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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My first thought is that this is a great filter. My second thought is how is this any better than the automated resume screens that companies use on candidates?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My best work is 5am before anyone gets up - for similar reasons. Of course I could never convince an accountability group to get up so early!
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I have to believe that some hedge fund will go very long this trade.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Maybe I'm too thick. Can someone help connect the drinking to the startup lessons? Don't mix drinks == stay focused at your startup?
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   Lead like the Godmother of Silicon Alley(business.time.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Ford's Mulally tops Microsoft wish list - report(money.cnn.com)

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

   Structure of the database matters a lot. Going column-oriented [1] will improve performance dramatically before you scale up the processing power. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/many-benefits-breakfast http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-lots-protein-mornin... http://greatist.com/health/high-protein-breakfast-be
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I don't mean individuals making a stand, I mean the companies themselves. Some companies are visible and vocal about non-discrimination, valuing diversity and being good place for everyone to work and advance their careers. One sign
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My 2 cents (not a woman): - It may be bad in technology, but it's much worse in some other industries. (Like Finance) - There are companies that are known for making a stand on discrimination and other similar issues. She should acti
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Believe it or not, though, bacon’s association with the American breakfast is barely a century old I'm not sure why this would be hard to believe at all. In the 1920s, Bernays was approached by the Beech-Nut Packing Company – produc
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    Ballmer goes out punching at last Microsoft employee meeting(cnbc.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    The age of oversupply(marginalrevolution.com)

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

    Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way - thanks!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    To me what this means is you can't trust a positive signal, but you still can trust a negative one. If it's really that bad, then they're clearly not on the ball.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I can't add any value beyond this comment.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like his stand against companies being data driven. Management and decisions can be data driven, but companies are brand, product and customer driven.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    They're missing a lot of Fintech firms. Also many Fintech firms are headquartered in SF or Europe, with branch offices here.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hope the irony of this story being posted on Hacker News isn't lost on everyone. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I find this whole report to be rather uplifting. I think that getting off of carbon is going to be much harder than doing something about the carbon. The cost of going carbon-free will be huge. I'm willing to bet that for less money
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks for sharing! This looks very interesting.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    — Cars tend to drive closer to bicyclists who are wearing helmets. That comes from Ian Walker, who set up a bicycle with sensors and drove around the city. Vehicles tend to crowd closer to him when he was wearing a helmet than when he wasn
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I patiently await Zuck's reply on HN. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Companies have a lot of bluster when it comes to safety and security, but few of the people making the statements have any real understanding of what would be required to make an institution secure.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    All three are great books. The Effective Executive is very old school, but timeless. The Goal helps me understand some of the thinking of Amazon.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "By age 4 or 5, children aren’t fooled by all the trophies." This is very true. I remember getting a 7th place trophy for a small baseball league. Why bother keeping it in the room? I didn't get excited about the participa
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've spent some time working with Parisian based companies. To add to the above... - It is VERY expensive to fire people. Something like 2 years of salary? - The taxes rates can be borderline extortion. People are happy paying them
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. Could you be open for a lawsuit if you didn't pay your creditors in order to respect the privacy of the email holders? It's a very fine point, against the backdrop of a very good article.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It requires context... Is this a real complaint or a "Look at me and treat me better because I'm a high Klout score quasi-journalist" situation? That should determine the level of outrage more than the legalistics.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The latter two. My observation of NY is that parents here don't have cars, so our conspicuous consumption is how many languages we force our kids to learn. I'm sold!