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Re: Lesson 1 Welcome to Shiny

Jeff DiStanlo — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:41:15 -0000

thanks for leaving this. such a random issue that caused me a lot of headache.....

Re: Spreadsheets in legal documents

Jeff DiStanlo — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:09:36 -0000

i have thought about doing this as well. a static copy of the spreadsheet in the exhibits is helpful and an improvement, but without the working calcs behind the numbers i found that you still need to use words to describe how the calcs work. distribute an excel copy with the legal docs and make sure it hasn't been modified by taking a hash of the file and putting that into the legal doc? then you would know if you were always working with a correct version of the spreadsheet?

Re: The Anti-Science and The Anti-Economics Parties

Jeff DiStanlo — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:14:01 -0000

why can't we have more than two parties? so that we can have a business minded, socially conscious candidate that doesn't feel like they have to kowtow to the extremes of either party in order to become that party's candidate.

Re: Why is Apple making a gold watch?

Jeff DiStanlo — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:10:46 -0000

If you compare a typical middle income consumer to a higher end / celebrity type consumer you find that for common items there are huge discrepancies in purchase behavior: they will likely drive very different cars, they will likely spend very different amounts of money on clothes, they will likely have very different levels of housing and yet they will likely have the exact same iPhones.

That to me is where the gold watch comes in. A way to offer that bifurcation in name brand tech that is so prevalent in almost all other categories of consumer goods, yet largely absent in tech.

Re: Fun Friday: How Do You Take Your Coffee?

Jeff DiStanlo — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:04:14 -0000

'ABK'

Anything But Keurig.

Such a shame what they have done to coffee.

Re: Fun Friday: What Sports Team Would You Buy If You Could?

Jeff DiStanlo — Fri, 30 May 2014 10:01:53 -0000

excellent point!

Re: Fun Friday: What Sports Team Would You Buy If You Could?

Jeff DiStanlo — Fri, 30 May 2014 09:35:32 -0000

i want the harlem globetrotters.

Re: One Month Rails | What's next?

Jeff DiStanlo — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:47:14 -0000

great course. thank you. finished in one week.

before modifying the app any further past the tutorials, i wanted to make a copy of the app and modify that so the course completed version would remain intact.

here is what i did, if this helpful to others:

1 - make new github repo called 'rails2' on github website

2 - used this tutorial to clone 'omrails' repo into 'rails2' repo
(http://bitdrift.com/post/45...

$ git clone git@github.com:YOURNAME/omrails.git rails2

this cloned all the files into a folder call 'rails2' in my current app. i moved that folder up one level in finder to be on par with 'omrails' inside my code folder.

then changed the name of the repo in the .git/config file inside the 'rails2' folder from 'omrails.git' to 'rails2.git'

then ran this command to copy the app to github

$ git push -u origin master

you can now refresh github and see the new repo filled out

3 - then i ran the following two commands from terminal when in the 'rails2' directory

$ rails plugin install git@github.com:get/Rename.git
$ rails g rename_to rails2

this changes all the names in the various rails app files to the new project

4 - then run a rake db:migrate to set up the new database

5- run rails s from the 'rails2' folder in terminal

6 - open localhost:3000 in your browser and you have a copy of your app running. note that the new db is empty so none of the users or images will be there.

but this gives me more confidence to go on and make lots of changes to learn from and know that i could always go back to the completed working version of the app.

hope that helps.

Re: One Month Rails | Image Uploading via URL

Jeff DiStanlo — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:20:00 -0000

did you ever get a fix for this? i am having the same error.

Re: http://fredwilson.vc/post/3142713440

Jeff DiStanlo — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:03:47 -0000

i recently just discovered the deerhunter song 'operation' off weird era cont. pretty good find.

Re: Dude….Who Stole Twitter and More Importantly – Would You Pay The Ransom?

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:47:56 -0000

that mother-in-law quote is priceless.......

Re: Dude….Who Stole Twitter and More Importantly – Would You Pay The Ransom?

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:47:34 -0000

that mother-in-law quote is priceless.

Re: The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:53:57 -0000

agree that there is plenty of noise.

doesn't downplay the fact that there are some very interesting people using
twitter who converse and are more open than what i have seen on facebook. i
have made some good acquaintances/work associates/friends through the
service.

maybe it's just me, but i don't think so.

Re: The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:37:33 -0000

i still think twitter's value lies in the fact that interesting people converse about interesting topics on twitter. i never see that on facebook - i don't care how many people use it. i think the game changer in the ecosystem has to build on that, imho. i am not as concerned about each detailed feature twitter does/doesn't have - for whatever reason it generates more interesting conversations and connections than anywhere else on the internet.

Re: Compounding Interest

Jeff DiStanlo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:50:23 -0000

i looked into the rule of 72 a while back. turns out it is actually more appropriately the rule of 69.3.

plug the following formula into a spreadsheet and you will see that is what it solves to.

(1+r)^n = 2
ln((1+r)^n) = ln(2)
n * ln(1+r) = .693
n * r = .693
n = .693 / r

i felt so betrayed after using 72 for my whole life!

Re: Compounding Interest

Jeff DiStanlo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:55:11 -0000

this is the only spreadsheet/finance book that i ever found useful. been building financial models in excel for 10 years. careful what you wish for about doing this for the rest of your life. it just might come true..... it did for me. lol.

http://www.amazon.com/Finan...

Re: Likes In The Comments

Jeff DiStanlo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:50:17 -0000

i thought there used to be arrows next to disqus comments at one point where you could vote a comment up or down in the list. basically 'like and dislike' functionality. i preferred that to only a 'like' feature. did i dream this or was that a prior feature?

Re: Poverty and the American Suburb

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:16:15 -0000

where are the government incentives to build (or refurbish) urban multi-family dwellings near public transport?

Re: How To Calculate A Return On Investment

Jeff DiStanlo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:39:59 -0000

if your required return for this project is 10% and the irr of the cash flows is 12%, then the project has a positive npv to you. you are correct that irr is the rate that implies a 0 npv. but next step is to compare that rate to your required rate for a project with those risk characteristics to see if it achieves your hurdle.

Re: How To Calculate A Return On Investment

Jeff DiStanlo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:09:24 -0000

what is your take on calculating returns for a longer lived asset? would you throw a multiple of some earnings/cf metric at the end of the projections and include that as cf to investors? i personally try to avoid multiples if at all humanly possible, but so many people use them. to me they fall out of a valuation as a descriptive measure, should not be used to drive the valuation.

Re: A Day Without Disqus

Jeff DiStanlo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:54:35 -0000

can't track my comments in one central disqus page (comments here and elsewhere) if blogs use different commenting systems. more likely to comment on disqus enabled blog due to this.

Re: From Scans To Listens

Jeff DiStanlo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:15:06 -0000

the trend sure looks bleak: http://www.google.com/trend... but looks like it is still doing well in nashville, tn (maybe country relies more on these results).

Re: Exxon Faces Reality

Jeff DiStanlo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:32:00 -0000

how do you interpret that coal stocks appear to be up strong on this news (stronger than market)? markets don't seem to interpret this deal as a bet that natural gas will steal market share in the domestic energy generation business.

Re: Taylor Davidson Photography - Workspaces

Jeff DiStanlo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:51:12 -0000

Is this code for: " I don't have a picture of the outside so don't expect a flickr link"?

Re: Taylor Davidson Photography - Workspaces

Jeff DiStanlo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:32:26 -0000

not sure why, but i have a desire to see the outside of the building that this is the inside of.