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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I read this today. The details may be wrong, but this has been his general attitude. And more than anything that is why I respect him. Rumelt congratulated Jobs on the turnaround but expressed skepticism about Apple’s chances of overcoming
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Talking generally, most mental disorders when not extreme are genetic advantages in the right situations. Bipolar and creativity, asperger's and certain forms of engineering, even milder forms of ADHD with right people skills can be pretty
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
If I feel the need for a full computer in my pocket, I will get an Android. Right now I keep the best appliance I have ever seen, the iPhone.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
A special thank you for your advice. Also it was very interesting to see the wide range of comments from every one else. Thanks for that as well.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I agree that I should get scared enough to prepare and apply. But not so scared that I don't. But to talk about the value of real code, the impression I get by looking at my friends, almost all big SV companies care about are how fast you c
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
This may come off as a reddit kind of comment, but it's ironic for me that my slightly scared state of mind became more apparent when I misinterpreted glimcat's comments in a negative light. I agree being 'scared' is rarely useful. Also a r
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
> I wouldn't quite say that unemployment is something that happens to other people, but that's damn near the case for competent engineers if you put even a bit of effort into networking and self-marketing. Either I am not reading it pro
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Ah, I think I should spend less time being paranoid. Working alone in a room really makes one sick, you start devaluing yourself and your skills without any concrete evidence. I totally get pg's insistence on teams now. Thanks for the reply
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
To talk about the worst case, were you around 2001-02? Did all tech companies stop recruiting then?
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Ask HN: How scared should a new grad be of the possible economic downturn?
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Brian Chesky's profile in FT (ft.com)
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
It was an especially 'we are more open-ish' WWDC from a PR stand point. Former Apple evangelist Matt Drance wrote [1]: The introduction of Bing as a search provider for Safari on iPhone had been rumored for some time. Naturally, everyone sa
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
This article is pretty relevant, whatever side you are on, it's worth a read. My fundamentalism is better than your fundamentalism http://blog.fawny.org/2010/07/28/stubbornella/ Bear in mind that the author is not a computer scientist, an
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
But for all practical purposes, most of North and Middle India do not use Bharat, but Hindustan- which was also derived from river Indus.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I agree. Also they are the only old money people who refrain from overt display of wealth. For an example, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building) It's unfortunate that I see similar behavior for all stratas of upper and
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yishan Wong pointed out that the backbone of a mainstream social network is primarily moms and popular attractive females [1]. And I completely agree that testing for them is more important than nerds who worry about the privacy settings of
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Courts approve Nortel patent sale(reuters.com)
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I'd agree. As I said in the other post, iOS and Android are playing pretty orthogonally. Sure they compete aggressively, but it's quite different market segments and sizes they are aiming at (at least for now). You need a non-iOS competitor
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Android is only a threat to Apple's profits, but not its market. There are things that vertical integration provides which are unique and of value to a decent sized population. For instance, it is hard for Motorola to replace a handset whic
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
It's not just migrating users, its keeping them interested in Google+ as opposed to Facebook.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
By giving away free OS and services they are killing the paid OS model and using the search monopoly to subsidize for it. But as I said below everybody does that in one way or another. Nothing specific about Google. It's just that some ways
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Everybody has their own moat, and they use theirs to win the game. Nothing specific about Google.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
There have been a couple of stories where the formation of consortiums (Rockstar and Rangers) was discussed. This article smells a bit like lazy journalism: >Then an unknown group calling itself Rockstar Bidco stepped forward with a who
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yeah, I agree. I meant tech people generally fawn about every new Google offering. Compare that with Apple, and the reaction to iPod or iPad- meh. More generally I meant that both tech people and Google suffer from the same blindness.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
I think Google is the only big company where every major new product is met with great enthusiasm in the tech people (bar a few anti-Google fanboys and journalists). Probably my memory fails me, but that is how I recall every major launch b
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500K Android devices activated daily and growing at over 4% per week(twitter.com)
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On Creativity and Copying: Everything is a Remix Part 3(vimeo.com)
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
If you are interested in a course, save it's slides and assignments. They will be down in a few months. They keep recycling the course sites whenever a new semester starts.
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
Yes, you are correct. Sorry for the confusion; I meant that courses like 10-702 should be the star course he should work at, to have some short at understanding and contributing to theory heavy side of ML. The first basic course for the lat
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by kubrickslair 15y ago
It depends on what you want to do as a researcher. If you want to prove theorems in machine learning theory, courses like convex optimization make sense. I would also add statistical machine learning (CMU 10-702) for a broader view. But a l

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