jaspertheghost

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by jaspertheghost 4y ago
hmm is this effective altruism, seems like they used it to cover massive fraud.
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by jaspertheghost 4y ago
did you use vectorbt or event driven backtesting?
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by jaspertheghost 11y ago
At first glance, it seems very logical. Why do you need a middle man, these companies will all die out. The problem with this argument is that he doesn't realize advertising is 600B globally. Each of the small boxes there is 1b-40b dep
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by jaspertheghost 13y ago
Because Rapgenius hasn't profited out of the lyrics yet. DMCA focused on monetization of other people's content as one of the main criterias for violation. It doesn't matter whether it's UGC or not.
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Free Food Perks at Work: Why Catering is Key(blog.betterworks.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 15y ago|0 comments
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by jaspertheghost 15y ago
Grit & determination are for me defining factors in a person's character IMO. What initially turned me onto this was the Teach for America article on the effectiveness of teachers. One of the most surprising items on the research was th
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Lord of the Flies, Maslow's Hierarchy and Better Employee Benefits(blog.betterworks.com)
5 points by jaspertheghost 15y ago|4 comments
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by jaspertheghost 16y ago
There are a couple of things: 1. The servers aren't all application servers. There's load balancers, memcache servers, lossy memcache servers, etc. 2. It's the cloud. It includes large instances, HA-Proxies, memcache servers, etc. 3. Ther
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by jaspertheghost 16y ago
I disagree with this. You want to go after roads that give you greater option value. Adult industry is not a career killer per se, but provides you less option value in terms of industry experience (for example, Linkedin provided the insi
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by jaspertheghost 16y ago
Who you are is a more accurate predictor of entrepreneurship and success. That being said the two schools that have the best track records are Stanford and UIUC. Stanford (Google, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems) and UIUC (Netscape, Paypal, YouTub
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by jaspertheghost 16y ago
Social network composes of three parts: social graph, reach applications, and games. Slide provides social media applications and the expertise to make them. The part about FB profile data is not true, and based on ToS, they wouldn't be a
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by jaspertheghost 16y ago
Slide started out as a global recommendation push engine for shopping items. They pivoted to a widget company when it took off.
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by jaspertheghost 17y ago
I believe that tenacity leads to luck, simply through more tries: Chance II springs from your energetic, generalized motor activities... the freer they are, the better. [Chance II] involves the kind of luck [Charles] Kettering... had in min
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by jaspertheghost 17y ago
It's about time. Google AppEngine (Map Reduce, GFS, etc) has always lacked behind the Dynamo architecture in terms of winning developer mind share and specing the right features. The inherent problem with Google App Engine is it's not bac
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by jaspertheghost 17y ago
It's hard to tell. For salary info go to: glassdoor.com
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by jaspertheghost 17y ago
I think the core of the question is can you start a technical company if you have a MBA. Yes you can, but you have to have a strong technical founder. Sun Microsystems had Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy. EA had David Maynard. Genetech h
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Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor(ibm.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|0 comments
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The busy Java developer's guide to Scala: Scala + Twitter = Scitter(ibm.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|0 comments
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Tech Policy Summit May 11-13, 2009(techpolicycentral.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|0 comments
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Building a Geospatial Information System(ibm.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|0 comments
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by jaspertheghost 17y ago
Read this: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html "Once you have picked an industry, get right to the center of it as fast as you possibly can." "Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a
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Linux kernel advances(ibm.com)
29 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|7 comments
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Multiprocessing with Python(ibm.com)
36 points by jaspertheghost 17y ago|3 comments
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Harness the power of XML to Open Financial Exchange files(ibm.com)
2 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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Develop an Ajax Chat program(ibm.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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Create a social-networking BlackBerry application with open source tools(ibm.com)
2 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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Develop a WordPress plug-in with Eclipse PDT(ibm.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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Optimism Porn – used car prices(brontecapital.blogspot.com)
1 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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Build a REST Web server with the Restlet framework(ibm.com)
4 points by jaspertheghost 18y ago|0 comments
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by jaspertheghost 18y ago
My family is in the biotech/pharma side, and I'm on the computer science side, fyi just to add credibility to my argument.

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