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by mathattack 15y ago
It wounds like the poster has managed two disciplines very well: - Managing the sleep schedule. (Getting to bed to get up early) - Managing the work schedule. (Kanban system) I have no idea what his product is, but it's hard to imagine th
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting - in a few days we have articles from the New York Times pointing to Pacific competition in manufacturing, and the LA Times pointing to European competition in manufacturing. What's interesting is the article on Germany provides
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by mathattack 15y ago
Although this is satire, let's not confuse the quality of the idea or it's implementation, with how well the paper is written. Those are very different criteria.
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by mathattack 15y ago
And this is the same Dodd who supposedly reformed WallSteet
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by mathattack 15y ago
As others have said, engineering is hard. It's also why managers in other fields like to hire engineers. I am just surprised by the chart. It implies engineering majors only study 4 more hours per week than humanities majors. I would hav
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by mathattack 15y ago
I view it as a non-entity and I am a large user of social networks. I spent 30 minutes building circles and gave up when nobody posted. It doesn't add enough to be useful. Its not Friendster yet, but....
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by mathattack 15y ago
Amazing it took this long. I can't remember the last time I used regular film or a modal camera. I suspect when Grandma and Grandpa got digital and started sharing on Facebook, they were done. It's a shame because like their neighbor Xero
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by mathattack 15y ago
Bravo! Despite the folks saying, "It's not stealing," I think there is good reason to make a principled stand. Reddit is not a competitor.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Wow! I dont know him and I am brought to tears. It certainly highlights the benefits of investing in Health Care to improve and save lives. SciFi happening today!
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by mathattack 15y ago
Seems like an overall issue with vendor management.
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by mathattack 15y ago
There's definitely a life lesson in her tragedy that's getting lost amongst folks arguing whether or not she was a true prodigy. It seems clear that she had emotional intelligence above and beyond analytical. That should be enough. I feel
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by mathattack 15y ago
My 2 cents on the "too specialized" arguments... 1 - In high school, the people who take multiple CS subjects tend to be intellectually curious, and good at many other things. The same folks who took AP CS with me also took AP European his
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by mathattack 15y ago
What I think the author misses is how short lived these monopolies can be. AOL was a near monopoly. So was Netscape. And Internet Explorer. So was Altavista. Or was it Excite? Or Yahoo? Was it Nintendo that had the gaming console mon
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting article. They paint research misconduct as a Chinese problem. I would be surprised if it doesn't happen a lot in the US too.
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by mathattack 15y ago
As someone nearing that middle, I think a lot of it is which direction you look. Was high school your peak, is this moment the peak, or will next year be the peak? And what do you mean by peak? Physical, mental, spiritual, social?
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by mathattack 15y ago
As a society we are lucky to have both his intelligence and patience for all these years.
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by mathattack 15y ago
My sense is they are decoupling the sorting (I am smart by virtue of getting into Stanford) from the education. As long as the sorting is clear, students won't complain about the education.
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by mathattack 15y ago
This whole exercise confirms that schools are rapidly becoming sorting institutions rather than learning institutions.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Many of the so called narrow job descriptions actually require many skills. Being a good Front End Web Developer requires knowledge of CS, psychology, industrial design and the functional domain of the website. Of course as others have st
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by mathattack 15y ago
Dare I suggest you have the three priorities sorted in the wrong order?
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by mathattack 15y ago
I will add anecdotal evidence.... Movies this year suck. We have Grandma the babysitter around and my wife and I only took advantage once. After seeing Sherlock Holmes none of the movies beat Netflix. It isn't just the context, it's the
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting article. I think reading outside one's comfort zone (as well as programming outside one's comfort zone and meeting people outside one's comfort zone) is valuable for a few reasons: 1) As Charlie Munger and others have said, to
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's size too. If you don't have something they want, they have no incentive to help you. If you are small, the Not Invented Here syndrome pushes them to think they could donut better themselves.
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by mathattack 15y ago
This highlights the risk of being a small player at the beck and call of a much larger one.
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by mathattack 15y ago
This would only work if there was one universally agreed upon truth. Our experiences color our opinions. One persons Fat is another persons 3/4 finished with a weight loss program. We all think we're above average. Rather than spending
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by mathattack 15y ago
Good for networking, but also forces you to stay off the smartphone and focus.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Big companies like to hire big names. "nobody got fired for hiring IBM". In this case, find the problem to solve for everyone first. Many small suppliers of these places got their start on the inside. You do have to know exactly how you
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by mathattack 15y ago
Was Fred Wilson being literal, or just encouraging folks to be contrarian? Contrarianism does have some empirical support. (Low PE stocks have outperformed high PE stocks over long time horizons)
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by mathattack 15y ago
The challenge with business schools is thatvtheyvare schools. To justify their existent they need academic rigor. They also need coursework easily digestible by people from a variety of backgrounds that prepare students for post MBA caree
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by mathattack 15y ago
It gets monetized indirectly. Ycomb gets first look for many firms, and these firms get first look at many great developers. This site is plenty monetized - just not with ads or user fees.

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