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by mathattack 13y ago
I've seen some research on internet scams that talk about how a lot of the point of the initial BS is to weed out the skeptical people, because that's not the target audience. Their target audience is the gullible.
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by mathattack 13y ago
It amazes me that the A/B tests work. Is it just that they catch people who have never seen a scam before? How can people who consistently fall for this crap have any money left for rent?
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by mathattack 13y ago
I remember visiting Shanghai about 10 years ago. It was very vibrant and exciting, and there were cranes everywhere. I thought, "This is like being on the ground floor of a great new metropolis. Wouldn't it be awesome to work h
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The stem and the flower(nytimes.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
It amazes me that spam style works
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by mathattack 13y ago
It sounds like you hit on a key strategic insight. If you're free to principals, they'll find a way to use you without the admin headaches of finding money in an era of declining budgets. They get the added benefit of better app
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed it's sad. He was relatively young too!
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by mathattack 13y ago
If you're going to have a CIA, and they're going to have technology, why not have them look outside their corporate walls to create it? I can't imagine that a big government organization is capable of creating groundbreaking
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm not sure KBR and Blackwater are the best examples of companies in good public standing. The argument for Palantir is that pattern recognition applied to big data can save lives. That's enough for me.
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by mathattack 13y ago
You Brits don't have to worry about political correctness like us Americans. :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
Perhaps it's just being nit picky, but I think the author misread the original WSJ [1] article that he quotes. In the OP: Gillette, for example, had a “memo culture”; P&G’s “Proctoids” favored face-to-face meetings. In the WSJ a
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by mathattack 13y ago
Haven't they made it to the 5 razor yet? I don't think Warren Buffett was bragging about success for the consumer at the expense of the owner. :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm curious if request #5 actually ever generated revenue.
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by mathattack 13y ago
My first reaction is, "if that..." My second is, "Isn't this old news already?" Are serious entrepreneurs still running around asking people to sign NDAs rather than bragging about the caliber of their founding tea
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by mathattack 13y ago
A lot of this depends on the type of organization. Some organizations are very top-down, with corporate metrics and P&L flowing down a hierarchy. In firms like this, the approach your boss mentioned works very well. As long as everyo
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by mathattack 13y ago
Warren Buffett had something similar, though his point was that you don't want people who are smart, diligent and unethical.
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by mathattack 13y ago
It would be glorious, but probably borrowed away very quickly!
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by mathattack 13y ago
And their brains could use time for garbage collection and defragmentation.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I agree. A weekend nap is a beautiful thing. Couldn't pull it off at work. Sometimes I cheat by having coffee just before. Then I wake up 20 mins later with the dual benefit of sleep plus caffeine kicking in.
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by mathattack 13y ago
In theory (stress theory) the shareholders (represented by the board) put a CEO in who establishes systems to minimize the risks of mini blow ups. But if the govt doesn't have to bail out a firm, who outside it should worry? If an ov
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes. Sometimes people forget than money already spent is a sunk cost. This is endemic in IT projects. "We have to get this in, we've already spent $20 million, and they'll fire us if we have nothing to show for it."
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by mathattack 13y ago
They can't be eliminated completely, but it can be reduced. Think of the Lemon problem with cars. [1] The seller has a lot more information than the buyer. The buyer can never know as much as the buyer on what's wrong. In the
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by mathattack 13y ago
At a prior (very larger) company, someone described the path to career success as "Jumping into a lake, creating as big a splash as possible, and getting out of the lake before the water comes down." I think that summarizes your p
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by mathattack 13y ago
Great website. There is beauty in mathematics. "Everybody" is a large group of people. Many don't feel the need to understand basic algebra or statistics. Differential Equations and Graph Theory are much harder sells for
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by mathattack 13y ago
Some of the best client service advice I was given was along this vein. "If you want the client to trust you, do everything they give you a little better and a little faster than they expect. They will trust you with more work, and e
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by mathattack 13y ago
It does seem like the drop out rate (and debt associated with non-degrees) is high enough that the current model isn't working. My concern is that replacing it with less education hurts more. The Vocational Education trend seems like
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by mathattack 13y ago
I liked his practical comments on how to manage upwards. Execute for your boss, do quicker prototypes, and give bad news fast.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I had a student of EDW as my Programming Languages instructor. Someone asked my prof, "How do you debug?" His response, "I don't. I prove that the code is correct before I type anything."
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by mathattack 13y ago
For me Charlie Parker sums up the necessity of a formal education even if it is not explicitly used in practice: "Master your instrument, master the music & then forget all that & just play." How very true across so many a
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think they tell different stories, no? SSO is about spending too much time online. "Teach everyone to code" is about giving people marketable skills, and adding computer programming to the mathematics curriculum. Why not?

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