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by mathattack 12y ago
"For past 5 years, Release 1.0 is consistently projected to be 24-32 months away." I have worked on project like this. Usually it's the sign of management failure (poor communication, poorly defined requirements, bad governa
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by mathattack 12y ago
Oh my poor miserable Cubs on that list. And I thought they were bad because of underinvestment. The list shows they're bad even relative to that underinvestment!
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4 layers of BigData(smartdatacollective.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes, though this is now becoming an expectation. I haven't done much business travel in the past few years, but now that it's ramping up again I notice how important the free wifi is.
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by mathattack 12y ago
True. I was thinking more in the context of wifi. You're right though.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Here's the obligatory Dilbert -> http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/ This sounds like a cheating problem, not a measuring problem. The same things happens when people try to measure schools.
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by mathattack 12y ago
If we accept that nothing is free, then we have to ask what the best way to pay for the so-called free product. In my mind it's either some sort of usage data, or it's via taxes.
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by mathattack 12y ago
This his the nail on the head. You need someone who can turn your vision into reality. On thing to add is that you need to be very careful about governance. You need to be clear what the COO has authority on, and what they don't. Yo
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Aspiring Data Scientist? Here Are Some At Work Project Ideas(datascienceweekly.org)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
After a while they just get too big to do it. But that's ok. As long as someone is willing to buy the bonds, there's nothing wrong with shuffling the capital structure. In theory, some people need fixed income instruments (say i
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by mathattack 12y ago
Poundwise Pennyfoolish no? (Or is it Pennwise Poundfoolish?) If productivity doesn't drop, why not telecommute 50%?
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by mathattack 12y ago
Generally share buybacks help the shareholders quite a bit. Unless I'm wrong, the advisors don't skim as much off of buybacks as they do IPOs. (And I am wrong more than I care to admit!)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Kalid - First of all, your site kicks ass! Keep doing what you're doing. You probably can't even imagine the 2nd and 3rd order impacts of the benefits you provide. Someone gets one insight from your site, that makes something t
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by mathattack 12y ago
First of all, Cringely is right on the first part. IBM, and many other companies, are taking advantage of the low rate environment to borrow money and buy back stock. This is capital structure optimization, and many companies do it. He i
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by mathattack 12y ago
I recall reading that Napa and Sonoma are going downhill as a result, and that 10-15 more years of this will make the Washington and Oregon wines just as good, if not better. I hope the Microsoft millionaires are investing in wine country.
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by mathattack 12y ago
The culture between Microsoft and a startup couldn't be more different. 2 years seems like a very long time. Either he was super-dedicated to pushing the dream, or (your more likely scenario) he had a 2 year lock-in.
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by mathattack 12y ago
My impression is that it is making a difference amongst top programmers. When I learned Scheme way back when in college, there was no pretense of it being practical. My AI professor said, "AI is reduced to LISP hacking" and that
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by mathattack 12y ago
Their challenge is they have to scale via people, as opposed to via technology (like Google) or money (Hedge Funds). This can be very difficult. That said, if the plan is right, sometimes it is energy that's required to make things ha
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by mathattack 12y ago
There is always a principal/agent problem in large companies. "What's in it for me?" differs from "What's in it for the company?" Much of management and leadership is related to overcoming this issue.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I like the reference. :-) And I've been misusing the idiom for at least 10 years without correction!
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's a problem everywhere. I think Physics is somewhat spared because the gap between observation and math is less. (String theory perhaps being an exception) I think biochemistry runs into these issues more because it is harder to
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by mathattack 12y ago
Great article. I've come to believe that Ben Horowitz is the best management writer today. He comes from a technical place, and has learned the ways of management via the school of hard knocks. And every interesting project worth do
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by mathattack 12y ago
In this sense, the article doesn't add much value. If you're just saying, "Avoid unnecessary comments" you're in the same state of truisms as "Write quality code" or "Try your best".
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by mathattack 12y ago
I'm the same way. I view recursion best as a way to use induction in functions. If this is true, and this with a small change is true, then keep on going....
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by mathattack 12y ago
This issue is true with much of social science. It would be great to see more replication (or non-replication) experiments to confirm what we think we do or don't know.
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's also silly to assume that a magic # is right for most people.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think there is a lot of basic research to be done. I hope this research amounts to real advances!
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by mathattack 12y ago
I don't prefer that model from a moral point of view, but it is worthwhile from a practical point of view. Lobbying the government has a higher ROI than research for most companies. As such many companies lobby heavily for loopholes,
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by mathattack 12y ago
I see a headline like that thinking someone will take it as a dare. Of course the source is prone to overhype, so it's worth a grain (or twenty) of salt.
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Businesses Need to Spend More. The Future of the Economy Depends on It(nytimes.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments

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