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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I think shedding some self consciousness can be a good thing. Feynman captures it with a perhaps more positive spin than this book. http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/039332... If this is take
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   On paper this looks great. Get in on the startup game. The skeptic in me asks: - Do you lose out on network effects by limiting it to 5 at a time? (Isn't part of the benefit of ycombinator that you're part of the larger family?)
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   What Zynga’s Management Shake-Up Under New CEO Mattrick Means(techcrunch.com)

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

   This is like saying "the only thing that matters at this hotel is service". The challenge is hotels that go overboard at the expense of employees wind up with bad service anyway. There's a reason high end hotels treat employ
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Compare their stock performance to Microsoft or the S&P over the past 5 years. Looks like a decent clue. They have a great salesforce, and that is one way they make their own luck despite missteps and selective underinvestment. (Selec
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I hate to admit how awesome this is. It's specific, bold and fits the need at hand.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I just don't see what SA brings besides the money. The industries quoted elsewhere are already existing. That isn't to say pockets of engineers might go there, but it just seems unlikely. How many uber-smart people target any o
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Harry Chapin also wrote about not being around or available. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c I find myself guilty of this from time to time too. In the end the answer is to model the behaviors we want them to m
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   Larry Ellison: Apple won't be 'nearly so successful' without Steve Jobs(money.cnn.com)

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

    My interpretation of the article is they charge the company for a referral even if a coupon isn't found or used. That's theft. Or did I misread? It's not just looking for coupon codes (which isn't bad) but mischarging
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    This entrepreneur saved her star programmer from deportation(money.cnn.com)

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

    It's not a slap in the face of the customer. It's the company shooting their own foot. Whenever I see the coupon code box, I search for coupons. Sometimes I fine one. If so, they've lost money.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    90% of networking requests come with purely selfish intent. I recall the ONE time that someone showed up to a meeting with a book that he heard would interest me. Of course I went out of my way to assist. Give first then get...
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    A financial economist professor once mused that "current phd students are limited in the problems they can solve because they can't program." Of course the programming language he preferred was Fortran. :-) Excel is the bes
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is more than a scam, it's outright theft.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've heard similar for other sports too... That their Judo and Wrestling training has very little competition and much more drilling and supplementary conditioning.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Fair enough. The 10,000 hour rule is not iron clad, more a suggestion. The point I'm trying to get at is it's more about routines that require practice rather than pure physical exertion. As in, "Deliberate practice contri
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Math can be useful, but it doesn't need to be to be worthwhile. That's the point I was trying to get across. (Based on my screen name you can assume I'm a math fan) And for many programming and sysadmin tasks, the theory o
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression at school was they were teaching CS more like math, rather than aiming for anything useful. The professors were looking more for beauty than real world applicability. Nothing is wrong with that goal, but one shouldn't c
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Is this any shadier than a credit bureau aggregating data?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Go to school. UT has a good enough program that you'll be able to learn something from someone there, and it'll be a fun four years. You don't want to look back at 50 and say, "Man I wish I had 4 years of academic free
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This can backfire and create resentment from real potential customers.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Interesting article. I think when it comes to pure physical sports they're missing some of the original point. The concept of 10,000 hours is about developing a skill, not becoming physically gifted. Michael Jordan's 10,000 hou
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm with the spirit of this argument. This won't be won by some subset of very smart people fighting the powers that be. The governments of the world are hiring very smart people too. I hate to say it, but this needs a politica
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Glad that the OP's internship went well. Sounds like a very positive experience. I'd just add that Bloomberg is not so hidden for anyone in NYC or financial services.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Why couldn't facebook adopt this dynamism? I expect they do some of this already, in putting more items in our feed from people we're engaged with. Why not incorporate geographic proximity too? It's feasible (if scary) to
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've heard this described as "The harder I train the luckier I get" though it's as much about marketing as production.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    How's your math? A disproportionate amount of financial software comes out of Paris. Usually the math requirements for these jobs are pretty high. (Hence they like hiring French mathematicians) Many firms like Google and Facebook ar
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Same thing applies in big companies. Many great leaders start in the factories, or as junior assistants straight out of school. P&G is one of the better firms at creating a cadre of general managers who start in entry level positions.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Why focus on agencies which put a premium on extroversion? Most technical companies worth their salt are happy to have introverted developers doing the hard coding behind the scenes. In general you'll be better off at a software firm