primatology

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by primatology 15y ago
I propose that the technical superiority of IT employees over the rest of the company induces an arrogance that makes many of them incredibly unpleasant to work with. The one IT guy I met who wasn't a jerk was quickly promoted out of the de
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by primatology 15y ago
Google builds in a solid six months to get all new hires up to speed. Of course, that's the relaxed end of the spectrum. At a freshly-minted startup, I wouldn't be surprised if spending a week familiarizing yourself with the project's code
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by primatology 15y ago
Yep, he owns 28% of the stock but 57% of the voting rights, according to the article.
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by primatology 15y ago
Exactly! That's a great way of summarizing the "backwards" mindset. It occurs to me that an ebook has a completely elastic supply curve, so the optimization of the demand curve is the equilibrium price.
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by primatology 15y ago
> "take the most expensive source of traffic online and underwrite to solve for the bottom line margins you need to advertise." Sure, but if you assume away all other sources of traffic, you're finding a break-even price. The reason thi
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by primatology 15y ago
I don't think this is accurate at all. Suppose you do have an ebook. Theoretically, certainly, you can find the price at which no consumers purchase your book, and the price at which nearly every consumer who sees your book purchases it. Th
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by primatology 15y ago
Was there that much hating on Crockford? Most of the posts I saw were in support of his position, if not his (probably justified) grouchy attitude. I find it hard to disagree with him. Eichs has admitted ASI was a mistake, every half-decent
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by primatology 15y ago
Exactly! One of my favorite tricks. Any decent shared host can serve as a makeshift git repository.