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by DelaneyM 10y ago
The positions they need to fill are unique enough that they will find you if you're a candidate. I was courted pretty heavily by CSIS[1] & the CSE[2] in Canada coming out of school (Waterloo), I assume because of my language profil
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I get where he's coming from, and I don't dispute his thesis. The system does suck. That said, as an employer a lot of this rubs me the wrong way. First of all, his chosen specialty is fraud prevention and security, which is one
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Point. But that's logically irrelevant. I still wonder whether common valley wisdom (as personified by TechCrunch) is a predictor of future success (of the uniquely valley-centric YCombinator program.)
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Does Techcrunch have any history of successfully picking winners from demo days? This just feels like an excuse to make an ad-rich slideshow.
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I mourn the days when it was nearly impossible to succeed in VC before first excelling as an operator.
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Ok, to put it differently, the Innovator's Dilemma was the interpretation of your description I could most easily agree with. It's also valid, because that local maxima can also exist in a software project where maintenance has a
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You're roughly describing the Innovator's Dilemma, which is an entirely different beast (and definitely not what the author of the linked article is referencing.)
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The moment someone suggests that their advantage is being smarter than everyone else (or that everyone over 40 is somehow stupid), I look for ways to short them. I know a handful of F500 execs, and they are formidable. Sure, they may turn
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> ...25 people who had tested positive for drugs were let go and not held. They were probably connected somehow, or paid a bribe. There are plenty of perfectly rational reasons why one might test positive for drugs but not be held. In th
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> What are the probable/theoretical distuptions and consequences? This is actually a pretty well-researched question! (Wish fulfillment I assume.) A good summary of research is here: http://science.howstuffworks.com&#x2F
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I worry about survey-based studies with small sample sets which reinforce conventional wisdom...
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You'd be surprised. Narcotics are remarkably fungible, much to the disappointment of drug enforcement agencies and social workers. I spend a few hours a week at a transitional house for folks who've been down on their luck (homele
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Yes. That is what I meant. :P Thank you.
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I wonder if it's plausible for AWS to release a customized variant on this targeted to their data centers and designed for ease of multi-zone deployment? Something like Azure (which optimized and facilitates MySQL). I realize that red
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Perhaps social networking has changed how we define "friend", and some are adopting the new definition faster than others? I have many connections, but very few real friends. I'm totally fulfilled by that though, and can&#x2
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Not if they want to keep doing business in the US or Europe they won't.
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Crashed 3 times in installation (Nexus 5X). Finally get it installed, and there's nothing in the home area but bad gamification. If it _has_ to have gamification it should be linked-in style, tracking profile completeness. But there is
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SSO has nothing in particular to do with two-step login. Two-step login is just a way of getting a branded experience in front of the user as soon as possible, nothing more. It is neither necessary nor indicative of SSO (which you have des
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Software is a hit-based business on which winners scale very large, very fast. All other things (education, market) being equal, the biggest pool should generate the most hits, and the most advancement.
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These aren't mutually exclusive, it's a perfectly logical situation in a game theoretic sense. But I'm not arguing either, I'm pointing out that the data does not lead to the conclusion.
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Because they can't. Explicitly choosing to hire women and pay them less is not acceptable. Not hiring someone who happens to be a woman at the same rate as an equally qualified man is completely acceptable. And I'm not alleging e
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Says who? No, really, you're begging the question here. "Gender bias isn't a big problem among senior developers, so it can't be such a big problem."
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Data collection: A+ Analysis: needs improvement. From the article: > Based on the data, women are definitely undervaluing themselves in comparison to men. The gap starts around $10k/year for the first year and grows to a staggering
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I could forgive him for the Gawker lawsuit. Outing someone is a terrible thing to do and worthy of a grudge, and by funding legitimate cases he was arguably just democratizing justice. This was where he lost my respect and interest.
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Worry less about "organizational health" and more about "organizational fit". "Healthy" can mean different things to different people. Some employees care primarily about work/life balance, and being able
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This doesn't belong here. I flinched when saw this headline, then cringed when I realized it wasn't just a terribly inappropriate reference to the "gig economy". I wish we could restrict discussion about sex work to thos
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> we're going to let investors specify a reason why they want to meet with each company (optionally). Even better! You guys have really thought this through. :)
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Without knowing how one ranks, though, it's substantially harder to prioritize. This doesn't hurt the big funds so much as it does the small ones. If I were an eCommerce or Logistics company, for example, there are a subset of ni
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Are investors weighted by their fund's size? Or are founders told the ranking they were given by each interested investor? I can imagine many firms go into demo day with the resources and willingness to fund 10-20 ventures, whereas ot
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The first sentence should always be the ask. Give the recipient enough information in their [iOS alert | Gmail excerpt] to read it when they're in the right frame of mind to think it over. Professional email is not flirting. Guys flir

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