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High Latency
Posted on November 03, 2009At Udorse this week, we're experimenting with limiting e-mail traffic to twice a day, to create longer blocks of productive time. From a developer prospective this is fantastic, so I just hope it will work out that we can run the rest of the business that way.
Is Social Gaming Just A Scam?
Posted on November 01, 2009Michael Arrington's opening salvo against scammy monetization schemes by social gaming companies is going to be a big story. When the founder of Hot or Not calls your business unethical, you have the beginnings of a real scandal.My gut reaction is that this has to be self-defeating in even the medium run - it's hard to measure hits to user goodwill at the margin, but there's a Wile E Coyote point where all of a sudden that goodwill is gone and you can't get it back...
Twitter Updates
Posted on October 21, 2009http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/21/glass-tweet/
The Visual Display of COmplex Information
Posted on October 05, 2009Chart Porn is on the list of Approved Sources.
Fred Wilson on NY Startup Scene
Posted on October 05, 2009Fred Wilson At Clickable's Interesting Cafe: What Makes The NYC Startup Sector So Great? from Max Kalehoff on Vimeo.(link
The Big Reveal
Posted on September 17, 2009Now that the conference is over, it's finally safe to talk about what we've been laboring over in secret these three long months. Geoff and I left Clarium to found Udorse, a new kind of web application Geoff calls a 'visual endorsement engine'. The core idea is pretty simple - we give you a platform to tag interesting stuff in your pictures and link those tags anywhere on the web...
The Efficient News Hypothesis Fallacy?
Posted on September 14, 2009The theory behind the efficient market hypothesis as applied to asset prices was that they would reflect all the information known in the market, and therefore the real underlying value of the priced assets. Trouble is, investors are strategic, and so the more of them know about and believe in the EMH, the more of them can free-ride on the pricing information produced by other investors, and the less true the EMH becomes...
Listia is Pretty Sweet
Posted on August 05, 2009I got a bunch of mentions this morning to Listia, a cool auctions-for-free-stuff site that makes it easier to coordinate giving stuff away. Users bid on your listing with points from the service (you get a starting balance when you join) so you end up with just one committed donee to deal with, instead of some rabid Craigslist mob...
It's On With Alexa Chung
Posted on July 25, 2009The office is actually full of enormous televisions, but Big Hedge Fund has them tuned to the financial news all day, so I hadn't seen of MTV's new show until today. Isn't it only like a month old? Because Chung is a complete natural. Someone at MTV deserves a gold star for hiring her...
Best Practices
Posted on July 24, 2009Got the first draft of our Terms of Service for Udorse back from Big Law Firm - they're ... aggressive. My friends at the Berkman Center would flip their shit. Time for a redraft...
CSS is Awesome
Posted on July 24, 2009I approve of this product:CSS IS AWESOME by stevenfrank cheap coffee mug on www.Zazzle.com(via BoingBoing)
The Swipple Stallion
Posted on July 08, 2009The current Achewood strips, about writing bodice-ripping erotica into the Williams-Sonoma catalog, have me grinning ear to ear.
1:45 Cycle
Posted on June 09, 2009I am old and slow. That's what I get for only swimming 3 times in the past year. And aging.Must train harder. Only 6 months until the next alumni game!
The Eternal Recurrence of Weblog
Posted on June 09, 2009Back! Out from under the NDA and in the news. I've left Clarium (the hedge fund that required me to shut this place down for a while) to co-found Udorse. This will allow me to replace my previous content of no posts about the financial markets with new content of willfully obfuscatory posts about software development! Progress!
Trapped in Amber
Posted on June 26, 2008Important Note: Recent decisions, like Heller discussed below, are NOT tested on the bar exam.Trevor, stop reading the news.
Individual Gun Rights
Posted on June 26, 2008It amazes me how far to the right I've moved on gun control in the last few years, but the recent decision in Heller strikes me as entirely reasonable. Scalia is way less entertaining than usual when he's being reasonable, but one takes what one can get.
Honors and Signaling
Posted on June 24, 2008What's that? The DOJ under Bush systematically excluded left-of-center applicants from the DOJ honors program? The Federalist Society is a vehicle for affirmative action for conservatives? This is me not surprised.
Without A Net
Posted on June 10, 20081. I graduated! See shiny new title above.2. I just quit the firm. 3 months before I even started. I still think it's a great place and would still be there in a minute, but I was seduced away from my legal career before it even began by some crafty financial services wizards, who used the cunning technique of getting my best friends from college to recruit me...
Arrogance
Posted on May 22, 2008I don't bring my laptop to Bar/Bri class, because this is my first an only opportunity to learn many important points of legal doctrine. Like, say, what exactly is a "tort." Not everyone takes things so seriously. Today, a student a few rows in front of me was confident enough in his mastery of the Duty of Care that he spent the lecture playing Doom on his laptop.
