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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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Are meteor sites typically slow? The only ones I've visited are.
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Warren Buffett wrote a letter to potential sellers of business that he (meaning Berkshire Hathaway) was interested in buying. It should be easy to find as I think it is reprinted in one of Berkshire&#…
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There was a similar follow up question on Reddit. Unfortunately he didn't answer that. It would have been interesting to hear his perspective.
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I completely agree, however, it is still a useful metric. And when a stock has a P/E of 910 the growth rate that the underlying business must grow at in order to justify such a price is astoundin…
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Found it: http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo... The title is "We Have Met The Enemy...And He Is Us": Lessons from 20 years of the Ka…
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Right, but the real question is: what are their returns? (And: how do they compare to VC as a whole?, how do they compare to long-term US treasury bonds?, how do they compare to the S&P 500?
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I have data that compares other VC firms to the S&P 500. Give me a few minutes and I'll find it. Foreshadowing: it's pretty bad, you'd do much better putting your money in an index …
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Amazon stock trades at a P/E of 910. S&P 500 average is currently around 19-20. Do you really expect Amazon to continue to grow at such a rate that its current P/E is justified?
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The real question is this: does the dollar of earnings Amazon retains generate more than a dollar of value for owners of the company (i.e. shareholders)? I don't know either way, and I don't…
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I don't know if you can actually take that right away however. I'm not aware of any precedent for this situation.
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Note to mods: I accidentally linked to the second page. Hopefully you can change the URL to point to the first page.
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I don't think most people plan on selling the first game the make. They probably just want to get some experience writing games and Tetris is one of the most gradual ways to get into it.
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I think it does include free updates. At least, I just copied my code from v2 into v3 and that worked.
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As far as I know you're right. The one that immediately comes to my mind is WebVan [1], which fits your description and according to the wikipedia page had a $1 billion order to build warehouses.…
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Other people use it though and do click through. I just make a conscious effort to remove clutter from my life.
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I don't understand the point about college students viewing email as stale. I'm in college and email is used more than ever. I used to get tens of emails a day from various student groups (n…
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It's not total bullshit. It's grounded in evolutionary psychology. We like people who are attractive because that shows that they have good genes and are therefor worth either a) mating with…
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I only read the abstract, but saw it mentioned program obfuscation, which is something I'm passingly familiar with but don't know much about. Does anyone know the current state of this? From…
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These are all good points, but it's also important to realize that American and European populations are very different in regards to constituency (you touched on this a bit with your point about…
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10.76 x 40 x 52 = $22,380.80 Pretty appalling.
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This looks awesome. I also have a question for HN. I'm sure some of you are pretty good chess players. I thought it would be interesting to learn and started looking into where to start a few day…
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They are easier for the compiler to optimize because the pipelines are simpler... at least that's what I was taught in my compilers class.
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This might be an interesting anecdote to think about the value of business education. I have a number of friends at top tier business schools (HBS, Stanford's GSB, etc.). Of these people none stu…
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My understanding is that even with PAE (Physical Address Extensions) a 32bit OS can only provide 4GB of RAM to any individual application (but more than 4GB or RAM can be used in total). In which case…
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Do you know of a good explanation of Mantle's goals? What sets it apart from DirectX or OpenGL?