Another financial journalist has republished first year econ theory to add their 2c to the Bitcoinosphere and make their press deadline. To summarize: Mr Coy wants you to understand what deflation is, that it’s a nightmare in an economy where debt exists, and that it slows economic growth to a crawl because everyone holds currency […]
December 12, 2013 | Startups | 3 comments
If you use SSH and are often using your cellphone as a mobile hotspot, or use a MiFi as a hotspot, you probably noticed that if you don’t do anything in your SSH window for a while, the connection drops, usually with a ‘Broken Pipe’ message. Suffer no more… Create an ‘.ssh’ directory off your […]
December 12, 2013 | Startups | 1 comment
I’m at a loss of what to write about Madiba’s passing. I’m deeply saddened. If you’re expecting an email from me today, forget it. I’m at home, drinking strong beer and remembering the guy who saved South Africa’s ass from the fire of a racist government and post apartheid anger. I was in The Parade […]
December 5, 2013 | Startups | No comments
Go now to Tesla.com and listen to Elon Musk’s portion of the shareholder meeting that occurred today from minute 49:00. It’s probably the best insight you’ll get into how entrenched the USA is on traditional cars and traditional sales channels. It’ll also explain why you consistently have a crap experience buying cars in the USA […]
June 5, 2013 | Startups | 1 comment
During the last several years I’ve had the opportunity to see great leaders in action and the misfortune to see great deceivers at work. Both have one characteristic in common. Many would call it charisma, but I’d like to expand on what I think that “charisma” thing is. Pause for a moment. Think about the fact that […]
March 15, 2013 | Business, Randomness, Startups | No comments
Facebook’s second quarter revenue is expected to be $1.1 billion. That would give them roughly $4.4 billion per year, not exactly a number that justifies the $100 billion market cap they were/are hoping for. Compare that to Google’s $37 billion last year with current $200B market cap and Facebook isn’t even a player yet. The […]
Every profitable business has a Money Guy. Sometimes it’s the CEO, sometimes it’s another member of the exec team. Money sticks to this persons hands for reasons unknown. They know how to get the best deals for anything they buy and they have a habit of making more money than they lose. If you don’t […]
July 23, 2012 | Finance, Startup Hacks, Startups | No comments
The Valley has taken some criticism for massively incentivizing the smartest people in the world to work on problems that won’t really benefit our species – like how to get more ad clicks. But that’s not what really bugs me. What really bugs me is that in SV, nothing is built to last. Everything is […]
July 22, 2012 | Startups | No comments
Push 100,000 elements onto a PHP array() where each element is a four element associative array (a hash in Perl speak). Here’s the data being pushed: array( ‘owner’ => 100, ‘host’ => ‘www.example.com.co.uk’, ‘path’ => ‘/this/is/an/example/path.html’, ‘hostkey’ => ‘1111’ ) The memory grows by over 80 megabytes. Pushing takes less than a second or two […]
June 19, 2012 | Startups | 8 comments
Spain has been all over the press this weekend with a 100 Billion euro bailout agreed to by Eurozone finance ministers. I spent the last three days in Spain and I find the coverage I’m reading somewhat disconnected with reality. I drove down to Madrid from where I live in Southern France and spent […]
June 10, 2012 | Startups | 4 comments