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by blah32497 13y ago
Sounds like a CS PhD! hahaha (maybe Math?) I want to preface by saying that for most work that goes on in Silicon Valley a PhD adds nothing. I know what you're talking about. However outside of SV there are a lot of places where that&#
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by blah32497 13y ago
There is a whole world of programming outside of web frameworks and cell phone apps haha. Think of the people that for example made the traction control system for your car. You think the same person that worked out the math in some simulat
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by blah32497 13y ago
I totally see your point and for a lot of people what you're saying will resonate (I can see this really catching on with gradstudents), but the question really boils down to: do you really want your engineers spending time learning th
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by blah32497 13y ago
(Note: I haven't tried Julia yet) This would save so many man hours... At my shop, for every MATLAB engineer (mostly older guys) you need a C++ guru (mostly younger guys) to translate his stuff into something that will run fast. On the
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by blah32497 13y ago
"Microsoft really isn't a consumer company" yeah, except the video game market and the whole hardware market... It's definitely the most obvious area for growth that they have available. The enterprise market is more or
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by blah32497 13y ago
How about how when people use their smart-phones and the lil camera points at whoever is opposite them? It always kinda weirds me out and I wonder if they're taking a picture. But I think people are more or less okay with it now and 99
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by blah32497 13y ago
Yep yep. The John Rawls's theory of justice should be a required topic in school. What matters is how well the poorest in society are doing, not the income distribution. If a system creates a mega rich class but ends up with the poores
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by blah32497 13y ago
Finally someone who gets it! I've been saying this for ever. Our society is moving to one with fewer and fewer secrets. When Facebook pushes privacy concerns, it's actually just reflecting our new reality and trying to stay releva
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by blah32497 13y ago
Sorry, but this is such a vapid statement. Yes, sometimes people ascribe things to culture which aren't due to culture, and sometimes the converse is true too. It's one thing to say "No, actually you're ascribing somethi
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by blah32497 13y ago
Well they aren't really rich if they can't spend the money haha But I see your point: Though it would seem that the way people currently get paid with stock options - where you pay tax when you "cash out" - is effectivel
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by blah32497 13y ago
"If you abolish corporate income taxes, then I could have my company loan you the $1000 and receive the interest; it would then compound at 5% per year, and I would only pay income tax when the money is paid out to me as a dividend. In
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by blah32497 13y ago
I used R day to day, but it's NOT as easy as MATLAB. There just isn't the same level of documentation and clarity.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Well why doesn't that square up with the valuation then? Did Dropbox lowball themselves?
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by blah32497 13y ago
I thought the author sounded like a curmudgeony luddite. Ofcourse anything "different" will feel wrong for a little while. You have some muscle memory that you need to get over. So if you really wanna write a review, suck it up an
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by blah32497 13y ago
EDIT: "benmanns" pointed out the point of confusion. thanks! I don't think we're disagreeing. Sure they bought 2% not 100% of the company, but that's not really relevant. The $200M/yr they currently make is I a
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by blah32497 13y ago
I don't really know how these numbers are generated, so I really have no idea what I'm talking about - but just back-of-the-napkin: 100*($200 million / $10 Billion) = 2% So assuming no growth, the investors are back getting 2
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by blah32497 13y ago
"what happens when you're too heavy on the "doing" end of the spectrum?" I can't think of a startup, but I can think of people like that. The first people that come to mind are the Mythbuster people. Very handy
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by blah32497 13y ago
A very good description! I wanted to add a few things that I noticed to balance off what you said. For context I did a 2 month internship at a Japanese company near Tokyo ( a major multinational, very very salaryman-oriented). I'm cle
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think it's ruthless in regards to their suppliers/competition/clients, not their employees. The reality of the capitalist system is that you can't be "nice" to your competition or suppliers.
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by blah32497 13y ago
They're gambling on getting an even larger userbase and having Facebook offer $5B
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by blah32497 13y ago
lol @ "profitable" What rock have you been living under? The SV game hasn't been about having a normal profitable business model for the god-knows-how-long. You gotta get "value" and traffic and buzz and hype! Then
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by blah32497 13y ago
Can you give examples of medicines developed thanks to computational chemistry simulations? I'm rather ignorant about this area of research, but it always seemed to me kinda fruitless? Sorta like high throughput screening - a ton of re
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by blah32497 13y ago
Your reply reminds me of the fact that people often confound loneliness and boredom. When your life isn't very engaging you start to feel like you don't have enough people in your life, and you need people to vent your frustration
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by blah32497 13y ago
One thing I'd highly recommend is looking at is: 1 what are* your secrets 2 is there a way you can make it so you have fewer of them secrets are incredibly parasitic and ultimately stressful. There was a recent post on HN about this (
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by blah32497 13y ago
My anecdotal experience 3 years ago living in Japan (near Tokyo, for 2 months doing an internship) was that the prices on average were similar to what I experienced back home in California. Occasionally some things were surprisingly more ex
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by blah32497 13y ago
Since there is all that extra room... The 80s called, can we please have bench-seats back? I had an old crown vic a few years ago and I missed those huge sofa-like bench-seats all the time. Modern bucket seats in comparison are incredibly c
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by blah32497 13y ago
"they risk Microsoft or Sony beating them to the punch" I very curious what the competition is doing. They're obviously working on competing products, but nothing has been made public.
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think walking through walls would be very unlikely. I spoke with someone who used VR goggles many years ago. The tech demo he was show was simply being in a room with a bottomless pit in the middle. He said even though you knew that in re
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by blah32497 13y ago
"They were fined for not doing their job" Which in this case was also the SEC's job... Your statement doesn't contradict refub's
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by blah32497 13y ago
Does anyone else think it's kinda crazy that banks are required by law to act like policemen? Seems like that's the government's job.

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