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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Great point - I was just reaching for it when I finished the article. One general note... Look how many recent news articles you can find when you search for the board firing founders on Google. https://www.google.com/#scl
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   They certainly give more weapons to a corrupt government!
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I hate to nitpick words, but... "Whether people like to admit it or not, as much as democracy can be good, it can also be bad." I disagree here. Democracy has the capacity for bad, but it has much more capacity for good. To misq
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I like your comment of "We've chosen a democratic process, which means that we've chosen in aggregate to be governed by whoever shows up." It's profound for leadership in general, as well as democracy. I'm wit
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   True, but short signatures are different than the "No signatures" that the article demands.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This is a little black and white. Signatures belong on work emails, they don't on personal.
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   3D Printing Arbitrage Is The New Hotness(techcrunch.com)

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

   I'm getting a "Failed to open page" error, but perhaps that's because nobody should ever get tired of Pizza and Beer.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I'm trying to figure out if this is earnest, or a satire on "Non-technical founder seeking a technical co-founder"
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I am a fan of "I'm sorry" posts, though they have become frequent enough to become cliche. When they put a $25K donation behind the apology, then it's a lot more than false humility. "Fourth, today Kickstarter will
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    No One Is Innocent(marginalrevolution.com)

    119 points by mathattack 13y ago|29 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Has anyone seen tptacek and Harriet Klausner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner ) at the same place at the same time? Does an upvote for one count for both? Bot or person, I find his (their?) comments insig
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very true. I used to be very happy when StackOverflow appeared on the list of query results. Then I just started adding StackOverflow to my searches to make sure it was added. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    3000 people on a software project scares me. That's a LOT of coordination and communication. What would Fred Brooks say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    A lot of this is heading off complexity at the beginning. Every new feature should come with "Do we really understand why we're doing this?" It's ok to experiment, but prune prune prune....
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "Albert was the only investor we pitched who immediately made a Firebase app" Now that's kind of cool for a VC!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Pop media is awful about these correlation versus causality studies.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was a little disappointed because I thought the title suggested that Wolfram had found a way around the academic journal scam/stranglehold. Still happy with the article.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    $3.5k/year seems like crumbs compared to VC valuations, but in the context of 20-30 hours of work it's not too bad. Call it $150/hour recurring - sure. I like the frugal mindset for new firms.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I very much enjoy the relative power of today's programming languages. There is nostalgia, but I don't miss assembler at all.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I wonder about the economics. Could this just be an issue of them deciding to close down altogether? I don't know why, but this read to me more like a run on a bank, rather than a compliance issue. What did people do in the Great De
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very true. So much of the day to day job is everything except solving the very hard algorithms. But it does help to have that person around. A separate thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017 ) discusses Googl
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The joys of using Word templates at $500/hour. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I would like to see data on whether these private prisons are unionized. It seems like the prison unions are out to keep their services needed. http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/the-role-of-the-p...
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I always thought that the top ones were rich, they just made their money elsewhere, like books and TV. Am I wrong?
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    Humorous exchange between the Cleveland Browns and a lawyer (2011)(snopes.com)

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

    Worked ok in Safari browser. One wonders why more lawyers aren't humorous. Is it because it causes their clients harm? Or because they are afraid they can't generate fees if they don't look professional? Here is another gre
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "If students could only get loans based on parental credit, tuitions at places like NYU would collapse." Perhaps there could be another way of doing it - perhaps only allowing a threshold for the loan? If you cap the subsidy to a
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    True - I was generalizing about coaches. But... Coaches are the highest paid public employees in most states. ( http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-... ) And I hear you on the necessity of this bene
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hear you on distractions... Who would want to study accounting or read long books when you live in the Village? But NYU is one of the best schools in the US for getting to Wall Street, so it's not a complete vacation for everyone.