veyron

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by veyron 14y ago
Yesterday's discussion on the matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513696
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by veyron 14y ago
"At the end of the day it's best to have everyone in the company (post-deal) feeling like they got a good deal. Kinda like a partner/wife - you never want to feel like you're the one that's trading down in the relationship." By definition s
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by veyron 14y ago
They have cemented their position. They can, at this stage, suffer down time without too much concern (hell, even twitter was down recently)
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FB crosses above 20 after-hours on Zuckerberg Interview(google.com)
1 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
Someone (I'm looking at you, gandi.net) should give a "GoDaddy is Down" discount for domain registration. I'm ready to migrate the domains I didn't change during the SOPA fiasco ...
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by veyron 14y ago
How would you envision a desktop trackpad that doesn't converge on the design of the apple magic trackpad?
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by veyron 14y ago
For those too lazy to build your own, Delcom has some really cool USB programmable lights. I use this for alerts and as a killswitch: http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=...
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by veyron 14y ago
"Far greater than 65.5% of my household accesses Facebook and/or Twitter." In my social circles, Facebook/Twitter usage clocks in at about 15%, so the numbers of the survey were at least minimally surprising ...
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by veyron 14y ago
I wrote "65.5% of US Internet population", not "65.5% of US Residents".
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by veyron 14y ago
That also means 65.5% of US Internet population is using Facebook or Twitter, a mind boggling statistic
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by veyron 14y ago
(not a kindle owner) Can someone with a kindle explain exactly how the ads work and why they would be offensive? From what I heard they just show up when you aren't using the device.
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by veyron 14y ago
"which was something the recruiters hide pretty well." The recruiters actively sell the idea that pedigree matters.
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by veyron 14y ago
"They are attempting to create an artificial scarcity that promotes their idea of what a good dev is." No. They are catering to a group of people who specifically care about pedigree. They are trying to replace the role of the recruiters
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by veyron 14y ago
"but I think they douched it up by focusing on the wrong things (school and company affiliation). " They focused on the right thing. The target audience isn't the startup that cares about getting the best people, just the ones with the bes
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by veyron 14y ago
It's adverse selection: the type of people who would use this service are probably not the people you want working for your startup. The really successful people would be picked off in other ways (not actively recruiting) so you are left w
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by veyron 14y ago
Needs excel support.
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by veyron 14y ago
it doesnt matter for a file of size 1kb. For a file of size 10Gb, every process matters. For the downvoters: please time how long it takes to do something like `cat $file | awk '{print $1}' ` and `awk <$file '{print $1}'`
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by veyron 14y ago
"Anyway, that's obviously not what Tesla is doing -- but they should. They should definitely have a California Delivery program. They probably already do." They can't give the same discount (the discount stems from avoiding new car taxes).
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by veyron 14y ago
tarballs
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by veyron 14y ago
Michael Dell hopefully dumped enough shares to have sufficiently large warchest to buy back dell ...
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by veyron 14y ago
There are many seemingly-abandoned projects such as http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832784035/orbit-a-swivel... and the response does nothing to indicate that kickstarter cares about abandonment.
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by veyron 14y ago
I assume its tied to device, so it's more like: Build $1 app; purchase 1000 blackberry phones on 1000 contracts; purchase 1000 copies; profit???
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by veyron 14y ago
I've got Terabytes of data that need to be archived and possibly recalled later (trading logs and market data preserved in case of an audit). I'm not at the scale of Glacier. If TarSnap had a readonly vault (files in said vault would never
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Facebook, Zynga Continuing to slide (17.94, 2.67)(google.com)
1 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
Because Kickstarter wouldn't make as much money ...
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by veyron 14y ago
It's not even that. Oftentimes many of the recurring services are easily replicable. So until a market leadership position is cemented (until you set up the moat) you don't want others to know that building XYZ service actually could be si
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by veyron 14y ago
There's a ton of adverse selection issues, and I suspect a large part of it is due to the price point. People and startups tend to want to pay a very small amount of money for design and code, and as a result the best people will opt to go
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by veyron 14y ago
You can't see all repos for which you have commit access. (e.g. if you are in an organization, you have to query the organization to get the fact that you are a contributor) Go to https://api.github.com/users/your_user_here/repos to see w
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by veyron 14y ago
I shorted the equity directly. The main costs are: - Transaction and Margin costs (those are generally 1 cent per share per side, roughly .06%) - Borrow costs (For that trade it was 30% annualized. I held it for 6 days so its .7%
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by veyron 14y ago
In this case, there's a nonzero chance the author saw the HN discussion and made a quick post. After all, it is TechCrunch ...

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