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721.
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Probably OT: I haven't had much of a chance to use LyX, but it looked promising. (I know folks that swear by it.) Any reviews here welcomed.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Ah, now I understand: When you wrote "In book publishing it's shrunk to a very small niche, even in technical areas", you mean the "technical areas" that don't use equations in their books. My background is blinding me to the fact that boo
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
People consider Word a replacement for LaTeX for authoring books with equations? Seriously?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> even in technical areas. Really? What has it been replaced with?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> From his bio, I would reduce his mile long credentials to the following: Why did you ignore his time at Bell Labs? Or in the DoD?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Schneier is an effective writer He also has technical credentials a mile long. In truth, this is an outrage.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
s/cars/houses/g
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> From the time I arrived at MIT in '08 to the time I left in '11, I witnessed a pretty huge shift in the interests of MIT students towards startups. I've witnessed now multiple decades of change, and the interests of the student body
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Now, all of a sudden, startups seemed like better ideas because finance was so crappy. When the Fed raises rates, then it will be back to the tech bust once again. So make hay while the sun shines.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Yes, but how many large magnetic fields does one gets stuck into while unconscious that _aren't_ MRIs? If by "unconscious" you mean asleep, not many. If by "unconscious" you mean unaware, plenty. Try walking past these in a lab: h
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Reverse split doesn't screw employees It absolutely screws the employees when the common is reverse split, but the preferred-to-common conversion factor remains the same.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I'm dying to know the cash/stock split on this one. It will send signals about what a company like OMGPOP thinks of the social gaming space going forward. It also signals whether znga thinks its stock is overvalued or undervalued.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
True enough, but usually a talent acquisition means a failed product, which implies that the total stick length is pretty short anyway.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> If a company has an IPO, there are no "employee retention payments", so it's better than that :) The reverse split of common before preferred share conversions for IPO are often a big screw to the employees. Many are also unaware o
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Is this typical? It would seem that the employees are getting the shorter end of the stick on this deal. Which deals do you think they get the long end of the stick?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> There's a reason I have a Rod of Asclepius and "DO NOT MRI" tattooed on my wrist. You realize there are other large magnets in the world besides those for MRIs?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I would just be worried about getting sucked into the habit of having them cater everyday, It was quite common to have this service during the internet bubble. Some folks put on a pound per month. Also, there were similar services
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
It would be interesting to run an HN poll: Which of these rolls are you mostly associated with? My guess is the population here is dominated by Starters and Architects.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You get what you paid for applies to everything including salaries. Hmmm. Lehman's CEO was not exactly underpaid. Nor Freddie Mac. Nor Fannie Mae. Nor GM. Nor Enron. Nor Worldcom. Nor Rich McGinn in his Lucent days. And that'
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The mere existence of competitors does not preclude antitrust action. Agreed. I just don't see the anti-competitive behavior around virtual desktops that we did with WinOS and IE, so I think it would be a very tough sell.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Not really. The amount of time and money for DOJ to prosecute microsoft the first time was huge, and there are competing virtual desktops, so good luck getting them on this point.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Not that I don't admire the guy's bravado, but there is no obligation for Microsoft to sue everyone equally. IANAL so correct as necessary, but he seems like he's tilting at windmills.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
LOL, fair enough. If we're talking about where the term "owner" fits in the capital structure, then we're well into the realm of pedantic. Good luck.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Are you suggesting I should make things up instead of basing them on experience? No. I am saying, now explicitly, that the shortcomings of the article are directly related to 1 & 2 in my original comment.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> * As long as you maintain more than 50% ownership, you're still the owner* Maybe pedantic, but here goes: If you have given away so much as a single share, the usual phraseology is that you are "part-owner", because you own only a par
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Do you think your background is interwoven in the article content and recommendations?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Was your background not management consulting?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
1/2 of a nice article. Anyone here hire management consultants? Here are the issues that I've found: 1. Sometimes they are hired to solve a problem. For this case, they do not have to live with the mistakes that they made which arise aft
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> You expect to get different results from doing the same measurement in the same quantum mechanical system, that's the basis of it. As it turns out, AE had a problem with that particular point. Hence his "[God] does not play dice" q
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Even worse when the quotes are misattributed, eg the "insanity" quote is Rita Mae Brown, and she was paraphrasing Narcotics Anonymous. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." [Rita Mae] Brown

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