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by holdenc 14y ago
His Wikipedia article mentions he previously was "chief technology officer" at PayPal. Obviously the issue at hand is credibility, but I also wonder how someone with no tech credentials could become CTO of PayPal, where article also says h
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by holdenc 15y ago
The funny thing about successful people is they are treated with great respect, while the college drop-out, street musician or starving artist doesn't get taken seriously -- until -- they become successful. And all of a sudden they can cha
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by holdenc 15y ago
There are probably plenty of bros who can write code and be well-liked with the sales dept. But how many bros are willing to spend 16 hours straight to debug the latest broken distro of some open source project because only that has the fe
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by holdenc 15y ago
I am pretty sure that paying off a loan with the shares would mean that the shares had been sold in the eyes of the IRS. If not, this seem to be a pretty simple way to avoid paying capital gains on the shares of even small stock sales.
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by holdenc 15y ago
At some point though the borrowed money needs to be repaid, and this would be with income (capital gains or earned income) that is taxed, right? So, I am curious how this works out in the long run. I imagine there is a twist to this I am
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by holdenc 15y ago
Bollywood > Hollywood
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by holdenc 15y ago
Working from home in a foreign country for two years now. Biggest takeaways: - Working from home on my own projects is much more fulfilling than working on someone else's. - No matter how much money you earn, most people assume that people
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by holdenc 15y ago
This video reminds me of why I loved living in New York. And, it epitomizes what is great about that city -- many people who believe that great art is worth the sacrifice.
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by holdenc 15y ago
It's funny how often software is priced according to the anticipated support burden, but users feel entitled to support regardless of the price. I once worked at a financial analytics software company and our end users were non-technical,
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by holdenc 15y ago
Also, not especially popular in the press are non-exciting start-ups that are none-the-less profitable. There are many mom-and-pop web hosting companies and online stores for niche products doing just fine. But alas, this doesn't seem to
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by holdenc 15y ago
I don't expect to change the world. The occasional unsolicited advice is all I aspire to. I do have a family and have gone without, and I have posted signs on telephone poles to get work and make ends meet. This actually was a much bette
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by holdenc 15y ago
I am willing to risk my karma by saying that people complaining about these things don't seem to get the following: - Going to college doesn't mean you deserve a job more than someone else. Got an ivy league degree? A PhD? Get over it. -
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by holdenc 15y ago
When an investigator tells someone that they have two choices: confess and face potentially five years in jail, or plead not guilty and face potentially twenty years in jail, what sounds like the best deal?
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by holdenc 15y ago
I don't like most police either, but that doesn't make me a criminal. It's a matter of disliking people with bad manners. Scheduling important office hours and taking a break in the middle is bad manners. Not returning smiles is bad mann
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by holdenc 15y ago
It's good that you've found a career that will tolerate your unapologetic selfishness, whining and indifference. All of these things will surely limit your success outside academia.
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by holdenc 15y ago
I don't miss dealing with tenured professors.
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by holdenc 15y ago
I have a feeling there's more to it than a clear account number reference in the URL. It was probably a base64 encoded account number or a non-salted hash of the account number (ie. rainbow table-reversible) and the quality assurance analy
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by holdenc 15y ago
Yes and no. There are some people who make a living asking 100 people a day, and banking on the five people who say yes. Then others are fortunate enough to have customers, investors and interested parties knocking on their door -- simply
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by holdenc 15y ago
Here's one implication: a scammer decides to send a "Your Gmail account is being canceled" phishing email to every address there. It clicks through a to fake but convincing Gmail login page that captures the user's real login info. I've al
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by holdenc 15y ago
Is this question really that hard to answer? I'll take some stabs: - Dalton (school) for the kids, and a nice donation to the alma matter to assure legacy status - Museum board memberships for the wife - A vanity career in writing, photogr
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by holdenc 15y ago
Right -- and these are all companies with multi-millions in revenue. There are many other companies, many with only one founder, that are doing $200K+ with no funding. And these people are often treated like tech-world outsiders! When I l
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by holdenc 15y ago
The Ladder's preys on the illusion that there are such things as "$100K+ jobs," when in fact there are truly just "$100K+ employees." Someone either does or doesn't have what it takes to add enough value to warrant that salary. People who
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by holdenc 16y ago
Bottom line -- if you don't pay your bribes in China, don't expect to do business there. For anyone who has every done business in China it is plain to see that all of this hassle is designed only to extort money.
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by holdenc 16y ago
It's worth noting that month-on-month price fluctuations are prone to noise and are fairly poor indicators of a more general price trend. This is why the Case-Shiller housing indices are a three month moving average. That said, no doubt th
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by holdenc 16y ago
Tumblr will have the last laugh here. There's practically no market for tasteful online advertising or paid software in China. So, while he might rack-up users it will be hard to monetize this.
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by holdenc 16y ago
What Scott Adams doesn't mention is that while you can learn entrepreneurship on the fly, learning about the classics, literature and art is a social experience. I've met lots of successful individuals who seek out high-culture trophies of
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by holdenc 16y ago
Well, if you went to Harvard for a "valuable degree" then I really don't feel sorry for you. You are lucky to have gone, and should consider your degree a parting gift at best. As a grad student at Yale I had to endure this same elitism f
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by holdenc 16y ago
How about American irony and sarcasm? Here in Asia sarcasm is almost non-existent. Also, Americans value humor as a way of showing affection for someone. Whereas in Asia displays of servitude are a sign of affection. For example, if I en
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by holdenc 16y ago
PhotoShop stock filters (even the really kitschy looking ones) can be combined in moderation with other techniques to make some startling surfaces such as glass, skin and water. They are tools for generative design, and not really decorati
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by holdenc 16y ago
In principal it's quite wrong and scary, but in reality I have to believe the government is too incompetent to actually do anything with their mountains of AT&T collected data.

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