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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
It could also be because the Daily Kos' founder also cofounded SB Nation, one of the larger networks of sports blogs that are well regarded in the baseball analytics community, so it's likely that Silver had some connection/c
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
Perhaps ironically, I feel like my Android phone (Samsung GS3) helps me manage clutter much better by letting me arbitrarily arrange my app icons. As a result, each "screen" in my home screen tends to be less than half full of app
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
Riot is now part of Tencent, which has a market cap of about $90B. http://allthingsd.com/20110204/chinas-tencent-buys-riot-game... http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=0700.HK
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
We've probably brought in 20-30 candidates for interviews, none of them brought that up as a concern (though maybe it was for the people who half assed it). Realistically, the chance of them coming up with a brilliant product idea in a few
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
I've hired 11 PMs (from Associate to Senior level) at my startup, and a lot of this rings true. The one thing I'll add is the most important step in my hiring process: After phone screen, I have the recruiter send them a case study that ask
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
I probably work comparable hours at a startup, and still find time to work out and socialize. You can get a great workout in under an hour if you don't live or work too far from your gym, and a couple workouts a week can go a long way. Ther
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by sardonicbryan 13y ago
The thing that is really going to collapse our current national system is crypto currency. Once governments can't collect taxes easily, could easily see us going to a Neal Stephenson Diamond Age style post national, lifestyle group based sy
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Standups work really well when there are dependencies between different functional groups. Consider a team working on a live browser/Facebook-based free to play game (social game as a service). There are many releases a week. - Engineering
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300255
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
-write specs -analyze data (more consumer) -own the product roadmap/set priorities for the team (more senior PMs) -project manage -coordinate between different functions/stakeholders, ie eng and design or sales, bi, etc. (more enterprise)
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Yeah, our teams are pretty small (about 20 between eng, art, product, qa, etc) and sit by each other in open plan floor space, so the lines of communication are definitely open, as long as no one is an asshole. I guess implicit in our inter
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
In my org, PMs have the responsibility for owning product metrics and business goals. So that means they are responsible for both pulling and analyzing user behavior data, and deeply understanding the impact of each of our feature releases
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
I've hired a number of PMs for my startup over the last 12months,and by far the most important thing that is overlooked (imo) is the ability to write good specs that are helpful for engineering. You can think of that as a sign that a PM can
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
If you pre-format the cell as text, any value input will be stored in its entirety. For one offs, prepending any string with ' will force Excel to store as text. For date, it typically does not truncate seconds, so not sure what's happening
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
For my annual holiday party, I just set up my Nexus 7 on a tall bar chair in an area with decent lighting, opened up Instagram, and let people have at it. Was hooked up to my Facebook, so people could post as the party went on. Setup: http
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
My company is hiring UI/UX Designers. Feel free to send me a link to your info. See my profile.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
In addition to offering a beverage, also offer bathroom breaks between interviewers.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Only if it looks like you are trying to mislead me about your experience.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
There are three major classes of decisions that get made from this. In descending order: 1) We generally have pretty tight revenue targets, so one thing I and my teams do now is forecast out expected revenue on a daily basis for the next 30
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
So I built and use a realtime analytics dashboard that tracks revenue, projected revenue, revenue by hour for a portfolio of social games. I find it incredibly useful, but I will give a couple tips that address some of the issues in the art
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
As a hiring manager, I also like to verify people's resumes against their Linkedin profiles. I generally find some kind of useful context (something they left out), recommendation or discrepancy on about 1 out of 10 resumes.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
One policy I've implemented in my group at an SF startup is when I want to promote someone into a new role, I first put them in the role before giving them the title and raise. That gives them a chance to evaluate how much they actually lik
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
So what is the best play then? Wait in the car without the engine running?
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
To some extent, I'd guess that the "high end restaurants" effect has to do with lower customer density.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
The great thing about Android is that I can use the platform on top of the line hardware without buying this phone if I want. Glad I went Samsung Galaxy S3.
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Gondolas Could Be the Next Great Urban Transportation Device(wired.com)
71 points by sardonicbryan 14y ago|54 comments
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Nice data, thanks for putting it together. Would be really cool if there was a link to an enlarged version of the table as well.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Personally, I don't. For one thing, his hard analytical skills (read: Excel hacker) were obviously honed by working in finance. I also feel his background gave him tons of real world, high stakes experience in using Excel to turn data into
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
One of the best hires I've ever made is a classic finance MBA -- top tier investment bank analyst program out of undergrad, HBS, private equity. The key was that: 1) He was referred to my startup by someone in our network, so he had at leas

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