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by aamar 16y ago
The original article is about budget problems at state and local levels, so salaries of federal employees aren't really relevant. Aside: the Heritage study gives a premium of 22% when controlling for education level; the authors have not c
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by aamar 16y ago
Your basic pitch seems to be to make administrative work that was previously tedious into something that's relatively fun, easy, and quick. UX improvements might help, but are there instead ways to automate administrative tasks away? I'd
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> Twitter's main innovation was discarding symmetry? This is a common statement that benefits from explicit context: Twitter's innovation specifically was importing the "asymmetric follow" into a social network, a graph in which nodes r
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by aamar 16y ago
Reading group from 2005. The author comments: Not surprisingly, after a very short period of time, this fell to the wayside. The page and schedule are left up for anyone who has interest in their own push through TAoCP. Anybody care to c
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by aamar 16y ago
I've watched a lot of movies, and the time which went into that has been enormously paid back in the form of increased wisdom, self-awareness, empathy, aesthetic sense, and interpersonal skills. And depending on how intently you watch YouTu
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by aamar 16y ago
Palindromic music video: Sugar Water / Cibo Matto / Michel Gondry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys
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by aamar 17y ago
Not sure if this is what strlen had in mind, but it is plausible that a couple of founders have about 15-20% of the company each after an A round of VC and some angel investment. That would explain $2-4m (each) post-tax.
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by aamar 17y ago
If the startup is VC- or angel-funded, figure out what their runway is. You may just want to ask them what they think it is, the revenue assumptions they've used to understand that, and what kind access to funding they have beyond what's i
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by aamar 17y ago
Overall very good advice, but your school may not have professors or advisers who have the time to give helpful guidance to undergraduates. Consider auditing a more advanced class that's related to your interests, with permission of the pro
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by aamar 17y ago
Ventana (in SF) is hiring coders, user experience experts, and other people excited about creating something to make healthcare simpler and better. http://www.ventana.com/corp/careers Coders should apply with a puzzle solution (comments,
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by aamar 17y ago
They mean drawing inspiration from the competition by taking a strong stance about what they're doing wrong; make their approach your enemy: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php
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If you believe that 1% of people want your foobar, odds are good that you'd have a sale within your first 70 offers (0.99 70 = approx. 0.495) . A Bayesian would say that if your prior expectation of sale was 1%, 99 consecutive nos would
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by aamar 17y ago
Jung's writings do often give the impression of importing mysticism into science or of mysticism for its own sake, an impression sustained by some of his critics, supporters, and this (fairly good) article. However, after reading most of hi
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San Francisco, CA
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Innovation sometimes means making a bet that a given "feature" is worth focusing on and doing well. [112 chars]
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Safeway's doing great work and genuinely innovating on multiple fronts. Our startup (URL in my profile) is working on this part of it; great to hear that people are interested. The procedure code part of it is challenging. We're using a c
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by aamar 17y ago
Can anyone here explain how this might possibly work? Key bottlenecks that come to mind are canvas performance, last-mile bandwidth, and most critically, latency: it's one thing to have the server instruct the client to render a set of kno
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by aamar 17y ago
Second recommendation for Landau-Lifshitz. The Mechanics book most closely matched the experience I had with SICP. It uses a small number of powerful, primitive concepts to construct all the major results of mechanics. The book is extreme
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by aamar 17y ago
Can you suggest a better alternative? Currently, we use email/password for authentication, but if our user forgets their password, they can answer their security questions to reset it. To design our list of questions, we worked off of htt
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by aamar 18y ago
I can confirm that this was exploited by a number of students in the Cambridge, MA area, who -- in order to reduce individual risk and consolidate the work involved -- pooled their money and reinvested the pool monthly. One pool I know abo
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by aamar 18y ago
Yes! Clearly: a harness with a slot for a Wii-mote. Implement for cats also, branded "MWii-ow."
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by aamar 18y ago
Your example's math seems wrong: the $10,000 maximum coverage could be hit by multiple people, so I'd be liable for potentially $100 x 100 in a given month. More broadly, health insurance brings up the problem of asymmetric information. If
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by aamar 18y ago
I worked for years for a internet-healthcare startup building a webapp for physician practices, with lots of attention to billing. After a successful IPO, a couple of us have branched out to a new company ( http://www.mariahealth.com ) try