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by mhartl 13y ago
Wow, talk about a hiring coup. Bravo!
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Argh—I thought "Yahoo!" might have finally ditched that asinine exclamation point.
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by mhartl 13y ago
Contra the OP, the problem isn't for-profit prisons per se ; the problem is for-profit prisons in a political system highly susceptible to rent-seeking by special interest groups.
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by mhartl 13y ago
There have been many stories about Yelp like [this one]( http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-... ) alleging extortionary tactics.
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by mhartl 13y ago
It depends a lot on the quality of the meat. The quality of factory-farmed meat is low, but that doesn't mean it's bad to eat lots of wild salmon and grass-fed beef.
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by mhartl 13y ago
The article presents no evidence that the complaints were due to the alleged implausibility of female engineers. In fact, I'd bet that many of the LinkedIn users who complained did so for feminist reasons—suspicious that the ads were u
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by mhartl 13y ago
Excellent comment. You're clearly following Tesla closely. N.B. Should be "its groove".
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by mhartl 13y ago
*its own
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by mhartl 13y ago
I and many people like me make large (six-figure annual) passive* income streams from selling information products online. My flagship product is a book/video bundle to teach web development with Ruby on Rails, and sells for $159 ( htt
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by mhartl 13y ago
Shipping it may be lighter on resources than your going to pick it up. Plus, resources aren't everything—your time is valuable, too.
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by mhartl 13y ago
*its descent
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by mhartl 13y ago
MailChimp isn't for spam.
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by mhartl 13y ago
A company's value is equal to its discounted profitability, adjusted for risk. A company that loses money now but has a 10% chance of making ten billion dollars a year in ten years is worth more than a company that makes a million do
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by mhartl 13y ago
It's possible to be honest and tactful at the same time, but doing so requires developing quality real-time filters, which is hard and takes lots of practice. One hypothesis is that powerful people have the luxury of not developing suc
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by mhartl 13y ago
freyr gets it. Who'd want to own 10% of barely profitable AMZN when they could own 100% of their local, highly profitable deli?
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by mhartl 13y ago
Going from $0 to a $750m valuation still counts as bootstrapping, even though "not taking VC" is no longer technically true. Incidentally, there's not necessarily anything to be "proud" of if you don't take VC.
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by mhartl 13y ago
Well put.
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*its journalism
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by mhartl 13y ago
Fun. One thing you might update: you use "he/she" in some places, but just "his" in others. I suggest "he...his" or "he/she...his/hers" instead.
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Rails Tutorial Rails 4.0 ebooks and supplementary screencasts(news.railstutorial.org)
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Many companies use patents as a matter of course, whether it's critical to their business or not.
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Bitbucket has side-by-side diffs.
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by mhartl 13y ago
Ballmer isn't exactly non-technical; he has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard.
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by mhartl 13y ago
The divergence of the harmonic series (sum_{n=1}^∞ 1/n) is one of the most surprising elementary results.
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by mhartl 13y ago
This is an excellent and insightful comment. One quick note: it's and its are different words. I count ten occurrences of "it's", four of which should be "its": it's what you need [corr
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On the other hand, it's good news for people who sell programming tutorials.
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I love how he apologizes for his "limited" English and then drops a line like "[Ruby] 1.8.7 was the last scion of that clan." If that's "limited", then we're all in trouble.
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by mhartl 13y ago
It's nice to see coverage of an exciting trend (of which I'm happy to be a part), but it always cracks me up when financial publications classify companies based on sales rather than profits. Defining a "million dollar compan
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by mhartl 13y ago
Based on the headline, I initially thought it was an announcement, not a job posting, so I tried to think of whose hiring they would bother to announce. My next thought was, "Maybe they're hiring Michael Nielsen?" (I'd f
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You should read http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-getting_to_the_bottom_of... which goes into great detail on surface areas and volumes of hyperspheres. Spoiler alert : it's actually pi/2 = tau/4 that emer

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