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by amirmc 12y ago
Jane Street has offices in London and Hong Kong but their HQ is in NYC. You don't need an H1B if you can recruit to a local office and then do an internal transfer (after some time). No idea if Jane Street does this but I know other te
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Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso: 'Shoplifting saved my life'(bbc.co.uk)
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by amirmc 12y ago
Since I haven't seen any discussion here (yet), I went and looked at the reddit submission. Thought others might find it interesting. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/25vr5t/ocaml_40...
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by amirmc 12y ago
This comment is borderline ad hominem [1]. I say borderline because you don't explicitly use the information you give to counter his views but since you don't actually say anything , that's the impression a reader might take
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by amirmc 12y ago
Probably at the same time corporations were granted legal personhood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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by amirmc 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7409611
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by amirmc 12y ago
> " I've often wondered whether similar issues occur in flatter open-allocation style organizations." What makes you think they might not occur? The article is premised on the idea that humans in groups always form str
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The intimacy of crowds(aeon.co)
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "This is in direct violation of our terms of service as our back-end processor does not permit it." That's from WePay's blog post. Though from the OP it seems there are other campaigns that should also fall foul o
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by amirmc 12y ago
> " I've learned to be sensitive to narratives that don't have a lot to do with reality, and frequently "culture" and "values" are used to try to suggest a narrative to employees that also has very lit
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by amirmc 12y ago
"We've had several instances where values were invoked as reasons why we shouldn't want to do something that was against what I wanted to do." Then I commend you for rethinking. By doing so you've demonstrated tha
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by amirmc 12y ago
IMHO the business environment is still worthy of anthropological study.
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Unifyo: Post Mortem(medium.com)
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by amirmc 12y ago
The only way to give people back control, while maintaining the benefits of 'the cloud', is to make it insanely simple for people to run their own infrastructure. I'm working on the building blocks to make this a reality. ht
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... beyond GCSE level (I guess that's college in the US)" I'd say that's high-school for the US. Your attitude of go anywhere, do anything, may have worked very well for you but it's not actually possib
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by amirmc 12y ago
I found the following interesting: " ... but a source tells us “Altman wants a piece of every billion dollar company, every unicorn.” " Just thinking aloud here so bear with me. In time, no-one will remember how much of the comp
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by amirmc 12y ago
Not true. "Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A Financing" (2010): http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-... "Stack Overflow Raises $12 Million" (2011): http:/&#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
This thread had me really confused for quite a while. I thought it was one person replying to their own messages.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Thanks! If you're interested in deploying to EC2 then you should also look over Mindy Preston's posts [1]. There will also be more work done on improving cloud deployment over the summer [2]. I expect it won't be too long bef
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think you answered your own question (to some extent). Rewriting the necessary protocols/libraries in a type-safe manner already provides an improvement over the current systems. In addition, (with the standard approach) it's qu
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by amirmc 12y ago
For people interested in this I recommend the ACM article on Unikernels [1]. It's a good overview of the approach and the benefits/trade-offs. Then take a look at http://nymote.org to see the kind of things we want to
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by amirmc 12y ago
You don't always require a shell if all you need is info about the system. Such a logging process can easily be compiled into the application and that data regularly pushed elsewhere. If you need to change what's being logged then
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by amirmc 12y ago
You're assuming all this money finds it's way to benevolent causes that the majority might agree with (environmental sustainability, helping kids etc). Do we have any idea about how much of it ends up funding quackery and persona
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by amirmc 12y ago
That is not an accurate TL;DR. The DIY crowd report highly subjective improvements but the scientists are still in the early days of research (with one even ripping to shreds his own work when he discovered fundamental flaws). Some scient
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by amirmc 12y ago
The types of memory you're referring to are (more formally) declarative and implicit [1]. Please be wary of 'pinpointing' any regions involved in higher-level functions. It borders on phrenology and despite the vast inter
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by amirmc 12y ago
That is surprisingly low given the number of YC founders there are now. Paraphrasing something I heard from a (somewhat retired) CEO is that beyond a certain size, you're going to end up with problem employees in some proportion to the
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by amirmc 12y ago
The business world has enough of them already. What it needs are people within the companies to abide by them (inc senior leadership).
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... and be able to walk away." I've always found this to be the trickiest, both in terms of defining it (in advance of a negotiation) and being willing to stick to it (during the discussion). Sometimes understanding
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by amirmc 12y ago
That might explain that they're not really novelty seekers but it doesn't negate the point that they're just early adopters. The article goes to some lengths to make these customers look bad but do they also buy products that
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by amirmc 12y ago
Two things strike me. 1. Are these people just general 'early adopters'? Anyone who's willing to try new stuff is going to use products that ultimately fail in the marketplace. This is the whole 'Crossing the Chasm'

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