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by jdp23 15y ago
Belated response: I didn't mean the MS execs are necessarily right; I just meant that their tweets are very well done -- getting the message across very pithily.
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by jdp23 15y ago
The study described in the HBR article also aligns well with Scott Page's work on diverity, which describes where diverse teams outperform. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html has more.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Well-crafted tweets by MS execs. Pass the popcorn!
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Google+ Stumbles Over Identity(techliberation.com)
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Can Microsoft Make You ‘Bing’?(nytimes.com)
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How Google Dominates Us(nybooks.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
As the article discussed, Bilski was decided on very narrow grounds; and it relates to business model patents, not software patents.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Great point. NCWIT has a good summary of the various factors leading to underrepresentation of women at http://www.ncwit.org/thefacts and the book "Unlocking the clubhouse" goes into a lot more detail.
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by jdp23 15y ago
That's a great point. The HN community's a great microcosm. There are a few sexist jerks, and a number of guys who routinely defend sexist jerks. Of course there are also plenty of guys who speak out about sexism, and then there's what s
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Diversity and Google+: Why it Matters(plus.google.com)
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Google+ U.S. Visitors Decreasing, Spending Less Time on Site(bloomberg.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
"Microsoft sees Bing as more than a standalone Web search engine -- it's a key selling point for the Windows Phone 7 platform." kenjackson made a similar point in our conversation a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27942
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US cyber security chief quits after hacker attacks(guardian.co.uk)
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by jdp23 15y ago
Very true, and I didn't mean to tar all groups with the same brush. There are plenty of great teams at MS which avoid these dynamics. However there are also plenty of people gaming the system and I think if you look at Microsoft's overall
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by jdp23 15y ago
No, the best way to game the system is to suck up to your manager and tear down the work of the people in the peer group you're being compared with. I worked there for about 8 years and saw a large number of people doing both of these ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
Disappointing to see AppSumo using people's photos without permission.
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O'Reilly to adopt anti-harrassment Code of Conduct for Oscon(radar.oreilly.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
If the Google spokesman's claim is correct and there really is manual review, it's remarkably shoddy. One of the accounts that's been deleted was recently on the cover of Wired. Another had assembled a page documenting all the people who
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yes. One-word names seem to be one of the targets for suspended. Plenty of the pseudonyms that have gotten banned have well-known existences at other sites. After appealing you might be able to get it reinstated but there have been a lot
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by jdp23 15y ago
Well said. That was my reaction to the post too.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Well, starting with a position of strength everywhere but search, they've been losing a billion dollars or more a year. They just had to spend $8.5B buying Skype in a market that Messenger should have owned. Microsoft doesn't even have a
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by jdp23 15y ago
Microsoft's strategy back in 2006 was to become #2 in a search duopoly, with a strong focus on the most lucrative forms of search. They've largely executed on it; spending Yahoo into the ground was a key part of it. And they've also incre
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by jdp23 15y ago
As a strategy it reminds me a lot of trench warfare in the first world war. They've been trying it for years and years without success so it's hard to see what's going to change.
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by jdp23 15y ago
"Online services revenue grew by 17 percent year on year to $662 million for the quarter. Full year revenue was $2.56 billion, up 15 percent. The growth came on the back of a 20 percent increase in advertising revenue, primarily driven by s
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by jdp23 15y ago
I'm not saying it's the same kind of relationship. But educational institutions and professors certainly have some duties to students.
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by jdp23 15y ago
When you've got some kind of duty [in the legal sense] towards the person sending the mail. For example a doctor quoting a patient's email would be problematic. Just to be clear, I don't know the law in this area and I'm not saying what h
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by jdp23 15y ago
I can certainly see why NYU wouldn't want to defend a professor who quoted a student's email without permission.
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by jdp23 15y ago
First of all take it with a grain of salt. That said, there are at least a couple of ways to look at it: 1) There are reports that Google offered some of its product managers tens of millions of dollars to keep them from joining Twitter.
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A Partial Retreat From Full-Body Scans at Airports(cato-at-liberty.org)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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Reputation.com Raises a New $41 Million Round(blogs.wsj.com)
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