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by cloudkj 16y ago
Not very surprising, since most large companies have treasury departments responsible for managing the company portfolio. The graphic in the article shows that most of their non cash assets are in debt securities. Not as exciting as the tit
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I think the caveat is that the money is earned doing something you enjoy. I'm sure most of us here can attest to that.
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I read the article and immediately wanted to find out the actual holdings they allocate in their stock-based and bond-based portfolios. However, I couldn't find any information on the actual holdings, which is information that I consider to
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by cloudkj 16y ago
So does the SSD portion effectively become a cache for the traditional platter HDD portion? Seems similar to an L1 cache for a HDD. Of course, as the article states, the caching algorithm will be application-specific. At 4GB however, it wou
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I second kd-trees. I also only recently learned them, and at first encounter thought that they are in concept similar to binary space partitions used in computer graphics. Nearest neighbor search can be implemented using a pretty simple two
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8-bit StarCraft(youtube.com)
94 points by cloudkj 16y ago|19 comments
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Eerily reminds me of something Ender would say to his army in Ender's Game (currently reading, for the first time, and only about 2/3 through). To apply to startups: I know of at least one big company that has the "it's still day one" mantr
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Hear hear. Also, these statistics are nowhere near the average income tax statistics I saw when I finished my tax returns on Turbo Tax this year. The average income is much, much higher as are some of the other categories (capital gains, et
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by cloudkj 16y ago
I think he means a portfolio of investments in companies involved in the manufacturing and production of iPads, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad#Manufacture It sounds like it would be a good idea, but you'd actually have to take a l
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by cloudkj 16y ago
The way I think about it, in the simplest form, dynamic programming essentially boils down to a way of solving a problem with overlapping subproblems and an optimal substructure. Memoization is a technique that can achieve similarly efficie
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Well, memoization still allows for the natural, top-down recursive formulation, whereas dynamic programming is bottom-up. Note: in some cases, a solution using memoization can be more efficient. See page 15 here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu
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by cloudkj 16y ago
Why not 5x, or 15x? How do you quantify how much "better" one app is than the other? That, to me, is the hard part. Instead of aiming for 10x, continuously and incrementally improving your product until it reaches the threshold will suffice
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I feel that some of the pictures are taken out of context and portray an inaccurate image. In Asia, it's common for schools and workplaces to allow students and workers to put their heads down for naps in the middle of the day. The article
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Microsoft promotes faster than Amazon since Microsoft uses an internal numerical rating score that can potentially improve each review cycle. Also, the offers I heard about (from a few years ago) from both companies were comparable with res
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Sex and the single black woman(economist.com)
29 points by cloudkj 17y ago|25 comments
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by cloudkj 17y ago
How does equity figure into the equation? I'm guessing even equity doesn't matter much for startups, since they'll have very low valuation to begin with anyways.
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Couldn't agree more :) I cringed through many pages of "The World Is Flat" in the same manner. The book was quite insightful and was a worthy read, but his treatise of technologies was unbearable at parts.
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by cloudkj 17y ago
This is pretty much what Nassim Taleb alluded to in "The Black Swan": relying on Gaussian-based models for phenomena that fall in "extremistan" instead of "mediocristan" when Mandelbrotian-based (more fractal like) is dangerous. Looks like
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I believe that guy effectively took short positions on the firms with toxic assets. His positions were pretty much insurance bets, which paid off when a lot of these firms tanked during the crisis.
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Cool video, but it seems like all the "magic" is taking place in the custom software, and the details aren't revealed. Anyone have more insight about this?
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Amazon Associates is a pretty good program that you can integrate into any consumer-facing site. When the Facebook app platform first came out a few years ago, I whipped up an app that integrated with Amazon associates in about a week's wor
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by cloudkj 17y ago
"Game designers, particularly video and computer games, benefit from integration of flow principles into gameplay design." Gamers will get into zones, similar to athletes, where their reaction times become ultra quick and reflexes are super
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Well, the alternative isn't that great either. At Berkeley, many undergrad business students had the option of taking an intro CS course (symbolic programming with Scheme; awesome course) or an interdisciplinary course called "introduction
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by cloudkj 17y ago
From the looks of the teaser, looks like it could be similar to Little Big Planet, which has been a hit on the PS3.
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I think the best approach is to read up on asset allocation (other posters have discussed various books and resources), recognize the amount of risk you're willing to take on depending on your timeline, and make a plan for periodic allocati
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I've read the books you listed, and whole heartedly agree with the Graham/Dodd/Buffet crowds with respect to fundamental analysis. However, I don't think this philosophy is mutually exclusive with the Efficient Market Hypothesis. I personal
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I've always run with toe first, even though I don't go barefoot. It wasn't until I finished the book "Born to Run" that I realized so many people run with heel first. It just looks non-intuitive and inefficient. The most straightforward tra
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by cloudkj 17y ago
I've considered Vibrams as well, but have been holding off due to the look. You can also try the Nike Free line, which were made with the barefoot running idea in mind. Those have been around for a few years.
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Tangentially, how do you get into a PhD program without any academic letters of recommendation (if, for example, you've been working in industry for a few years)?
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by cloudkj 17y ago
Why are the culprits in the story referred to as "actors"?

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