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by mmt 8y ago
Even that article says that, though catching up on the weekend is better than not trying to catch up at all, consistency (i.e. not falling behind in the first place) is best.
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by mmt 8y ago
> We actually do celebrate athletes' physical sacrifices. I'm not certain that's quite accurate. It seems that what's celebrated are their accomplishments and "sacrifices" in the sense of effort and self-den
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by mmt 8y ago
Or 50,000mg per dollar as a bulk powder, if you're into DIY.
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by mmt 8y ago
> One reason for wanting to shift databases is testing. The unit tests might be running on the developers own sqlite instances because running them on the company-wide SQL Server installation is prohibitive. That doesn't strike me a
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by mmt 8y ago
I have no idea, as merely adding them may have no effect at all. However, depending on them exclusively (or in substantial/majority part), which I believe is the main premise, the eventual performance will depend entirely on if the t
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I generally agree with the generalities of the article, and I share the author's "on premise" philosophy (and recommending outsourcing when it seems an obvious fit for what they're asking on-prem), being a sysad
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by mmt 8y ago
This is the sort of startup advice article I wish there were more of (though I've never been a founder myself). It points out how the "obvious" reaction to an impending cash flow problem at a high-growth startup might be unde
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by mmt 8y ago
> Let's play a game. You are in charge of a large pile of cash and want to make it grow by giving loans. Each day, two people apply, and you can give out one loan (you will have to rank the applicants). When people de-fraud you, you
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by mmt 8y ago
> Do you still feel these digital signatures are irrelevant to making better credit risk decisions? Yes, absent a credible theory as to why a particular characteristic could reasonably be linked to loan performance. Otherwise, it's
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by mmt 8y ago
> investors of Uber are well aware That's an extraordinarily huge presumption to make about someone, especially, in practice, an "investor" isn't even a natural person. Moreover, the "person" who owns the sh
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by mmt 8y ago
I expect the flippant tone won't be generally well-received, but, fortunately, there aren't many eyes on this thread. Personally, I have no horse in the race, other than intellectual curiosity, so, everyone, please don't assu
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by mmt 8y ago
You wouldn't. Despite the article title, the point isn't whether there's a monopoly, but if they're using monopoly power in a prohibited way.
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by mmt 8y ago
The first thing it still asks is: >Are you looking for a software engineering position? Answering "No" hides the "Continue" button. If you hadn't told me otherwise here, I would have had no idea you were includin
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's worth reminding ourselves that the root comment was an absolutist assertion about the folly of outsourcing. Even that strikes me as a mischaracterization, or, at best, taking just one statement out of context. It was an asser
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by mmt 8y ago
> There is nothing inherently and outright wrong with such a dependence This is yet another strawman. The original commenter found it "silly", which, I agree, was a poor choice of wording. Perhaps "overly risky" would
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by mmt 8y ago
> But companies don’t just “decide” how to use data on a whim Their acquirers do, however.
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by mmt 8y ago
> the landlord could deny you access ..or grant themselves access. That's the other risk that the parent comment pointed out. > In practice, most companies will rent office space without batting an eye. Presumably, though, they a
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm not sure it's what you intended.. but here's my stab at what you're getting at. The key is that forgiveness is primarily about (and, arguably, for the benefit of) the emotional state of the one granting the forgivene
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by mmt 8y ago
Some of the arguments are a bit difficult to follow, if not swallow: > Small variations in year one do not justify massively different founder equity splits in year 2-10. Yet this is, essentially, how it's done for employees. At lea
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by mmt 8y ago
> I wouldn't give ourselves enough credit to think we can meaningfully tip the scales in that way I would hope that would be the whole point of such a project! (To reduce hiring friction enough to be able to tip the scales, not ac
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by mmt 8y ago
Wasn't the original commentor criticizing, exactly, an (acquired) company and its executives?
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, it's spurred a discussion of an over-simplification of the issues. I don't think anyone is suggesting never to outsource, or even that the answer to "build vs. buy" is always "build". The point is not
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by mmt 8y ago
That certainly makes sense with THC, and ties back to your earlier remark about clinically significant quantities of it. For some studies, I've seen reference to using an active placebo (so the placebo group feels something ), but I r
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by mmt 8y ago
> And I was defending the existence of such rules, so I have no idea why you are criticizing my remark. I wish you had followed the guidelines and taken the most charitable reading of what I said. I, too, defended the existence of the ru
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by mmt 8y ago
"Really well" strikes me as a remarkably high standard. If the focus is primarily on early employees, then I can see how that makes sense. For later stage startups, wouldn't YC be concerned with encouraging or supporting mo
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by mmt 8y ago
> software engineers Is there any timeline on lifting that exclusivity?
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by mmt 8y ago
> Both were honest and up front, but trying to play up the fact that "we live to work" played about as well as a piano falling off a crane onto Wiley Coyote. I'd say the honesty is merely the minimum required level of cour
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by mmt 8y ago
> It is hard for me to accept my brain is not tricking me when drinks in glass taste better than can/plastic of the same drink Although we use the word "taste" to describe the experience, even that is well understood to be
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by mmt 8y ago
It's interesting to see someone actually put numbers on the I/O penalty of (even optimized) virtualization. I wonder if this means that the improvements from KVM/Nitro just aren't that good after all. I'll look forw
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by mmt 8y ago
I think it's important that they examined at least the correlation between the thought-experiment answers and the actual behavior. If there's one thing that makes me immediately suspect a study, it's when the data includes in

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