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by klochner 16y ago
This is a good site for "regular people" suggestions: http://www.experienceproject.com/groups.php?c=health-wellnes...
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by klochner 16y ago
Pretty kludgey way of adding statistical significance. I would expect anyone on HN would be capable of running the numbers and generating the actual stats. If not, it would be a good learning exercise.
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by klochner 16y ago
And you get the credential of being "employee #X at foo" if foo does well. For example, it might add credibility to a blog post (see title) or new startup ( http://bizeebee.com/ )
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by klochner 16y ago
This thread feels like the twilight zone. How do the actions of the red cross, a non-profit organization, provide any evidence that for-profit companies don't act in a profit-maximizing way?
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by klochner 16y ago
Of course it's legal, it could be great PR.
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by klochner 16y ago
If they go public as expected, I'm doubting many equity holders will be interested in a jig. I stand by my observation that a non-profit is poor evidence for the assertion "Money can be a major concern to a huge operation without being its
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by klochner 16y ago
The Red Cross is a non-profit. facebook has a legal obligation to maximize shareholder value: Whereas for-profit organizations exist to earn and re-distribute taxable wealth to employees and shareholders, the nonprofit corporati
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by klochner 16y ago
After making a gesture to prove that he's a nice charitable guy who's interested in seeing Diaspora succeed, he likens it to a project deemed illegal by the CEO of his company.
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by klochner 16y ago
Fair enough - I was being a little sensationalist in expressing "relevant article", but . . . Brooks uses it as an example, but I'm not seeing the metaphor. He uses the crosswalk as an example of how people put too much faith in safety
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by klochner 16y ago
Paul Kedrosky picks him apart here: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/05/david_brooks_go.ht...
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David Brooks on Complexity(nytimes.com)
19 points by klochner 16y ago|18 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
Anyone read the prior post he references? This one is supposed to be acknowledging that he was too aggressive in attacking the Lisp community in his last post ("Mea Culpa"). Sounds like the author is having trouble with the humility thing:
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by klochner 16y ago
He maybe overstepped a little, but the principle is sound: For robust, maintainable software systems, convention and simplicity trump cleverness.
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by klochner 16y ago
Fooled by Randomness also hits on this theme, and it's not nearly as annoying as a Gladwell book.
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EFF: Facebook Changes Aren't Enough(news.bbc.co.uk)
5 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
The inverse seems kind of obvious - poverty sucks
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by klochner 16y ago
Let's be real here. Tim wrote a fun book with great suggestions to offload a lot of your own work, but he's also a master of PR that works his ass off.
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by klochner 16y ago
> By the way, I know that “parar” means “to stop” in > Spanish, which is how I distinguish between the > parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. It's a nice mnemonic, but the medical "para" comes from G
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by klochner 16y ago
I throw up in my mouth a little every time someone refers to Zuckerberg as "Zuck" in a public forum.
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by klochner 16y ago
He referenced not being alone in his assumptions, but this is basic ruby: >> a = b = [1,2] => [1, 2] >> c = a.dup => [1, 2] >> a==b => true >> a==c => true >&#
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by klochner 16y ago
Anticipating a downvote on this one, but someone has to say it . . . Almost as an aside, he mentions "Luckily the company did go public". That's not an aside, that's the punchline. An alternative way of summarizing the anecdote would be: "
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The Carried Interest Debate: Down to the Wire(jasonmendelson.com)
1 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
if it's cool with you ... didn't want to steal your thunder :)
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by klochner 16y ago
I didn't need more encouragement.
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by klochner 16y ago
On the second point, how about: "log in to save your preferences!" As for "blow away the scrolling", I guess I'm channeling steve jobs: "This is the right way to do it." People could prefer scrolling text, but from everything I know abou
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by klochner 16y ago
Cool project. Some ideas: - let users play with fonts/colors/spacing to find their optimum setup. - aggregate user preferences to find good defaults Then you have an interesting blog post to write. I think you should blow away the scrollin
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by klochner 16y ago
The scanner appears unable to change those settings. If you click the link (left of "fix this") you will be able to change the settings manually.
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Google: "Sugar Daddy" is ok, "Cougar" not so much(nytimes.com)
4 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
Please send me a link if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he coined the non-scientific, or at least popular usage. I don't remember having heard the phrase tipping point before the book came out, even though I was fairly familiar with the id
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by klochner 16y ago
Here's a snippet from a HN submission currently ranking about as well as the Lean post: "Introducing, Braintrust, my bootstrapped lean startup . . . Braintrust is hosted in the cloud, works in real-time, and provided as a SaaS offering."

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