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Ask HN: Is our emphasis on startups healthy?
2 points by danm07 9y ago|2 comments
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by danm07 9y ago
Wish my prof in college gave this as a course reading.
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by danm07 9y ago
There is no clear cut definition of "business." You have a picture in your head of what you want the future to look like, and "business" is all the actions associated with making it come true, and this can vary dramatica
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by danm07 10y ago
The answer to most questions beginning with, "where will (insert job) be ... ?" will be invariably be, "done by a neural net," as is partially covered in this article.
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by danm07 10y ago
Distracting aside: It's amusing that languages use so many references from the coffee industry. I wonder how long it will take to fill a Starbucks menu.
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by danm07 10y ago
The phrase shameless self-promoter comes to mind.
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by danm07 10y ago
Yes. It is a joke.
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by danm07 10y ago
Good to know I'm not the only one who finds Tim Ferriss cringeworthy.
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by danm07 10y ago
That's not surprising. Hollywood is egregiously wasteful in its spending. If it takes $100M to film a movie, that equates to ~100 Series A rounds. With a ~80% write-off rate, that's ~20 successful companies for roughly the same mo
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by danm07 10y ago
That's it. Incognito mode, permanently.
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by danm07 10y ago
> Everyday I'm holding onto the shares is the same as if I made the decision to buy that many shares on that day While I'm not a banker, I find with this method looking at investments highly disagreeable. The price of the stock
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Ask HN: Why Is AI Open Source?
4 points by danm07 10y ago|3 comments
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by danm07 10y ago
This post just goes to show how many people use the upvote button as a way save articles without reading them first. The flywheel of clickbait titles in action.
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by danm07 10y ago
Nice.
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by danm07 10y ago
Non-compete is a standalone agreement; if it is signed, it is valid. It's probably also structured as part of his employment agreement, and independent of the acquisition settlement.
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by danm07 10y ago
Typical acquisition also includes an employment contract, and a significant portion of that settlement is paid upon the contract's completion.
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by danm07 10y ago
I get that and at my company, we restrict IP to the realm of our product line, and products developed using our resources. If our business sold sewing machines, I wouldn't expect the guy to hand over his encryption algorithm if he buil
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by danm07 10y ago
I read in a subsequent article that ZeniMax was upset about John Carmack taking five of his best guys with him to Oculus, one of whom violated his NDA agreement. I presume that's what led to this debacle.
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by danm07 10y ago
These types of things really irritate me. Corporate NDA agreements are total shams. We couldn't hire a P/T contractor because the engineer signed an NDA agreement with his company that pretty much said everything he developed, ver
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DeepMind's PathNet – potentially describing how general AI will look like(arxiv.org)
1 points by danm07 10y ago|0 comments
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by danm07 10y ago
I'm no expert on this, but as a consumer, I wouldn't mind having a heavier phone if it meant a longer battery life. In fact, I much prefer a device with some heft.
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by danm07 10y ago
Is it just me or is Goodenough an amusingly paradoxical last name for an inventor?
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by danm07 10y ago
Get rid of all the fake users.
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by danm07 10y ago
We were in the online-video space, which made sense to be based in LA. Our investor was also based in California, which made sense to leverage his network there to raise subsequent rounds of funding.
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by danm07 10y ago
I'm Canadian running a company in California, and every time I cross the border, I get pulled into the office for an hour. There was one time last year where I got detained for 8 because they didn't believe that a college dropout
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by danm07 10y ago
Growth is not a function of immigration, but of population size. Immigration itself is just a means to get more people. It also increases diversity, which is like bringing in new people in into a company, which is always stirs things up...
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by danm07 10y ago
Tell that the millions of taxi-drivers around the world about to be without a job in a couple of years. I think what they're trying to say is that government has a role in shaping policy in light of robots... at least I hope that'
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by danm07 10y ago
I think this is kind of a thumbtack solution to a more systemic issue. Self-deception, in my opinion, never works: you have to force yourself to be slightly dumber than you are. The other reason why it doesn't work in the long-term is
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by danm07 10y ago
Good point. Although, I tend to think the timespan of contracts, whether employment or temporary, are of little moment if the employer were to fall on hard times. If they don't have the cash, termination is going to happen either way.
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by danm07 10y ago
All this hiring and firing makes me think that the economy should err towards gigs rather than FT employment. i.e. Full-time work is only full-time until it ends, but the ending is inadequately spelled out on the side of management, so it b

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