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by mathattack 15y ago
This is a great lesson in capitalism. When you're the boss, nobody gives your partial credit for good attempts. Either the team succeeds and everyone is happy, or they don't, and the boss takes the fall. Taking this a step beyond the inten
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's a lot of time and money to impress people. Buy Italian sports car instead. Grad school should be about intellectual curiosity first, connections second, and brand third. Unless you get an MBA, in which case the order is reversed.
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by mathattack 15y ago
This sounds dumb to someone dropping out of school, but if you don't finish undergrad, you can't go to grad school. Can you get a tech job without a degree? Yes Can you advance without it? Yes Will there be non-tech folks that skated thro
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by mathattack 15y ago
The issue is of expectations and education. Many clients ask for the following without knowing better: - 100 pct uptime - Zero defects - Zero scope changes - Zero perceptible latency in all cases It is up to the professional specialist to e
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by mathattack 15y ago
I am very surprised this was legal. Aren't there disclosure requirements? Certainly in the US if you acquire a stake of more than 5 or 10% you have to declare it.
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by mathattack 15y ago
He would have a great answer for The YC application question of "how did you hack the system?"
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by mathattack 15y ago
Without taking sides, the irony is enormous. Of course the point of "use or complain but not both" is clearly invalid. To organize against the ATT monopoly, folks had to use the telephone. You can resent your local airport monopoly, and s
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting that none of the ideas pitched commercial or educational success. There are many reasons to read. I think most who don't enjoy reading just aren't reading the right things, but that could be my bias.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Whenever ibseebthese lists I can't help but think it's all about starting from a low base.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Predictions are so much easier after the fact. :-) It seems a little shady for them to claim victory with people staying on the available list year over year. With 120 candidates, how can they not be lucky at least a few times? I have see
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting post. It is good to see that the author sees that there is no free lunch. My semi-outside perspective is that there are firms in an arms race to be the quickest at providing liquidity, but his is a small fixed pie. Everything e
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by mathattack 15y ago
The concept I agree with is the Web will look much less like the Wild Wild West. The Web of Grandma needs easily integrated pieces - this is Apple and Facebook, not Linux and Usenet. It's not all evil, there will still be behind the curtai
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by mathattack 15y ago
The game is still going! It's great to see that bad news on the IPO market and broader economy is not killing upstream entrepreneurs.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Sounds lime a gem of a person as well as professor. Thanks for sharing!
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by mathattack 15y ago
Is it paranoia to think that crackers could use a site like this to build password dictionaries? (Note: I'm not implying that's what's happening here)
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by mathattack 15y ago
Good points. I guess the caveat is I know a lot of unemployed folks who appreciate the connection. It is true - if you don't know of a match, don't make the connection. I'd still assert that the $500 or $5,000 still doesn't make a differ
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by mathattack 15y ago
The point of owning your self improvement and taking pay cuts to learn is very true. Most of my big bumps followed tactical stepdowns. People who only chase today's dollars are suboptimizing. The one point I disagree with the author is re
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by mathattack 15y ago
The uber rich aren't earning double digits monthly on these investments, and they aren't hyper leveraged either. Yes, most of us don't have access to IPOs or Warren Buffet investments. In both cases the buyers shouldn't expect double digit
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by mathattack 15y ago
On 1-2% - it's the steadiness that is the issue. Madoff didn't outperform all other hedge funds on overall performance, it's that he never lost money. I'm terms of gearing - if that is the source of returns, why invest in it to begin with
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by mathattack 15y ago
Good points. Small scale opportunities do exist in many markets but they rarely need external money.
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by mathattack 15y ago
The post is ludicrous on so many levels.... 1) When people get returns in the 5% a month range, let alone double digits, they usually shut out external investors. 2) Consistent 1-2% monthly returns are frequently a sign of fraud. 3) If y
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by mathattack 15y ago
Sometimes the specialist/generalist discussion misses something by being too black and white. A computer is created by specialists, but empowers generalists and specialists alike. Founders and CEOs need generalist skills to complement (no
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by mathattack 15y ago
I would have never understood this before I had a child of my own.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Every successful store does this. And most successful websites too. Groceries are a low margin business so any price raising idea gets copied over and over. Retailers and consumer products computers are leaders in data mining to test, me
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by mathattack 15y ago
This is a Different spin than "embrace failure like silicon valley." It is about developing resilience. Recovering from failure can't be taught to kids protected from it. I recall a conversation post-graduation with a (the?) top student f
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by mathattack 15y ago
Wow - what a great use of talent! Turning lemOns onto lemonade is very cliche, but it applies here.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Let's just be practical and all take today off!
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by mathattack 15y ago
I think his dad is a good advisor. The reason he was hard to sue is that he's so small. If things went really South on a small project, what's the worst thing that happens? He's 22 and talented in New York - he declares bankruptcy, and ge
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by mathattack 15y ago
Same as in the article. The firm themselves chose to give away a pirated version. I am certainly not trying to claim that all piracy is good - only that some who embrace it on themselves do benefit.
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by mathattack 15y ago
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Encouraging bootleggers helped the Dead. Why not others?

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