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   How billionaire Sean Parker is taking a deeper dive into politics(cnbc.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Culture, like passion, is best demonstrated rather than talked about. When people talk about how passionate they are, it scares me. I once worked for a company whose execs said "We will remain private because our core values of handi
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This may be a dumb question, but why were they tossed into the ocean? Was it because there was no alternative? Or they just wanted them away from potential users of them?
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   Birchbox banks $60 million(tech.fortune.cnn.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   $215 on Amazon, $95 via Kindle, ~$45 to rent. Used is also much cheaper, perhaps because of older edition. But this doesn't change your point at all. :-)
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   Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage(openculture.com)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I've seen companies strategically fire people to get out of option awards. Or grant very generous options, only to plan on firing the folks later. Very shady business. I've become a bigger believer in cash. Unless you TRULY bel
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I've also heard it as "As hire As, Bs hire Cs"
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   Satya Nadella needs more than one trick to fix Microsoft(tech.fortune.cnn.com)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Memo to tech startups: If you want money, raise it now(tech.fortune.cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Awesome article by Mr. Levine. I still assume that they're betting that current management will piss away some of the windfall from the 2 stakes that they hold. An alternative explanation is convenience yield. This happened with 3com
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is a real risk, and why large companies don't like working with startups.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Your point is very true - plan 1 may not be monetizable, but a large user base with a lot of data can open other doors. Facebook is another example - it was never going to just monetize people poking each other with sheep.
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    Danny Kuo Wants His MBA Diploma Before Getting His Insider-Trading Sentence(businessweek.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is old news, right? The money and mistake was already baked into the stock price. To your point, we tend to like hiring people similar to ourselves because it's comfortable and validating. In reality what we need is people who c
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I have heard of similar - people wanting an asshole to push things through. Maybe I've spent too much time around big banks.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like the double Ms. It reduces the ambiguity. Nobody thinks of 10MM as anything other than 10 million. 10M can be 10 million or 10 thousand. I've been in situations where the ambiguity has caused problems.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is an argument for buy vs build. As others have stated, the question is whether complexity is worth it. My bias is we tend to underestimate the complexity of small additions, and overestimate the benefit of having control over a syst
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think many folks confuse normalization as a strategy with the underlying database technologies. Oracle and other RDMBS technologies can create normalized databases too. In the end it's a design judgment. There is a lot of room bet
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I agree. It seems like they won twice - once in the late 90s with businesses, and again in the middle of the next decade with consumers. The first comeback was easy enough, that they assumed another one wouldn't be too bad. The whol
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Perhaps blogs are better for testing ideas than books?
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    '05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein(norvig.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The reality is very few projects will ever be approved in every field with "I don't know?" as the answer to "How much will it cost?" Estimation is by far the trickiest project management tool. 2 identical projects
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great post! This shreds much of the research in social science. Should be required reading for every science major or science journalist.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is symptomatic of what's happening in math. Theorem provers figure things out that are beyond our comprehension to test or follow. Considering how many bugs we find when things are simple enough to check, we have to be careful w
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    The gun library(bostonreview.net)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Neil Young's Pono music player raises millions(cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Is your business persona working for you?(features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    If you're writing a book on a serious topic like security, you are presenting yourself as an expert and need to be able to stand up to the criticism. It goes with the territory.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Was their response really just "Go call the cops"?