rwaliany

Bitcoin is Myspace.

1) get RSUs as soon as you can (if it's not too expensive or seed is a convertible note), so that if you leave you're still an owner in the company. 2) they should just add shares to the company to increase the option pool. I'd consider anything else shady.

http://kitchenbowl.com - iOS Engineer in Seattle passionate about cooking -- 1st employee / seed funded. E-mail jobs@kitchenbowl.com if you're interested.

love this book.

Be weary of buffer overruns when using a language like C :).

Great article.

"might me" => "might be"

I thought I’d weigh in my opinion as a developer-entrepreneur who has worked with various business and technical co-founders.

I wrote a post covering 'Business Product Responsibilities' with a graph here: http://simplyryan.com/2013/01/19/business-product-responsibi....

I have found that I don't want to work with non-technical founders because they often don't take ownership of their responsibilities.

it says doubleclick.net does not sell my private information...

It's not a service to humanity to copy the features from a Desktop computer, call it a mobile phone, and claim that this phone is better than a product that was designed to be a phone.

FYI, if the developer is reading this, please let me delete events from the widget.

I guarantee you that Google is running it as a negative PR campaign against Facebook. There's no way someone would sabotage their relationship with Facebook when they're paying the bills.

I've had the pleasure... of inviting him to talk at UC Berkeley Linux User Group. He made us change the name of the group to the UC Berkeley GNU/Linux User Group. During dinner, he also likes to stick his hair in the communal food. When I invited him a second time to speak, I avoided him like the plague.

There is a huge risk in opportunity cost to join a startup.

Some founders such as serial entrepreneurs who have proven their value, I could see 100-1000x. However, first-time and inexperienced founders should not get more than 10x their employees given that they providing a lower expectation.

Also priced into it should be the difficulty for you to do it yourself. If the company truly does amplify your value by 1000x, then by all means it is a fantastic deal.

The 0.1% CTR apps relate to mobile games where there is little interaction with the ad is 'Word Seek Social Lite' The 4.5% CTR app relates to generalized RSS readers similar to FMyLife (ex: Softbaum's FMyLife for which we have a rev sharing agreement).

Hope this helps, of course since these are highly profitable, I can't share too much details.

I worked on the Bing AI team (pre-launch), they didn't copy Google. If anything, both search engines copy wikipedia. I believe that this was the click-stream research done by an intern researcher from UBC.

I completely agree. It is absolutely absurd.

That's fine, but the demo seems to only show one source? I think it's a nice mash-up, but it is nothing compared to the previous winners.

You can also download that voice from the internet or use Google.

It varies per person. For me, I finished all of my curriculum at Carnegie Mellon, but I will not be completing my degree because I've already gained all the value in my opinion. I think going to school and dropping out was very valuable to me.

Just crashed: http://talkMiner.com

Interesting, I tweeted about this last night. Luke Wroblewski had an amazing slideshare on this topic, http://slidesha.re/8A3pI. It has other details such as breaking up the page, alignment, spacing, etc...

I complete agree.

Coke w/ ice tastes better w/o a straw and directly from the glass...

I would use map/reduce to solve this problem. You can run a single node psuedo-cluster in a few minutes by using Cloudera's package repositories (CDH3, https://wiki.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Hadoop+(CDH3)+Quick+St...). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce

The graphics sound like tower defense.

Clearly, Apple was right.

Interesting, facebook questions has an ESP Game-like solution to answer questions, similar to hunch where you cycle through questions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game).

Updated graph on gym usage by hour: http://simplyryan.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gymhour.png

The data is from March 15th to May 1st (~45 days). It is a noisy estimation based on foursquare and twitter location check-ins (estimated samples from a population of about 100k users in San Francisco, CA with a technology bias). I haven't analyzed user-specific data, such as who went to both venues. I am open to suggestions on future analysis.

The data suggests that Thursday night Tapas bar/restaurants are very popular and that is included under "restaurants" according to yelp.com.

A twelve pack of Blue Moon.