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by mathattack 12y ago
Why not an L1 if you have a job with the same company? Seems relatively easy.
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by mathattack 12y ago
That's a big surprise to me. I hadn't thought them relevant at all. What's the driver behind this? Buzzfeeditis? But it seems like they want on TV more than anything else.
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by mathattack 12y ago
The analogy I like is, "If you have too much technical security debt, someone will eventually report you to the credit agency"
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by mathattack 12y ago
At startups, marketing and engineering (finding what the customer wants, and building it quickly) are what drives success. As firms grow, internal coordination becomes more important. Success at "Making sure Excel is backwards compati
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by mathattack 12y ago
Like you, I am more in Twain's camp. "There are three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics." Statistics are great for providing evidence to counteract our intuition, and show empirical holes in logic. That said
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Hacking Academia: Data Science and the University(jakevdp.github.io)
7 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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Practical Lessons from Predicting Clicks on Ads at Facebook(facebook.com)
2 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
Good points. And I would also observe that email's share of electronic communication is going down with the rise of Facebook and other messaging services.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think the move to safer languages for CS education is more to encourage people to think about the CS lessons at hand, rather than software engineering. Learning about various list types is much easier if you don't have to worry about
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by mathattack 12y ago
Deeply left of my politics, but I like the market orientation of the solution. Very well written to get me to agree with a point of view I wasn't inclined to like. :-)
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The Case for Intelligent Failure to Invent the Future(techcrunch.com)
5 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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Twitter, Big Data, and Jobs Numbers(lsa.umich.edu)
3 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
The key will be to see where the second (non-pilot) graduates go. There is room at the top for elite for-profit school. Look at http://www.avenues.org/ as a N-12 example. Does it work on a large scale? That's the t
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by mathattack 12y ago
Mayharm - He was quick to pull the trigger on most anything. I can't get into too many more specifics without identifying people, other than to say he gave people good cause to get lawyers.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Glad to see them back!
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by mathattack 12y ago
Is this that different than Bowling Alone? http://bowlingalone.com/ I've spent the past 5 years in the same apartment. I've had immediate neighbors on both sides switch at least 4 times. After getting to know t
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by mathattack 12y ago
A small fixed quantity of medallions with a strong one-issue political base is a terrible system.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Very true. This can play itself out different in different organizations. At a large consumer products company I worked at, the solution was trying to fit square pegs in round holes. People could only "perform" their way into ne
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by mathattack 12y ago
Outstanding potential for technology! Who says all these games are just mental candy?
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's a free email service. It will (by definition) come with strings.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Two issues with Yelp: 1 - The recommendations are not personalized. We are getting more and more accustomed to personalization. I love FreshDirect, but I don't trust their anonymous ratings either. Same with SeamlessWeb. 2 - The Yel
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by mathattack 12y ago
This seems like a maturation of the tech industry, and outsourcing of R&D. It's very hard for large companies to innovate - the CEOs have too much on their minds to chase down hundreds of small ideas. Let others obsess on them, a
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by mathattack 12y ago
Good for him. Once you realize that it's not worth it any more, better to hand over the reigns quickly rather than sit on it indefinitely.
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by mathattack 12y ago
This is a scathing article. An open question... Is seems like the public market is not participating in the run-ups of many companies. For example, Facebook grew on private money, not public. Are these run-ups just too small to move the
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by mathattack 12y ago
Can I retrieve my videos? Unfortunately, videos on Justin.tv are no longer accessible for download. Video archiving and VODs were removed on June 15, 2014. Were people given advance notice on this?
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by mathattack 12y ago
I recall seeing a data presentation on 4square a few months ago, and the numbers suggested that check-ins were tapering. They definitely realized that all their corporate value was in the data. Perhaps they are trying to avoid the split is
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by mathattack 12y ago
I've seen similar. I kind of view it as "A couple As and a couple Cs are better than all Bs" The one caveat is that you don't want any Fs. For example, to be a great programmer, you don't need to be a great Engli
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by mathattack 12y ago
The problem with the dividend is that it's immediately taxed. That said, if you take taxes aside, it's actually the same either way. This is the crux of the Modigliani Miller theory. [0] An oversimplified way to look at it... L
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by mathattack 12y ago
The challenge is then you lose accountability, and the ability for people to work on what they are weak at.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I was thinking more of the cases where the teachers and principals change the students test scores to pass state exams. Here is one example of many -> http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/justice/georgia-chea

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