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by stornetn 5y ago
The title for this feels really broad. Cloud providers offer so many products with so many nuances that I'd posit it's practically impossible to do a satisfying pricing comparison that's even halfway comprehensive. That'
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by stornetn 5y ago
Amazon’s policy is even better than that (IMO). They know that no one reads things before meetings, so it’s accepted that everyone will quietly read for the first part of the meeting (as much as half the total meeting duration). Then (and o
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by stornetn 5y ago
This isn’t the complete picture. It’s true that the vesting schedule gives you only 5% of RSUs in your first year, but employees’ cash signing bonus is increased to offset that. So if the total compensation target for a role is generally
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by stornetn 7y ago
The point is summarized well by one of my favorite aphorisms (often attributed incorrectly to Mark Twain): "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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by stornetn 7y ago
Isn’t AWS fairly widely reputed for having lowered its prices dozens of times since first launching? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/new-research-from-tso-logic...
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by stornetn 7y ago
You can always do both. That’s what I’m doing, and it has served me well so far (just graduated from MBA with solid job placement and I have a few courses to go for OMSCS).
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by stornetn 7y ago
> a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn't actually match demand, and work to fill that demand This is not necessarily true. It depends entirely on the shape of demand. By way of simplifie
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by stornetn 7y ago
Only if it's a very competitive market, and even that effect will only happen over time. Product differentiation introduces pricing power for individual firms, and depending on the style of competition you think will occur (e.g., Cour
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by stornetn 8y ago
Reminds me of a similar article that measured a similar kind of question about the wait times for NYC subways conditional on how long you've been waiting ( https://erikbern.com/2016/04/04/nyc-subway-math.h
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by stornetn 9y ago
I can understand the rationale for why Amazon would build something like this. Amazon owns a large chunk of the market of ecommerce in instances when customers already know roughly what they’re looking for. A big growth opportunity that’s m
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by stornetn 9y ago
I completely agree. Almost all of this article appears to have little to do with being a Data Scientist in particular and more to do with some good practices for writing code in general. So the advice itself is fine, just not what I was hop
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Surprising numbers behind startup survival rates(review.chicagobooth.edu)
2 points by stornetn 9y ago|0 comments