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by netaustin 4y ago
I'm restarting my own math education from the point of Calculus 1 so I can learn more about AI/ML, and want the college credits so that if I decide to do more graduate school, I will have solid prerequisites. I searched pretty exh
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by netaustin 4y ago
Beware the potential for death spirals, and the bigger you get the harder they are to see. Early on, this is easy; last long enough to get to a profit. Later, if you have several products and you're allocating overhead among them, you
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by netaustin 4y ago
I played a version of this on Zoom as part of a Columbia University program [1] designed to simulate the conditions of re-entry from prison, which have considerable structural similarities to poverty and homelessness. The Zoom game is based
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by netaustin 5y ago
A little oral airline history — I was a student at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and 2003, studying EE and CS. I struggled, not with the material, but with my own personal issues and the fact that my girlfriend was 600 miles aw
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by netaustin 5y ago
I think that's a point that the authors of the paper are eager to test. If you believed you could escape a personally forecasted career trajectory by accepting an education instrument that was available as equity but not as debt, would
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by netaustin 5y ago
I agree that a more practical future is likely if the government backs off its subsidies of "normal" college experiences. What we have in the U.S. is essentially collusion between higher ed and government to place excess value on
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by netaustin 5y ago
My reading of the front matter is that, in essence, our present regime of student creates a problem of adverse selection. Adverse selection exists when two parties want to make a deal (sign a student loan), but one party knows much more abo
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Adam Neumann’s Debauchery Doomed WeWork(nypost.com)
3 points by netaustin 5y ago|2 comments
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by netaustin 7y ago
Prior to announcing that they were shutting down hire, you had to call to cancel so they could convince you not to. Now that it's sunsetted, they changed the rules so you can do it within the console so they don't have to listen t
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Google Hire built a feature to allow cancellation from admin console(hire.google.com)
1 points by netaustin 7y ago|1 comments
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by netaustin 7y ago
My company (alley.co) is a satisfied Hire customer, and we are 70+ people, all of whom are in professional tech roles. We're definitely still in the SMB category, and since we're a consultancy and have no outside investors, we&#x2
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Google News Doesn’t Work in Spain(support.google.com)
3 points by netaustin 7y ago|0 comments
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by netaustin 7y ago
The"real business" of WeWork et al seems to be selling an entrepreneurial vibe to big companies. Lots of folks in my distributed company work at WeWorks around the country, and most of their neighbors work for big companies. One o
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by netaustin 7y ago
I clicked on this article since I know of a good example of a donor making things complicated and half-expected to see it here. When I rented my current NYC apartment in 2012, I googled my landlord, a man named Paul Bogoni, and found this a
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by netaustin 7y ago
To me, the most salient and remarkable aspect of this story is the upheaval among the rest of the team. I’ve found, in leading my own company, that the right decisions are typically met with comprehension and sometimes even relief. If you u
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Public Disclosure of Slack Single-Channel Guest Directory Iteration(alley.co)
9 points by netaustin 8y ago|0 comments
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Civil unrest: How a blockchain-based journalism startup bumbled its launch(arstechnica.com)
4 points by netaustin 8y ago|0 comments
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by netaustin 8y ago
In other words, everyone had the same bad data: The investors, the marketers, and the publishers all thought video was a winner.
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by netaustin 8y ago
It's simplistic to lay publishing's woes so squarely at the feet of Facebook's video stats. This was contributing factor, certainly, but the executives who pivoted to video weren't abandoning 7% margins on text in search
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by netaustin 8y ago
We've toyed with either paying them for something we can use or asking them to add a feature to one of the open source projects under our care — but in either case, you lose the reliability and objectivity of the task, because differen
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by netaustin 8y ago
My company, a fully remote consulting firm, uses test projects for some candidates whose skills we cannot fully evaluate using the code samples they have submitted. We only use test projects under conditions designed to skirt the clear pitf
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by netaustin 8y ago
They did not.
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by netaustin 8y ago
For posterity, Buzzfeed News reported this: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/jared-ku...
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by netaustin 8y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but I've been open about this on Twitter and to a team that wrote a profile of him in the wake of the election. That a newspaper publisher would participate in an administration that labels the press the e
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by netaustin 8y ago
After Jared Kushner originally bought the New York Observer, I was hired to lead the tech team, which I did for a year and a half in house then for three more as a vendor. He asked me, out of band, to blackhole articles critical of his comm
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by netaustin 9y ago
I had a similar “wtf” sensation when I encountered onion juice in a Michael Solomonov (Zahav, Philadelphia) recipe I recently made ( http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/middle-eastern-lamb-skewe... ). It called for a whol
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by netaustin 9y ago
This is an interesting point. The near future must look far more vivid to the current crop of SF writers than it did to Aldiss's generation, and no wonder since VR, social media, and robotics are so much more advanced. Even Non-Stop, w
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by netaustin 9y ago
100%. My company does too, and in many cases, we ask applicants to include a secret phrase (usually "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow") to indicate that they've actually read the job description. I think if you're going
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by netaustin 9y ago
Vacation aside, I have a tactical suggestion that could help quickly if you can afford it: Hire an assistant. You get two things from this pretty quickly: instant help with your petty day to day tasks to allow you to save your energy for th
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by netaustin 10y ago
I'm with you 100% here, yeah, and I agree entirely with the points made here [ https://subfictional.com/thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governanc... ]. But I don't think Dries has the credibility to act in the community&#

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