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by mathattack 13y ago
When you're an At Will employer, they can fire you for any reason that's not discriminatory. They gave you some BS reason because the real reason either made them look bad (can't afford you, or someone better came along af
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by mathattack 13y ago
For the curious... http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/07/03/daily1...
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed very important, and this goes across industry. What happens when the head of risk management and head of compliance report to business unit heads rather than functional lines? (See most big banks) What happens when the local partner
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think the iPad is most efficient as a 1 way device. Great for reading and viewing, but not good for responding. Hence the airplane use call. Laptops have gotten convenient enough (and strong enough batteries) to compete though.
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by mathattack 13y ago
My 2 cents... The French system is great at producing mathematicians, and by extension computer scientists. The problem is there is a cultural aversion to risk taking and working for small companies, and the government is increasingly tax
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by mathattack 13y ago
Did our publicity bring down the app? I can't pull it up. Great idea though!
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was an early adopter of the iPad too, but now get more use out of a very tiny MacBook Air. The laptop slimmed down to meet it, rather than the phone moving up. For me the key has been the ability to type.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Moving to another country is a great experience, but to your point, it can help perpetuate our illusions rather than remove them.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Perhaps I can go back to the original quote that spawned this all... I don't think waiting for 70% of the time to expire to start coding is consistent with the iterative cycling of agile methods.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I went to the barrier reef in 2001, and already saw damage there. I thought, "This is a hobby for part of my lifetime, but probably not for any meaningful part of my kids" If we can get our act together, life in the ocean will re
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by mathattack 13y ago
Well, they just made Dimitri Glazkov famous.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very interesting historical anecdotes. The following shows his move to management: No, I don’t. I still help design algorithms and basic approaches, and sometimes I look at code. But since I worked on the IBM PC BASIC and the Model 100, I
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by mathattack 13y ago
Small world - nice!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Eric Lippert's answer is great. It isn't the distribution of answers, it's the predictability. In most cases it's ok if the distribution looks random, but in some it turns out not to be ok.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The author had me until he talked about giving up beer. :-) Seriously, though, I think getting rid of the distractions on the fringe of our lives is important. For me it was getting rid of the TV. That doesn't always link to killing
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by mathattack 13y ago
I've also heard, "How do we know you won't sell the company and have the product wither on the vine." This is why startups tend to deal with startups, and Crossing the Chasm [0] is so difficult. [0] http://en
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by mathattack 13y ago
Perhaps if they have equity they don't feel too bad about the decision. :-) Sometimes a commercial tie-in can mean the difference between ten thousand playing your game and ten million.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Here's the context... Someone with moderate statistics can take a Microeconomics class and with a few hours a week of studying can get conversational, and apply it. With only introductory calculus, they can take a second and third cl
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by mathattack 13y ago
Are you trying to steer the discussion to the quote "Coding is not allowed to start before 70% of the scheduled time has elapsed"? I think it's important to take this in context. EWD was a proponent of Computer Science as ma
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by mathattack 13y ago
This article paints a strong argument in favor of the new CEO. I think he stands a chance of pulling this off!
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by mathattack 13y ago
When I saw the title, I thought it was, "Come back after you practiced for 10 years" which doesn't help much. I used to think the solution was better interfaces, or making programming more accessible to the lay person. I get
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by mathattack 13y ago
This kind of reminds me of the original Wall Street movie, where Charlie Sheen broke into companies via their cleaning service, and then stole inside information.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Exactly. And fraud is low enough that they're happy to do this.
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Why Bach Moves Us(nybooks.com)
5 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
My 2 cents... This is not easy. Understanding coding has a much higher barrier to entry than simple proficiency in other under-utilized fields like Statistics and Economics. It is very hard to say this is something EVERYONE needs to kno
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by mathattack 13y ago
Fantastic story. This thought process can be applied to so many different things.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very interesting. 2 observations: 1) Will they lose the ability to experiment as a one product company? 2) "If we can't find the right partner or buyer, we are committed to continuing to run the products for our existing custom
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by mathattack 13y ago
I view this differently. He found a non-traditional way. He didn't go to IIT. He didn't go to the top engineering school in the US. He got his MBA part time. But he found a way. I am very bullish on Nadella. He's not a
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by mathattack 13y ago
Maybe it's just a bias on my part, but I don't see anyone using "Binging" as a word to look something up. I would like to see the #s more in depth. (How much of it is directed from Yahoo, and IE, etc)
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by mathattack 13y ago
You know something is wrong with finance and economics undergrad education when the Phd programs look for folks with other majors. :-) This should be a sign to more people that science and engineering programs are places where you can solv

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