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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Likewise the new iTunes. But at least that's not a key component of my daily wage-earning. I feel your pain.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
In the bookstore of my local community college, I saw the required intro calculus text selling for around $140. That is wrong in so many ways. And it's instructive to contrast textbook prices with the very reasonable student discounts on so
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
You keep using that word "monopolist." I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
All this talk of chemical drinks and medical foods and intermittent fasting reminds me of the saying about another diet regimen: "Do vegetarians live longer, or does it just feel that way?"
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Interesting (and cool) that he came to design with a EE degree, so he really does understand the entire stack, from elegant user experience down to the p-n-p junction.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
The best approach to job-hunting I've ever found is described in the book Ask The Headhunter. Being on an H-1B will make your search more difficult, and the book doesn't address visa specifics. But when you do get interviews, it gives you t
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Plus: I'm relatively comfortable distributing my GV number widely, since I know I can selectively block calls to it in a way that I can't with my iPhone (cell number). Minus: My GV calls have noticeably lower voice quality.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Resistance is futile - but I applaud the effort.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
If you're 25 years old and have no college debt and no responsibilities of any kind, $50K may be enough to live on in SF or in the Valley. (Although probably not without parental assistance, or some sweet group housing deal.) If you're 35 o
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
The combination of having a relatively low-skill and undifferentiated job (as a driver) and of having no employment protection (as a contractor) is unfortunate. I feel for these men, but I think their best choice is to find other employment
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Would be interesting to get a comparative retrospective on why these guys lost while Quora seems to have come from nowhere solidly into the mainstream.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
The OP mentions hustle - probably the most important skill of all. One good way to get into the startup scene is to actually start something, yourself.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Isn't this a simple build (aka invest time to learn and operate) versus buy decision?
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Google must believe that the barrier to entry is now (only) brand awareness, rather than product (search) quality. Let's see whether that remains true forever.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Very, very cool - thanks for posting. The math principle here is similar to the logic underlying gerrymandering.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Improv teaches us to say "yes, and" to opportunities. Note that "yes, and" is very different from "yes, but." Source: _Improv Wisdom_.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
His approach assumes (among other things) that we know absolutely EVERYTHING there is to know about nutrition. I'm fairly confident that that's not a good assumption. And that a long-term diet of his soylent will lead to some nasty deficien
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Going public with a dispute is high maintenance. For right or wrong, it has the effect of making everyone less willing to do business with you, because they don't want to take the risk that any dispute they might have with you will also b
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
I applaud the effort to think vision-first - but practical reinvention also needs to consider the provider's priorities and costs.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
From the description in the article, these two solo founders had quite a bit more traction than the typical applicant team. Their initial source of funding is unclear.
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Interviewing for j-o-b: when to ask about "we own you" non-competes?
2 points by auctiontheory 14y ago|3 comments
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Well, it all depends what your goal is. If your goal is to embarrass and piss off the people who have annoyed you, naming names will accomplish that goal. If your goal is to make a broader point about an industry, naming names will just dis
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
I'm can't tell what the benefit of Draft is supposed to be, but for folks looking for a great tool for writing longer works, check out Scrivener. Bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hand of it you'll really appreciate the ability
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
I have published my own book, and know quite a bit about the industry. Self-publishing has many pluses, but it also has many disadvantages relative to working with a large publisher, the largest being (for an unknown): building demand in th
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
All the same advice applies if you're trying to hire someone over the age of 30. Of course, if you prefer NOT to hire anyone over 30, and you don't want your hiring process to appear illegally discriminatory, then advertising your alcohol c
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Asians may be over-represented relative to their proportion in the population at large, but the question you should be asking is "are Asian applicants over- or under-represented among applicants with certain grades and test scores?" This is
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Okay. This may all be obvious to others here, but is super helpful for me. Thanks. I really like the look of Ruby, so I'll focus on Ruby on Rails for the back end, and maybe learn just enough PHP to be able to tweak my Wordpress blog. Cool.
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by auctiontheory 14y ago
Thanks, very helpful. I'm taking their jQuery({}) class now; I've seen Bootstrap in action - mistakenly thought it was tied to Ruby. Dynamic resizing for mobile was pretty impressive. Will check it out next. (I assume it must have some li
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What language easiest for proof of concept?
2 points by auctiontheory 14y ago|4 comments