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I Invest In CEOs Who Are Learning Machines – Feld Thoughts(feld.com)
3 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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LARGE x RARE == DIFFERENT: Why scaling companies is harder than it looks(blog.asmartbear.com)
2 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
I wonder about these workshops (even asked Uncle Bob Martin about them in a recent thread). I can't shake the feeling they are the exact opposite of agility (obviously, he is better qualified than me to judge that). Their limited time
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. To be honest, up till now I haven't heard of a suicide problem at MIT, Technion or TAU, but I wasn't exactly at the right circles anyway. I wonder why doesn't the student body (here or a
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by Nimi 13y ago
Yes, sounds like a serious dilemma - try to get help, and you risk being committed. I have a feeling that private psychiatrists know they face a repeat game with a patient they shipped to such horrendous treatment at a ward, and thus have t
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by Nimi 13y ago
I read your comment as a joke, but it hints at a serious matter. I'm a TA at TAU EE, and my students really don't have enough time to sleep. Every deadline is a mix of mails begging for an extra day, and submissions at 5 AM. Talki
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by Nimi 13y ago
Yep, wanted to make sure it's not just me missing something here. Left the OP a message in the comments that she might want to look into this, maybe she'll see it.
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by Nimi 13y ago
Hmm... so what's the deal with the, for lack of better terms, ex-parte hearing Yale put her through? If the hospital is an unrelated medical institution, how did her medical history get released to the school? Is this even legal? Also,
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by Nimi 13y ago
Interesting point. I've recently read about a case in my university where the student, who was disaffected with the university's response to a sexual harassment complaint, filed a complaint with the police, then was told the polic
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thank you for the response. Your comment and other ones indeed explain the matter - some colleges are basically their own cities, located near a small town. My own conclusions from this appalling story are: 1. If you're at a U.S. unive
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by Nimi 13y ago
Non-US resident here. I found the treatment of the OP appalling, but I have to ask: what's the deal with schools doing this stuff? I'm a PhD student at Tel-Aviv University, the medical services we have on campus are limited to a
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Y Combinator Announces Female Founders Conference To Offer Startup Guidance(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
In their defense, this is EE, not CS. The main thing that matters to them is to get the future engineers proficient in C. When I push for SICP, I claim it will achieve this better than the proposed alternatives, which are all-C and Python-t
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by Nimi 13y ago
Wow, the Brian Harvey essay you linked to is exactly what I was hoping to find. A down-to-earth explanation of the benefits, as opposed to Dijkstra's formalism and its potential to alienate non-programmers (in fairness, I only read the
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see if I can gather a few supporters before I request their help.
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thanks, would love to. But I don't have a fighting chance with that. Pushing SICP through would be an unbelievable feat.
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by Nimi 13y ago
I'm trying to get my faculty to switch to SICP as the intro to programming course, instead of a planned migration to Python (I'm at the EE department, which is completely separate from CS). Can anyone think of good arguments in fa
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by Nimi 13y ago
Curiously, I found some of these negative to be true for "managed" companies as well, certainly when the company is large enough: 1.Lots of chaos - yep. "It’s not entirely clear what’s happening, but there is a lot of activit
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The poor don't work because they are economically rational - redux(chrisstucchio.com)
12 points by Nimi 13y ago|7 comments
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The negative side of no-manager companies(ryancarson.com)
4 points by Nimi 13y ago|2 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thanks for replying. So why are you still of the opinion that losing weight is just a matter of energy balance? Are you familiar with other studies which have shown this claim to be correct? As you can probably tell, I'm a low carber m
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by Nimi 13y ago
I'd be curious to read be your response to this - genuinely asking here (skip to 37:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0
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by Nimi 13y ago
I'm not from the U.S., so as an outsider it seems to me socialism, which is the prominent political stance in some parts of Europe and a respectable opposition stance in others, was/is constantly demonized there, similarly to how
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by Nimi 13y ago
Marx also treated capital as a way to control the means of production. One could argue that with automation, especially software automation, controlling the means of production is possible without a significant amount of capital. Seems to m
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by Nimi 13y ago
"""Mark Zuckerberg starts programming, starts messing about with computers when he's like 10 or whatever. By the time he's starting Facebook he's a hacker, and so he looks at the world through hacker eyes. That
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by Nimi 13y ago
You may want to give this a try (although Facebook recently changed their code, and the author is still struggling to keep up): http://www.socialfixer.com/
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by Nimi 13y ago
If you're interested mainly in at-a-glance summaries, this might fit: http://www.ipcc.ch/
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by Nimi 13y ago
I have to wonder: there are very competent "old technology/mainframe" programmers. They debugged complex programs using very primitive tools when we were all in diapers. Obviously, there are also very mediocre old programme
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Carmat's artificial heart finds its way to first human patient(theverge.com)
3 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Well, that was somewhat predictable. You've got a lot of managers. Some of them don't like to code, and regardless, all of them certainly need to be employed. What would they do if their shop started doing XP? One or two can becom

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