mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Let's assume a few things: 1) The base valuation is high enough to be significant. 2) It's not a passion project. 3) I have other ideas. 4) The IP stays with the company. 5) The employees get taken care of. As long as 1, 2 and 3 are tr
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Exactly. Investor management takes time and attention away from sales and product management. Event if it's rallying a large group of volunteers, that person is getting pulled away from other vital tasks.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   There are legal risks involved with sharing anything in the US. As a result, you need a deep personal connection with the recruiter (usually predating the interview) to get any kind of feedback. The EEOC push has benefits, but the danger i
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Managing that army of volunteers becomes a job in it's own right.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That captures the entire spirit of the language.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Seems to me folks should be happy with a refund. If it was a one product company, you'd get nothing when they close up shop.
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   What technology that people don't know about would blow their mind?(de.reddit.com)

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

   "Blimey, I don't trust anyone to effectively estimate their time over any period greater than 5 days. And I tell them to add 20%..." I find it more accurate to double the # and bump the metric. 1 hour => 2 days 3 days => 6 weeks Est
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   The purchase makes sense, though I would have thought they have all the cloud parts they need in house. Is this more of an application play?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This seems very strange to me, but then again I thought Amazon was crazy with AWS.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Based on the title I was thinking this was another philosophical comment about the business model, reduced to 140 characters. Perhaps even a haiku.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Could this just be outsourcing the photography to professionals? Or could it be crowdsourcing "Pick the 100 best amateur photos rather than 1 good pro?" The Sun Times isn't the New York Times. It's the lowbrow of two daily newspapers in Ch
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I can't possibly fathom this to be true. Machine learning is one of the few fields where having the Phd is useful, but it's definitely not mandatory. (Same for data mining) Get an entry level job, learn the technology and the theory behi
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very light article. Seems like they put up a strawman of a marketers over-simplified view of the world, and then attacked it. Most serious practitioners realize this is tough business.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Quoting Taleb ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb ) "To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers." Of course this assumes that you're not in the business of knowing what other p
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've been a modest bear on Facebook because I perceive that people are moving away. This is entirely subjective, but it seems to me like once everyone found all their long lost friends and shared a round of photos, things got much more qui
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    As someone who has observed European education from afar, my impression is that the Bac (more like a high school diploma in the US) is broad, but their college is very specialized. This is true in both the UK (from the source of the admiri
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The pieces of golden advice here... - "Avoid jobs at either big non-software companies" - As cool as it may sound to design websites for the NBA, or design systems to help market movies, neither will teach deep technical skills. You'll out
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Cutting food for soldiers in a crazy hellish warzone just seems pennywise and poundfoolish. Even if you don't believe all that the article talks about, why short change your million dollar soldiers on food that can make them more effective
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think it is a self fulfilling prophecy. But companies in markets that value quality can use QA for competitive advantage.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm on the fence with him. Here's why... Answer 2 questions: 1) Could somebody else have figured out how to apply that level of thinking on these topics, and been able to convince other to donate? 2) Could he have made another ten or twe
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. But I'm still leery of when people join Wall Street for altruistic reasons. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I am very suspicious of people who say they enter Wall Street to save the world. That said, I also believe most charity events are very economically inefficient. Rather than get a dozen musicians together for a discounted concert at a smal
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Very good point. QA doesn't get respect. As a result, QA does provide one thing earlier than other areas: management responsibility. Because churn is so high, it's important to put in good processes. Additionally, very few people stay.
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    Gmail's news spam blocking(money.cnn.com)

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

    It does get a lot more visually interesting with a very high # of bins, and very small delay.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    With all due respect, I think his message is something different. It's, "Are we looking for a new strategy (silver bullets) or do we need to execute our current strategy better (lead bullets)." Many times people are all over the place tryi
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like the core of Peter Thiel's comment. If you're not in the business, "Most people think X, I know 'Not X'" then you're not really an entrepreneur. Anything that is un-contrarian (maybe status quo is the better word) can be done at a l
29. 7259.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Finance yes. Finance that are close enough to the trading to warrant good money - less so.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I interpret it as a way to keep competitors at bay. "The public markets can fund electric cars. No more government loans are needed for us, or anyone else for that matter."