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by taylorwc 9y ago
As an early stage investor, I don't find that logic compelling. What makes a company an exciting investment isn't that they are doing something that is protected via intellectual property from $BIGCO. It's that they have a co
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Toxic VC and the marginal-dollar problem(techcrunch.com)
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by taylorwc 9y ago
Short answer: attorneys. When you do a priced round, you have to go in and change many aspects of a company's legal structure. For example, the documents drafted in a priced round may include amendments to the charter, a voting agreeme
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Monetary Policy for Crypto Tokens(continuations.com)
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by taylorwc 9y ago
Oh, wow. I love where this is headed. Spreadsheets are one of the most abused products in a normal business--used for everything , and then some poor excel jockey ends up being forced to create a semblance of order from the chaos.
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An incurable disease(economist.com)
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by taylorwc 9y ago
Andrej Karpathy had some awesome tweets on this yesterday, you can see the thread in the links, but these two were my favorite: "Yes AlphaGo only won by 0.5, but it was not at all a close game. It's an artifact of its training obj
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by taylorwc 9y ago
I love the formula you pose for thinking about this, and it's so true. Ethical behavior is binary, and a lack of ethical behavior isn't compartmentalized into one small area.
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by taylorwc 9y ago
I completely agree with this. I'm willing to take a few pennies hit because of HFT front running my order if it means I am saving several dollars per trade in commission. Especially when you first starting out with a tiny amount to inv
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Stanford CS department updates introductory courses: Java is Gone(computinged.wordpress.com)
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by taylorwc 10y ago
There is a handy Chrome extension that can solve this called xray: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...
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by taylorwc 10y ago
I've been using their beta app for the past week and love it. I have already added several podcasts that hadn't previously been on my radar, via their discovery tools. Cool to read the founder stories.
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In Search of Forest Fenn's Treasure(vox.com)
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by taylorwc 10y ago
There is actually a little blurb in the linked NYT article on this topic: Take “learning by doing,” a notion that Professor Arrow examined in the early 1960s. The basic idea is straightforward: The more that a company produces, the smarter
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Mobile 2.0(ben-evans.com)
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by taylorwc 10y ago
So, let me get this right: you're proposing a new cryptocurrency, which the media and masses often unfairly associate with nefarious use cases, and the name you chose for it coincides with the nefarious criminal organization from the J
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by taylorwc 10y ago
Yes! I had 2FA set up on AWS when they announced it for retail, and after I set that up, my retail one was required to log into AWS.
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by taylorwc 10y ago
The simple way to do this is to use the authenticator app on each of your phones and scan the QR code at the same time, when you setup 2FA. Since it's time-based, your apps will always be in sync and showing the same code.
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New theme chooser for GitHub Pages(github.com)
1 points by taylorwc 10y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 10y ago
Noob question. I get that this is a problem and what it could do, but wouldn't doing simple checks and validations of any client input solve this problem?
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The State of Technology at the End of 2016(stratechery.com)
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My Favorite Books of 2016(gatesnotes.com)
546 points by taylorwc 10y ago|138 comments
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How the SoC Is Displacing the CPU(medium.com)
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HR Incentives and Unintended Effects on Hiring Engineers(initialized.com)
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What Can You Remove from Your Product?(tomtunguz.com)
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Predictions(medium.com)
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How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles(medium.com)
194 points by taylorwc 10y ago|147 comments
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by taylorwc 10y ago
Pro tip: click the "web" link below the article title. It will take you to a Google search for the article, whose link circumvents the paywall.
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Eleven Reasons to Be Excited About the Future of Technology(medium.com)
1 points by taylorwc 10y ago|0 comments
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by taylorwc 10y ago
I suspect your comment will be met harshly here, but I agree for at least a subset of users. If you regularly read HN, you probably can see the clear downsides of the so-called 'walled garden' approach. I can too. Then I have a 10

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