The Giant Pool Of Money
Posted on May 12, 2008This American Life, of all places, has a great story about the housing crisis and credit crunch that breaks it down more clearly and thoroughly than I've seen anywhere else.
Ganstagrass
Posted on May 11, 2008Their severs are crawling under the load from Boing Boing, but I can't really complain since that's how I found them too. Head over to Ganstagrass.com, where the self-titled hip-hop-slash-bluegrass album is available for free download. A few seconds into the first track and you'll know ? these guys are doing something right.
Elizabeth Warron on the Collapse of the Middle Class
Posted on May 06, 2008I'm a little disappointed I went through my time here wihthout having the opportunity to take a class form Warren. I can only take some solace from knowing that I have been able to meet her dog Otis, and he's awesome.
Michael Pollan at Google
Posted on May 06, 2008The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food at the Mountain View campus:
One Sentence Movie Review: Iron Man
Posted on May 05, 2008Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever made, except for The Incredibles.
And Then There Was One
Posted on May 04, 2008In eight hours and four minutes, I will be done with law school. Bring it on, Terry.
Photo Outrage: Ur Doin It Rong
Posted on May 01, 2008The Daily Show tells me that everyone's all upset that the popular star of a Disney kids' show posed for sexy pictures in a magazine, and she's only 14. I agree that the pictures are gross. But not because of her bare shoulder. They're gross because she looks like The Joker:
I Have A Problem
Posted on April 22, 2008Everyone else has more serious things to worry about, but with my semester all but over (five pages to write for Thursday, and then only one exam) I have been apartment hunting on Craigslist somewhat ... obsessively. I made bookmarks of the two neighborhood searches I run so that I can do one-click refreshes, which has me checking for new listsings, judging from my browser history, literally every five minutes...
Cheeseburger Symphony
Posted on April 07, 2008I'm writing papers tonight, and to help me focus I've got Pandora going in the background, playing a station keyed around Mozart. I just tabbed through the window a minute ago, and the entire screen is taken over by a large, full-color ad that has become the dashboard for my internet radio station...
Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpable Behaviors
Posted on April 01, 2008Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have posted Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpapble Behaviors on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Relatively unsophisticated analysis of the problem of unrestricted interrogation of minors who have not been demonstrated to have engaged in culpable behaviors often begins with the assumption that such potentially harsh interrogation would violate a deontic obligaton...
Spring?
Posted on April 01, 2008My weather report says today's high in Boston is a balmy 64 degrees.Naturally, I suspect a trap.
From His Bracket to God's Ears
Posted on March 21, 2008Obama picks Stanford to beat Pitt and make the Final Four
Cross-Registration Thought of the Day
Posted on March 18, 2008Writing a business plan is WAY less fun than writing an motion for summary judgment.
John McCain Has An Extra Gallon of Windshield Washer Fluid If You Need It
Posted on March 15, 2008johnmccainisyourjalopy.com
Kenneth Mack Facts
Posted on February 21, 2008This will only be funny to Section 6, or at least someone who's taken Property from Mack. But if that's you, it will be really funny.
Sunstein to HLS
Posted on February 21, 2008Cass Sunstein, who taught me administrative law when he was visiting last year, has accepted a permanent position at Harvard.I've already written how despite my early skepticism, everyone should take administrative law. Still, a fair warning: I know at least two classmates who went straight to the "recommended prerequisites" box on the course evaluations forms for Sunstein's class and wrote in "Admin...
Football Textualism
Posted on February 05, 2008BUCK: There?s a call that won?t make Giants fans very happy.AIKMAN: No, but the rule clearly states that the player must be completely off the field before the ball was snapped, and it?s also pretty clear that Blackburn was just short. It?s a tough break for the Giants, but still, it was the right call...
BREAKING: Ray Smuckles Taps TPHS Alum Tony Hawk for VP Slot
Posted on January 30, 2008Today's Achewood.Really, the whole election storyline beginning here has been hysterical.
Hulkobamamania!
Posted on January 30, 2008Hulk Hogan endorses Obama:But does he have what it takes to win the Eliminator?
Cloverfield
Posted on January 26, 2008All you need to know about the movie is from the last two sentences of the New York Times review:Like too many big-studio productions, ?Cloverfield? works as a showcase for impressively realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt...
Heath Ledger, 1979-2008
Posted on January 22, 2008As my roommate says, "What's going on with celebrities all of a sudden?"
Rambo Inflation
Posted on January 22, 2008Data via Marginal Revolution:Number of people killed per minute in the Rambo series. * Rambo: First Blood (1982): 0.01 * Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985): 0.72 * Rambo III (1988): 1.30 * Rambo IV (2008): 2.59
Miracles, etc.
