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by rjdagost 14y ago
If Google is serious they should start by discarding their patent rights to PageRank
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by rjdagost 14y ago
The article is pretty clear that the "high price" is that the same procedure performed by the same doctor is often billed at a much higher rate when the doctor is an employee of a hospital instead of a self-employed physician.
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by rjdagost 14y ago
Totally disagree on the "zero risk" of being a startup employee. Startups have some benefits for employees but they have a host of negatives as well. Your typical startup employee is going to work more and get paid less than your typical
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by rjdagost 14y ago
Viewed in isolation, your point makes sense. But in most start-ups (at least the ones I've worked for) there are multiple unambiguous decisions from the CEO along with a good number of ambiguous ones that are all deemed to be "top priority
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by rjdagost 14y ago
My top advice would be to go for a company that is doing something a little different from the rest. Do you really want to put your blood, sweat, and tears into developing the 1000th photo sharing service? Find a company that is pursing s
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by rjdagost 14y ago
There is no reason why business success requires you to exist in a bubble isolated from everything and everyone near and dear to you. It's definitely not something to "grow out of"- we are social animals after all. The best way to live the
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by rjdagost 14y ago
Lots... imagine plotting y = f(x) for several different data series on the same axes. A density plot for all the different data series would be really crowded, whereas a scatter plot could (not necessarily would) better show the differenc
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by rjdagost 14y ago
I've never seen a data visualization tool that is universally applicable, so a simple edict like "don't use scatterplots" is a bit too simple. This hexagonal plot looks cool for the problem under question but there are obvious cases where
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by rjdagost 15y ago
While I don't condone the choice of words used in the ad I am underwhelmed at the "offensive" content. If you are offended by this you need to get some thicker skin.
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by rjdagost 15y ago
I'm not really a big fan of R but I have found it to be advantageous to use for some things. In particular, the big advantage of R is the huge user community. You can find a huge number of packages to use for many non-trivial tasks. Also
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by rjdagost 15y ago
On the one hand I feel excited for Kurt- such raw enthusiasm! This must be some kind of landmark for tech froth- that voluntarily becoming homeless in the pursuit of startup gold sounds like a good idea to some people. This will sound mean
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by rjdagost 15y ago
Siegler falls into the category of "irritainment", entertainment via irritation. He's the type of guy you love to hate and I believe a lot of his popularity stems from that. I can't stand the guy and I think he's completely full of shit.
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by rjdagost 15y ago
These are good filters to run. Everyone talks up the positives of startups but it is important to look out for the negatives as well (and the negatives were in my experience far nastier than the negatives of working for a big company). I
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by rjdagost 15y ago
Working for a 19 year old would be a very tough sell. You learn so much about real life in your early 20's and answering to someone who hasn't gone through that "seasoning" process would not be something to look forward to. Yes, Zuckerbur