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   by mathattack 14y ago

   Thanks for sharing. I thought it would be awful, but it was deeply profound in a strange way.
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   I thought this type of living went away with the Grateful Dead. I can see it as some sort of strange counter-culture, but to do it for financial reasons just seems absurd. Unless you are truly destitute, it ultimately carries so many othe
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   Very good article. I think the leadup lends to a profound conclusion - all this work reaching perfection, and laptops may cease to exist in a few years.
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   I've seen this is numerous areas. Think about business analysis... Let's say you're analyzing the best way to support Marketing at a consumer products company like Colgate. If you start with fancy windows, or the latest technology, you won'
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   I noticed the same. We don't have a precise underlying model without real unique identities for everyone. That's the rub - people want multiple identities, and don't always want to share their real one. Add to that multiple software syst
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   I think we can cut the author some slack. He admits in the header to being a relative newbie. (Learned python less than a year ago, recently took Hacker School)
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   Marginal Revolution is a kindred spirit to Hacker News. I view MRUniversity as the economics equivalent to Udacity. I have very high hopes for this site!
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   Let the market decide this. My impression is that the average VC firm doesn't deserve the carry plus expenses. The great ones do. (And it's strange they all still charge the same variant of 2/20) So what will the market decide? I have n
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   by mathattack 14y ago

   The reality is that people stop buying books that aren't useful. I knew a lot of folks in grad school who just refused to buy books for classes that didn't use them for weekly problem sets. By and large they got away with it.
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    The incentive system in academia is to produce people who cite their mentors in formal research. That's it. Because universities are non-profits, they go to the indirect incentives. This trumps any altruistic ideals. In their defense, m
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    If your products are Target priced, it's uneconomical to care too much. If you work at McDonalds, caring too much will drive you nuts. If your product is Tiffany priced, you'd better care a lot. If you work at the French Laundry, you'd be
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    Great and obvious, but is this really new? I think the issue he captures has been well known for a while. It is structured versus unstructured. Neither is better in an absolute sense, but one method can be better than another in a given s
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    I'd be interested in seeing Harvard debt stats. The rich don't need to borrow for it. The poor get generous student aid. It's only the middle class that gets squeezed. It's worse at 2nd tier schools, but I don't think Harvard is the enem
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    How do headhunters get paid for senior positions?(workplace.stackexchange.com)

    1 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    Doing simultaneously. Udacity has less glitches. Codecademy hangs from time to time. Lots of traffic? Udacity also is longer and has more theory. But.... Given the time and focus, Codecademy will catch up.
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    Amazon versus the News - Economics(niemanlab.org)

    1 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    I've always wondered why someone didn't do this. It can be cheaper to endow a gift that trumps the Nobel than to endow a top business school. University of Chicago sold the name Booth for a $300 million stake in a fund company. The Nobel
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    I was thinking the same thing about the business books. Years of college wasted on a business book a week? As someone who has read hundreds of them, there aren't that many secrets in them. Books on psychology, mathematics, economics, des
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    Six economic policies from NPR(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)

    4 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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    How to motivate co-workers to write unit tests?(programmers.stackexchange.com)

    3 points by mathattack 14y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    This is a treasure trove. Where were you when we needed you during this discussion? http://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/2249/1279
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    It's better than nothing, but look at the target... $1 and hour of educational benefit ($2000/year divided by 2000 hours/day) is great for someone making $8 an hour. That's a 12.5% raise off the cuff. Apply it to someone making 100K, and
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    Thanks! I forget that I have to check since StackExchange links are unique.
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    Adding a "person to blame" to bug reports(programmers.stackexchange.com)

    3 points by mathattack 14y ago|2 comments
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    Makes me want to buy a bottle of JD despite the inevitable hangover. I am surprised they didn't offer to throw in a bottle or two. When opposing sides get heated, lawyers win. This letter seemed to calm the fire down. It's all class, and
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    The real question is, "How much did he keep?" and "What was announced in advance?" One can look at Lenovo's financial statements to find his compensation plan. On page 66 of http://www.lenovo.com/ww/lenovo/pdf/report/E_099220120531d.p...
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    Immersion is the right path. But wouldn't be better to spend each of the next 12 years in a different country (feasible if you're a top programmer) rather than swapping every month? Again, if you're a prodigy it can work. Or is this all a
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    From http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/directors.cfm . Looks like they don't have many slouches. Heavy on financial services and broadcast. Perhaps light on internet entrepreneurs. Largely independent. A couple big shareholders. Alfr
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    It sounds like they trusted their instincts, took an all stock offering, and that's where it fell apart.
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    by mathattack 14y ago

    They had Seagate as a 25% partner. Where were they?