Steve Bergstein's Comments

Feld Thoughts : Hey Mom, I'm A Book Salesman

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:54:24 +0000

Well done, Jason!

Feld Thoughts : Hey Mom, I'm A Book Salesman

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:53:51 +0000

It's available for Kindle.

Feld Thoughts : My Quest For Measuring Everything

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:29:53 +0000

I have to say that I expected this post to be about business rather than personal metrics. How does your penchant for "measuring everything" apply to your investments? That said, the actual content was a pleasant surprise but I'm not sure that I want to know all those things about myself. If/when I ever get back to running, perhaps.

Feld Thoughts : My Apparently Successful Experience With Vicodin

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:13:38 +0000

That's great! Mazel tov!

Feld Thoughts : New Life Experience - The MRI

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:08:06 +0000

Getting older sucks, Brad. As we've discussed a few times, I've had a number of issues that required medical attention - I have an appointment with an orthopedist on Tuesday. I've avoided surgery so far but I don't know how long that's going to last. Good luck with the back - I was diagnosed with a couple of bulging discs (through MRI as I recall) a few years ago.

Feld Thoughts : New Life Experience - The MRI

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:01:18 +0000

I'm surprised, John, that you'd put that in writing in a public place, with your full name associated with it. Is there any risk that your insurance company could find it and use it against you?

Feld Thoughts : Mr. Feld Goes to DC To Talk About Innovation

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:55:39 +0000

Why the opposition to net neutrality?

Feld Thoughts : Mr. Feld Goes to DC To Talk About Innovation

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:54:42 +0000

Friedman, according to Feld, said "anyone who graduated from a US university." A community college is not the same as a university. If the language were changed to say "bachelors degree" or "masters degree" from an accredited university, would you be more comfortable with the suggestion? Or, if it said modify the student visa program to allow them to stay in the country and work for some period of time, with a path to citizenship that required a good (to be defined) employment history? The point is that innovation (AKA entrepreneurship) creates jobs and should be encouraged.

Feld Thoughts : The Bullshit of Government Statistics

Fri, 7 May 2010 14:56:53 +0000

On the other hand, it makes sense to have two different metrics developed in two different ways. They allow you either to have more faith in your conclusion or to ask deeper questions about what's going on in the economy. It's common to make compromises in measurement approach because of problems with measurability. This is okay provided that you measure the same way each time. For example, how do you measure the number of people who have given up looking for a job but will resume their search if/when the economy picks up? Just who are all these people for whom work is apparently optional? Frequently changing the methodology and then comparing "old method numbers" to "new method numbers" is just inexcusable.

Feld Thoughts : Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:23:29 +0000

I've recently been involved in gathering and consolidating data from a number of sources, frequently ending with some collection of information in Excel. I've been developing a bit of code in VBA and VBScript as a result. While I have some really old books on VB/VBA, when I need to figure out how to do something, I usually just do what Nate and Natty did: Google for it (e.g. "VB range find lookin", which I executed when I needed to do a search in an Excel vb macro). There are many, many sites, many of them forums of one sort or another, with information that's useful. So many, that I can't say that I go to any particular site regularly. I just Google. The only site that I see frequently is ExpertsExchange, which I generally ignore because it's a pay site and I can usually find what I need elsewhere.

Feld Thoughts : Failing Fast at Standardized Seed Deal Documents

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:46:25 +0000

Sounds like the beginnings of wizard for generating seed deal documents.

Feld Thoughts : Shifting to Twitter for Deal Evaluation

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 14:06:03 +0000

But the date on the Foundry Group announcement is 3/31!

Feld Thoughts : Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado (Including Me) Because of Colorado HB 10-1193

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:29:05 +0000

Brad - could you establish your address as Alaska instead of Colorado and get around Amazon's restrictions (from your personal perspective only - I don't mean to support Colorado's new policy)?

Feld Thoughts : The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:01:08 +0000

Everything you wrote above makes sense. What doesn't make sense is granting a patent on the concept or implementation of a doubly-linked list.

Feld Thoughts : The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:33:11 +0000

The thing is that there's research that shows that Wikipedia is very accurate. See: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor... and, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikip...

Feld Thoughts : The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:12:25 +0000

This "you can't use Wikipedia" thing pisses me off (I'd be really interested to hear about your meeting at PTO). Of course, Wikipedia itself shouldn't be cited as an authoritative source, but why couldn't PTO (or my daughters when working on school projects) use the bibliography of a Wikipedia article to re-do the research done by the article's authors?

Feld Thoughts : The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:09:52 +0000

Then I'll own the same implementation in Scheme, the Lisp variant used in the 6.001 course that Brad referred to above. Absurd!

Feld Thoughts : Software Beats Network In My Book

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:56:01 +0000

Will they ever learn?

Feld Thoughts : Software Beats Network In My Book

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:18:36 +0000

Please tell me that you're kidding about the 100 mbps. Every time someone involved with computer technology has said a thing like this, it's proven to be wrong, starting with Cambridge mathematician Professor Douglas Hartree, around 1951:

I went to see Professor Douglas Hartree, who had built the first differential analyzers in England and had more experience in using these very specialized computers than anyone else. He told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built — one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them.

(According to this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson)

Feld Thoughts : Software Beats Network In My Book

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:13:46 +0000

And without the internet, we'd still have useful devices (as Brad pointed out wrt the iPhone).