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by mathattack 13y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very true, especially for parents. If I find an author that I like and trust and my kids will read, I'll buy everything they write before going through trial and error again. Now we just need to see Bilingual Child in other languages
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by mathattack 13y ago
Part of the question here is also, "What did you promise (implicitly or explicitly) when you got those email addresses?" That's really where it becomes an ethics issue. Our data gets sold every day. Another question is, &qu
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by mathattack 13y ago
High barriers to entry are actually considered a positive for a business. If it's hard to enter, you won't have new competitors casually trying to encroach just because margins look attractive. Of course the airlines have issues
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm not a big fan of infographics because I keep thinking of Mark Twain saying, "There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." I'm always thinking, "What are they trying to pull over on me, and
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by mathattack 13y ago
There can be very long periods where number theory advances are no more useful than say string theory or literary theory. Then every once in a while you hit something big. Much of encryption rests on what was formerly ivory tower papers o
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How I Hire: 5 Tips for Landing a Job at IDEO(linkedin.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm sure it will. But the scenario in question is "How do you wind down the beast taking as much cash out as possible?" It's similar to, "What if AOL just tried to milk the subscriptions instead of blowing all that
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How I Hire: I Don't Care Where You Went to School(linkedin.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|1 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I don't have too many data points, but I've observed a couple self taught 10x folks. Maybe they were paired with others racing up a steep learning curve, but they were at the leading edge of technology
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'd say he's neither great, nor a disaster. Without getting inside his head, it's hard to say if he's very lazy and unmotivated, or if he's so smart because he's experimenting all the time. Another observation
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by mathattack 13y ago
For many systems, maintenance requires more effort than construction. Bad coders require much more maintenance. Some of it is from code not built for reuse, and some of it is for "Drop everything everyone is doing until someone can f
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by mathattack 13y ago
In this environment you pay the folks keeping the lights on "just enough"
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think part of the issue is the screening and mentoring. If you just screen for the school, of course you won't get a good intern. If you accept falling asleep once, of course it will become a pattern. My experience with people with
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by mathattack 13y ago
It depends on the field. Software and Finance? Yes, terribly low for NYC. Fashion or Advertising? Perhaps par for the course.
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by mathattack 13y ago
You can at least apply your skills elsewhere. It might take some self-learning beyond coursework, but lots of data scientists and financial researchers have your background. But that Phd in history....
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was originally going to comment that it was more accurate to say they shouldn't try, but he's right. In history, they just can't. The academia machine has screwed up incentives. Schools and professors are individually in
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by mathattack 13y ago
They may also be able to ride the machine down by underinvesting in R&D and marketing.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Just extrapolating from http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BBRY rather than digging in to financial statements: Blackberry has $10 billion in annual sales while losing $200 million. Is it such a stretch to imagine a buyer killin
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by mathattack 13y ago
I feel obliged to toss in Joel's commentary... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html His commentary about "hitting the high notes" was new to me. It isn't just that 10x people are
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by mathattack 13y ago
True, and Google's New York building had a very high retail cost too. My impression of accounting (by no means my strong suit!) is the land doesn't actually get depreciated - it stays on the books at cost forever. I think the bui
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by mathattack 13y ago
The schools doing well didn't surprise me. $120K for a Petroleum Engineer - wow!
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a very steep depreciation on this capital spending too. Every year technology gets cheaper, and prior data center CapEx loses value.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Value investors don't share the founder's shame in riding the revenues of the installed base. Many software firms find home with private equity firms that are happy to cut R&D and Marketing, and live off of services revenue.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - typical VC structure.
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Blackberry agrees to $5 billion buyout led by Fairfax Financial Holdings(news.com.au)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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BlackBerry receives $4.7 billion buyout offer from Canadian investment company(theverge.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
Just so that I follow... You're not investing alongside him as a VC or angel, you're investing through him, where he acts as the VC and collects the 20% carry, correct?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed, the funky math does hide a true story. Yes, there are insane tax breaks to farmers and businesses and wealthy. Placing the entire blame of drug overcharges on our patent system is a stretch, and hurts the spots where he has legit
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by mathattack 13y ago
In knowledge industries, it's frequently a case of long term versus short term interests. Take training... It rarely pays off in the short term (when you have the cost) but it frequently does in the long term. Another example is sev

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