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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Few investors were interested in betting on a hardware startup, or dealing with the headaches that often come with manufacturing goods. The statement above doesn't capture how much of a (relatively) recent development it is that ha
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Anyone seen any router speed metrics for this? They are absent in the article, and I can't tell if that's just Wired or whether OpenFlow is still not fast enough.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Trying to figure out why he is focusing on the issues in signaling for the A round. As near as I can tell, it applies to every round. Bottom line: Build a company that your current investors want more of, and they will send the proper sig
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Though I love its application to "forensic accounting". I'd love to spend some of my copious free time auto-pulling the 10-Q's from a financial site and applying it to earning statements. I'd bet a serious amount of money that many
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> By assuming responsibility for the roles once played by publishers, authors are earning up to 70% of the list price as their e-book royalty versus the 17.5% paid by traditional publishers. I'm trying to figure out why this is a dark
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
This is a wacky title. Maxwell's equations ultimately caused a rethinking of the nature of space and time. Is that really what is implied here?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> * that previous generations would consider frankly irresponsible, if not unethical* Both in this article and the "ethical crisis" link therein ( http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/an-ethical-cr... ) makes me think you are
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Your logic thus presumes that it's perfectly reasonable for the law to allow a bank robber to transfer the still bound packets of stolen bills to their attorney. Great! So all a cop has to do is get someone forge a withdrawal of so
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> that the direct proceeds from illegal enterprises can't be used to fund the legal fees of the accused I like how the determination that something is an illegal enterprise did not require a trial. Our gov't must save a lot of money
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> no, i think you're falling into the common technical-person trap of assuming that raw intelligence is the only measure of competence. No, I am looking at the logical consequence of "hire people smarter than yourself". If A is smart
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and those you expect to do the actual "management" stuff so that you don't need to. Sounds like your answer is: When there are items that smart people want to outsource, they often go work for people stupider than them rather than h
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
You realize that pretty much every group V dopant has been already measured? The problem is that n-type dopants are deep in energy, far away from the conduction band. So the electron from the donor stays with the dopant atom rather than act
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
FTA: I don't know what Chris was referring to exactly, but as an angel investor this statement resonates with me right now. I've been seeing some really high valuations floating around. Don't get me wrong -- there is nothing inherently w
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Yes. BTW, he did not finish his PhD, which he began at MIT. Side note: MIT does not award honorary doctorates at all.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
You bet. I never see the answer to: Why would people smarter than you want to work for someone dumber than them?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I love rms, but he needs to learn to spend his time speaking for things and not against things. How'd the campaign against Apple go, rms?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I should point out that diamonds can also make very good semiconductors when properly doped, with very large carrier mobility compared to silicon. We just don't know how to make the necessarily complex patters on them. Don't know w
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Yes, exactly. My advisor in grad school also managed 100+ PhDs in one of the national labs, and that was one lesson he imparted in almost the same words. He went one step farther: If you have B and C leaders in your org, it's basically al
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> How to hire A players: One thing missing in your list: Have 'A' leaders.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Steve was walking around MIT's campus in the 90s looking like a borg with his eyepiece/headgear. It's quite a contrast to see the Google PR with little Miss Eye Candy wearing a slimmed-down version of that. Short of battlefield operations,
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I believe the phrase was invented by by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel in this May, 1990 issue of the Harvard Business Review A quick search of google will show you it was around quite a long time before that. > Inspirational fo
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> He was saying we shouldn't expect Groupon to be around in 10 years because the company's plan is to collect as much cash as possible, fire everybody, and shut down, keeping the money for the investors. Every bubble produces these, b
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> 100% of active participants care about not getting negative karma on comments. Add me to the list of people that really don't give a damn. It would be interesting to see a list of the 10 most-downvoted comments. (I might have multi
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> or falling for it :) That certainly wasn't my intent. The usefulness of upvotes is that the most useful information goes to the most readable place. (Usefulness being defined by the number of upvotes!) Having a history of providi
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Is it just me or is it a cheap way to flood the front page for a bit of karma? It's just you. As soon as somebody determines why HN karma is worth a damn, then it's a problem.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> If you're a VP or a middling MD and you get a reputation for being scummy, it hurts you. So Goldman managing director, Scott L. Lebovitz sat on the BoD of a company which hosted of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> People have a hard time recovering from a bad reputation Lloyd Blankfein hired a criminal defense lawyer in order to prepare for charges. ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/goldman-financial-c... ) After how many years shoul
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You get a reputation for being unethical, it ruins your career. About those worthless MBS that got sold: Should we expect the death of Goldman anytime soon?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I think this product will compete with dropbox more than gmail.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I can edit in an efficient plain text editor ... which is probably the real reason I don't use LyX either. Emacs + Latex are second nature to me.

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