spinlock

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by spinlock 15y ago
It's official: developers spend more time on stack overflow with age.
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by spinlock 15y ago
Is the purpose of scaffolding just for learning? When I was just starting, I built a twitter clone using a scaffold in about 5 minutes and ... I learned nothing. I then spent a week coding it by hand and learned rails. I don't think I'd eve
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by spinlock 15y ago
The problem with a cap - or rather calling a cap a valuation - is that unsophisticated entrepreneurs don't understand the consequences of the cap. To you point about entrepreneurs offering terms, I find that terms are negotiated and that an
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by spinlock 15y ago
In the second clip, David Lee calls a cap on a convertible note a "valuation." This is so wrong it makes my brain hurt. You only value a company when you buy equity. You don't value the company when you buy debt. As an entrepreneur, I think
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by spinlock 16y ago
This is a great point. We always focused on safety critical applications when I was in school but security is another area where having a clear and consistent architecture is a hard requirement. This is a great example of an area that would
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by spinlock 16y ago
As a fake developer (i.e. PhD student in Computer Science who did very little programming) I used UML, MOFF, and other such tools extensively. I've worked on the GME from ISIS at Vanderbilt and Ptolemy from CHESS at Berkeley. The one point
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by spinlock 16y ago
Isn't Radiohead doing something innovative with there next album (besides the music)? I've heard that they will release it almost exclusively on iTunes/online and then charge north of $50 for the album but the cover art will include origina
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by spinlock 16y ago
OK, I read her last blog post and ... she just doesn't read like a serious writer. Maybe I'm bitter but I've read comments in hacker news that have a better literary style.
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by spinlock 16y ago
I agree with just about everything you're doing. I am still invested in the market but I know what you're saying about expecting a correction. I actually used the dip the market took last week to put some more money to work. I totally agree
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by spinlock 16y ago
I just consolidated everything into an IRA, Roth IRA and a separate account this year (I put them together at the same custodian). It's made my life so much easier and I actually understand my portfolio now (before it was just a bunch of as
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by spinlock 16y ago
>they do have some amazing traders, so you can just mirror them (I'm kind of hesitant to do that, not sure why). I'd be hesitant to do that because even a broken clock is right twice a day. I haven't looked at covestor in a while but, I
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by spinlock 16y ago
I have an IRA, Roth IRA, private account, and a large investment in my business. I just hired a portfolio manager to handle the private account this summer. That has been great because it is now invested in individual equities (which is gre
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by spinlock 16y ago
I used to go with the 1 secure password for all sites. But then, it became painfully obvious that most sites don't treat your password with the respect it deserves (i.e. hash that shit and never store it in plain text). So, what I do now, i
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by spinlock 16y ago
I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it
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by spinlock 16y ago
Or you could just ask questions. I don't write too many answers on Stack Overflow either but I usually do get a good answer to my programming/Ubuntu issues. I would actually argue that Stack Overflow works great. This article is an excellen
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by spinlock 16y ago
You should think of investor money as rocket fuel. You only need it if you have build your spaceship, charted your course, and now want to get there fast. If you don't know what you would do with the $100k, don't take it. But, even if you d
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by spinlock 16y ago
The red flag that I see which tells me that this guy doesn't know what he's doing is his inclusion of a leveraged ETF into a long term (i.e. not day traded) portfolio. Leveraged ETFs are weird and they _do no_ return 2x over a long period o
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by spinlock 16y ago
You need to spend a lot of time understanding your customers. Who are they? What problem do they want solved? And, what gets them to part with their money? I would start with "Four Steps to the Epiphany" and read up about lean-startups. But
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Ask HackerNews: What information should a stealth startup put on their website?
3 points by spinlock 16y ago|6 comments
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by spinlock 16y ago
This is exactly right. If they were real entrepreneurs, they would take the $20M and do something with it. These guys are zeros. I hope they wind up with nothing.
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by spinlock 16y ago
I think a better title would be: why are we pumping up the next bubble with debt rather than equity? I don't really worry about Goldman Sachs or Facebook. They are both best of breed and they handle themselves very well. The real danger her
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by spinlock 16y ago
I would say that it is very likely Goldman would have made this play regardless of it's federal guarantees. The difference - and the author's point - is that there is less systemic risk in this scenario because Goldman would get the $450M t
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by spinlock 16y ago
Accurate version: Goldman finances its operations through debt rather than equity because of it's explicit federal backing. The risk capital it is investing in Facebook is therefor debt rather than equity. Facebook is so hot right now that
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by spinlock 16y ago
The author used the word, "sticked" to describe customers sticking with a car salesman. What chemical gets released in your brain when you're underwhelmed by the copy writing?
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by spinlock 16y ago
I don't think that driving huge crowds is actually their business model. The huge crowds overwhelm the merchant and wind up making the promotion a bad deal for the merchant. Groupon would do better to drive reasonably sized crowds, consiste
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by spinlock 16y ago
Or, maybe not. You see, this year, you not only get to avoid the death tax but you also miss out on the step-up in tax basis. So, you can pass assets down to your heirs tax free but they then have a much larger tax bill if they ever realize
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by spinlock 16y ago
I'm a bit unclear what "link bait" would be but I do think that the title is a tad misleading and sensationalistic but in a good way. It's like pitching a VC your problem statement. You'd be a fool to be pedantic about it. You want to catch
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by spinlock 16y ago
That is really, really cool.
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by spinlock 16y ago
It would also be plagiarism if the professor claimed authorship of a test which he did not write.
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by spinlock 16y ago
I love that the only lens we can see this story through is to take sides with the students or the professor. I expect any professor to write his own tests (or have his TA write them). I consider it cheating for a professor to contract out t

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