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by mathattack 15y ago
Funny! And it's a more concise and effective call to arms than a 30 page peer reviewed article spilling with data.
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by mathattack 15y ago
I thought he summarized it accurately in the last paragraph. "So rework, reference, release. Flow through the landscape of your own strengths and weaknesses. Count to 10,000 rework hours as you walk. If you aren’t seeing accelerating extern
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by mathattack 15y ago
In that sense it's probably a better pre-screener than a headhunter who says, "I see they're requesting a C guru, and my Word search found the letter C on your resume..."
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by mathattack 15y ago
Seems like an interesting website. Will there be issues of the questions and answers getting out? Or will that be obvious in a second round interview?
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by mathattack 15y ago
This is interesting psychology. Eventually 10 in a row has to happen. But would you bet 50 cents to win 51? At what point is it Bayesian statistics that tells you not to make the bet? (That somehow the coin is loaded)
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by mathattack 15y ago
As they say in the financial world, "He's talking his book." That said, much of what he says is spot on. Software is creeping into everything. Education seems obvious. Health Care will be more difficult. A lot of the change will happen
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by mathattack 15y ago
I've also known VCs who have said they wouldn't take VC money. VCs expect a high rate of return on the money - they take the risk expecting a high return. And if you can get the return on your own money, why not take it? So why go with a
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's a strange article for THIS audience, in that we are power users of technology. We don't buy the cheapest machines on the market - we tweak the best ones on the market. That said, Apple is succeeding with folks less like us. Folks lik
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by mathattack 15y ago
Anger and Creativity are mutually exclusive? Perhaps in business, but I am not convinced this is true in Art. There are a lot of angry musicians out there. (Would we have had Punk without it?) Although it's out of my area of expertise, I
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by mathattack 15y ago
It does explain something of a paradox - why do poor middle Americans support policies that harm them in the short term? Why does the guy who lost his job when a PE firm bought his factory vote for a party that supports a very low tax rate
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by mathattack 15y ago
They left out better looking too. :-) I think it's a Marketing issue. The article describes it as self-image related. This could be true, and it's successful Marketing for Apple to convince buyers that they're special. It could also be
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by mathattack 15y ago
This highlights how much iPhone is tied to local carriers. South Korea is a market leader in mobile technology. Making it there means a lot in terms of the global marketplace. (Then again, I used to say the same thing about Japan.)
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by mathattack 15y ago
Here's where I struggle... Everything you say about Groupon today applied to Amazon in the late 90s. They were accused of being a pyramid scheme. They were accused of bad accounting because they counted free shipping as a one time expense
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by mathattack 15y ago
"So, how do we reskill a workforce to adapt not only to challenges of the new but also to cope with the legacy of the old? Universities in conjunction with major employers should work together to address this issue." I think the market will
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by mathattack 15y ago
IMHO - There is a ring of truth to this, but it does not seem so profound. When I was unemployed (2008) it was depressing because the market was awful. But... I was able to work full time at improving my health (no "I'm working too hard
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by mathattack 15y ago
Any incremental improvement in recommendations is useful, more so than just advertising. Now if it's finding books that I wouldn't find on my own.... Wowsers! But that's just me.
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's very obvious, but also very hard. Hard because it isn't measurable in the short term, and hard because many engineers aren't wired for it. That said, technology leaders have to eventually overcome the introspection that made them suc
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by mathattack 15y ago
After the startup succeeded or before? :-)
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by mathattack 15y ago
A few more: - I don't need to worry about the product. I hired someone for that. - Hiring is for HR. - I will be spending August on an island in the South Pacific. - It is ok to miss payroll. - Our value add to the customer-centric value c
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by mathattack 15y ago
Two interesting thoughts here, that are general to application development. 1 - The reason Windows lost it's way was a lack of simplicity. This is a broad comment about software in general. It is tough to be everything for everyone. And
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by mathattack 15y ago
True. Very few thinking jobs don't require desk time, and based on the little we've read, thinking is one thing we can infer from the original post. Some programmers migrate to Sales and other field support jobs, but it's a bigger stretch
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by mathattack 15y ago
I will let others give you health advice. Just remember that nobody else will take care of yourself except for you. That said, here are some areas I have seen ex-programmers succeed: - Finance - May require another degree but it's an easy
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by mathattack 15y ago
Although I'm not a teacher, this topic is near and dear to my heart. My current firm recruits CS, Engineering and Financial Mathematics grads from top schools. Even in this environment, we need to give everyone a math test as part of the h
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by mathattack 15y ago
Using nature as a model for the internet, the economy, or other large systems is not new. Much of the science and (more importantly?) mathematics of explaining both is similar. Kevin Kelly (of Wired fame) is a great explainer of these idea
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's also about listening. It's impossible to listen when you're talking. This can be counterintuitive as we are hard wired to not like the blank space. Think of it in reverse... How much do we hate sales people who won't let us get a wo
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by mathattack 15y ago
The core premise is sound. It is also consistent with research popularized in Blink, which shows how quickly people make up their mind. In practical terms, most times the proposer knows his subject more than the proposed. It takes the rec
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by mathattack 15y ago
The practical side is an interesting parallel to Knuth. Any best sources on his compiler?
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by mathattack 15y ago
The link is now dead. I think that means you succeeded!
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by mathattack 15y ago
One success measure for academics is how long their ideas survive their passing. (As the Physicists perversely say, "The revolutions don't wait for the old professors to retire, they wait for them to die.") It's a testament to the deepnes
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by mathattack 15y ago
I hear you. From a personal view lot is BC/AC - before and after child. From a corporate view, it is a question of sprinting (to an exit or market opportunity) versus building for a longer time horizon. As we age, our priorities change,

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