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by gxs 17y ago
The company where I work currently, an analytics company, was founded by a McKinsey alumn. The company is going on 9 years. Our biggest client last year was McKinsey and when he first started the company (i.e. before biz dev), he leveraged
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by gxs 17y ago
Past performance is not indicative of future success. Even if the article were true, I think a little fear of your competition is healthy. I like how people are sweating it. I hope it spurs innovation and growth here at home.
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by gxs 17y ago
I can never read articles such as these and shake the author's holier than thou attitude toward tv and tv watchers. To say you don't watch TV now is not the same as saying it twenty years ago. I mean, how different really is it to watch an
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by gxs 17y ago
This was an interesting article if only for the nice summary as I wasn't completely aware of the situation. The tidbit in the end surprised me though- Toyota is trying to hard to spin that they stopped selling cars as a safety precaution. T
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by gxs 17y ago
I've been fortunate enough to never have been employed at a company where the employer things its good practice to ban certain websites. How common is this? What field do you work in?
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by gxs 17y ago
I've personally always wanted a phone with a 5-6 inch screen. I really, really wouldn't mind carrying it and would use it all the time. As it is now, I use my phone's 3inch screen so often, just becaues I'm too lazy to pull out my laptop. I
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by gxs 17y ago
I like reddit. In fact, it is in my rotation of sites I check at least once daily. I visit HN mainly for the technical/startup articles. I would prefer, personally, for general interest items to remain on reddit, since I check both. It's no
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by gxs 17y ago
Empathy is an important trait no doubt. If you find yourself, however, to be one of those people who seem to lack this trait, I urge you to look at the positive. Someone who is in inclined to empathize, I find, is always more prone to try t
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by gxs 17y ago
Thanks! I am a fan of Daryl Morey and what he does in Houston. A tidbit you might find interesting: he among others hold a sports analytics conference in Boston at MIT every year. The big thing last year was evidence that the hot hand theor
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by gxs 17y ago
I generally appreciate sports analytics, but in the sport I watch the most (NBA) they have a long way to go. While I admit this is a personal failure, I too often find the articles (especially by guys like Hollinger) obnoxious. They love to
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by gxs 17y ago
This may be the wrong venue (e.g. site for startups), but there is a reason the big companies have people that specialize in each of the areas he claims a founder/developer has an advantage in. While early in the business you benefit mostly
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by gxs 17y ago
I agree 100%. I was pissed that I got to the end of the article and it was just a customer service rant for a nook he never, ever received. No comment on the device itself. These situations happen from time to time. I understand his outrage
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by gxs 17y ago
I would like to make 3 small points: Most importantly: Athletes that have intentions of going pro in a major sport make up a tiny percentage of student athletes. The majority of student athletes care a great deal about school and graduate w
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by gxs 17y ago
Not only is his take more interesting, it somehow carries more weight hearing from a Nazi general. Thanks for the link.
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I hope users that are peeved enough realize that this constitutes AT&T breaking their contract. This in turn for the user means that they can cancel their AT&T account without paying an early cancellation fee or, in my experience, t
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by gxs 17y ago
I agree- the irony in google fighting for the next platform to be open regardless of what it is, is in google monetizing data that I would rather remain 100% private. Google is fast approacting too good to be true status, at least for me pe
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by gxs 17y ago
Actually this is in no way surprising. I just graduated from school and let me tell you that the real brain drain is in our smartest students defecting to finance. Why would someone with a 4.0 in a hard, rigorous subject go into engineering
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by gxs 17y ago
Is it just me or does it bother anyone else that as a viable alternative to overpriced, almost malicious credit card companies begins to gain some modicum of success, it is immediately bought out by none other than one of said evil credit c
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by gxs 17y ago
In their position, you would do the exact same thing: protect your market share. The burden isn't on Microsoft to play nice; the burden is on you to come up with a better product and unseat them. Sure, they make it difficult, but I will ref
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by gxs 17y ago
That is exactly how I took it, and it stands today.
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by gxs 17y ago
I appreciate your stance, but you completely missed my point. The point was that users aren't exactly rational. Sure, they won't need a new OS, but Windows 7 is good, and on that merit alone people, especially with old XP machines, will swi
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by gxs 17y ago
I think the article is a little short sighted. While He definitely presents a possible scenario, I don't think it will be that simple. I've been running Windows 7 64-bit on my home machine for quite some time (legally, first RC, then RTM) a
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by gxs 17y ago
There is a cheesy quote that says genius is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration. In college, I found this to be especially true, at least in the math department. While most people would like you to believe that they breeze through the subject,