Posted on January 15, 2008Andrea is totally putting a whole new person into the world. We should wish her well.
Deep Cover
Posted on January 14, 2008John Rogers (not the one I know) has got his hands on the best CIA interview ever. Go read it.Believe in heroes.
Try Out For Parody!
Posted on January 11, 2008Can you act? Can you sing? Can you dance? Audition for the Parody! It is without question the most fun you can have in law school. Come be a part of this year's show, already being hailed by critics as "one of the funniest ever" and "in a class of its own...
The Right to Exclude
Posted on January 10, 2008Having liberals sabotage the Michigan Republican primary by voting Romney sounds like a lot of fun, but it's also the kind of thing that makes open primaries unconstitutional.Which is kinda too bad.
Elitism
Posted on January 08, 2008I love it when judges slip for a minute and betray some great disdain for juries. Even better when it's tinged with envy for their counterparts overseas unencumbered by the unwashed masses: It is a quiddity of our law that a well and thoroughly reasoned decision reached by a highly skilled and scientifically informed justice of the Patent Court, Chancery Division, in the High Court of Justice of Great Britain after four weeks of trial must be ignored and essentially the same issues with the same evidence must now be retried by American jurors with no background in science or patents, whose average formal education will be no more than high school...
Why I Support Obama
Posted on January 06, 2008Yes, some of it is spite at the media monopoly of Baby Boomer narratives after 40 goddamn years already. See below. But not all of it. Fundamentally, it's because I think you have to strike while the iron is hot. Obama can see the fire, and he brings the biggest hammer...
Priorities
Posted on December 23, 2007Via ATL, this motion to continue at trial on the grounds that it conflicts with the LSU-OSU game is pretty awesome.
Rent to Own
Posted on December 21, 2007Merrill Lynch's expectations for the housing market:But with the sales backdrop still softening, they may have to slice their construction plans by another 30% before we hit bottom on a cyclical basis. And, that bottom could be as long as a year away...
Finito
Posted on December 19, 2007Also, I finished my last exam (Copyright). I am outta here. Touchdown in San Diego at 8:10 p.m. PST.
The Death of the 3L Paper
Posted on December 19, 2007This is the best news in a long time:All J.D. students are required to produce either (1) a substantial research paper of publishable or otherwise professional quality, to be written in close consultation with a faculty advisor, in conjunction with a seminar or workshop (for an addition of 1, 2, or 3 credits), or through independent study or the January Term writing program (for 2 or 3 credits); a 3-Credit project should have the scope and ambition commensurate with a 3-credit course, and students electing 3 credits should make sure that this would not cause them to exceed the 12-credit limit on writing credits nor interfere with their plans to pursue cross-registered and clinical courses, the credits for which, along with writing credits, count toward the 16 non-law-school-classroom credits students may take for degree credit...
Take Admin
Posted on December 18, 2007It was rough at the time and seemed hopelessly obscure, but one short semester later I can already tell you that taking Administrative Law was one best things I have done to deepen my understanding of how tings actually work. Insights form Admin have helped me in all of my classes this semester, including the venture capital class I took at the business school...
This Time It's Serious
Posted on December 13, 2007Boston finally decided to stop playing around and snow for real.Naturally, we received an e-mail informing us that finals will continue unaffected:Dear Students:Just to confirm, exams will take place today as scheduled. Given that most students can reach the school by foot or by public transportation, the Law School has traditionally held exams in the snow without disruption...
Foxboro Hot Tubs
Posted on December 12, 2007Been listening to this all week on my ipod. Supposed to be Green Day's new secret side project, only not so secret I guess. Either way, good music, and free, too.
1-900-Turing-Test
Posted on December 11, 2007Russian chat bots con personals seekers out of their credit card numbers
Barack Obollywood
Posted on December 09, 2007The lip syncing is awesome, but for my money the best part is the dance at 1:25.
The Race is Over. You Are All Winners.
Posted on December 07, 20070 pages still to write. 4 hours until deadline.Who wants shots?
The Race Is On
Posted on December 06, 200715 pages still to write. 28 hours until deadline.Ready, Go!
A Question of Discipline
Posted on December 06, 2007One of the professors in my awesome cross-registered course is a medical school professor, and will be teaching a class in the spring called "Human Disease." This brings to mind two questions:1) Isn't that a fairly broad topic for a one-semester course?2) What exactly were the med students learning last semester?
Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association With an Army
Posted on December 04, 2007Westerners think the Communist Party still has something to do with political ideology. You know there is no political philosophy in China except prosperity. The Communist Party is basically a gigantic Skull and Bones. It is one of the social networks its members use to build wealth together...
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