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by philipodonnell 7y ago
Agree with other responses that you really just shouldn't volunteer it. But if you're finding employers that you want to work for insist on seeing your GPA, you can reframe which part of your educational experience you calculate i
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> Horrible, horrible things; all legal things, but nonetheless horrible. But, frankly, if its legal... Not sure where the conditional is coming from, its right in the second paragraph with sources: > This government agency is actively
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
Is there a name for this kind of chart? It doesn't seem to be a scatterplot in the traditional sense because the axes aren't on a regular interval (If you look at adjacent phones the difference in prices aren't even). Its mor
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> So they're a 5x fund. But that's really...not that good...(at least it's not world class). a 5x return on an _investment_ isn't that good but a 5x return on a _fund_ is very good.
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> A grocery store is simply a more organized open market. That’s not true though right? Don’t grocery stores buy the products that are on their shelves and they are reselling them? That’s fundamentally different from a marketplace.
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
Different experiences leading to an inability to communicate/empathize is universal, I think: > 326. “I can’t know what is going on in him” is, above all, a picture. It is the convincing expression of a conviction. It does not give
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
Does this at all depend on the type of show? I find when watching programming with a lot of ambiguity (mysteries, procedurals, etc) my brain is very active trying to anticipate or think back to connect dots to follow what's happening.
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
That's fair, but just using the time-frames in the article, 6 months had passed before the VP got caught and still had 3 years left on the implementation. I think a director of technology who take 3.5+ years to do a CRM implementation
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> The CIO admitted that he had been approached and explained that he had informed the VP that IT already had a project with SAP to deliver what the VP needed. “Yes, but that won’t be ready for me to use for three years, and I need someth
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> A lot of FUD from the media said Elon stated they will only have 10 months left before cash balance is zero. No where in this letter stated such a thing and Elon just used an arbitrary number(in this case the newly raised capital) to e
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> As soon as one of them increase prices to generate profit Once prices get back to a sustainable level it will be more appealing for other entrants and they won't need to burn that much money.
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
I read this with great interest before noticing the retraction. Has there been any other research like this without the caveat? > *Authors’ Note: The journal that published this study has since expressed concern about the data. We first
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> The discussion helped me realise that Given-When-Then is as much of a hindrance in some contexts as it is a help in other contexts. I like when authors express a strong viewpoint but then also include descriptions of circumstances wher
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
This is an excellent point and one reason I think we'll inevitably have regulation preventing owners of platforms/marketplaces from competing in them. The incentives are completely out of whack.
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> all kids are going to have access to the same educational opportunities, even if equality comes at the cost of quality. As part of this idea, privately funded schools are not allowed. Guess what happens when rich people must send their
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by philipodonnell 7y ago
> In general, Infocom games were created by taking previous Infocom source code, copying the directory, and making changes until the game worked the way the current Implementor needed. Structure, therefore, tended to follow from game to
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Can anyone explain the relationship to StatsBot? Does Cube.js run independently of StatsBot is it just a javascript frontend interface?
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Granted most of my time was with balanced scorecards, but, I mean just reading the wikipedia[0] page here I don't see anything about OKRs being moonshots? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Capital investment != labor costs
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Trust is the wrong word, its more about alignment. I do trust that employees can exercise their professional judgement. I don't expect that every employee can perfectly align themselves behind a strategic objective without guidance. If
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Sure, say a company desires to broaden their customer base so they are less reliant on a small set of large customers. A goal could be "30% of net revenue should come from companies with less than $100M in revenue". Its strategic,
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> That said, the company was new to them and in the process of learning. Perhaps we did them wrong, or perhaps I missed the point. Hard to say, but I used to do this for a living as a consultant and FWIW much of what you are describing s
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
The feature that distinguishes a well designed metric is exactly that. Specific enough to ensure alignment with broader strategic objectives, general enough not to dictate exactly how.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
That will be a great remodeling of current chimneys. Most people I know in the south have them sealed off or gas fireplaces they rarely use.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Consistency is a big part of making high quality wine...
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> The dataset does not link the photos of people’s faces to their names, which means any system trained to use the photos would not be able to identify named individuals. But isn't that like the point of a facial recognition algorit
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I have to admit I'm a little taken aback by the focus on how the stated rationale is weak or doesn't fit every company equally while agreeing that there are real problems that would be addressed. Is there a word for this? Its almo
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I was thinking more like an automatic way to step through each subsequent "+"'d function rather than having to comment/uncomment repeatedly to isolate what each layer does.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Very nice. I would love some kind of plugin for Rstudio that let you "play" through an arbitrary ggplot like this to help understand how charts are built.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
It takes a third party to orchestrate busy sections of our current non-flying vehicles too!

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