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by kfk 11y ago
Nice, but when is somebody going to create an easy way to build advanced dashboards on the fly for non coders? That's how Tableau is making a dent on Ms Excel market share right now.
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by kfk 11y ago
You guys laugh, people in the business world would take this seriously and check with their IT department if the Company has bought copies yet
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A business plan in 15 minutes(deliverthenumbers.com)
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by kfk 11y ago
Kayaker here too. The logistics pains of tour kayaking have too long gone unsolved, if you ever start working on this - give me a shout.
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by kfk 11y ago
And that's because people confuse finance with bookkeeping. You don't need to know bookkeeping and how debit/credit works, but you do need to understand few very important financial concepts.
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I think you should make it at least 1 day per topic. I can surely give you a great introduction to business finance in one day. Even though some sort of support mechanism is needed so that you retain the material learned (say email support
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by kfk 11y ago
And yet in Bulgaria you can live very well with $1000 per month. With $2000 you build enough savings in 30 years to leave well another 30 years without working. The thing is, the biggest issue is not lack of jobs, it's mobility. If peo
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by kfk 11y ago
One answer: eyeballs. Medium has managed to bring audiences and audiences bring good writing and money (both to Medium and the writers). The thing with big sustainable audiences is that there has to be some level of centralization, either o
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by kfk 11y ago
And that's because demand has exploded. If you look at the technologies available today and, say, 10 years ago, wouldn't you say you need much less coders now than then to do the same things? That means one of 2 things can happen
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by kfk 11y ago
Say what you want, but I doubt anybody would accept anybody as hedge fund managers after 6 months into a Hacker School. The fact that 6 months or less of training are enough to make $85k is very, very, telling of the situation. Note that th
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by kfk 11y ago
Yet the alternatives the article proposes are mostly for coders and tech folks. Business people only have LinkedIn. However bad LinkedIn can be, it's still the only tool around for some people. I think the problem is that for some jobs
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by kfk 11y ago
Cool, you can follow me on medium ( https://medium.com/@kfk ) or send me an email (in my HN profile), I'll work on some write up soon.
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by kfk 11y ago
I should have mentioned that all my points should be easily done in an Excel-like interface, so no coding allowed. Point 3 is how you look stuff, maybe team A defines China as China, but team B defines it as China + Taiwan + Hong Kong, at s
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by kfk 11y ago
To be honest, the top stuff available for top $$ is also pretty bad. I am working now on a BI project and I am dealing with SAP BOBJ/HANA/Tableau/SFDC - it's an absolute nightmare. Nobody seems to realize that if you don
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by kfk 11y ago
"Knowing what matters is the real key to being an effective data scientist." Absolutely. What is absurd, though, is that even for the simplest of metrics, we don't have really good tools in place to: 1. Do matrix calculations
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by kfk 11y ago
This would be great if: - It had curated indie movies - It had a filter free/paid content - It could do some recommendations - It stored a list of movies I watched/rated - It collected top comments/reviews by movie - It offer
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by kfk 11y ago
And there is also well done advertising. Once you have a big group of people that reads articles on specific topics, I bet companies will want to pay a lot to send them (top quality of course) content that is also promotional in some way.
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by kfk 11y ago
Do you? You can start with small blogs and take it from there. You can sell subscriptions to different segments (tech, gardening, etc.) so that the % that goes to a small player once things get bigger is meaningful.
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by kfk 11y ago
They mention going through an accounting department in the case of big companies, I wonder if anybody had more luck with this?
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Integrated to what exactly? You are never going to be integrated with people that want you to speak the local language, even if you do speak it. The thing is, once you leave your country, you are an expat, an expat doesn't do well with
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by kfk 11y ago
Sounds like tech companies are normal companies after all. The ebay example is pure finance/controlling and while the analysis might be convoluted and involve some statistics, I bet the driver of that kind of thinking is finance, or pr
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by kfk 11y ago
I think Excel or Trello are fine for most of the people out there and the ones that need so much data won't pay for it (because I doubt somebody doing 100+ applications is a successful employee with money to spend). I think you should
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by kfk 11y ago
Nick sounds like a crazy guy, but then you watch some of his presentations and you see he is not that crazy. What he says make sense and I think everybody agrees the threat is non zero. The next step is understanding that if you look over t
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by kfk 11y ago
Well, at a logical level, it's one of the biggest existential threats, if 1. it can be done; 2. humans are intelligent enough to pull it off. There is a non 0 chance of AI (and related existential threat), as there is a non 0 chance of
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by kfk 11y ago
Let me answer your question: they will be treated as low level engineers and they will have to suck it up or will have to go into management and work 10 hrs days. How much gets an average RoR nowadays? How much did he get when the tech was
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by kfk 11y ago
1. inequality does not mean shitty public services. You can have money all in the hands of the 0.1%, but if the economy is big enough, the % of taxes will guarantee enough resources for a good service 2. growth is not affected by inequality
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by kfk 11y ago
The thing is: who leaves at 5pm? It's 8:15pm and I am still here (OK, I work in an office, but still). I think working from home you can get free time simply being more productive. I know I would do that. At work, you have to be there,
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by kfk 11y ago
Hey, just wanted to say I feel incredibly lucky our species has developed such diverse individuals! I think we need the Elon Musk and your brother types, as much as we need the more relaxed family oriented ones. I think it's a shame if
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by kfk 11y ago
So the past week and half I have been on holidays back in Italy (I live in Germany). At least here, in the South, your status still greatly depends on 1) if you managed to raise a family (single 40 years old ultra rich Corporate managers do
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by kfk 11y ago
Right, but you have to spend money at some point. Once you do, you need to make assumptions on how the future will look and keep track of things. If I assume a monthly OpEx of 100, somebody has to keep track of that number, the worst that c

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