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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Thank you for sharing. It's interesting (and perhaps obvious in hindsight) that Wolfram has great math in the background, but struggles with the freeform interface.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great write-up. Thank you for sharing. I like the billing triggers. In hindsight very obvious. Good to learn it without getting burned. :-)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   A lot depends on the remaining 7,000 patents.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It's really the value of their paychecks relative to imports. (In a small country, you do have to export a lot relative to GDP, but you can wind up exporting cheaper too)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Many medium to large firms were missed. Much of the French Tech ecosystem is built around financial technology that makes use of the country's math strengths. (Examples: Sophis, Misys and Murex)
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   In praise of passivity(econlog.econlib.org)

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

   Of course - I'm just running with the singularity dream.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great for them. I'm curious - how much of this is based on the quality of the service, versus the quality of the founders?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Escape velocity here we come! I hope we hit this before I'm 80. I'm ok with 50 as my terminal age. Maybe even 60. I don't want to be terminal when I need a new hip every few years.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Credit card #s and social security #s are not secure. But what should companies use instead? We're a long way from everyone having fingerprint scanners, and I'm sure there will be a way to break that too. Isn't the solution
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    * Ridicule is the air we breathe. Why do you care?* I like a lot of your posts - this is one of the best things you've written. Reminds me of Feynman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_Peo.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The damage was pretty big anyway, no? The currency lost half it's value and never recovered, right?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Until the money is in the bank you don’t have an investment. There is a lot of talk about what went wrong, but I think this is the most transferable lesson spanning startups of every kind.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This seems counterproductive. Access to western educational services should advance our causes there, not harm them.
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    New York Vying With California to Write Bitcoin Rules(bloomberg.com)

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

    The maps were very oversimplified too. It's too bad this story is being under-reported. I think it's more than a "Red and blue states with different languages" situation. It could be a civil war, or national split, no
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    If you want to fly a titan, you can do it within two years (or less) if you are smart about it. Now THAT'S a commitment!
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    The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness(theguardian.com)

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

    Those concessions represented over one third of the wages but only 2.5% of the resulting profits This doesn't seem to make sense. It's a VERY rare industry that has labor costs as little as 7.5% of profits. Very few are even a
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    The Power to Decide(technologyreview.com)

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

    My professional experience has been the opposite. Over the course of my career, I've seen a steady decline in leadership, project management and general management. The return on skill has gone up. If you are the best in the world a
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    tl;dr Can someone summarize the relevant points for us?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Systems thinking and process thinking are very big. Built to Last by Collins covers this a lot. They don't skip goals (it's a big part of it) but much of the book is about soft things done right. Leadership is huge. Building sy
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Being an asshole works in the short term. Being empathatic works in the long term. A CEO can screw his shareholders in the short term. A CEO that takes care of his shareholders does well in the long term. You can stiff a restaurant and ru
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Was it inaccurate compared to the book by Isaacson too?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'd be interesting in finding more about the source of the sales quota #s. And is that one time sales or lifetime revenue? (Since most new firms have a SAAS model now)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Is the issue privacy, or making it too easy to compare faculty ratings with one another? In general faculty and class ratings are not popular with tenured faculty who view greatness as synonymous with citations. Tenured faculty also are f
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "A modern startups costs are all people costs." This one sticks with me a lot. All the cloud/virtualization/thisandthat/outsourcing really puts the people at the center. It makes fighting for sustainable competiti
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I absolutely love these, "Get off of HN and get some work done" posts that get voted to the top of HN. Are we heroin addicts that know what's bad for us? :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm still pulling for either Marvin the Martian, or some kind of Martian Troll throwing stones from across the plain.