nothing to punish people who can just grab a picture of
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
yah this idea will never be smart for one very good reason. The probability of the bottom 99% of VC ever rising up to challenge john doeer, chris sacca and the rest is near zero. In sports you have the probability of a lower tier athlete
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To the person who stole my phone, thank you, kind of maybe but not really(line-breaker.tumblr.com)
2 points by sirbetsalot 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Fantasy Sports startups like Draft will crush the sports betting industry(line-breaker.tumblr.com)
1 points by sirbetsalot 12y ago|0 comments
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A Canadians tale about where startup motivation comes from(line-breaker.tumblr.com)
1 points by sirbetsalot 12y ago|0 comments
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
99% of developers cannot organize themselves and develop a monstrous amount of high quality code in a short period of time. 100% of developers can demand big paychecks, all of the perks, working from wherever they want, never working in
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
Sadly this is still a relevant question due to the fact that if you give your programmers every leeway they will take advantage, not work, slack for 2 weeks and do nothing. happens all the time. As a boss nothing angers you more then pa
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
I think one of the hardest thing about hiring is that if I am an "A" player, I am usually financially sound because of it and I just don't want to put in months of effort trying to get a job at a good work environment. Usual
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
Degree is worthless, top tier ivy league, even worse. As long as the person is smart, doesn't struggle with programming languages and willing to get better, start them small and build up.
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
its worth exactly $0 unless you have customers paying for it right now.
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
have vast amounts of cash and friends in the monied circles.
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
good guy, doesn't give a shit about the corpo-academic kleptocracy. For the love of math, that is all.
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
I plan to most def, and I plan on open sourcing the machine learning tech once I hit my first million next year. The odds are nothing like poker however, it takes a long long time to understand all the ins and outs of making money in spo
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
Yes that is an interesting question. My co-founders were so incompetent at this business that I took over all business development. I personally met with a dozen casinos owners in Las Vegas, 4 massive odds tech companies in Great Britain
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by sirbetsalot 12y ago
Started a startup in Vancouver using Machine learning to automate the sports betting odds generating stack. Got two cofounders one MBA (yah i know) and a fundraiser, both failed badly as I did all the code. ended up doing 40% of the fun