Hacker News: johncoogan

New comment by johncoogan in "Why Facebook is spending billions on the metaverse"

johncoogan — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 22:03:36 +0000

Okay, maybe it's just Twitter, Stratechery, and Matthew Ball, but in my little filter bubble... it felt like everyone was talking about the Metaverse non-stop.

New comment by johncoogan in "Can Boom Supersonic Succeed Where the Concorde Failed?"

johncoogan — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:22:16 +0000

Author here, what do you think would give this kind of content more substance? Still very new to this and genuinely looking for feedback!

Review of Manned Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program [pdf]

johncoogan — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:33:57 +0000

Article URL: https://nuke.fas.org/space/anp-gao1963.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28371001

Points: 1

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Airbnb Manages to Do Business in China

johncoogan — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johncoogan.com/how-airbnb-manages-to-do-business-in-china/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27888876

Points: 2

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New comment by johncoogan in "Why Epic Games Took 25 Years to Make Fortnite"

johncoogan — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:20:44 +0000

Hey thanks for posting this!

New comment by johncoogan in "Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company"

johncoogan — Mon, 03 May 2021 15:53:28 +0000

By "never be technically possible" do you mean:

Not possible in the usual 10 year timeframe we consider for Silicon Valley type companies.

Never in a million years, completely violates the laws of physics.

New comment by johncoogan in "Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B"

johncoogan — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:11:34 +0000

Pricing in a small chance that the acquisition won't go through (maybe due to FTC clearance, but could be other due diligence related items).

New comment by johncoogan in "Y Combinator Failed Startups"

johncoogan — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:02:47 +0000

TheMelt wasn't in Y Combinator, but it is an interesting story.

New comment by johncoogan in "Chef to be acquired by Progress"

johncoogan — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:10:20 +0000

It depends on the price they paid for stock or the exercise price for stock options. If you were an early employee and your received options when the company was only worth $10m or something low, you could make money.

The risk is that one of the later investors had a ratchet or something that would allow them to claim more of the proceeds in a sale. You can't just take $220M cash, subtract $105M in funding and pass that to the founders and employees. The preferred shares were probably "participating" meaning they get a portion of the common.

Here's an example of a ratchet: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/07/unicorn-s...

New comment by johncoogan in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

johncoogan — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:48:23 +0000

Came here to comment this.

New comment by johncoogan in "A first look at Unreal Engine 5"

johncoogan — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:37:44 +0000

Does anyone have any theories as to how Nanite actually works? I've never heard of virtualized micropolygon geometry before and it sounds a bit buzzwordy. Do we think they are just loading the full model into GPU memory, or are they baking down various LODs and normal maps at compile time through some automatic process? Either way, it's a huge workflow improvement. It's just unclear what's actually happening...

New comment by johncoogan in "Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?"

johncoogan — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:32:28 +0000

Agreed, Peopleware is great. Very good for engineering leadership specifically.

New comment by johncoogan in "Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019"

johncoogan — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:28:55 +0000

Just shared a google sheet with you.

New comment by johncoogan in "Space Engine"

johncoogan — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:21:02 +0000

Highly recommend the Space Engine subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/

A man who helped found Soylent has a new startup

johncoogan — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:58:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/soylent-founder-new-startup-nicotine-gum-help-smokers-quit-2019-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18985021

Points: 1

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New comment by johncoogan in "OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results"

johncoogan — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:57:04 +0000

I wonder how long it will be for them to build a version that actually uses the screen images as opposed to all the data from the Bot API. Seems like it would be a lot harder when you add an image processing step and restrict processing of information from across the map without actually scrolling over there.

New comment by johncoogan in "Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp"

johncoogan — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:11:15 +0000

Thanks for building this! I was wondering about this a few months ago, glad it’s finally here. This is such a good example. https://twitter.com/johncoogan/status/890780575480430593

This Robot Fights Back Against Robocalls

johncoogan — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:45:54 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/this-robot-fights-back-against-robocalls-e61c7d89bf27

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288141

Points: 3

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Using FOIA requests and IFTTT to trade biotech stocks

johncoogan — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:40:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-mission/trade-biotech-stocks-like-a-hedge-fund-with-these-hacks-ff153c907b0b?source=linkShare-e7717b714f88-1505248680

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232358

Points: 2

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A blockchain in 200 lines of code

johncoogan — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:08:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@lhartikk/a-blockchain-in-200-lines-of-code-963cc1cc0e54

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149719

Points: 1

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