johncoogan

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by johncoogan 5y ago
Okay, maybe it's just Twitter, Stratechery, and Matthew Ball, but in my little filter bubble... it felt like everyone was talking about the Metaverse non-stop.
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by johncoogan 5y ago
Author here, what do you think would give this kind of content more substance? Still very new to this and genuinely looking for feedback!
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Review of Manned Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program [pdf](nuke.fas.org)
1 points by johncoogan 5y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb Manages to Do Business in China(johncoogan.com)
2 points by johncoogan 5y ago|0 comments
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by johncoogan 5y ago
Hey thanks for posting this!
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by johncoogan 5y ago
By "never be technically possible" do you mean: Not possible in the usual 10 year timeframe we consider for Silicon Valley type companies. Or Never in a million years, completely violates the laws of physics.
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by johncoogan 5y ago
Pricing in a small chance that the acquisition won't go through (maybe due to FTC clearance, but could be other due diligence related items).
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by johncoogan 6y ago
TheMelt wasn't in Y Combinator, but it is an interesting story.
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by johncoogan 6y ago
It depends on the price they paid for stock or the exercise price for stock options. If you were an early employee and your received options when the company was only worth $10m or something low, you could make money. The risk is that one o
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by johncoogan 6y ago
Came here to comment this.
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by johncoogan 6y ago
Does anyone have any theories as to how Nanite actually works? I've never heard of virtualized micropolygon geometry before and it sounds a bit buzzwordy. Do we think they are just loading the full model into GPU memory, or are they ba
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by johncoogan 7y ago
Agreed, Peopleware is great. Very good for engineering leadership specifically.
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by johncoogan 7y ago
Just shared a google sheet with you.
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by johncoogan 7y ago
Highly recommend the Space Engine subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/
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A man who helped found Soylent has a new startup(businessinsider.com)
1 points by johncoogan 8y ago|0 comments
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by johncoogan 8y ago
I wonder how long it will be for them to build a version that actually uses the screen images as opposed to all the data from the Bot API. Seems like it would be a lot harder when you add an image processing step and restrict processing of
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by johncoogan 9y ago
Thanks for building this! I was wondering about this a few months ago, glad it’s finally here. This is such a good example. https://twitter.com/johncoogan/status/890780575480430593
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This Robot Fights Back Against Robocalls(hackernoon.com)
3 points by johncoogan 9y ago|1 comments
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Using FOIA requests and IFTTT to trade biotech stocks(medium.com)
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A blockchain in 200 lines of code(medium.com)
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by johncoogan 9y ago
Completely agree. Was joking in my original comment. Obviously having a healthy lifestyle will lead to increased productivity. Fetishizing workaholism is dumb and a big part of why Wall Street is struggling to retain talent these days.
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by johncoogan 9y ago
You don't need to work 24/7. At most jobs, you just need to seem like you work 24/7. Batch up all your emails for the day, then space them out to be sent at odd hours like 11:30pm and 5:45am using something like Boomerang for
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Rayton Solar: Legitimate Investment or Scam?(medium.com)
104 points by johncoogan 9y ago|62 comments
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What Uber Founders Didn’t Know in 2009(shift.newco.co)
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Using Machine Learning to Visualize Customer Preferences(hackernoon.com)
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My Top 10 Picks from YC S17(medium.com)
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IBM rolling out blockchain to track food safety(ibm.com)
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Quantum Computing Resources(github.com)
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Resources for Learning about Quantum Computing(medium.com)
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TensorFlow 1.3 Released(github.com)
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