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13 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - The House Advantage · 0 replies · +1 points

So I finally had a long enough flight to read and finish the book.
I must say that you get a lot out of it, the way he presented statistics really fascinated me, but I must also say that it bored me to death.

The author repeats himself thousand of times in a chapter and constantly goes into detail about mostly useless stuff. There's an entire chapter debating wether to go for it or not (and I still haven't understood what it means).

Lovely core messages, with some awesome real-life scenes from his blackjack career but really needed some pro editing imho.

13 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Where's My Jetpack · 2 replies · +1 points

Brad, how do you manage to read a book a day?
Do you use any speed-reading techniques or stuff like that?
You have most certainly a busier schedule than mine, and still I read way less than you.
Even though it's not my primary language, I consider myself fairly proficient in English, but it takes me way too much to read a book and I can't remember reading one cover-to-cover in the same "session".

Also, what's the ratio between books and blog articles in your reading? I sometimes think I read way too many online articles and should just ignore my unread rss count..

13 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Swimming At Night · 0 replies · +1 points

I found that every kind of sport done at night makes me sleep better. With swimming you have the body-temperature effect that might have done the trick in your case, but when I was doing Thai Boxing and coming back home at 10:30pm, I can assure you that after a quick shower I slept like a baby every single night.
The most important thing is to find something close to you as every benefit would get cancelled by having to drive 15mins to get home.

I wish someone would finally make some usable waterproof gear in order to listen to ebooks while swimming!

13 years ago @ TechCrunch - And The Winner Of Tech... · 6 replies · +19 points

This was the only thing I didn't like about Techcrunch Disrupt.
How could it be a fair competition? This company raised $8 Millions, while uJam, the other finalist, just some seed capital.
Also I don't see many people using this by choice. It's all in the partnerships.

0 disruption.

13 years ago @ TechCrunch - Groupon Invades Europe... · 0 replies · +1 points

how's Groupon a Vente Privee clone? O_o

13 years ago @ TechCrunch - Groupon Invades Europe... · 1 reply · 0 points

That was easily predictable. CityDeal was the only one covering most of Europe.
Now good luck to other ones trying to clone it.

13 years ago @ TechStars Blog - Announcing our Global ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Congrats to Tom for the first affiliate and to the Startupbootcamp guys for being the firsts in Europe :)

13 years ago @ Don Dodge on The Next ... - Techcrunch Disrupt 201... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'll be there too!
Would be great to meet up.

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Learning To Program · 0 replies · +1 points

Ken, I'd suggest going tohttp://railstutorial.org/

It's a very well written, and easy tutorial.

You might also want to see the Agile Web Development with Rails book, keep in mind that rails 3 just shipped so it's gonna be hard to find some good content about it for a few months.

You should also check out Peepcode.com, they have a series on rails from scratch which is interesting (and loads of other awesome tutorials).

14 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Learning To Program · 0 replies · +1 points

This is an awesome post that tackles a VERY real problem.

Working in an early stage fund, I see WAY TO MANY founders (or complete teams) that have no clue how to implement their vision and that will rely exclusively on HIRED programmers or, way worse, OUTSOURCED development.

I majored in Computer Engineering, had quite a lot programming courses, but feel I didn't learn anything useful there. The major learning part happened at home when I was trying to build the stuff I wanted.

I started fixing sites and scripts in PHP and then moved on to learn Ruby on Rails. Being able to craft your vision into a tangible prototype gives you an awesome feeling, and it's a great starting point for a full fledged development process.

I would prefer 10 times a philosophy major that spent all his evenings learning how to code than a CS major that isn't curious enough to dig down into something and understand how it works.

DO NOT CONSTANTLY TRY TO FIND A TECH COFOUNDER. Every founder should be technical, the difference should be in personality, passion and prior experience with a good balace of coding, marketing and operations.

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