WillEngler

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by WillEngler 10y ago
Can someone with better knowledge of finance than me explain the significance of this sentence? > A.W.S. was 10 percent of Amazon’s revenue, but more than 100 percent of the company’s operating income.
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by WillEngler 10y ago
> On a related note: I'm so bummed that this is the trend in languages. Just so bummed. Python and Ruby are really nice languages. To have to switch from that to Javascript feels like a big step back in developer happiness. Speaking
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by WillEngler 10y ago
I find "What will your grandchildren think?" to be a decent heuristic. For example, I admire my grandparents a great deal for their community service. My grandmother is in poor health, but she still gets around for charity board m
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by WillEngler 10y ago
This is just lovely. Thanks!
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by WillEngler 10y ago
Thiel prides himself on iconoclasm. He really likes to ask people, "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" For that reason I'm surprised about his attitude towards Chicago, and the non NYC/SF USA at
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by WillEngler 10y ago
I take Uptake (Chicago industrial IoT unicorn, http://uptake.com/ ) as a positive case of Chicago's tech scene embracing the area's manufacturing strengths.
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by WillEngler 10y ago
Someone who has lived in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, now Chicago here. I think Pittsburgh is much more similar culturally to Chicago than NYC. When I saw the post lump Pittsburgh in the Midwest, I had a feeling the "But wait, Pittsburgh is
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by WillEngler 11y ago
Urban Center for Computation and Data | Chicago | Systems Engineer | ONSITE | Full Time About us: We are a research group at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that develops tools to better understand cities. http:&#
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by WillEngler 11y ago
Urban Center for Computation and Data | Chicago | Systems Engineer | ONSITE | Full Time About us: We are a research group at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that develops tools to better understand cities. http:&#
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by WillEngler 11y ago
I had a completely different reading. I thought the fable portrayed Alice as thoughtful and bright. The punchline is that this talented student was right to leave programming for cooking because the lack of sequential consistency in high-le
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by WillEngler 12y ago
My experience supports the view that even with aid, American university prices can be prohibitively high. Back in 2011, I got into a few prestigious schools (CMU, U Chicago) that talked a big game about need-based aid. They trimmed a good b
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by WillEngler 12y ago
The author's name is Ryan Avent. From his personal site, it looks like he's from the states and he got his MSc in London. As for discomfit and insoluble, those words strike me as being in line with the Economist's style.