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by patdennis 14y ago
I'll accept that there's a lot to be learned from stool, but I don't think this explanation has much to do with it: “Have you ever figured how information-rich your stool is?,” Larry asks me with a wide smile, his gray-green eyes intent be
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by patdennis 14y ago
I have no interest in judging a public company by its stock price over such a short period of time. Markets are fickle - on the short term they tend to react to emotion. Give it a few years, though, and we'll have a much more reliable measu
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by patdennis 14y ago
I assure you that - virtually always - layoffs are a last resort. Furloughs, pay cuts, and reducing headcount through attrition have become almost ubiquitous on the state and local level over the past few years.
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Zen and the Art of Steve Jobs(douglaslacosse.me)
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by patdennis 14y ago
Overall public sector employment has dropped significantly over the last three years. Reuters: "The last three years of job losses at the state and local government level has been the most dramatic since Labor Department records began in 19
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by patdennis 14y ago
People who are motivated, who love learning, and who know how to create value can be successful without a college degree. The degree generally doesn't hurt, though.
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by patdennis 14y ago
So RegistryLove's success will hinge largely on their ability to get the word out to the general public. I agree with this. But, assuming the advertising dollars are there, it's extremely easy to target brides-to-be through specialty wedd
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by patdennis 14y ago
Six continents for what I spend per month on rent? Pretty amazing. Even at three grand it would be a great deal... This seems like a useful service. I wonder how often it produces results this good.
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by patdennis 14y ago
The art gallery idea struck me as interesting at first. On second thought, however, why would you want to look at art through a low quality iPad camera when you could browse a website with high-res images of the same stuff? I'm not sure tha
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by patdennis 14y ago
We're talking about changing fundamental aspects of our society, not patching some code. It would require a massive cultural shift, on a number of levels.
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by patdennis 14y ago
It's not true. If it was nearly that simple, it would be a lot easier to fix.
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It is a valid difference, and politicians are aware of it. Organic giving from individuals who work in the educational sector doesn't come hand in hand with organized, well financed political pressure in the same way that a lobbying eff
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by patdennis 14y ago
The chart you linked to doesn't refer to giving from educational institutions themselves. The chart is tracking contributions from individual employees [1] of those institutions. Seems to me that simply represents the fact that professo
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by patdennis 14y ago
There are serious problems with the for-profit university model (like the University Of Phoenix) as outlined in this article. I think it's worth pointing out that these businesses are aware that they may have a problem, and have stepped up
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by patdennis 14y ago
I'm glad it helped give me the motivation to push myself to get where I am today - and in the process learn how much that work and dedication could pay off in the long term. I have little doubt that, had things turned out otherwise, I'd be
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by patdennis 14y ago
Success is sitting right infront of you. But if he'd finished college, he'd know that "infront" is two words! But in all honesty, I also dropped out of college and I agree with the sentiment of this post wholeheartedly. In fact, I might g
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by patdennis 14y ago
It would've been nice to have a setup like this at Bonnaroo. Or, perhaps, cell phone service.
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by patdennis 14y ago
My god, the energy in that room was amazing. Just watching how happy they were was worth staying up late for.
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by patdennis 14y ago
I can't edit anymore, but I would like to point out that the headline has since been changed.
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by patdennis 14y ago
This headline is very misleading.
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No. A place to sit down and discuss what's possible.
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by patdennis 14y ago
According to the article, it took them a half hour to shut it down. That's more than a few seconds. But as a torrent of faulty trades spewed Wednesday morning from a Knight Capital Group trading program, no one at the firm managed to stop
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by patdennis 14y ago
There are so many industries ripe for technology startups to disrupt: Education, Health Care, Business, Art and Government just to name a few. But where are the domain experts ready to be paired with a team of rockstar engineers and supers
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by patdennis 14y ago
I don't want you to come away with the impression that I'm attacking what you're doing. Day to day you're providing a hell of a lot more opportunity than I am... and creating a lot more value at the same time. I think the root of my emotion
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by patdennis 14y ago
I don't think fun jobs are the goal. I think merit based opportunity is the goal.
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by patdennis 14y ago
According to company cofounder Anand Kulkarni, the aim is to get the crowd of workers to "behave much more like an automatic resource than like individual and unreliable human beings." Rationally, this makes sense. Emotionally, I find it
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by patdennis 14y ago
It'll be interesting when this interface can be used to control a prosthetic hand.
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by patdennis 14y ago
I stopped attending college with one semester left until graduation. It's on my resume and it's never held me back in any way. The key is that I was able to prove myself early on in my industry (before even leaving college). That set me up
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I, for one, am curious about the details of how he did it.
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by patdennis 14y ago
FYI, it's a link to an article, not a question.

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