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
Note: Please note that if you are interested in a Ketogenic Diet used to treat Epilepsy or Pediatric Epilepsy, please start at Johns Hopkins who are the pioneers in this field. The wikipedia page for the Ketogenic Diet diet also has information on the diet as it relates to treating epilepsy. The diet below is […]
I just finished reading Gary Taubes book “Why we get fat” after hearing him interviewed on Russ Roberts excellent econtalk podcast. Gary wrote a book called “Good Calories, Bad Calories” a few years ago which is quite technical and includes a long history of how the state of nutrition got to where it currently is. […]
Until January this year I lived in Elizabeth, Colorado for a year and a half which is 30 miles from where the shooting occurred 3 days ago. Many of my extended family still lives there. My brother called me in France from Cape Town to tell me it was going on in real-time, via Reddit, […]
My credit card number was stolen a few days ago by someone in Palo Alto right after my site was on Hacker News’s home page. I’m going to choose to believe they are unrelated. Interesting though since I don’t live or work in California and this card has never visited there. On the positive side, […]
July 18, 2012 | Hacker News, Technology, Wordpress | No comments
I’m a runner and I do 3 to 5 miles 3 times a week. About 3 months ago I started doing a new static stretch in addition to my current routine. I stretch before and after my runs for about 20 minutes each time. The new stretch was sitting with legs out in front, touching […]
July 17, 2012 | Running | No comments
I always thought the idea of physically smuggling data was absurd. Even physically transporting data seemed silly to me because if you have broadband you can simply upload or download it. For really big data I have a gigabit connection at a data center where I rent space, so sometimes I’ll do a massive download […]
July 12, 2012 | Encryption, Security | 25 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