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by dharmon 10y ago
If you regularly watch movies at all, you are far better off spending a few hours calibrating by reading real reviews of movies you actually saw. You then can find 2-3 reviewers who match your tastes (pick a few cause nobody will match exac
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by dharmon 10y ago
OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500). dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes. Thanks for playing!
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by dharmon 10y ago
I'm at 495 and can't downvote. Quick, 5 people upvote me and I'll tell you if it kicks in.
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by dharmon 10y ago
I can't answer for parent, but I've read 50 books so far this year. I'd say I spend at least 2-3 hours a day reading, mostly at night before bed and also in the morning. On the weekends this is higher as I spend almost the wh
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by dharmon 10y ago
The book The Everything Store talks about how Amazon uses counterfeit goods to sort-of blackmail high-end goods to letting them sell. I think the book gave the example of a high-end kitchen knife brand, maybe Wüsthof, that would not allow
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by dharmon 10y ago
I remember as a 14 year old reading André Lamothe's Windows Game Programming for Dummies . I think in one of the Appendices he has a tip, something like: "Your first 10 games are going to suck, so get those out of the way as quic
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by dharmon 10y ago
I think she is what Game of Thrones would call a "summer child". Her entire career prior to Yahoo had been spent at a company where a) they had only experienced an upward trajectory, and b) she was never exposed to the real busine
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by dharmon 10y ago
Do you really think her plan all along was to steal from Yahoo? She was already incredibly rich, and no amount of pilfering was going to get her onto the billionaire list. Quite opposite, in fact. The only way for her to get to the billiona
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by dharmon 10y ago
This is the first link I found of this speech (it's called "Practical Thoughts about Practical Thought"), but its an application of combining mental models from many disciplines from the man himself: http://mungeri
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by dharmon 10y ago
To make it a classic arbitrage you would hedge by shorting an "equivalent" asset. For example, if 1/1000th of JP Morgan Chase's assets are those also in your portfolio, then for every 1000 long shares you would short 1 s
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by dharmon 10y ago
I wish the author had provided some references, because his claims are conflicting with what I have read from many other sources. I am mainly thinking of a) many forms of priming are firmly established at this point, and b) Kahneman specifi
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by dharmon 10y ago
Maybe you're looking far too restrictively and only thinking of tech companies, because of course it happens. Last 10 years? Alan Mullally at Ford and Richard Anderson at Delta are two off the top of my head.
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If you have some specific follow-up questions I'd be more than glad to answer. A general overview could get pretty lengthy. :)
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Sure. I agree that in the short-term (daily, weekly, even monthly) it's largely random, or at least effectively random, as in its no use trying to predict it. My starting point is what I call the Fundamental Theory of Value Investing,
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by dharmon 10y ago
Yeah, I figured the best I would ever do was around $100k / year, and with a huge time commitment. I would not recommend day trading either. A long time ago you could find arbitrage opportunities, but those have been essentially squash
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by dharmon 10y ago
I also started playing poker a lot in college for "fun money", and was looking to step up my game. I went a different route, though. I did the math and realized that even at a very good hourly take, I would never make very much mo
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by dharmon 10y ago
When I say anchor high I don't mean X + $25k. I mean 2X or 3X.
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by dharmon 10y ago
Yes, but this also works in reverse. Wouldn't you much rather the anchor be in your hands? You always say a crazy high number, but you can couch it in terms where its not necessarily the number you are asking for. Anchors work like t
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by dharmon 10y ago
"Don’t give the first number in your salary negotiation." Ugh, I get so tired of seeing this. I only see a few situations where this is true: 1) You really have no idea what someone in your position in your area makes. 2) You have
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by dharmon 10y ago
This is a sober reminder for those raising money. Even if you go with the "friendly" VCs, they will be happy to screw you over the moment you show weakness. (not that Benefits doesn't deserve it) No doubt during Zenefits&#x27
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by dharmon 10y ago
Even more than "a couple of years". About 15 years ago I worked at a day trading firm and we were writing models that used machine learning. At the time we thought of it more as "computational statistics", but its basica
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by dharmon 10y ago
Little known fact (I think), Billy Wilder really wanted to write and direct a Marx Bros movie. As a huge Billy Wilder and a huge Marx Bros fan, that would've been fucking awesome, to say the least. If you live in the bay area, the Stan
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by dharmon 10y ago
And doubly so for when they change the underlying link! It is frustrating to make a comment then get a response, "ugh, didn't you even read the article?" Uh, yes, I did, but it was a different article!
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Such a thing exists. It's called "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold (of "Programming Windows" fame). It's very good, although the machinery of setting up the Turing machine can be tedious.
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I think you're on to something. If I were them, I would be working furiously on killer features that the others can't duplicate for whatever reason instead of wasting time on email and pictures. Cross-platform support is a good
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by dharmon 10y ago
Yeah, he licenses SparseSuite out for commercial use. His personal payout would be very tiny (if any at all), after U of F's take and money his lab gets. But at least its some funding to keep his lab going.
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by dharmon 10y ago
You're right, of course, and the two little words "his group" don't do justice to the army of PhD, masters, and undergraduate students who spent their time on this massive codebase. But in this case, and in the context o
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by dharmon 10y ago
This story reminds me of Prof. Tim Davis of Texas A&M, formerly Florida, who I heard had a hard time getting tenure, after making the software and mathematical world a much better place. He (and his group) developed CHOLMOD and UMFPACK
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by dharmon 10y ago
Oh wow. You're right. I remembered that it was higher than the usual, but not that much higher. Thanks.
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by dharmon 10y ago
So the big wins claimed were all early in the first round: Instagram, Twitter, Skype, etc. They made about $100M off Skype, and probably comparable or less from the others, but if they proceeded to raise $3B and invested it in companies lik

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