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by mathattack 10y ago
I'm sorry - was too vague. Meaning they look at you poorly for having had extended periods of unemployment. Unless it's a mass-hysteria time like 2008, they'll ask "Why can't this person find a job when unemployme
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by mathattack 10y ago
It's a little extreme to say they have no value. It marginally helps an individual manager to know that their employees can't move. And if an employee wants to negotiate higher salary in return for signing a non-compete, who is to
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by mathattack 10y ago
After 6 months of unemployment, companies do start giving you glances. It's rare to get much more than that. Taking 6 months off can also put a big dent in your net worth if you have fixed expenses.
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by mathattack 10y ago
I've seen this in other areas too. For instance, banking recruiting at top schools has this crazy process of facetime and attending dinners, and showing up to lots of events. Does it correlate with success? Possibly, but weak at bes
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by mathattack 10y ago
It's not just VCs, it's the current owners. When you market value is much higher than sales and earnings, owners expect growth. This is the natural consequence of getting outside equity. Please note that the owners (equity hold
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by mathattack 10y ago
Oligopoly is about horizontal integration not vertical. If there are 2 phone companies instead of 10, that's worse for consumers. The general history of content and pipes vertical mergers has been good for customers but bad for the a
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by mathattack 10y ago
Yes. I think Gladwell was the target of the comment. :-)
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by mathattack 10y ago
I recall someone commenting that most non-fiction books have only 15 minutes of true comment. The rest is commentary and persuasion. I used to feel awful if I did t finish a book because the author created it with a certain vision. As I g
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by mathattack 10y ago
This is more on Twitter than TechCrunch. Any background check should have turned this up.
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by mathattack 10y ago
Surprised their VAR (which is a crap way to measure risk) is not even halved in relation to before the crisis. People were definitely chucking it about back then, and the mood these days is like a morgue. If you get better at measuring ri
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by mathattack 10y ago
One of the reasons I want to work on OldGeekJobs is because I’ve experienced ageism first-hand. I’m only 37 years old, but I was rejected by a startup of twenty somethings a few months back. Ahh - that first painful moment of, "Wait
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by mathattack 10y ago
There are alternatives. Palantir taking multiple buildings in Palo Alto is one. They're getting a lot of heat from the locals for it. City building isn't a great option either. Is the answer mass-telecommuting?
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by mathattack 10y ago
Replicated with 21 grad students? And then they quote statistics? Painful to watch people generalize from such small sample sizes.
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by mathattack 10y ago
A+ is also relative to the environment. Performance doesn't always extend across companies. Solo programmers who are an A+ in informal environments struggle in environments that require more inter-programmer coordination. And some A
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by mathattack 10y ago
There's an interesting dichotomy when people talk about this election. The same folks who accuse Trump of being divisive, then demand folks break ties with all Trump supporters. I detest Trump, but I understand a certain aspect of his
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by mathattack 10y ago
Good riddance to drivers! The American Myth survived our abandonment of horses. It didn't seem to crush the importance of the Western in our culture.
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by mathattack 10y ago
And we have to pay to get access to the research in private journals. (And pay faculty salaries to do peer reviews for the journal) It's at least Triple taxation. Quadruple taxation for the underpaid grad students working on the resea
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by mathattack 10y ago
Tax dollars at work!
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by mathattack 10y ago
More than just legends. In the last ice age, people could walk much of what it now the Pacific Ocean.
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by mathattack 10y ago
This seems a bit strange. I know some senior Google folks who spend a ton of time interviewing. Could it be that these are maxed out, and that HR people are forced to do the initial screens? In that case it's best to just feed them
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by mathattack 10y ago
Payroll, benefits and insurance are a tricky business. For customers, there is only downside for mistakes. If a company goes with a player with a good reputation then they have a good defense if something goes bad. ("I used the best&q
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by mathattack 10y ago
R&D is a fuzzy bucket. A lot of ongoing maintenance can wind up there. (Improves the optics on unit economics)
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by mathattack 10y ago
The post made me wish I majored in Physics!
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by mathattack 10y ago
Yes. He also got paid on it. Vanity metrics aren't just for tech firms!
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by mathattack 10y ago
I disagree on the first point. Don't we learn more about technology in general the longer we wait? The price/performance of technology goes down while we gain more technical options, and we learn more about the trip. There may b
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College chain from India expanding to the US(insidehighered.com)
2 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Convictions(promarket.org)
1 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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How Not to Strangle Your Unicorn(bloomberg.com)
13 points by mathattack 10y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 10y ago
I've worked in open areas. You hit on the biggest issue - sitting next to people with spousal issues. Just too much detail!
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by mathattack 10y ago
For a pool to work, would they need to offer money funding generic research on a topic, or anonymously fund specific research? The former doesn't allow for much incentive to the corporations, and the latter seems easily gamed.

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