sardonicbryan

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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
It really doesn't take that long. I flashed a stable 4.1 build onto nmy S3 from a new computer in about 10 minutes, starting from scratch, following step by step instructions. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33460541&...
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
As someone who was early stage at a startup, I appreciate the reminder to stop and smell the roses. As someone who's been grinding for four years now, it's easy to forget how far you've come.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
"[A 3.5 inch screen instead of a 4 inch screen]is an example of one of those design decisions that you don’t usually notice until you see someone doing it wrong. It’s one of the things that makes Apple products Apple products." http://dcur
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Agreed. On my team at Kabam, we have meetings, but 1) They are as small as possible, typically including just 2 or 3 people. 2) Are always optional. 3) Typically last around 15 minutes. It helps to have plenty of space/rooms where you can j
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E*Trade Ousts CEO Freiberg(online.wsj.com)
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
I totally agree with the sentiment in the blog post. As someone who has built and now compulsively checks a real time dashboard however, I'll enumerate one case where I've found real time really valuable. I'm the product owner of a social g
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Yahoo Fantasy Sports still has a leadership position in its space, which is a $1-2 Billion market for football alone. Anecdotally, it's the default fantasy sports platform for not only my group of friends, but whenever we are running an off
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
I'm a little surprised that the top answers on Stack Exchange accept the premise that analysts and PMs get paid higher salaries. That is certainly not the case at my company (mid sized tech startup), nor I would imagine at most other tech c
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Anecdotally, in Taiwan the quality of McDonald's is significantly higher than in the US. The quality of the meat and materials in particular.
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One term my company uses (not sure if it's an industry standard) that captures what you're describing is "yield," which is basically revenue/cost per user. Ultimately, what "CPM" you are making your advertisers is hard to really evaluate wi
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
You could Tivo or DVR, or watch content made for TV on DVD/Blu Ray.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Well, I'd imagine most people earning $400K or more in a year are millionaires. Income <> net worth.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Dashboards don't have to be expensive to build. My company uses Graphite now, but before we were at that level, I just had engineering give me credentials for our DBs, and used ODBC + Excel. Next thing you know, you have a dashboard trackin
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Yea, it seems like this is a pretty market position if you ask me -- if you need DB like tools, why not just use a DB? This product would have to be an order of magnitude easier to set up and use to get people to use that instead, IMO. Coul
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
So for "collaboration," I'd almost rather see something like Spotfire's publish/view model, where not everyone has edit permissions, but power users can publish their sheets for people to view. This more closely mirrors the workflow in my o
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Just some hopefully constructive feedback here: for Excel power users, you're not just competing with Excel, you're competing with Excel+ODBC+SQL+Workbench which is basically an Excel/DB hybrid, just not web based. I read your "how this is
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Sometime shortly before 8pm Pacific time to around 9:30pm Pacific Time.
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
For what it's worth, FB has indicated to my company in the past that in situations like this one can refer to http://connect.beta.facebook.net/en_US/all.js
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by sardonicbryan 14y ago
Anecdotally, I absolutely believe their stat about cab show rates. I went out in the city a lot when I lived there, and on Friday/Saturday nights around dinner time, your odds of getting a cab felt much worse than 50% -- it was always a sur
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I think in the cases cited in the OP, investing in more employees is probably strongly correlated with knowing how to deploy additional employees at high ROI. A smartly run business is probably better equipped to get incremental revenue out
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
Actually, Google Talk on Android already has a video chat feature that's great because: 1) It works over 3G 2) It works with anyone else on Google Talk who's online, regardless of what device they're on All you have to do is open Google Tal
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I've never heard of Kenyon College, but the quality of their commencement speakers is staggering.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
From a very macro level, buying a house is like making a highly illiquid, incredibly non-diversified investment. The returns can be strong, but it's definitely a higher risk play than other investment vehicles. Personally, I'd only do it fo
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
All this is is the author reaffirming his normative value judgments. I could just as easily compare iPad2 unfavorable with my Toshiba netbook... Price: $230 (with RAM upgrade) vs. $500 Apps: The entire internet and every piece of Windows so
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I don't think it's an insurmountable challenge. It seems like over the past decade, a number of cable channels have started producing more HBO-like content with decent success. FX with Nip/Tuck, Justified, etc., AMC with Mad Men, Breaking B
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Bird Flu Research Rattles Bioterrorism Field(npr.org)
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I save 30-40% of every paycheck (not including 401K), but I live at home and don't pay any rent (also no loans), have no wife/kids, no mortgage and my work offers free lunch and dinner. One thing that helped me save more though, was creatin
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
Sounds like there might be an inefficiency in the resume filler market that an enterprising future IBanker/Lawyer/Consultant could exploit.
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What I did was basically ask a professor who I knew had a research lab, and ask if there was anything I could help him with. In my experience, most professors have too much stuff to do, and are very open to free labor.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I think if you know early on that grad school is something you might want to do, it's not too hard. I started working as an undergrad RA my sophomore year by approaching one of my professors in the spring quarter of my freshman year and ask

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