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Cheapium instead of Freemium(jaredbrown.me)
2 points by jtbigwoo 15y ago|0 comments
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Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation?(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by jtbigwoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Many development groups treat fixing minor exceptions as a once-in-a-blue-moon event. Sometimes it's just a matter of making exceptions more visible to the developers on a day-to-day basis. Several years ago I inherited an application that
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
These companies are so unsure of their ability to judge the output of their workers that they're requiring their people to relocate to Austin. What makes you think they'd be able to find a great person and manage them effectively on the
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
I suspect that this is part of the problem with many big manufacturing companies these days. Ford was a leader for so many years was because their leadership was passionate about engineering and manufacturing. Henry Ford was an engineer f
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
In high school, the track I was on ended with high school seniors taking calculus at the local engineering college. No AP classes were offered where I lived, but I'm convinced that one college level class did more for me than a half-dozen
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
If getting a CS degree gives you a better chance of reaching the top, then hirers will have CS degess. Getting a CS degree does not give you a better chance of reaching the top. It gives you a better chance of reaching the upper-middle.
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
You're working with the edge case in your example where a really smart person can get an amazing job right out of high school. It's more instructive to look at the average case: - In the current economy, the number of high school grads mak
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Since Vatican II, the official Catholic position is that salvation is open to non-believers. Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Anglicans believe similarly. In fact, most protestant denominations believe the same thing. Your opinion is not he
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
The words were all about hard work, but the context was not. I bet the Zuckerberg character was drunk and/or at a party in a majority of the scenes he appeared in. Especially if we exclude the scenes where drinking would have resulted in p
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
And if it's bad to us but manageable to them, then there is worse out there that they are trying to get away from. If every person's situation is relative, then how do we oppose slavery or abuse? It's better than starving to death, right
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
...they make a point of only spending the money they have. Germany has the third-highest public debt in the world with only the fifteenth-highest population. Their debt is much higher as a percentage of GDP than the U.S. (83% vs. 62% acc
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
I didn't mean to nitpick your post specifically. It was more of a comment on the attitude of many entrepreneurs. I really liked the your perspective and the idea of self-directed work in general. I'm more frustrated with the idea that we'
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
"At Skillshare, we believe that an entrepreneur working with us for 6 months will provide us more value than an employee working with us for 6 years." I understand that there can be a 10x difference between the worst and best coders, so a
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
The difference here is that the founders are somehow diversifying without actually parting with any of their investment. This is simply a massive bonus to the founders treated as a dividend (probably for tax-avoidance purposes.) The fact
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Microsoft's success was not about tech, though they had (and continue to have) plenty of good coders; it was about deal-making. You could also argue that marketing savvy and great timing had as much to do with Apple's earliest successes as
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Several states have laws on the books that restrict slow drivers to the non-passing lane. So you can get pulled over for driving too fast or too slow!
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
The saddest part about school zone enforcement is that the police almost never enforce the speed limit during pick-up and drop-off times because it'd cause traffic tie-ups.
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Banks are in a rough spot, actually. The big ones have a HUGE installed base which makes any changes very, very difficult. My division of the bank had tens of thousands of cobol jobs that ran daily or weekly. (We also had thousands of
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
I've said this here before, but when I worked at a big bank all the visionaries weren't worried about other banks, they were worried about Google and Ebay. The core business of a bank is built on hardware and software. They knew that a b
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
The statute of limitations on unfiled taxes is essentially infinite, but the window to audit a return is only six years, so if you just file a 1040 with a zero on it every year and 20 years from now the IRS decides to get frisky, you're co
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see two Neal Stephenson books on the list, but why did the second have to be Anathem? I thought Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle were much better books. Anathem's plot seemed like book-nerd wish fulfillmen
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Most College Students Unable to Properly Use Search Engines(news.yahoo.com)
16 points by jtbigwoo 15y ago|7 comments
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
I'm not sure what world you're living in, but none of the banks in my (medium-sized middle-American) city buy or sell gold. I have to go to a coin dealer, pawn shop, or one of those "WE BUY GOLD" places. A used guitar would be just as eas
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Exactly, I don't think anybody expects everyone in the company to spend a ton of effort on being something they're not, but I do think it's reasonable to expect that employees to treat customers respectfully.
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
"Connection" is linked-in-speak for "Friend."
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Metal bats are long lasting, but ash bats can last a long time, too, especially if you can avoid getting jammed (hitting something with the thin part of the bat just above where your hands go.) I have a child-size ash bat that's just start
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
There are two answers as far as I know. 1. The sending bank can reverse an ACH (electronic transfer) within a certain period of time due to fraud, death of the recipient, etc. (Up to 90 days in some cases.) By holding up the money, a bank
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Banks generally delay ACH transactions longer if the respective clearing houses are in different federal reserve districts. When I worked with them, 7 business days was the max. In my opinion, 7 business days is excessive, even in the main
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
For years i tried to become more extroverted, only to discover at a certain point that it's a dysfunctional path that leads to a superficial, seemingly fullfilling but unfocused and non-goal-directed lives. The nuance of conversation is a

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