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by bbest86 15y ago
I would put it: 1. IPO 50% lower then you guided 6 months ago 2. Float so few shares that you can push the value yourself with cash from previous financing round 3. Profit 4. ???
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by bbest86 15y ago
No, I don't think so. Go to the extreme and think about leaving for a week or a month - it is quite clearly more efficient to let it cool and then warm it back up again. On a shorter time scale, your house will lose heat at a faster rate wh
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by bbest86 15y ago
That may be true but I also do not believe that the improvements in the last 20 years have had anything to do with food production. As Sen argued way back in 1981 the cause of hunger and famine is political, not due to a lack of ability to
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by bbest86 15y ago
While I think there's a market here, I wonder if the Chromebook will feel enough like a separate appliance to make inroads. The iPad feels like something different - a Chromebook just feels like a laptop. To me the marketing feels too much
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by bbest86 16y ago
Just read this in the last month and devoured it. I'm currently doing a lot of thinking about how to apply the ideas that drive entrepreneurship to the international development sector and the ah-ha moments from this book were incredible. I
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Tech Startups and Human Development: Different Worlds?(theborrowedbicycle.ca)
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by bbest86 16y ago
The first letter in the word "titties" is? Beware if you have users that might be sensitive to such things.
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by bbest86 16y ago
I'm also a vim addict and keep all my notes in a semi-gtd inspired vim wiki. It's a vim plugin on top of the viki plugin ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=861 ). The code is up on github for anyone interested: http://github
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by bbest86 17y ago
This whole discussion seems to be missing a large part of MBTI's value. MBTI is not just about knowing yourself, but also understanding how other people in a group might be feeling/reacting, regardless of whether or not that reaction is ind
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by bbest86 17y ago
Would be interesting to automatically run something like this and find a way to assert that the tests should fail. Almost an automated test of your tests.
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by bbest86 17y ago
http://aviary.com has a great color picker called Toucan. It allows you to pick colours spaced out around the colour wheel based on a few parameters. Also does the colour-blindness emulator. You can check out colour palettes that others h
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by bbest86 17y ago
I went to Waterloo - not for CS but for Systems Design Engineering. I very much enjoyed my time there in Engineering and now have a great job doing primarily web development in Django for a company involved in Green Buildings. I agree with
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by bbest86 17y ago
You can use it to block indent/unindent code, I find that quite useful.
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by bbest86 17y ago
Is it just me or is the python being taught not very good? See for example this lecture: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... . The prof starts off by saying that internal class variables should not be accessed