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by latj 13y ago
This is related to the link but not the article. http://imgur.com/a/vlauM#0 I saw that the address was forbes.com. Ok, Forbes, that's a legit publication. Then I clicked. First there is a full page advertisement w
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by latj 13y ago
Well, I have only worked at two places in my career so far but this kind of thing has worked out extremely well in both cases.
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by latj 13y ago
>who is going to do maintenance tasks? Believe it or not there are people who like doing the maintenance tasks. >How do you keep people from just working on the fun things? Why would you? >Why would you expect an developer to have
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by latj 13y ago
"them". This is the problem. "They" made billions of dollars illegally. Now, "they" are paying back 1.7 billion dollars. The question is- is it still the same "humans" behind the pronoun? Certainly Ma
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by latj 13y ago
The problem is that "crap political work" exists at all. The normal way organizations try to decrease the amount of crap political work is to hire someone who just works on that crap all day. Managers. Instinctively, you would thi
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by latj 13y ago
The fact that we are even discussing this as option should be alarming. This is how to erode personal privacy. You dont just put up cameras on every street corner pointing at citizens. You attach them to traffic signals. You tell them CCDs
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by latj 13y ago
The vast majority of Google employees are not downloading public data or working on Googlebot. They are working on either converting public data into better advertising algorithms or creating a product that will capture peoples' attent
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by latj 13y ago
"I can no longer be bothered with Couchsurfing" Maybe you changed, not couchsurfing. Airbnb added a reputation system which is really what was needed.
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by latj 13y ago
Yes of course- but there is a difference between the "people" in an enterprise vs. world-facing project. In the world-facing project there might be millions of potential decision makers (i.e. customers). You can make the technical
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by latj 13y ago
The other thing I've found annoying about enterprise is that the best idea doesnt always win- in fact, it regularly loses. You have to deal with users who are trained on bad software. You have decision makers who might have gotten thei
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by latj 13y ago
"I'm much, much more at risk of getting mugged in Chicago on my way home from the airport than getting held up by Custom" These are two very different scenarios. It is much easier to control your own actions than the actions
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by latj 13y ago
In one sense you are correct that Google is "free" because one does not pay cash directly to Google to be listed in its results or to preform a search. But in another sense, Google is not free at all. The fact is, Google lives and
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by latj 13y ago
A company is not a living being. There is a person driving the bus. His boss who told him to park in the middle of traffic is a person. And so on all the way up the hierarchy of bosses and stakeholders. We should expect civility from people
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by latj 13y ago
I agree. Just look at who Palantir hires. I imagine its a pretty small number of nose-holders and more often people who think they are doing good and people who think spying is a necessary evil so lets put fine grained controls on it.
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by latj 13y ago
First, I dont think lack of a language's presence online means that the language is dying. For example the world could be becoming more multilingual. Second, the whole world doesnt need to speak the same language for cohesive unificati
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by latj 13y ago
The goal of HN and reddit may be different. Reddit seems to want to be everything to absolutely everyone. I dont know what the goal of HN is- is it known? If the goal is to draw in those who are most likely to make good founders and convinc
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by latj 13y ago
Twist: Pauper guy is Satoshi.
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by latj 13y ago
You dont lose until you give up. Find a good public school district near a bus line and get into the cheapest apartment you can find before the house stuff hits your credit history. Get the highest paying job you can get that is closest to
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by latj 13y ago
Wow that is a the saddest ponzi scheme I've come across so far... it really makes you wonder how bad our educational system is if our ponzi schemes are getting so poorly designed and managed.
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by latj 13y ago
"My father did 23 and me, without giving any family medical history and it concluded that my father was at a much higher risk factor for things that his mother was ultimately afflicted with. So, it works to some extent." Whaat?
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by latj 13y ago
I'm not convinced that the president, congress, or the courts have the spy agencies under control. And I'm not convinced it matters much which representative of elite class gets elected. The important decisions are held in board r
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by latj 13y ago
Ok fine, but can we at least fire people who lie to Congress and then admit it? What is the point of Congress asking questions if you are allowed to testify in the least untruthful ways?
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by latj 13y ago
Besides cost there is also risk- a transfer of this size in the light of day would raise a lot of questions- Where did this money come from? Was tax paid? And depending on the reason for the transaction regulators may interfere or freeze th
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by latj 13y ago
Is there anyone in the world that could hate a Canadian?
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by latj 13y ago
Google pays a decent salary- not the highest, but fair when considering the cost of buying a home and living in a city near a Google office. I have never heard of a Grad student getting a stipend in the amount someone who studied CS for 6-8
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by latj 13y ago
The other question is- if you have an offer letter from Google or YCombinator in hand, would you really want to go to Brown? At Google it will be like going to grad school except you will be better funded, working with more consistently sma
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by latj 13y ago
1. The Winklevoss name doesnt exactly boost credibility. 2. What you're describing already exists. https://www.secondmarket.com
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by latj 13y ago
check, check, no check for me. Where is the link to the data?
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by latj 13y ago
Not off topic at all, thanks. The only time I've ever heard of people using MariaDB was because they were using MySql. Sure, its a valid reason to pick a technology, but its got to be be one of the worst reasons.
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by latj 13y ago
Rehab and rehab drugs are already built into the prison industrial complex (in the U.S.). But there is no incentive to "cure" people. A new therapy/drug just needs to appear effective long enough for the industry to come up w

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