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by mathattack 13y ago
What's the point of a No Spy treaty if people will break it anyway? Being a cynic, if you're going to spy anyway, isn't it better to have a situation where everyone knows that everyone else is spying, and have fake outrage?
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by mathattack 13y ago
There was an article on LinkedIn today about the same topic. http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140113134951-69... Let's separate the world into 2 camps: experienced hires, and college hires. E
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by mathattack 13y ago
"A friend of a friend" is enough for me to take someone's call if they're asking for a personal or professional favor. Lord knows I've been on the receiving end of enough of those gifts. The thing I'm noticing
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by mathattack 13y ago
Maybe it was decided by a non-technical person. "Code? I have no idea, grab an Intel manual!" This sounds plausible from someone who would have never heard of github.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Thanks! I was wondering where I could play around with this game. Does anyone have an idea if there's a mathematical solution to this game? Is there an inherent advantage that one or the other should win?
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by mathattack 13y ago
The best non-Code development that I ever read was the Design of Everyday Things. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... It was not written with software in mind, but the core respect for the u
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by mathattack 13y ago
I do believe there should be some "Buyer Beware" on Phd programs. Especially if they are fully funded. But you shouldn't change the programs. If you want to work at a hedge fund, a masters in financial math is a lot more ef
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by mathattack 13y ago
Holy Moses - I am not going to be able to sleep tonight. Thank you for sharing!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Wealthier patrons are good for business. Most are happy up selling.
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Learning From Data(work.caltech.edu)
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by mathattack 13y ago
True, though that may not tarnish the general concept. It's also being pitched by a training firm. This is really a question of "Is it better to apply continuous improvement everywhere, or just focus on a few areas?" Some s
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by mathattack 13y ago
Similar premise to All the Troubles in the World by Asimov, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World
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by mathattack 13y ago
If I were trying to encourage folks to not invest in local real estate, I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town. If I wanted to destroy the tax base supporting my school, I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out o
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by mathattack 13y ago
Hiring family can be tough. If you would hire your Mom, would you also fire her?
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by mathattack 13y ago
When someone crushes the industry average in hiring an under-represented group, you really have to ask yourself what more can they do? Being specific - are you suggesting more outreach? Overpaying to take funding opportunities away from ot
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by mathattack 13y ago
If you put money in a bank, and get interest, it is a store of value just as much as a bond is. It's not a permanent store of value (inflation, etc) but nothing is. Houses can get taken away in floods, bonds can also get wiped out by
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by mathattack 13y ago
Thank you for sharing. Very good for bringing back some old (positive) memories on learning this the first time around.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes indeed. And programmers should get multiple screens too. This will only get better over time too.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very good comments, though I disagree on just one point: Money is a medium of exchange for wealth, it is not a store of wealth. It actually is a store of wealth. Money buys investments, which is where you store wealth. Money is easily
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good point - I hadn't considered the userbase. But don't they lose the userbase if they crap on the product after it's been acquired?
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by mathattack 13y ago
I have a friend in his 40s with razor sharp accurate childhood memory. I always assumed it was because he never got into drinking, even in undergrad.
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by mathattack 13y ago
It depends on your point of view. Too big for what? Big can come in different manners. # of people to watch when 1 or 2 can cause trouble. Size of assets. # of distinct businesses. Size of risk position. Size of counterparty risk.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Still a lot if you take the paperwork seriously. 10 hours falls into the 20% above and beyond category. It's a big investment in the importance of culture.
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by mathattack 13y ago
As a general policy, this seems fantastic. It just doesn't sound like they're scaling the culture carriers fast enough. * Bar raisers may be asked to assess as many as 10 candidates a week, for between two and three hours each, i
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by mathattack 13y ago
Still valuable as a joke. :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
My 2 cents on great teachers ... I only had a few. Perhaps 2 in high school. Another 2 in undergrad. And perhaps 6 or 7 in grad school. My observation on them is consistent with what the article conveyed. 1 - They knew exactly how much
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by mathattack 13y ago
The first programming language depends a lot on what the purpose is. EWD's purpose is to train mathematicians specializing in computation. For these types of people, Haskell is fine. "Commercial" languages are better for pe
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by mathattack 13y ago
The reality on banks like this is that they are very hard to manage. There are specialists in every corner, and somehow the head of the bank has to keep tabs on all of them. Almost always, the money makers outearn the risk managers and co
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by mathattack 13y ago
going long the general market on roughly a 1.1 to 1 ratio I don't think they could have hedged this way. Madoff's volatility was too low, so there weren't comparable instruments. The only options were investing in Madoff
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by mathattack 13y ago
What about forgetting your 20s? I can barely remember what I used to eat before I learned how to cook. I assume that it was a lot of macaroni and cheese, pasta and mashed potatoes, but I can't really remember.

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