… with $172.5 million in revenues over the last four quarters

and

… going public put a market value of $350 million on the 45% stake he retains.

That would make a total market cap of appr. $800 million and revenue of around $170 million.

Compare that to LNKD, which has $161.4 million revenue and $1.85 million net profit in 2010. LNKD was valued initially at $4 billion. At the time of this post its market cap is $8.8 billion.

And people say it’s not 1999 again.

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Best Motion Picture of the Year
Holy cow this year they expand the nominees list for Best Picture to 10. Does that make it harder to guess ? Let’s see:

• 127 Hours: So so, I’m unimpressed. And Slumdog Millionaire took the prize in 2009. No.
• Black Swan: I watched Aronofsky’s The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream but frankly I didn’t understand much. The same for Black Swan. The Wrestler is outstanding though, I rooted for Mickey Rourke in 2009
• The Fighter: Good film, however not enough for Academy Award
• Inception: My favorite.
• The Kids are All Right: indie films often don’t have a chance (with the exception of Crash maybe?)
• The King’s Speech: very good, has great potential to get Oscar
• The Social Network: although i’m a fan of David Fincher, IMO this one is overrated
• Toy Story 3: no way
• True Grit: haven’t seen this, but the Coen brothers have got Best Picture recently, so chance for True Grit is quite low
• Winter’s Bone: haven’t seen this

After all, the ones with biggest chance would be (after this sequence): Black Swan, The King’s Speech and Inception. I pick Inception.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
This one is easy: Colin Firth.

• Javier Bardem for Biutiful
• Jeff Bridges for True Grit
• Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
• Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
• James Franco for 127 Hours

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
I haven’t seen 3 in this list. Will update later.

• Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
• Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
• Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
• Natalie Portman for Black Swan
• Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Best Achievement in Directing
Aronofsky or Tom Hooper.

• Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for True Grit
• David Fincher for The Social Network
• Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
• David O. Russell for The Fighter

Best supporting actor would be Geoffrey Rush or Christian Bale. Both had excellent performance. I pick Geoffrey Rush.

Best supporting actress would be Hailee Steinfeld. I really like Amy Adam in The Fighter though.

Update 1 (26 Feb): Betting market’s favorites:

The odd on The King’s Speech is 1.27 (lower odd implies that a lof of money has been waged on this film). The Social Network is second with an odd of 5.70. A distant third is, suprisingly, True Grit (46).

The odd on Leading Actor is astronomically low: if you place 1€ on Colin Firth and he wins, then you win a whopping 5 cent. The same with Natalie Portan at an odd of 1.11.

In Supporting Actor category Christian Bale is on top with 1.16, while Geoffrey Rush plays catch up at 7.60. Melissa Leo with her role as a manipulating mother in The Fighter leads the group of supporting actress nominees (1.70). My precition in this category, Hailee Steinfeld, is not far behind at an odd of 4.00.

The market really favors The Social Network when David Fincher competes with Tom Hooper for Best Director (1.7 and 2.8, respectively). I don’t expect The Social Network gets that much support.

Note: The odds in this post are approximately taken from Betfair and William Hill. They are subjected to change when gamblers change their opinion.

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VPN client fails to install on Linux kernel version is 2.6.31 and above. The workaround is to downgrade to one of the Linux distributions supported by the VPN Client.

Their supported Linux distros:

• Red Hat 6.2 with Kernel 2.2.12 (released in 2000)
• Red Hat 9 with Kernel 2.4.20 (released in 2003)
• Fedora Core 8 with Kernel 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (released in 2007)

Is it always like this with corporate/enterprise software ? In someway it explains why IE6 is still the dominant browser after all these years.

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2. With kernel 2.6.24 you will need a patch to install Cisco VPN Client
3. Cisco VPN Client: Reason 412 – The remote peer is no longer responding

rm dmesg.txt feh_02 * boot.txt test.txt test.txt~ xxxtest.txt

And this is the result:

zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/lamnk [yn]? n
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/lamnk [yn]? y
rm: cannot remove `feh_02': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `Customization': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Desktop': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Documents': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Download': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Dropbox': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Ebooks': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Movies': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Music': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Photos': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Pictures': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `Truyentranh': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `backup': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `builds': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `boot.txt': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `test.txt': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `test.txt~': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `xxxtest.txt': No such file or directory


Luckily i didn’t issue rm -rf as usual …

I will look at shell’s warning before press Y

I will look at shell’s warning before press Y

I will look at shell’s warning before press Y

[repeat 1000 times]

… and still press y on reflex …

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If you don’t know that Kamehameha is, read Dragon Ball serie.

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• Best Picture: A curious case of Benjamin Button Slumdog Millionaire (a bit off)
• Bes Actor: Mickey Rourke Sean Penn (Sean was really good in Milk but can’t compare to Mickey. Anyway …)
• Bes Actress: Kate Winslet (spot on )
• Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (of course)
• Bes Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei Penelope Cruz (the hardest award to guess)
• Bes Director: Danny Boyle (see the comment down there )

If Slumdog Millionaire gets Best Picture (I highly doubt it), then Best Director would go to David Fincher. (Arrggh)

Updated.

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• Breasts are for looking at and that is why we do it. Don’t try to change that.
• If you think you’re fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us.
• Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
• Crying is blackmail.
• “Yes” and “No” are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
• Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.
• If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” we will act like nothing’s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
• You have enough clothes.
• You have too many shoes.

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• Stay focused. Remember the take-away points you want the reader to remember. If some material is irrelevant to these points, it should probably be cut.
• Keep sentences short. Short words are better than long words. Monosyllabic words are best.
• The passive voice is avoided by good writers.
• Positive statements are more persuasive than normative statements.
• Use adverbs sparingly.
• Avoid jargon. Any word you don’t read regularly in a newspaper is suspect.
• Never make up your own acronyms.
• Avoid unnecessary words. For instance, in most cases, change
  o “in order to” to “to”
  o “whether or not” to “whether”
  o “is equal to” to “equals”
• Avoid “of course, “clearly,” and “obviously.” Clearly, if something is obvious, that fact will, of course, be obvious to the reader.
• The word “very” is very often very unnecessary.
• Keep your writing self-contained. Frequent references to other works, or to things that have come before or will come later, can be distracting.
• Put details and digressions in footnotes. Then delete the footnotes.
• To mere mortals, a graphic metaphor, a compelling anecdote, or a striking fact is worth a thousand articles in Econometrica.
• Keep your writing personal. Remind readers how economics affects their lives.
• Remember two basic rules of economic usage:
  o “Long run” (without a hyphen) is a noun. “Long-run” (with a hyphen) is an adjective. Same with “short(-)run.”
  o “Saving” (without a terminal s) is a flow. “Savings” (with a terminal s) is a stock.
• Buy a copy of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. Also, William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. Read them—again and again and again.
• Keep it simple. Think of your reader as being your college roommate who majored in English literature. Assume he has never taken an economics course, or if he did, he used the wrong textbook.

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Zzz I’m feeling totally numb. None. Nothing. Nix. Still have exercises for game theory tomorrow …….. To hell with it, go to bed now and try to sleep. Life is mine and i live it my way …

The VPS is doing fine, i learned a lot with it. If i got a laptop next month, i’ll switch my PC over to linux.

Đánh được tiếng Việt không nào ?

Update: This post should be removed but i leave it here to remind me how lazy i was.

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Update: Something is wrong with this WP update. I published the recovered posts, but the encoding is still fucked up …

Update: At last i found the solution: every WordPress automatic upgrade from Fanstatico must remove these 2 lines of code in wp-config.php:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

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