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by kfk 14y ago
I am probably never going to do an MBA (probably because life in unpredictable), but, as a business guy with programming skills, I strongly advise the "tech guys" not to close doors on anybody. If they come with a suit and they look like th
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by kfk 14y ago
I agree, although not 100% on the enterprise software point. I am the first to say you need a business guy for that, at least to correctly figure out the needs, but I don't see why an MBA here would be better than a business guy with experi
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by kfk 14y ago
Besides the fact that 6.1B is not the value to the US Economy: those engineers and developers would have probably produced value anyway. So, to be specific, we should know the value without YC and with YC and the difference would then be "t
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by kfk 14y ago
In the article I read the following: Despite common perceptions to the contrary, it is actually quite straightforward to locate profitable trading strategies in the public domain. Never have trading ideas been more readily available than t
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by kfk 14y ago
I always found much easier to do all the work in R or Python and then put the results in Excel. Excel is really not a good tool for things that go beyond additions and vlookups.
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by kfk 14y ago
It doesn't matter the version, if 2003 or 2020, I would never do life-threatening computations in Excel. It's just too painful and dangerous (look at how it treates dates). But unfurtunately I don't do this much, I do mostly finance-account
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by kfk 14y ago
People could use R or python and do similar mistakes. I am creating a small algorithm to analyze stock prices and I am just realizing how easy is to mess up in these things. Unfortunately, these things are treated like earthquakes in some c
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by kfk 14y ago
I am still using 2003 at my company...
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by kfk 14y ago
Right, I forgot that part. If you look at spending, it's actually quite a challenge to see any real "austerity" going on. Spending is up and did not go down much in most of the western countries during the last years.
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by kfk 14y ago
Please, bear in mind that Krugman has a very opinionated view against austerity (he seems to be going the Keynes way these days) and this article is not about Excel. He just wants to show how right he is and how sloppy the austerity guys ar
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by kfk 14y ago
Humid waste is hugely untreated in many countries. It seems like the way to go because it doesn't burn well and it's 30% of the urban waste. Tech is there. Issues are mostly: 1. Margins. Transporting this stuff with a low volume/value ratio
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by kfk 14y ago
There is an enormous market inefficiency in that gap. The question is how to exploit it. Finance guy here (hobbist programmer). The more I think about this, the more I realize the way to exploit this is through well designed and _speciali
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by kfk 14y ago
Nothing against China or it's people but if we keep building it up while it buys all our debt, this will end very very badly. It is really not clear to me how this ends badly for us. If China keeps buying our debt and we fail to pay back,
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by kfk 14y ago
There are lots of economists, and I believe is the majority, that actually kept advising to let the banks fail. Economics is a deep and complex field of science, I urge you to get a better grasp of it before doing such shallow statements.
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by kfk 14y ago
Hi, when you say "open", you mean also for workers? Do you have any potential advice for somebody looking for a job over there?
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by kfk 14y ago
Best way to protect them is to let them the choice.
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by kfk 14y ago
It seems people here don't travel much. If you travel a lot for work, the hell you manage to wake up at 5 am and go running. Just saying, not everybody stays in the same place long enough to build those habits.
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by kfk 14y ago
I work in a big multinational and the transition to IE8 is not finished. It doesn't matter if 99% of a company is on IE8. If 1% can't use it, you are still out. Especially when your solution is new and people will not be so open to it from
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by kfk 14y ago
Great work. Just wondering if you tested on IE<9? On IE8 does not look very good.
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by kfk 14y ago
Nice (not so on ie8 although). But I am still waiting for a template that works on ie7 (some of us are targeting business users here), on tablets and on phones. On top of that, it should load fast and it should be practical (to be fair, thi
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by kfk 14y ago
Hi Phil, I am probably in a position similar to yours 2 years ago: I am working and learning to code on the side. Could I ask you how did you get the integration with xero and freeagent? I am working on an app too (vendors and orders manage
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by kfk 14y ago
This. And let's add the obvious remark that if this 40% is that good, than why it is not firing the other 60%? Why do they keep them? All in all, this is the kind of poor business talk that makes MBAs so irritating.
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by kfk 14y ago
What about purchasing/vendors management for small businesses? With low bid auctions and request for proposal support?
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Ask HN: are there simple free effective tutorials on web design you recommend?
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Ask HN: Some advices for an eprocurement solution?
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by kfk 14y ago
This was very detailed and useful, thanks. I ll be looking more into selenium, I knew of its existance, but I never looked deeper into that.
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by kfk 14y ago
Could you explain?
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by kfk 14y ago
Third mistake: make sure your service can sustain more than a couple of people at a time. As I am thinking to launch an app sometime in the future, how do you test for this? This is something that has been bogging me a lot. I can't find e
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by kfk 14y ago
I say teach them the business. Statistics is a fine tool, but you need to know what you are doing. You can build a regression line to predict sales in a given month, but you migh forget important drivers or to just ask people with experie
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by kfk 14y ago
Can somebody squiggle the fonts too??

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