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wakeupthedawn
17y ago
Why don't we just ask Carly Fleischmann? http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4311223&page=1
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17y ago
Maybe this is true at Google, but you need a fair amount of dedication to stick around at Goldman or McKinsey. Nobody becomes a career middle manager there. Well, maybe some back-office jobs at GS.
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17y ago
Right, because that's clearly what's driving sales of Outliers. Telling a small group of people what they might not want to hear as opposed to telling a large group of people what they want to hear.
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17y ago
Gladwell is successful because he tells so many people what they want to hear: your lack of talent doesn't matter. I always lol when I hear the Bill Gates example. The guy is a freaking genius. He had to go through Math 50 at Harvard to fig
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17y ago
Well at least my school won North America.
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17y ago
You're charging $3 per stamp w/o a plan and at best $1 per stamp with the intro plan?! Wow! It's cool that you're able to attract customers at those margins. I'm a bit confused as to why your API customers are given better rates (I assume t
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17y ago
He explains his name here: Heh :) We're generally called microsofties. I'm a big fan of linux, in fact the first time I used Windows in a serious capacity was when I joined Microsoft (they hired me knowing that I knew nothing about their p
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The opinion of some FB engineers is that if they could start all over, they probably wouldn't use php. The codebase is very large and somewhat of a hassle to maintain, but at this point it does not make sense to move off php. Facebook does
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These are pretty good. I really liked #6, the tip for template_tags. I hadn't thought of that before and will definitely do that. I will also look into extensions of the template system as suggested at the bottom. Those were really helpful,