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by ivanplenty 11y ago
I don't understand: "Sand Hill Exchange" accepted items of real value (USD and BC) that could be used to "purchase" (or bet on) things named after real securities that trade (or are expected to trade) on public mark
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I've always wondered about this with traffic tickets: How can officers have discretion on how to prosecute and still satisfy "equal protection under the law"? Or does equal protection only apply to federal statutes? [Edit:
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
thanks for answering the questions. i depend on node at my day job, so i am particularly interested in npm's future. i understand someone has to pay for the servers and development time, but would it be possible to give a hint for the
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Accept my complements on the approach. Very cool. [Edit: Keep it up, and I wouldn't describe any of this as critique!] Slide 9, "Notice how de-emphasized Start is." Following the arrow, I see that "Find" and &qu
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Super interesting story, and thanks for sharing. I think you're referring to your time at DraftMix, right? Admittedly that was a really hard connection to find online [see below]. That said, quietly using partner/alumni investmen
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Fair point, we haven't heard of a similar thing happening in the US. However, I'm not convinced we would have heard about it happening. Consider, this is a _US invention_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warran
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I saw you got downvoted for another comment, but in general you've got the narrative right. Microsoft sent a patent demand letter to B&N. B&N went public as part of its defense. Microsoft countered with two separate deals: 1)
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Very sorry to hear this outcome, and I wish the best for the team. Perhaps you can sell standalone products? There is still value in never having to touch paper, and I would have been a happy customer had I known the wait list was done.
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
> start charging you after a year Really? Oh, wait... http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/23014681 As an American who only heard of TenCent late in 2013, I also did not know that WhatsApp was a subscription
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
May I suggest two other narratives that don't involve politics behind "the problems being solved ... are typically addressed at other geeks, upper-middle class consumers, entrepreneurs, and the startup community." ? Why geek
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Agreed. I've always wondered how differently municipalities would behave were the fines forbidden from funding operations. For example, what if all fines had to be paid to a trust, and only the interest from the trust may be used for
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Completely agree with @thatthatis, but one separate thought. > "talks began in October" > "they [HandyBook] had a much better and well-defined marking model and they had already developed what we were trying to itera
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I actually was just counting the 38 emails I got. I didn't feel like I could tell one way or another from HN comments or twitter, and I appreciated your thoughts. The snark was earned! (And I upvoted you) About the tone -- I think yo
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
tl;dr -- the crux of the issue (right or wrong) is making the evaluation information too public. From the news story: > "[Administrators' primary concern was] making YC [Yale College] course evaluation available to many who
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
This post will be downvoted to hell, but I have been wanting to say this for a while and can't find a way to contact you. (My email is my HN handle at gmail) You may or may not be right about this or the rest of VC-istan. But I LOVE
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
"Like" is relative and based on tradeoffs. Loved Rick's talk, thanks. This last year I worked on a project with people from the valley, we used Go, and everyone contributed quality code. This is because people in SF area kn
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I love Scala as a language and would encourage you to learn it on the way to becoming a more rounded programmer. It does have its warts, and compile times kill me. On HN the two common recommendations are: * Go * Node.JS (with Promises wh
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Thank you for responding thoroughly to the write-up. I think you're absolutely right that we both are clouded by preferences and philosophies when looking at this data. Your conclusions are just as valid. The only point I would make
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I really appreciate yours and the GP's comments because both describe different parts of the Everpix puzzle. You're right that capital should seek the highest returns, but one way to measure the likelihood of getting that return i
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I really appreciate that you released the underlying data. It is one of the best gifts you could give to the community. I think you and I would greatly enjoy chatting at a bar about this crazy startup world. We just have different opinion
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
This morning I did a public write-up of the Everpix business model to see why it failed: http://research.ivanplenty.com/2014-economics-everpix-shutdo... (Submitted to HN a few hours ago as https://news.ycombinato
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Then they may have had a chance. That seems to be the way that the other major players (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc) stay in business.
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Economics of the Everpix Shutdown Decision(research.ivanplenty.com)
43 points by ivanplenty 13y ago|6 comments
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I didn't downvote you (just catching up to posts), but I wanted to thank you for providing a contrasting view (via Chomsky no less!) to the conundrum: Should I pay the crazy housing prices or should I go elsewhere? I don't know w
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
The server upgrade bug: 1. How many other customers were affected by the server upgrade? 2. Why was this not caught at the time or after? The customer response bug 1. What steps are you taking to correct the issue it took a front-page H
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
> Probably a great time to buy. He or others like him may not have sold off all of their coins and need dumb money to keep the price afloat just a little longer... If it were a great time to buy, he would have. Follow the actions and
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
There's a few things weird about this story. Are you really proud you have a leveraged position in bitcoin? Isn't that among the riskiest positions you can take on a very volatile, illiquid, and possibly illegal asset? That&#x2
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
There's a subtlety -- in "100 hours does't always work" you describe how simply putting the time in isn't sufficient to get the outcome. You still tried, and you (unfortunately) failed. In the case of YC, it seems
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
Couldn't agree more except one small difference: > This post has no point at all. Yes, it does have a point. It is an advertisement for her product. Notice the connection between "spending 100 hours" and a product called
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by ivanplenty 13y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what are examples of the typical work product you produce for "UX"? I must be biased into thinking it is either visual mockups (ranging from paper to balsamiq to powerpoint to adobe) or working prototyp

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