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by loganfrederick 7y ago
The book "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science" by Carey Gillam is a very thorough take-down of Monstano, Roundup, glyphosphate, and the government agencies that have historically looked awa
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by loganfrederick 7y ago
Which country? I absolutely would've tried to use this option if I had known it existed/if it was available.
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Harassment Allegations Against Intercom CEO Sparked Departures(theinformation.com)
12 points by loganfrederick 7y ago|0 comments
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by loganfrederick 7y ago
Extending other comments here about bullshitters being prevalent in management, I would love to see this research extended to the economic impact on bullshit, both positive and negative outcomes.
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Yes, slight hyperbole in that it was >10 years off the top of my head. Your statement is correct.
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
As both a startup programmer and having worked in the financial industry, it's really hard to know how companies like these will be viewed by history. The technologist argument is: we are enduring losses, even large ones, in the short
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Confirmed, Chicago has multiple billion and hundred-million-dollar businesses built on Ruby on Rails. A lot of it stems from Basecamp being based here, so Chicago had a lot of early adopters. But those early adopters have spawned new compan
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Marketing to actual customers versus marketing to potential investors and acquirers are two different things, which I think explains the difference between the parent and grandparent comments.
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
But that's also probably why millions of people are psychologically miserable all the time. The subset of people who are working a full-time completely meaningless job (may not apply to part-time) and then finding happiness outside of
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
I strongly agree with this and relate as someone who makes a very good living as a computer programmer but has received nearly no financial assistance from parents (a few thousands dollars for college tuition but not all of it covered) who
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
This is a really good, interesting point. You're probably right that it's deeply rooted in culture. In America, pictures and diagrams are just as often, if not more so, used to obfuscate than provide clarity. But I don't disa
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Agreed, the level of "paperwork" varies depending on what you're actually trying to get done. Proposing a new product? 2-3 pages like the Amazon Press Release technique should probably be the max. Product and engineering mana
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
I completely agree. I've been at jobs where I would be asked to explain a product or initiative and would go with documentation, only to be told that I "write too much" and to condense into slides. This was almost always due
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
I’ve had that experience before as well. What always surprises me is how upper management overlooks the opportunity to pocket more money for themselves by cost-cutting the net negative employees. Too often the ones who do it go overboard an
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Stop Paying the ETL Tax(blog.color.com)
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Not when one bad grade is due to a notoriously bad teacher. One poor professor should not be able to threaten a student's future by forcing them to change majors to be able to graduate without an additional $10K or more of debt.
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Lambda School raises $30M in quest to tackle student debt(axios.com)
8 points by loganfrederick 8y ago|5 comments
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
It's interesting and informative that a lot of the commenters here have positive reviews or experiences with Wittgenstein. I have not read any of his work but remember Paul Graham had a mixed take on Wittgenstein in his essay "How
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Tomasz Tunguz 5 Most Popular Posts of 2018(tomtunguz.com)
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
Like everything else, there's a TED Talk on 4 AM: https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
There is an interesting, well-funded startup tackling this problem: https://www.earnin.com/ I am not affiliated with this company, just like their idea a lot for all the reasons mentioned in your post. Obviously they have t
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
I’m very glad to see this article reach the homepage of Hacker News. I met Joe DeLoss while I was studying at Ohio State and he was working at Lutheran Social Services (mentioned in the article). He is the real deal as a social entrepreneur
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Battle between Musk, former Tesla employee turns ugly, exposing internal rancor(washingtonpost.com)
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by loganfrederick 8y ago
https://dharma.io/
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by loganfrederick 9y ago
Hologram | Backend Engineering, Full-Stack Engineer, Demand Generation, Marketing | Chicago, IL, Relocation Possible | Onsite At Hologram ( https://hologram.io/ ), our mission is to build the platform creating connected produ
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Exploring Cellular IoT with the Hologram Nova and RaspberryPi(hackster.io)
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Books Read in the First Half of 2017(loganfrederick.com)
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by loganfrederick 9y ago
Only two years ago, Hortonworks IPO'd and then had to do a secondary offering one year later as well: http://www.businessinsider.com/hortonworks-shares-tanking-af...
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by loganfrederick 9y ago
tptacek understands this problem as he is/was in Chicago, which has had issues with "food deserts" where poor regions of the city do not have grocery stores within a reasonable commute. And the grocery stores in those poor ar
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by loganfrederick 10y ago
Wonder if original poster posted this story since news broke a few days ago that Chuck E Cheese is going public? http://fortune.com/2017/01/18/chuck-e-cheese-public-ipo-apol...

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