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by lmg643 13y ago
I think there comes a point after which you have enough money, and you have to wonder what kind of society you are building, what kind of future. This is, after all, the same company that used to have a marketing campaign that featured indi
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Wall-Street Engineering Hones In On Apple’s "Offshore" Cash(testosteronepit.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
It's also interesting that everyone agrees that the only thing in short supply is the highest quality programmers, but immigration policy is focused on increasing the total number of immigrants and not just the highest quality ones. Under o
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by lmg643 13y ago
This also reminds me of a quote from the movie twelve monkeys - the insane asylum - seems to fit: "Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. Doctor's discretion . Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts cou
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by lmg643 13y ago
I wonder how many folks working in startup-land have ever seen a H1B-farm company operating in the US. I have seen qualified US candidates turned down ... because they were too expensive. Anyone looking for over $130k is too expensive. Inst
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by lmg643 13y ago
The DJIA is a "bad" index but it is highly correlated with the S&P 500. I'm including a link to a study looking at ~70 years of data which shows a 0.95 correlation coefficient between DJIA and SP500. http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~
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There Is No Shortage of Tech Workers(cnbc.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
by the time a company reaches $65 billion market cap, the time for a complete reinvention is over. businesses of that size should be mature cash machines. if the plan is to generate cash by offering b2b services, whereas up until now everyo
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by lmg643 14y ago
I think having data open and available is good for everyone. The more I learn about this particular incident, the more I feel the scandal is not (a) that famous harvard professors made a mistake, or (b) that microsoft excel is more error pr
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National Greatness (on the development of penicillin)(westhunt.wordpress.com)
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by lmg643 14y ago
1) below is a link to the study being referenced - it is real: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992.... 2) The study looked at 10 hrs daylight vs 16 hours of daylight. I wonder if "bi-phasic" sleep isn't just a quir
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by lmg643 14y ago
Agreed. Hummingbird seems like a solution in search of a problem. I could see someone trying to learn to sight read music, get frustrated with how it is "broken" and then invent something like this, which seems far less clear to me than th
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by lmg643 14y ago
april fools!
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by lmg643 14y ago
Do we know that the purchase agreement did not include a multi-year license to use the SRI technology across yahoo, or are we just reading a lot of wild speculation? It is altogether possible that yahoo made a foolish purchase, but it is al
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by lmg643 14y ago
I'm also struck by academics willing to give away their content for free, rather than hoard it for the students who might be going into lifelong debt to hear it in person. this makes me think the lecture model of learning is more of a statu
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by lmg643 14y ago
not to put too fine a point on it, but tesla has a lot of "gold" in the form of an inflated stock price which is driven by hope and expectations. Tesla has lost money every year for the past four years, and lost $400 million in the most rec
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by lmg643 14y ago
if you read the reporter's response, it certainly doesn't seem like tesla's data supported the story elon musk wants us to believe: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-w...
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by lmg643 14y ago
I wonder if Elon Musk has ever worked in a service job before, like being a waiter in a restaurant. Try to imagine this exchange: Customer: "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup." Waiter: "But that's impossible, I've seen the recipe and fly is
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by lmg643 14y ago
Palais de Mari is a great piece of music, very accessible considering the style. is the recording available online, either youtube or for sale?
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by lmg643 14y ago
this is a great article. true of any large company.
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by lmg643 14y ago
physical keyboards are not over! the growth of the blackberry was driven by communicating when you are out of the office, whereas the iphone is really a portable computer with cellular antenna. the original blackberries were a 2-3 line scre
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by lmg643 14y ago
appreciate you responding to my somewhat snarky comment. for the record, while i appreciate that facebook's concurrent user and database/data challenges are complex problems, the actual product itself isn't that sexy to me in terms of what
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by lmg643 14y ago
off topic, but i can't help but note the irony of a company that claims to not care about credentials, but under the "meet our execs" section shows a helper who is a BA graduate of claremont mckenna. https://iamexec.com/meet_our_execs the
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Revolution Hits the Universities(nytimes.com)
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by lmg643 14y ago
My frame of reference for this statement was prescription drug patents. Manufacturers can get 18 years of exclusive sales of their product. Whatever one may think of the ethics and behavior of the drug companies, it is a very effective use
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by lmg643 14y ago
I find it pretty interesting that universities can charge large sums of money to attend, but then go ahead and give away the content for free on the internet. Parents and students, who may be going into significant debt to pay for their edu
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Barron's: Are Apple's Glory Days Over? (Answer: No)(online.barrons.com)
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by lmg643 14y ago
The fact that Apple's products are more profitable on a unit basis, and can fund more expensive lawyers for longer periods of time, does not mean it is a good strategy. I can't see any real benefits that have accrued to apple from their pat
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by lmg643 14y ago
Comparing this to the patent fights between Apple and Android et al, it is interesting to see how calmly OXO is responding. No "thermonuclear war" here over the various copies Quirky is making of their products. (Of course, I don't think th
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by lmg643 14y ago
looks interesting. how does this compare to competing options? i've been looking at zoho CRM, and pipeline looks interesting as well.

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