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Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human)
Our lives are full of decisions that force us to balance risk and opportunity: should you take that new job, buy that house, invest in that ...
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 457 posts.
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Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
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The best unknown activist investment of 2009
In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009. Wit…
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Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
If you're thinking about starting a new venture right now, you need to understand the risks, but you need the real risks. The truth (as always) lies between baseless off-hand remarks about how "95% of businesses fail" (false!) and those startup blogs that show only the rosy side of things.
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The Universal Law of Leverage
An article that explains how misunderstanding leverage kills businesses.
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Why hasn't Vista sold well?
The truth is that no one really knows why Vista fared so poorly in the market. It defies a simple explanation.
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Tarsnap reaches profitability
One of the most common questions I receive about tarsnap is this: What guarantee can I provide that the tarsnap service will continue to operate? This is a reasonable concern; after all, with services like Omnidrive and HP Upline shutting down, what guarantee is there that tarsnap won't also shut down? Until recently…
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Inventing Demand
It’s no secret I own and run www.rentoid.com – but here’s a story you don’t know. The story of how I got it off the ground and got people to use the website. Rentoid had... [ READ POST ]
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Challenging the MLS Monopoly
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
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How to determine if your A/B test is statistically significant
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
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That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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It's official: NASA is a jobs program.
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SEO FAQ (or why you shouldn't hire an SEO "expert")
So yesterday I had a bit of a rant about SEO and I’ve gotten a few common questions so I thought I’d try to answer them. Here goes.
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Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA
The Register recently published an article titled, “Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala“, prompting a wave of Tweets (Twitter messages for the jargon challenged)
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A bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies
One of the things which confronted me when I got interested in quantitative finance is the varieties of different kinds of quant. Now I realize this is pretty simple. Quants come in three basic var…
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