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	<description>...fighting entropy one financing round at a time</description>
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		<title>The Secret Trick of Portfolio Effect Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart-as-a-whip VC Sim Simeonov did some math and some simulations and came up with the conclusion that a large &#8220;portfolio effect&#8221; has a major, almost overwhelming, effect on the financial returns of e.g. angel and seed VC portfolios. English translation: make a LOT of small bets in order to win. (Even if most of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/vc/the-secret-trick-of-portfolio-effect-dominance/</link>
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		<title>Can a VC sit on more than 10 boards without f***ing up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation today about VCs and board seats. The essential question is: how many board seats is too many? Happily, the math involved here is pretty low-key (algebra, the highest level of mathematical reasoning to which VCs are required to aspire). One of the best VCs I know always aspires to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/vc/can-a-vc-sit-on-more-than-8-boards-without-fing-up/</link>
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		<title>RubyGems assorted errors, mutating APIs, and fixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re trying to use a newer (e.g. 1.3.6) version of the ruby &#8220;gem&#8221; system to install ruby packages (like rails, rake, etc.) on a legacy system with an older (v. 1.9.0) ruby installed, you might find yourself running into problems like this: $ gem install rake ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) illegal access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/bugfix/rubygems-assorted-errors-mutating-apis-and-fixes/</link>
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		<title>VCs passing for &#8220;soft&#8221; vs. &#8220;hard&#8221; reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently made the choice (mistake?) of telling an entrepreneur, whose business I actually liked and respected, the real reason why I was passing on investing at the time. In this case, there was a new CEO recently signed up to work with a technical founder, there were some family relationships on the team and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/vc/vcs-passing-for-soft-vs-hard-reasons/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;user&#8221; virtual file / workspace in Prolog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re first learning about Prolog, sometimes you&#8217;ll read books or tutorials that show you typing in &#8220;clauses,&#8221; and then immediately thereafter typing a &#8220;query.&#8221; If you use a visual or browser-based Prolog implementation, you&#8217;ll discover that there are two &#8220;modes&#8221; (my term), one for the input of the program / database, and one for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/uncategorized/the-user-virtual-file-workspace-in-prolog/</link>
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		<title>Concentrating in History and Science at Harvard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally at my Harvard Law / Berkman Center blog, but has since been removed. Though it is certainly outdated with respect to the current practices and personalities of the History of Science department, it still may hold some value for prospective students. I originally wrote it as advice to my younger self, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/bugfix/concentrating_history_and_science_harvard/</link>
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		<title>SWI-Prolog from MacPorts on OS X 10.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tried installing the binary of SWI-Prolog (swi-prolog-5.8.2-leopard-intel.mpkg) on my Mac OS X 10.5 box.  For whatever reason, it was bombing out with some nasty errors (Libary not loaded &#8230; image not found).  Read about others&#8217; troubles and decided to try MacPorts.  Couldn&#8217;t get SWI-Prolog to install using a standard: $ sudo port -v install swi-prolog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/bugfix/swi-prolog-from-macports-on-os-x-10-5/</link>
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		<title>CGI.pm hangs in read_from_client under Catalyst / TT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aahhh.  The joys of a Monday evening with the Perl debugger. I have a quite simple Web front-end to a relatively complex back-end system.  The Web app is written in Perl with Catalyst as a framework, and Template Toolkit (TT) as the templating engine.  Since we are smart-asses, we aped the Ruby on Rails &#8220;link_to&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/bugfix/cgi-pm-hangs-in-read_from_client-under-catalyst-tt/</link>
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		<title>The Solution to the &#8220;Carried Interest&#8221; Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The L.A. Times&#8217; &#8220;Money &#38; Co.&#8221; has a piece on the carried interest loophole for Private Equity (including V.C.).  Frankly, almost nobody really understands this issue outside the industry and our advisors, but people outside of our industry are going to be reading all kinds of nonsense populist propaganda saying &#8220;soak the bastards!&#8221; as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/finance/the-solution-to-the-carried-interest-problem/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Getting It&#8221; in IT Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, folks, PKI is hard to grok fully. But if your entire business is being a trust provider (SSL cert vendor), you should try. GeoTrust makes their Root Certs (the things you download and install in order to tell your computer, &#8220;trust things from this authority&#8221;) available via an insecure connection: http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root-certificates/ Unreal.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rlucas.net/uncategorized/getting-it-in-it-security/</link>
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