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   Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs(forbes.com)

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

   I highly value education, but nothing beats jumping into the mix.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Very true. It takes projects to separate what's needed versus what's purely academic. Projects also force you to learn what isn't taught, and to open the hidden doors in the technologies that you're using. Similar with
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Very true. It's important to invest in strategic relationships, but sometimes you have to lay down the law. For example, many companies shirk their customer support duties, even on high ticket items. You wind up spending a disproport
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Is that job security?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Legacy telcos are the epitome of large big institutions where many of the best talents leave. After just a few years of working with them, I couldn't believe they could get a dial tone. How did they produce so much great R&D?
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   How Yahoo CEO Mayer fixed 1,000 problems(postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)

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

   This works very well, especially in Sales situations. Once you can put things into someone else's words, they know you understand their point. Two challenges to this approach: 1) It takes time. Lots of time. Sometimes decisions nee
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Smart daughter!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It wasn't intentional, but I will take full credit. I'll pass it to legal for the copyright and patent.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think it's only good if they fess up to it. Leveraging other people's work is fantastic, and underdeveloped in our educational system. Taking credit for other people's work, well.... :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes - a romantic notion that doesn't involve 200K in debt. :-) When schools cost this much money, they cease to become a cherished place for the free mind to roam for 4 years. Stanford is a world class research institution. If it ac
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    A statue for a statue - sort of(cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)

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

    The whole Banksy craze tells me how much of the value in art is things being famous for their own sake. It isn't that it's art (or graffiti) that causes the problem (or value) it's that it's someone famous. There is a s
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The issue has to be engineering. Is it a case of too much distance between the HW and SW people?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    There are reasons that departments exist, and that they are primary. For better or worse, you trade off interdisciplinary studies (and organizational flexibility) when you have a tenure driven department system. My impression is that some
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    What I like about your method is it also allows you to catch folks who fudge the work product.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The irony is that tenure exists to protect the future from short term politics, since you can't fire truth tellers just because you disagree with them.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's hard to imagine questioning a tenure decision on your wife can ever end well. Not that you shouldn't stand by your spouse, but anything you say will appear biased. I suspect that Mizzou knew they would lose both of them. He
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I love Miami. Lots of great reasons to be there. But man I hate the pompous "and why you should too."
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    These Guys Want to Sell You Stock in Arian Foster(slate.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Peking University expels liberal economist Xia Yeliang(scmp.com)

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

    I agree completely. Sometimes it's possible to great things without attacking an existing market from the bottom.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I had heard people say this about Reagan. He took accountability for things that were arguably out of his control, and people later didn't blame him for things that were. To me the lesson is accepting blame for a problem doesn't
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It would seem like the issue here is the trade-off between having full time admins, versus a simpler and less perfect title system. It's ok to argue for "Let's go for perfect" but if you're not paying for the admin
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I once had to deal with someone working in the test prep industry that had two ivy league degrees and couldn't get the population of the US within 200 million. It was striking that this was someone who represented the pinnacle of our
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    On point 1 - I agree with you in theory, in that anything we spend externally needs to be paid for by either selling something against it, or borrowing. This is Germany's issue too: they lend people money, so that others can buy their
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The author is very smart, and more trained in economics than I am, but I still disagree with some of what he says. China is doing us two favors: 1) If they weren't buying our debt, someone else would. Without a large buyer like China
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I don't see it this way. The policy of cheap exports is actually to keep their people employed. Whatever they would be doing if they weren't exporting would keep them poorer than what they're doing today. In addition, the l
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was thinking the same thing. Continuous incentives are better, to the extent that they're not too complicated. But it's Goldman Sachs - I'm sure they can figure it out.