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by sanj 13y ago
Though it is tempting to try to capture the entirety of the "efficiency" of a non-profit with a single number, it isn't really helpful. In particular, it turns out that "administration" doesn't scale linearly.
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by sanj 13y ago
Agreed, but correlation across multiple countries across multiple time windows, indicate that we should pay attention to it. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935107...
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by sanj 13y ago
Boston, MA and Palo Alto, CA, FT, permanent: TripAdvisor. Help build the HHGTTG.
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Peak Google, Apple and Facebook(xconomy.com)
62 points by sanj 13y ago|42 comments
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by sanj 13y ago
I can't agree more. My family has one of each: I write code and am the technical weenie where my wife is a do-gooder trying to change laws to treat kids differently than adults. I'm absolutely in awe of what her tiny four person
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by sanj 13y ago
Isn't this the model that Linus Torvalds (effectively) uses with Linux? He ultimately is the maintainer, but delegates responsibilities to trusted individuals for large chunks of the codebase. And they gain that responsibility based on pri
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by sanj 13y ago
The part that is being missed here is the implications of a felony arrest: - can no longer vote - won't be able to get financial aid - can't go to a state college - can't get a loan In addition, being expelled means that she will have to mo
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by sanj 14y ago
One piece missing here is how to write code that can be diagnosed/debugged without a debugger. Writing code that dumps useful information to a log file such that you can get real work done is important.
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Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes(techcrunch.com)
73 points by sanj 14y ago|104 comments
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The Charges Are Flying Over a Test of Tesla’s Charging Network(wheels.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 14y ago
TripAdvisor: Newton, MA Come help me build the future of travel. Contact info is in my HN account.
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by sanj 14y ago
I have never found making something a configurable setting to solve any problems. All it does is push the decision forward to what the default should be, given that 99% don't change it. Design is about making decisions. Trying to duck that
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by sanj 14y ago
This is way more clever than I expected.
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IPad Magic Show(lifo.gr)
1 points by sanj 14y ago|1 comments
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by sanj 14y ago
By looking at the API, Instagram immediately knows that they indeed can post a picture on someone’s timeline, Today. At this very moment. And tomorrow, without an actual contract, that mechanism could be taken away from you.
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by sanj 14y ago
Where does the internet fit into this hierarchy? How about the web? 3-6 ?
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by sanj 14y ago
I met Dan at a coffee meetup in Cambridge several years back. He was considerate, erudite and unfailingly interesting and excitable. I wish I gotten to spend more time with him.
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Slick Microsoft art student rebranding exercise(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 14y ago
I tell folks I either invest in the broadest possible market -- namely index funds -- or the narrowest: me.
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by sanj 14y ago
Note that this is a joke paper written for the Journal of Irreproducible Results: http://www.jir.com/
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[US] VP picks by Wikipedia edits(npr.org)
3 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 14y ago
Marissa is one of the few people that can give Yahoo! any sort of chance at success. I wish her luck.
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by sanj 14y ago
#4 I created an artificial outlet mall data file with all of my weird edge cases. #6 I don't want my job outsourced. That starts at home. More generally, when I'm in a position to be an employer, I try to be of the sort that I would want to
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by sanj 14y ago
Brilliant. I did the same thing -- http://outletmapper.com Some learnings: 1. It really does free up your head to think about harder issues (read: getting in front of the right market) if you're not distracted by code. For me, code is "
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by sanj 14y ago
We told the veterans to help the new people whenever they could, but none of the old heads really wanted to be bothered, particularly given that we keep track of everyone’s output and any time spent teaching new people would reduce the bui
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Sounds of yesteryear: analog modems(theatlantic.com)
3 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 14y ago
...take the same approach as Amazon, offering low-cost hardware, like the Kindle, and subsidizing some of the costs through advertising. Except that, by its own admission, Facebook hasn't figured out how to make advertising money on mobil
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by sanj 14y ago
Neither am I! If it makes you feel any better, I now use it as my own, personal "don't be an ass" moment. If I feel the urge to say something snarky, recalling this interchange pretty much quashes it.
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MIT's SWYP(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments
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Toyota/Tesla Electric Rav4(toyotanewsroom.com)
4 points by sanj 14y ago|0 comments

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