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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   No, he didn't compare Zuckerberg to a rat. "Smelling a rat" is an idiomatic expression [1] that means that something is suspicious or wrong. [1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/smell+a+rat
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   Actually, I think learning to understand how these (complex) market forces come into play is exactly why Slava added the recommendation to religiously read The Economist at the very end of the article for maximum effect.
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   > but he introduced me to the concept of market vs. technical risk This bit alone provided the right keywords to help me express some of the ideas in the essays I have been writing. Thanks for posting.
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   This. It appears as if Google's higher ups still haven't gotten the memo.
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   > It also opens blazing fast. With these in mind, minor inconveniences (like the address bar) are probably something i wouldn't mind. Of course you wouldn't mind, since, as you've said elsewhere that you work at Google. &q
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   > Because you're an engineer in a boom-bust industry that hasn't had a real bust in a long time, and is about due. How does anyone determine with certainty that a bust is "about due" as you have?
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   > We'll see in 10 years after Musk is fired from Tesla by John Sculley. I know you are being facetious, but similar to Jobs, Musk got ousted as CEO from his first and second companies: Zip2 [1] and PayPal [2]. [1] Vance, Ashley (201
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   But I bet the cost of the procedure left a sizeable hole in your pocket ;).
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   by sah2ed 10y ago

   Wholeheartedly agree. I think the lesson the author is really trying to convey is the importance of learning about distributed computing [1] concepts and not necessarily system administration . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    I think you give Satya Nadella too much credit. Steve Ballmer laid much of the ground work. Ballmer granted an interview to Bloomberg where he gave some candid answers [1]. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    I hadn't seen that post before even though I have heard of Groove. Thanks for sharing.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    > ... venture funds trail hedge funds in secrecy by a sideways glance. I literally 'LOLed' reading that. That's an especially apt characterization.
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    A warning to anyone receiving advice(sivers.org)

    2 points by sah2ed 10y ago|0 comments
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    You could reach more people with what you know by blogging. Have you considered doing this? I'm assuming you already work in a firm managing investments and will likely have little to no free time already.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    > The Uber model has no barrier to entry and they've lost their first-to-market advantage. Doesn't paint a pretty picture. Agree. Steve Blank argues that the first-mover or second-mover strategy has never worked [1]. Uber is a
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Google is indeed a software company the same reason why the "big 4" firms are considering accounting firms. All the big 4 accounting firms have HR, legal, PR people, in addition accountants but the reason why they are called accou
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    "There are hundreds of mathematicians in the NSA, far more than in academic settings, so readership for a typical paper is wider than in the world at large ..." [1] [1] http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Is there any material benefit applying through Atlas' Network of partners [1] over applying directly? [1] https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#who-is-in-the-stripe-atlas-netw...
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    This workflow is much better than the other proposals I've read up-thread.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    I think both of you are talking past each other here. The crux of your argument is that an outsider may be able to pattern-match better than industry insiders/domain experts. In other words, an outsider can recognize a potential soluti
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Enjoyed reading your article. Thanks for sharing.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    If you are willing to experience it using VR, could be a startup idea ;)
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    > That is give the candidates drip campaigns and automated sales replies and beautiful personal career portfolio websites. That is allow smart candidates to sell to recruiters and company at scale. Not sure I follow. Large companies gene
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Thanks for the graphic. For anyone else, the original article discussing the graphic: is here [0]. [0] http://www.jdroth.com/becoming-proactive/
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    That may be true today but in future, all they need to do is notify you that there has been a change in their privacy policy to permit them to share it with third-parties.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    > Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago. I couldn't seem to find a source for this claim. Source?
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    You actually knew that you survived the fall at age 3 or someone much older told you the story of how you survived a 4-storey fall when you were much older?
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Never heard of them before so thanks for the mention. Anyone know of similar ones like Paddle.com?
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion but I use Windows and Linux at the moment.
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    by sah2ed 10y ago

    Tried pandoc before but I had trouble with missing dependencies (on Windows). When I tried it on Linux the output didn't look great. Ideally, would love something that mimicked GitHub Flavored Markdown in output.