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by jdp23 16y ago
It's very analogous to Microsoft's situation earlier this decade: the hiring process, power structure, and rewards have been optimized for years around a certain kind of person with certain skills. Now, other people with different skills a
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by jdp23 16y ago
Actually, identity is who you are, and authentication is proving it.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Agreed. Back in the 1980s I did my Masters' project in Prolog (transistor sizing, part of a "silicon compiler") and it gave me a lot of new tools for thinking about programming in general. The same's true for other langauges that offer dif
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What questions should a company expect from investors after a pitch competition?(quora.com)
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by jdp23 16y ago
Interesting perspectives. I was there in 2006-2007 when they made the decision to throw resources at the problem and challenge Google head-on in algorithmic search. The strategy at the time was to become #2 in a duopoly by investing at a l
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by jdp23 16y ago
Wait a second. In the right environment, good developers can estimate time fairly well on most things, even for tasks they haven't done before. I'm as prey to the "eternal optimism" factor as anybody else, but it's easy enough to work a
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by jdp23 16y ago
The Veracode report at http://www.veracode.com/blog/2011/04/mobile-apps-invading-yo... has some more detailed analysis and decompiled code.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Nice work, Jim!
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by jdp23 16y ago
I thought hapless' point was very clear: "A "flat" structure overvalues the opinions of the loud and aggressive, with little room for more pensive contributors, especially women." Coincidentally enough, Jason leads off the article with an a
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by jdp23 16y ago
His book "The 7-day Weekend" is good too.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Agreed, the answer summary is very weak on this question and I've seen that on a lot of others too. Anybody can edit an answer summary to improve it, but I very rarely do: it's too hard to do justice to individual answers without imposing
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by jdp23 16y ago
At the meta-level, this thread's an example of the potential of a system like Quora. It's been open for nine months and still attracts good new responses that get voted up. The brief bios add a lot, and so do the pictures. If you just wan
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by jdp23 16y ago
And look how well it's worked for them ...
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by jdp23 16y ago
That's a really uninformed statement.
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by jdp23 16y ago
The Union of Concerned Scientists' recent 3-week update is at http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear You might consider getting news from other sources as well. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has dailyish updates at http://
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How America Describes Itself In Dating Profiles (Infographics)(fastcodesign.com)
1 points by jdp23 16y ago|0 comments
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Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit(latimes.com)
30 points by jdp23 16y ago|33 comments
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by jdp23 16y ago
The US government is pushing for stronger data retention laws here as well: http://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/department-of-jus...
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by jdp23 16y ago
“Would I rather date someone for a personal connection, or a business connection? One will take time away from my startup, and the other will bring valuable resources to it. The answer is quite obvious really.”
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by jdp23 16y ago
Actually Color used an early version of this technology to determine how VCs would react to their pitch and tuned it appropriately. This really helps explain both the amount they raised and the confusing quote from Sequoia that "we haven't
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by jdp23 16y ago
I agree, I also don't see it as a partisan issue. Both parties have forward-looking people who understand the importance of transparency and the value it can bring to society -- and both parties have insiders who jealously guard informatio
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by jdp23 16y ago
Exactly. Many techies avoid politics and activism or fail to learn the skills to do it well. The learned helplessness leads to becoming the low-hanging fruit.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Yeah really. It's almost like politicians in DC don't really want the information to be available ... That said, the HN community makes a real point of how apolitical it is. Rather than organize and work with government transparency advo
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by jdp23 16y ago
This is great. But why isn't it async?
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by jdp23 16y ago
great links, thanks. http://www.quora.com/What-are-best-practices-for-building-so... has some more ...
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by jdp23 16y ago
I'm skeptical of his perspective that there's something uniquely creative about founders that doesn't apply to everybody. Programs that make resources available, provide support networks, and teach skills all increase entrepreneurship (mic
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by jdp23 16y ago
for those thinking about shaping communities, this is a key takeaway: "What we have to do is create structures that invite people to give what they can, when they can give it." good advice for all of us!
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by jdp23 16y ago
Excellent points. Also, in many environments, the standards about how different contributions are valued [and hence how ability is assessed] have been defined primarily by those with certain kinds of privilege -- one more reason to questio
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by jdp23 16y ago
Excellent point. Great execution on a limited or "me-too" idea can still result in a good outcome. But great execution on a disruptive idea can lead to a much larger success.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Yeah really! The German Constitutional Court had already rejected the law. But the battle goes on in many other countries ...

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