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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great points, especially leading from the front when times are tough. I didn't think Hotmail would have survived the outages, but they came out just fine.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   These places still have bosses, the question really is, "Who needs an owner?" If a business can get by with sweat equity rather than external financing, why not? I suspect there are limits to both scale and growth, but those are
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I would add #4 - it is hard to leave a functioning structure for when you aren't around if progress depends on your force of will.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That's a very moving tribute to a great boss. It's too bad that he wasn't able to stop the decline in his empire. Perhaps the personalization didn't scale. In the end, he's remembered and respected more for the p
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Thanks for sharing. Articles like this make me wish I took more than just the obligatory year of physics.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   One challenge is that there are some rational things working against diversity. One heuristic is "Aim for as diverse a group of entrepreneurs because we don't want to miss any opportunities" Another is "Fund people I&#x2
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   Math model suggests fishing out older members may destroy school memory(phys.org)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Parsing is such sweet sorrow(fivethirtyeight.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Pixel and Dimed(fastcompany.com)

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

    And being into the same topics, watching the same movies, reading the same books...
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Sounds like no warrant. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/arrest-of-secret-...
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    Predicting Student Exam’s Scores by AnalyzingSocial Network Data(academia.edu)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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    The Death of Data Science has been Greatly Exaggerated(inside-bigdata.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Big Data and Data Science Used to Uncover Truths about President Obama(medium.com)

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

    It sounds like just 40% of a year's severance. Not too much to walk away. And it's a parable, not a true story. The timing was 1924 - the roaring 20s. It's a commentary against the flashy types, in defense of the folks who
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Many times great minds behind companies have already seen other ways to make money. This could be Google when it was just a search engine, or Amazon when it was just books. The idea of renting your house can be transportable to many other
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This makes me think of Buffett giving his money the Gates foundation: The 2nd richest guy in the world giving it to the richest.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very interesting article. I think they capture the way to beat Bloomberg - latch on to it. Add analysis on top of it. Bloomberg's support is solid, but they don't do advanced analytics. The challenge is Bloomberg is locked in to
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Management is the first hard thing that is easy to get right early. This is very true. I've seen a lot of very talented engineers struggle without management. The "I don't enter timesheets, and I work on my own problems b
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression is companies struggle when it comes time to assign quotas to salespeople. The places I've seen do it right have support from someone (CFO?) who has had experience in a disciplined environment, and wants to increase predi
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Did I misread? I interpreted it as the employees email. It can't possibly legal for them to go after a blogger's email without a lawsuit, no?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. They invested in a future that other realized instead of them. Would it have happened anyways? Who knows, probably. Who was harmed? Their shareholders, and all the employees who eventually lost their jobs.
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    Of Technocrats and Autocrats: Review of Bill Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts (davidroodman.com)

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

    This is a big strategic question. Do you want researchers closer to the market, paid by the person whose P&L they could impact? Or further away, so they can think longer term? Other companies go through this a lot. Procter & Gambl
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I read that too. I wonder if you waive that privacy as part of your employment agreement?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    There is something fishy about the whole story. Like he's in the hype business rather than the renting business. I have no data either way, but it looks like he's building a "How you can be a guru too" resume.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very long story. I can't imagine giving my kids the freedom that I had. Some of it is city versus suburbs, but some is just that times change and we get more aware of the danger. In addition to physical danger, there is significant r
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    Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post, and his plan to take over the media world(marginalrevolution.com)

    3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Icahn changes course, urges eBay to sell 20 percent of PayPal(reuters.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    CIA Monitoring Technology Will Allow SAC To Catch Insider Traders Before the DA(dealbreaker.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments