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by mathattack 13y ago
Starting companies is very hard. Even overnight success stories have had many dark hours. If you're going to YC and asking for outside money from people looking for home runs, by definition you are going to have push very very hard.
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by mathattack 13y ago
True. But it is VERY hard to encourage the enthusiasm of a 4 year old who asks "Why?" 600 times a day. :-)
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Nobels and National Greatness(online.wsj.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I like that they did use real #s in addition to polemics. You're right in that they didn't capture influencers. It would be good to see metrics on that too. I do know that I refuse to try anything requiring a credit card # - I
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a rule of thumb amongst CEOs that "The best way to get a CEO position is to come from one." To pull a highly paid person off of the CEO track suggests they were willing to pay top dollar for her. (Probably much more
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by mathattack 13y ago
The precision needed for typing highlights why graphical programming is so tough.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The counterfactual we don't know is "would they have survived anyway?" The deck was stacked against them before the self inflicted gunshot.
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by mathattack 13y ago
If you believe Gladwell, no. It's a combination of crazy work ethic and being born in the right place and time. Now whether or not we should believe Gladwell is being debated elsewhere... :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
Thank you for the detailed commentary. Fighting for simplicity is rough because the virtue doesn't always have a champion, while every new complexity increasing function has one. At my last firm, every feature had management committe
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by mathattack 13y ago
It came from vested stock options. For all we know they could have been worth 200K 4 years ago. But even if it wasn't, why shouldn't the top technical talent at high tech firms make more money that corporate CFOs? In this case it
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by mathattack 13y ago
Great article. I think we lose the forrest and trees in math. Similar in computer science. Many times we get hung up on language syntax to miss the beauty underneath. (For example: Godel's incompleteness theorum or the implication
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by mathattack 13y ago
So the story is software gets ugly when it gets less modular? This is a truism, no?
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by mathattack 13y ago
I don't think it's satire, I think it's a hack job. A lot of people were born into a similar situation as Gates. Very few achieved what he did. This was written in the time of Microsoft invincibility, where everyone was afra
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by mathattack 13y ago
Without being too trite, it would seem like the alternative to figuring out how to get pigs to work for you is to create an environment for people who don't like working with pigs. I know life isn't always so simple.
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by mathattack 13y ago
One could substitute Manhattan too. This seems to be true of many high culture cities, perhaps as a result of the global investment environment.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm not so sure about the user base being 16, but this story does seem to make the rounds quite a bit. Perhaps so much so that I cringe when I hear Cargo Cult misused in the popular jargon. It's a shame because Feynman does have
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by mathattack 13y ago
So the premise is people from some cultures don't want to work for you and that limits your ability as a boss? I have never heard of this before, though after reading the article I can see it having played out in the workplace. As the
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by mathattack 13y ago
How is the education there? I found locals to complain about the talent the schools produced. That said, it's a wonderful country. Avoid the tourist traps and you miss much of the sleazy side. If I were 23 I would take it over Iowa t
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by mathattack 13y ago
It borrows one problem from Project Euler and seems to scream for another.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The two other services rah should give pause are education and fire fighting. In many cases insurance companies pay for fire services only for their buyers. One could see this going towards crowd funding. Private school is also crowd fun
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by mathattack 13y ago
In this case this was a full time side project that had plenty of deliverables - enough to highlight why these would be a great addition to the team.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I view this as they have Oracle to thank for there being such a large database market independent of the big ERP and hardware vendors. And for that, you do have to thank Uncle Larry.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I've had people tell me that Korean is much easier to learn than Japanese and Mandarin. Perhaps this is why.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Conceptually I like it for that, and other reasons. But what programs do you toss out? Education? Health Care? Food stamps? Subsidized Housing? Each of these has vast constituencies.
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by mathattack 13y ago
"Here's a man who has spent 33 years at Microsoft, loves the company," he said. "He really did not get enough credit for what he did accomplish. "I can't name a CEO who didn't make some mistakes in the hi
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by mathattack 13y ago
I get the "This removes marginal disincentives to work" argument, but who pays for this? 30K per family in payments requires 30K per family in taxes. Lets say the US has 100mm families. 30K per family is $3 trillion. What do we
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by mathattack 13y ago
The best programmers I know broke away from the herd very quickly. (By 4th grade?) It seems very hard to break out if it was curiosity, parental encouragement, or genetic ability. I am certain that #1 is the biggest driver, and #2 was inv
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by mathattack 13y ago
Independently of whether it is or isn't, there is benefit to trying to get as broad a swatch of the population into programming as possible. My thinking on this has changed over the years. I used to view programming as a pure meritocr
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On weights and coding errors: odd coincidence or dress rehearsal?(econbrowser.com)
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Online Education and the Tivo Revolution(marginalrevolution.com)
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