veyron

9 ms·

31.
by veyron 14y ago
I shorted from 31.50 down to 27 .. wish I held onto the position ...
32.
by veyron 14y ago
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459958
33.
by veyron 14y ago
I literally conceived of this idea a month ago. My day job is in finance, so this break is the first contiguous block of time I could find to put it together. As far as audience is concerned, its true that the audience is smaller but that
34.
by veyron 14y ago
"Investors were looking at this company as they did many other things they invested in." tl;dr: Investors were looking for the IPO pop and then dumping it. Problem is, if everyone follows that idea, there's no upside left. It was obvious f
35.
by veyron 14y ago
The original prospectus quoted the 2.1B share count that google uses. I'm sure the difference will be corrected after a few filings ...
36.
by veyron 14y ago
I'm actually launching something in the same space on Labor Day ( http://codewren.ch ). This is not a particularly good omen ...
37.
by veyron 14y ago
great minds != great stock Bell Labs had great minds, but that didn't mean that the legal entity managed their innovations well ...
38.
by veyron 14y ago
The reason why this cross is important is because it dropped more than 50%. Regulation T, which governs margin requirements in most accounts, says that you are allowed to borrow up to your cash balance to buy shares. So if you had 1900 do
39.
by veyron 14y ago
38 dollars per share was the price that the institutions who participated in the IPO paid. Facebook received slightly less than that. Investors who paid 42 per share at the IPO received shares from the underwriters.
40.
FB new low (18.23), down 52% from 38 IPO price(google.com)
36 points by veyron 14y ago|50 comments
41.
by veyron 14y ago
This seems pretty dangerous. If you misspelled git you may also have misspelled the command you wanted to run, and especially if you set 1- or 2- character aliases in git you may run something you never intended to run.
42.
by veyron 14y ago
"my high average karma means I'm probably less of a risk. Probably." If anything all this means is that you conform to the culture of HN, precisely what (it would seem) Lobsters is trying to break from.
43.
by veyron 14y ago
For those not watching the stock marker: Nokia (NOK) up nearly 9% on this ...
44.
by veyron 14y ago
If you are really trying to solve procrastination, you have to address the distractions. Now, here is what I would like to see: the OFF switch. Hitting a button that would block all electronic distractions (turning off television etc) and
45.
by veyron 14y ago
Problem is that if all you do is expose the top project, and that takes time (for example, waiting for a long compile), you lose the ability to switch to another task.
46.
by veyron 14y ago
I have a few friends working as examiners for the USPTO. The review is more thorough than you make it sound. The problem is that the procedures drive examiners to err on the side of approving the patent. If the patent is rejected, a lawy
47.
by veyron 14y ago
It's not really a functionality issue. MySQL just works. The PHP API is incredibly direct and there's little development overhead. Postgres on the other hand always felt kludgy for small projects. Just getting it up and running and creating
48.
by veyron 14y ago
that 50% line is important -- many investors who bought at the IPO price on margin will have 0 equity left in that position (borrowing half using RegT margin)
49.
Facebook barely holding 50% line (19.01)(google.com)
4 points by veyron 14y ago|2 comments
50.
by veyron 14y ago
There were wall street and silicon valley people talking about Facebook as if it's worth 200B or 1T dollars, in which case buying in at 100B may make sense. This was a problem on both sides: SV hyped, WS hyped and a bunch of people were blo
51.
by veyron 14y ago
Dumb article. The underlying assumption here is that a management shift is a panacea but that's far from the case. People forgot to ask how Facebook could effectively monetize, and I think MZ has a much better shot at figuring it out compar
52.
by veyron 14y ago
Facebook is in a quandary because it would be difficult to monetize (to the extent that it reclaims the 100B market cap) and still retain its user base. And if these business people existed, don't you think Facebook would have already hired
53.
Wedbush Securities admits to hyping Facebook(nytimes.com)
1 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
54.
by veyron 14y ago
That's not true. So in the case of `ps`, there is a known limit to the number of processes, and it is fairly small, so the performance hit is limited. As another example in this context, if the original data source is gzip'd, it's faster t
55.
by veyron 14y ago
That is a terrible idea: sometimes the app can take advantage of a constraint to minimize work done. In your example, if we just wanted to filter for a particular user, dps would have to print out ALL of the information and then you could p
56.
by veyron 14y ago
I've had certain personal data wiped from a hard drive many years ago, so I am a bit paranoid: USB Thumb Drive for active files, 2 copies on External Hard Drives for long term storage (which I migrate once a year to new drives), and two phy
57.
by veyron 14y ago
creating a hedge fund, or any kind of fund, was something i should be thinking about in my 40s or 50s when I wanted a more traditional role in finance with a lower risk/reward profile. Many of the more prolific hedge funds were st
58.
SF Area Chevron refinery burns(wap.ktvu.com)
3 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
59.
by veyron 14y ago
If you are going to ask that, you should leave contact information either in the post or in your user profile. Otherwise how would people contact you?
60.
by veyron 14y ago
What they are really whining about is not being able to find talent at a cheap price. That is a problem not just for startups but for everyone.

More ›