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   by mathattack 12y ago

   If I can jump in... I'm a third of the way through Hyperion, and it's very interesting. It's Science Fiction that causes one to think. Atlas Shrugged is an important intellectual work whether you agree with the philosophy o
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   I'm currently about a third of the way through Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's interesting Science Fiction. In my queue: iWoz, the Google Way and the Lean Startup. I want to pick up some Terry Pratchett books. Several years back a
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   26 is too young to have this. And it's never too late to reinvent yourself. Many people who enjoy the ride up lose it on the ride down. It's easy to look at people who are doing great. (I went to high school with a self-made bill
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   As others have pointed out, life in a cost center is very tough. People turn to infighting because it's hard to use revenue as an arbiter. Apple doesn't venerate customer support. Apple celebrates the designers and engineers. It w
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Avoiding competition is central to corporate strategy. Whenever you hear "sustainable competitive advantage" or "building a moat" it's about doing something that nobody else can. This is creating a monopoly.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   My 2 cents... I'm a reforming Jerk Manager. When I was late 20s and early 30s, single and travelled full time, I believed that everyone should commit 100% to the project. My rationale was, "Winning breeds positive mindsets&quot
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Some of it is the guessing that other people mentioned. Some of it is vocabulary. Since there are correlations between race and wealth, certain words (say Commodore) may be more quickly understood by some than others.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Thanks for the response. My 2 cents... This will be a great bonus for you once you've grown. In the meantime, I think you're in an area ripe for disruption. ADP and Paychex are old companies with old technologies, processes an
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Ahh - got it!
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    What is an integrated timecard?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    My understanding is that a big source of ADP's profits is their ability to make money on the float. [0] Does ZenPayroll do this too? I suspect it doesn't make sense at the current scale, but could be part of their valuation. Pa
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    You've made two very astute observations. 1 That's because most hackathans can't decide whether they want to be hackathons or pitchathons. and 2 The current Hackathon culture is indicative of a general tech and investing c
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    Learn about “the Other” Algebra(learninglover.com)

    1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    In what sense? In the sense that it's sad that real people lose jobs, or specific to them? Seems like they had top notch investors. I wonder what went wrong.
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    Time to Quit by James Altucher(linkedin.com)

    1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    Lying on your resume by Steve Blank(linkedin.com)

    1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I really like that high IQ people are out there disrupting education. There's a lot of improvement that can be made. Keep it up!
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Of course. But it's post in one versus pre in the following. If the post-money valuation grows from 50 to 60 million after taking in 20mm in new money, the founders get diluted. If it grows from 50 to 60 with 5mm in new money, they
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    IMHO the most important non-technical thing for Open Source is evangelism. Talking them up on wikis, encouraging your employer to use them, helping answer questions on open forums... Relative to commercial projects, technical resources ar
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Interesting. It's clear that this goes way beyond merely the paper in question.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Here's a 2013 Facebook comment from Taleb that highlights the grudge... Richard Dawkins, in his statement about the number of Nobels granted to Moslems, showed a total ignorance of probability. A primitive violation. You never get an
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    The general premise still holds though - As long as the pre-money in a round exceeds the post-money in the prior one, the owners are worth more. The analysis is over-simplified, but it still explains the situation clearly. As for how much
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Taleb is pretty heavy duty with these attacks. I'm a big fan of his, but isn't it extreme to demote Dawkins [0] to just a journalist? He's got a Phd in animal decision making (close to the field in question here) and has be
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    You're putting words into my mouth. Consumer debt is another thing entirely. It's much more time efficient not to sweat every financial detail. Save time for the big ones. (Mortgage rates, negotiating cards, optimizing debt, mak
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    There are also people who make $70/hour who will spend 100 hours price shopping to save $200 on a stroller. Time is finite and valuable. You shouldn't walk away from every financial decision, but the small ones aren't worth
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Here's why people do it... If you have something you like, it's frequently easier not to have to rethink the purchase decision every time. We have finite attention spans. We can spend it on price shopping staples, or programmin
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I don't think it's correct to assume the speeds are equal. Genetic mutations propagate across viruses and plants at very different speeds.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    This seems like a much looser interpretation. Most industry leading companies (P&G, Google, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Accenture, etc) have strong cultures. It allows them to scale people.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    If unknown includes the military, yes. I wouldn't extrapolate that to aliens. Too much else would be going on. (Technological advances, invasions, who knows what?) As much as I loved the X-files, Snowden would have outed this secret
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    It takes courage to fess up to that!