tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 14y ago
My guess is that automated vehicles will be both more predictable, and more dependable, at yielding. When a pedestrian jaywalks in front of an oncoming vehicle, he's depending on the fact that the driver isn't distracted, and can pick him o
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I've worked for large companies that do it both ways. When I knew what group I was going to, it often ended up changing within the first year of my arrival anyway through restructuring, re-prioritization, etc. So I've decided it's generally
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Well, I was really just trying to point out that the fact there are companies whose "mission" he doesn't personally value doesn't mean that their founders have an "inflated sense of self-worth." It's the nature of startups that there are go
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Well put. As someone who does a lot of hiring, I know I'm not talking to a candidate because they're happy with their current job. But at the same time, I want to see that someone has the necessary judgement and discretion to not bad-mouth
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Startups have their own pathologies, but I'm going to point you that if you think "perpetual crisis mode" is somehow a big-company problem, you're going to be disappointed. Especially at a startup that isn't profitable yet, you're essential
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Given that investors were already paying ~2% management fees during the life of the fund, paying a few points a year while the VCs try to liquidate the remaining assets doesn't seem like that big a deal. The remaining assets are probably le
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Effectively, SEC regulations like Dodd-Frank impact large funds worldwide, because you're subject to them if you have more than a small number of US investors. (I think it's 15.) That survey isn't particularly good data. For one thing, it c
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Lockups can range widely among hedge funds, and can even be different from investors in the same hedge fund when implemented via side letters, with some of the more desirable hedge funds requiring multi-year lockups, especially for side v
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Maybe, but even the compensation structures behind that 2/20 are wildly different between the two groups. Hedge funds have two things I've never heard of in a VC fund: benchmarks against market returns, and high-water marks. So while the he
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I'm not saying that hedge funds are great either. I'm just saying you can't swap one for the other - they're different beasts.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Not really. There's a couple things hedge funds have to deal with that VCs don't - generally, it's easier to track the market value of their portfolios, so they have to show performance on a quarterly or annual basis. Also, the lockups for
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
VCs are great if they're funding your startup. That's not what this article (and report) are about - they're about how VCs don't really serve their real clients, the LPs who invest in them. This matters - those LPs are generally large state
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PaidContent: Publisher sues Tumblr over porn pics(paidcontent.org)
1 points by tomkarlo 14y ago|0 comments
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
"Let's reserve prison for people that absolutely cannot integrate with normal society." To do that, we'd have to find an effective alternative to prison. Financial / professional penalties are clearly not enough - if the penalty for getting
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Regardless of whether they're stupid or not, they're still regulations. Unless he was breaking the laws as a form of civil disobedience, he was still basically a guy breaking the rules to make more money.
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Kindle Sales Plunge Made Amazon.com's Gross Margin Look Better(seekingalpha.com)
4 points by tomkarlo 14y ago|1 comments
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
She picked me off the waitlist. Really - she was the Dean of Admissions for a very long time (I think she was at MIT for 28 years overall, something like that) and while I can't remember her personally any more, I know that she had a strong
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
It's a big problem when your job involves withdrawing acceptance letters if you find out they lied about their prior education history, which happens fairly regularly.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
I think you're reading more into this than I meant. I don't think this necessarily means he lies perpetually in life, etc, or has poor moral character. But it's hard to ague that it doesn't raise the issue of "you know he was willing to lie
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
All you'll be doing then is turning him into a high-priced industry consultant or public speaker. Not that prison always prevents that (See: Michael Milken) but it at least puts the brakes on it for a few years.
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
Or, the head of admissions at MIT: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-04-26-mit-admiss... No question she was good at her job, but it's a real problem when you're in charge of any kind of hiring to ask your applicants to be hones
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by tomkarlo 14y ago
The issue here is not whether or not he's qualified for the CEO spot. It's whether he has been signing off on SEC filings that he knows contain falsehoods. In particular, there's information in the proxy statements that shareholders are sup
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
"Emotion trumps cool analytic fact in any day for UX." Uh, no, it doesn't, at least not at any responsible software project I've worked on. The whole reason you run experiments, A/B testing, etc is so that this doesn't happen.
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
If you were sharing the doc via another service that required a login (and pretty much anything that doesn't post it to a public URL is going to), wouldn't you hit the same problem? It's hard to do collaboration (even if it's read-only coll
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
Threatening to leave because you want something on a service to be left unchaged is not equivalent to leaving a service because there's a newer, better service available. If site designers listened to everyone who gripes when a feature chan
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
Because it's impractical to create a TOS that defines all possible ways they might need to use that data in order to provide the service (from any court's viewpoint) but also explicitly carve out that usage. If re-using the code as you posi
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
It's nice to know you can depend on Wired to be 5-8 years behind the curve.
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
Given that Google's charging for Drive and not G+, it kind of seems like the other way around. There's always a risk a company will either shut down a business (Symbian, Wave, MySpace, Delicious), or go out of business (Chumby), or get boug
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
Maybe, but it seems to me that for search (especially with stemming / misspelling coverage) you need a much lower OCR accuracy than for converting into text. Like maybe 95% vs 99.5% - you can have an order of magnitude more errors and sear
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by tomkarlo 15y ago
Actually, Evernote's OCR does handwriting, and at least for me, does it pretty well. It's not going to give you a transcription, but it's good enough that the doc will show up if you're searching for it.

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