jfno67's comments

jfno67 | 3 years ago | on: Parsing / Recursive Descent Parser

I read it on my own, while I was writing compilers for a reengineering tool. I have to admit this was a very long time ago.

jfno67 | 3 years ago | on: Parsing / Recursive Descent Parser

I feel obliged to mention "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" or more commonly known as the dragon book. I loved that book.

jfno67 | 5 years ago | on: Lemonade files S1

I think you can say that all insurance have at least partial network effect built in. Quality of underwriting comes from a diverse and large risk portfolio, which leads to profits and pricing accuracy.

jfno67 | 6 years ago | on: Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

Locksmith use to do the same kinds of scam on 411 services and yellow pages listings. The fees to have multiple business phone lines with the phone company was the real curation.

jfno67 | 8 years ago | on: Google Cloud Text-To-Speech Powered by DeepMind WaveNet Technology

I decided to do the opposite so French text with the wavenet English voice, pretty funny too.

jfno67 | 8 years ago | on: Mark Karpeles Will End Up Taking $859M from Mt. Gox Bankruptcy

Isn't this the choice you made at filling time when you specified you wanted to be repaid in BTC?

jfno67 | 9 years ago | on: Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time

Beating random doesn't mean making a return. A lot of VC plainly and simply lose money.

jfno67 | 10 years ago | on: Dozens of oil tankers cluster off the coast of Texas due to oil price fall

I wonder if all those tankers next to Fujairah are indicating the same thing. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:56/centery:...

jfno67 | 12 years ago | on: The Driverless Car Revolution Should Not Begin with Cars

You can also have a convoy of 1 manned truck with n driverless truck that play follow the leader. You end up with a train model on the road infrastructure.

jfno67 | 12 years ago | on: Poll: How do you create the website for your startup or side project?

Once I heard Marissa Mayer recount that she asked Sergey Brin where he got the idea of doing such a minimalist design for Google. Sergey's answer was: I don't do HTML.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Google Play revenue grew 17%, iOS revenue contracted 0.7% in Nov 2012

Contracted vs grew is still in opposite direction and significant, but I doubt those numbers are right, they should both be growing.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled

After the new $10M in cash it is $20M/3,000,000, so they are worth $6.66/share

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Building A Factory vs. Discovering A Goldmine

The formula by Sivers he refers too seems to be the best approximation to value idea. I still like to put emphasis on execution instead of idea, since almost everybody I talk with that value idea is in fact doing some analysis paralysis and will start working when they get that "great idea".

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: How many metrics matter for your startup? Only one

Cool recap of all the aspect you want to monitor while building your business. While giving you the way to not drown in too much information by focusing on one.

In retrospect it is obvious, but so hard. I always wanted to focus on the metrics where we were doing well or where we knew what to do next.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.

This subject was presented in a book I read recently, along with many interesting aspect of how our mind works. The book is definitely worth reading, it was "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

I wonder if it can explain the fact that I don't fall or bump into obstacles when I walk and read at the same time...

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Marissa Mayer Employment Offer Letter

I saw her current net worth being evaluated at $300,000,000. I doubt this moves has anything to do with money, but she would not want to be seen as a cheap hire either.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

The article cited never asked "Is 12,000 ...". They say "Look cameras are not that bad since most are on premise and are privately owned and operated." I find that this comparison is dishonest and is not relevant.

edit: changed "you cite" to "cited", The response is not to the OP.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'

The fact that the majority of camera is privately owned is not relevant. The question remains: "Is 500 cameras too many, too little or just about right, for a county of 1 million?". I have no idea, but I don't see why the ratio public/private is important.

jfno67 | 13 years ago | on: Google Maps for Android Labs Offers Offline Caching

I used it while abroad. Since the GPS works, you can see where you are on the map, which is a big plus over only a paper map. Obviously getting data access would be even better, but it's a nice free alternative.

jfno67 | 14 years ago | on: Light Table - a new IDE concept

I immediately thought of Visual Age for Smalltalk when I saw this, but having been done is no reason to not try again.