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Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever(m.theatlantic.com)
3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Ouch! Was that 10K lesson worth all the classes it would have paid for? (I suspect it might be)
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by mathattack 13y ago
When small start-ups I’ve spoken with do make money, they often find it difficult to recruit additional investment because most venture capitalists — and often the entrepreneurs they finance — are not interested in building viable long-ter
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Why Can’t Wall Street Out-Recruit Google and Facebook?(linkedin.com)
3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think in the US the law says you have 45 days to respond to a written note like that.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think the goal is ultimately more targeted advertising. In a way this is helpful. It would be great for adult advertising to stop showing up on cartoon videos.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm a huge fan of Deming, and many of the problems we see in software can be fixed by paying closer attention to his 14 principles. One question that I've had applying him to software, though, is how you align his concepts on syst
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - building on this, I see 4 quick benefits: 1 - Suggestions on where problems have been solved before. (Your point) 2 - Having people say, "Here's the style we use to make this easier to support in the future" 3 - Ment
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by mathattack 13y ago
With all due respect (and I'm wrong a lot!) Google left quite a bit on the table. Their stock price went up 500% from $85 over the next year. Wouldn't they have been better off capturing some of that? The jury is still out on Fa
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by mathattack 13y ago
Or $18 the day before. One answer is there are a lot of people who just want to get their billion out. Or million. Or hundred thousand. They are largely undiversified. They are selling to diversified owners who are less impacted by day
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by mathattack 13y ago
The price went up ~5x from the $85 within the first year. One interpretation is that they had tons of good news. Another is that the initial investors didn't understand the value inside of Google, and perhaps the traditional road sho
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by mathattack 13y ago
He's plugged in to the times. If it were the Onion, they'd have done it a year before the incident. :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
The backlash will come the next time Facebook tries to raise money. That said, the cost is much less than the amount of money that Twitter left on the table. Also - if every company flopped post-IPO, the IPO market would die. That's
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by mathattack 13y ago
On Edit 2 - The banks don't double their money on large bets. They make smaller risk free sums. The banks are generally paid a certain % of the deal size, and are expected to make markets in the stock. Most of the people who bought a
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by mathattack 13y ago
One comment... Google and Facebook each tried to stick it to the bankers in their own ways. In the end both struggled as a result. Google tried to cut out bankers and make them play by special "Just for the Google IPO" rules an
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by mathattack 13y ago
It seems like code reviews are partially for inspecting the product, and partially for teaching and inculcating cultural norms. Are the managers who don't like this just non-technical? Or are they just not being presented the value in
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by mathattack 13y ago
They definitely paint him as a narcissist. :-) I thought it was a fairly balanced portrayal. That said, nothing in the article convinced me that AOL wouldn't have been better off just mining the AOL subscription revenue and paying i
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by mathattack 13y ago
"You get what you measure" - Tom Peters Quality must be designed in, but people won't do the effort if it's not valued.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Would Mulally be able to make the technical decisions required? Could he point the company in the right way? Gerstner was able to get away with being a non-technical CEO because job one was being decisive. When he moved strategically, it
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The Story Behind Why Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers(businessinsider.com)
4 points by mathattack 13y ago|4 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm surprised that so many blue collar jobs are less white than Chief Executives. Interesting example of counter-intuitive data. I suspect that the sample sizes are too big for large differences to be random. That said, there could
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by mathattack 13y ago
I agree - what's required is a wholesale conversion to low-emission energy. That will impact GDP. I used to think we'd run out of coal and oil and then work our way around it, but I think that will be too late.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are two types of turnarounds: 1) The place is burning to the ground, and if we don't fix it we'll run out of money. 2) We are wasting money and losing our value* at an unacceptable rate. Each of these requires someone diff
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In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Who'll be getting rich off Twitter(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Any insights are appreciated. It seems like people look at the outcome first (steady passive income) which is a good strategy, but hard to do if consulting is the first master. At larger places that I worked, either the skills were missin
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by mathattack 13y ago
Is this an issue of needing an MBA, or just needing to think about marketing and finance?
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by mathattack 13y ago
At the office, I was going to suggest we all wear our Blockbuster memorial outfits of light blue shirts with khakis. Then I realized nobody knows what that is anymore.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Marketing done wrong is advertising an already conceived product. Marketing done right is strategic. It's about segmenting a market, targeting the right niche, and looking for the right positioning within the niche. It's about g
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by mathattack 13y ago
I had a winter business trip to Edmonton several years back. I thought I was going to freeze to death. The locals told me it was 10-15 degrees warmer than usual. Despite this there were hordes of people in the wave pool in the mall. It

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