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Microsoft to buy Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Expensive signing bonus to pick up their new CEO?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Over time I've moved from being practically Libertarian (believing it to be achievable and useful and conceived) to being theoretically Libertarian (asking "Why not the libertarian solution?" before deciding on practicality).
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'll add calling things "Cargo Cult" to my list of pet peeves. The Cargo Cult example is getting Cargo Culted.
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by mathattack 13y ago
"Its life became a startup story that most don’t tell: A company that didn’t make it." Well actually there have been quite a few of these lately.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The amazing thing for me is that everyone is paid the same. This works when you're small but does it scale? HR = senior engineer = college hire = sales = receptionist? I also love these experiments. If they prove my intuition wrong
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by mathattack 13y ago
Beat me to the quote. But this is even worse for FC - they are pissing off a customer for $7 by accident, not on purpose.
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by mathattack 13y ago
How about in his 30s then?
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by mathattack 13y ago
The article sent me searching for real science. He's a phenom but if he doesn't get tired why isn't he an Olympian?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Fascinating story. Of course the Wired version of the story is a little more sensational. There he does the 30 miles for his 30th birthday drunk in his skivvies. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultr
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - it's the type of thing you have to jump on quickly before the negative PR spirals. And unfortunately, corrections and clarifications rarely get the hype that original articles or misquotes get in the first place.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The reason for voting this up isn't so people know that it's good to communicate well. The reason for voting this up is to correct a misperception with what was said. Corrections rarely ever get the publicity that they deserve.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Independent of all the visa advice, keep yourself safe!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Too bad. The website seems very "High school project" caliber but I like the mission very much. It would be a shame if it's a scam. 1. an edtech accelerator embracing lean startup practices. 2. a collaborative coworking c
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by mathattack 13y ago
I get that screening is a service, but it's very gray. US (& UK) companies need to act with a higher standard globally. Barclays got in trouble with some corporate matchmakers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance&#
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by mathattack 13y ago
Paying someone for access never ends well. Do you think the people whose access is being sold are happy with the arrangement? By definition you're entering into a sleazy area. This is why apartment brokers selling access to apartmen
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'll shoot you an email....
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by mathattack 13y ago
To grow up? Meet a spouse? Transition to adulthood amongst peers?
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by mathattack 13y ago
It writes a little easier than, "Here are two dimensions of many. On the X axis consider technical skills. On the Y consider 'knowing your customer's business better than they do'. Plot a line..." :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are two kinds of programmers with massive productivity benefits to an organization: 1 - Those that can identify what needs to be done at a level deeper than the end users, can communicate very well, and can code reasonably well. (Cod
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are two types of productivity: 1) Are you doing the right things? 2) Are you doing things right? They can be imprecisely measured, but every metric has problems and can be gamed. Combining the measurements is extremely difficult. L
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by mathattack 13y ago
I certainly don't trust GPAs. The best signal I can read from a transcript is how quickly someone when above and beyond the basics. Did they skip intro classes? Did they get into grad level courses? How quickly? Did they take more
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's not so hard to understand... But it's also why companies have policies around dating coworkers and subordinates. It's very hard to stay in a company if your boss is dating your ex.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Wasn't it a slightly less specialized world back then too? The software and hardware were tightly enough linked that you needed someone who could do both. I think Woz is a case of a mad genius being born in the time that suited him.
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by mathattack 13y ago
My impression is that project overages have scared cities quite a bit. To use your Boston example, the Big Dig certainly has scared many other municipalities thinking of something like that. The Denver Airport fiasco most certainly scared
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Udacity And San Jose State See Improvement In Their Online Education Experiment(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's one subset of many. I do see people scripting and scrubbing data in python before getting to the heavy duty tools.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The cynic would say say branding. In reality, I think that Big Data contains three dimensions: - Computational science: Getting the data, cleaning the data and writing code for the stats. This is a combination of database knowledge (SQL &
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by mathattack 13y ago
This is actually related to the OP. They were concerned that being free might signal the wrong things to top talent.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was trying to figure out the economics... 10p - Is that roughly 15 cents? I assume that's a per minute charge. So he gets 60 minutes/hour * 15 cents/minute * 1 dollar/100 cents = 9 dollars per hour talking on the ph

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