mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Fair enough. I'm not that extreme, and I get that schools need to offer students the best in education. But many of these schools in question are failing enormous quantities of students. The school my kids are zoned for (public, not
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I suspect your salary will triple theirs within 5 years. My sense is there are a few reasons for this: 1) It is very hard to measure the benefits of good teaching, and it tends to be on a much longer timeframe. (Do we value nice teachers,
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It's not just money, it's accountability, it's income of the students, it's how progress is measured... Tossing money at a broken school is about as productive as tossing money at an overdue software project. Conceivab
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Seliger is a great writer. Unions perversely hurt themselves. By creating a monopoly for their services, they make it much harder for alternative providers to come along and bid up their services. The new NYC mayor put the partner of the A
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   The challenge is how they'll be able to teach folks computer science, when they fail to teach them basic reading and math. The AP Computer Science class I took was close enough to first year coursework that they let me pass out of it.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Yes. Though I wonder where they'll find the people to teach it.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Yes - a 6 month (or perhaps 3 before we forget?) update would be nice. I also concur that these are all personal productivity apps, based on your experience. The open question is do other people have these issues too, and can you find and
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   And for females, the pressure to get married before age 30. My understanding is the issue here isn't that women are supposed to get married, rather that they're supposed to drop out of the workforce immediately thereafter. With
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Actually it could work very well. "Look what I built on top of your public APIs. Would you like to talk about my integrating it into your platform?"
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    Rietdijk–Putnam argument(en.wikipedia.org)

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

    McWhoops! It doesn't seem that strange. If you have an open forum for a company that has PR issues, people will complain. The crazy thing is that management is in a bubble that thinks this won't happen. I recall a class in juni
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very good advice. People are more willing to have a 30 minute conversation about how to improve their business rather than a 30 minute conversation figuring out why to not hire someone. The idea of creating leads is a very fine line. For
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I really hope that this is true, but I'll believe it when I see some more IPOs. I'm a very big cultural fan of Japan, but they seem to struggle with technology entrepreneurship. There is a tradition of small business owners and
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Funny article, but don't people see through this very quickly? Folks that don't play well with others get found out very quickly.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Perhaps I'm nerdly enough to go to the Terry Pratchett part of the story first. This really reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Igor clan. I discovered this amiable race in The Fifth Elephant. Igors are a people inspired from the typical
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    Google Glass: my early impressions(marginalrevolution.com)

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

    You're putting Mother Teresa into other people's mouths. If there is large unemployment, and lots of people need work, is it morally better to spend $1,000 hiring one person or $500 each for 2 people, or $100 each for 10 people?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It seems like different tools for different purposes. Once grandma and potential emitters got on Facebook it lost its edge, if not it's use. It's more about PG sharing. I find that 5% of my friends dominate the feed. I'm
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    So the alternative is not buying things or services from people who need the money?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great idea. Thanks for sharing! A test suite would be great (as mentioned by JadeNB) but is the end of this something along the lines of a MOOC or a programming community?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Many regions skip landlines and go straight to mobile phones. This idea that everything will get stolen because people are poor speaks to a very small subset of the population. People have mobile phones in the favelas of Brazil. You don&
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I disagree. If have a $100,000, and somebody else has zero, neither of us have any value until I spend the money. If I spent the $10,000 to have someone do my laundry for the year (increasing my free time), then they have $10,000 with whic
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is not scientific research, but many folks quote Joel's article on Smart, Get's Stuff Done. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html Steve McConnell reported on the 10x phenomenon, but
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My 2 cents on the computer science degree versus coding... (Full disclosure - I have a CS degree from a large public school) 1) Many of the top coders, programmers and data scientists that I know don't have CS degrees. (The top code
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It is emotionally difficult to back out of decisions. Many doomsday cults find their fanatics get even more enthusiastic after the predictions are false.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    One of the things to consider is that for many Wall Street jobs, it's tough to get in, and the hours are awful, but it's not an IQ test. If you hire someone with 120 IQ instead of 135 at a software firm, you might suffer. For ba
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I couldn't imagine the pain involved in being attached to one of these projects for multiple years. I suspect most smart and ambitious people agree with me. So in the end, you add a lack of talent to all the other very real things th
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Compare his lack of regret with Alfred Nobel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I doubt it moved the needle at all. I think their reaction was, "We know they like us enough to steal the music, so let's give them something they can't rip off." I don't think it improved store sales.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    You notice this in musical traditions too. For a long time, putting your own spin on someone else's tune was considered paying homage, not theft. (You were paying respects, not royalties)