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by johnny99 12y ago
That's warped. Not that I have illusions about academic collegiality (I've worked in higher education), but that sounds more like the behavior of a certain car service's execs, not a university president.
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The Best Books I Read in 2014(gatesnotes.com)
48 points by johnny99 12y ago|72 comments
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by johnny99 12y ago
Or SEO'd at all. It's easy, and maybe appropriate, to hate on SEO, in part because it works. If you have a bunch of people pouring money, thought, and energy into optimizing crap content, and many people producing high-quality &#x
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Rensselaer President Leads List of Highest-Paid Private College Leaders(nytimes.com)
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Little Bits(littlebits.cc)
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Who’s Behind the E-paper FES Watch?(blogs.wsj.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
I'm intrigued, and would love to hear of anyone's experience using this, particularly in a production environment. One question: does it have performance implications, one way or another?
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Global Forecast Systems (GFS) Update: Effective December 17, 2014(nws.noaa.gov)
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Visualizing Silicon Valley's Lack of Diversity(forbes.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
Nothing, but you get a bank loan for that, or bootstrap. VC money comes with strings, including the expectation of high growth. I agree very much with your sentiment, but I think the solution isn't changing VC, it's finding other
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Why Apple doesn’t do MVPs(bokardo.com)
5 points by johnny99 12y ago|2 comments
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by johnny99 12y ago
I use Lyft all the time and almost always just hop in the back, say hello, and... do whatever I'd be doing in an Uber or a taxi, just with a nicer driver and supporting a company I actually like. Drivers don't seem to mind at all.
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Barbie F*cks It Up Again(gizmodo.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
Snopes has a good explainer largely debunking one of the nastier pieces of misinformation circulating about MLK, which touches on FBI surveillance of him: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp
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FBI defends “ruse” of undercover agents posing as hotel cable guys(arstechnica.com)
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Push 101: The Anatomy of a Push Notification(kahuna.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
Retention is directly related to promotion imo. You can't promote someone you can't keep. Very much agree that learning from other industries should happen, and I've asked myself the same question. Why is computer science mov
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“The Computer Girls”(thesocietypages.org)
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I'm urging the FCC to keep the Internet open and free(twitter.com)
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London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS(tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Some Non-Obvious Advice on Thought Leadership(moz.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
I think those stories are apocryphal. But regardless, the reason to work hard creating products is because it's intrinsically satisfying to do good work and be productive. Build something to amuse and delight, to help people be more pr
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How the Berlin Wall Really Fell(nytimes.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
I sort of agree with you but I think you're overdoing it. There are reasonable restrictionists, and reasonable restrictions. Like even most gun fans agree fully automatic weapons and RPGs shouldn't be privately owned. High-capacit
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by johnny99 12y ago
It wasn't 500 years ago, but homesteaders similarly had to make from scratch most of what they wore, and used, and ate. I've been reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books with my daughter, and Wilder goes into quite a bit of detail
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A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills(washingtonpost.com)
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A $100M Oops for Goldman Sachs in Its Advice on Vista-Tibco Merger(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Beyond filter failure: the downfall of RSS(medium.com)
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by johnny99 12y ago
The cost of a bad hire is incredibly high. If pairing for a day (I agree with general sentiment that more than a day or two is too much to ask) reduces the chance of that, this could be very worthwhile.
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by johnny99 12y ago
Middle-aged dad here (not a recent grad). I agree that asking 3-4 days of a candidate is too much. But if the ask is more reasonable (one or two days, perhaps spread out), the candidate is paid market rates or higher, and the project is wel

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