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by woan 16y ago
If this isn't a nearly $1b testament for real patent reform (not what is going through Congress now), I don't know what is...
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IBM Researchers Develop Drug to Target MRSA(professional.wsj.com)
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by woan 16y ago
A poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma of how traditional management excellence kills disruptive innovation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
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Ballmer: Had To Make Windows The Center Of Microsoft's Tablet Strategy(businessinsider.com)
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(1) Design Quora (Web2.0 Expo Presentat... by Rebekah Cox - Quora(quora.com)
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GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers(computerworld.com)
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Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates(professional.wsj.com)
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The Problem with Financial Incentives and What to Do About It KnowledgeWharton(knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
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Bill Gates vs. Paul Allen: How Important Is the Wingman? - Digits - WSJ(blogs.wsj.com)
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When Twittering Gets in the Way of Real Life(online.wsj.com)
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by woan 16y ago
I have to agree from my experience at IBM. Those rewarded tend not to be rewarded much by industry standards (years salary at best) and the entire team or even the most meritorious contributors are rarely rewarded. I know of at least one te
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by woan 16y ago
From an innovation standpoint, it might be interesting to go with the model of high benefits of success, low cost of failure. That relative skew is what has arguably made the US the leader in this field in the macro. Startups given the mark
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by woan 16y ago
Thought I should point out MS also has quite a concentration of languages folks that were famous before joining MS: Butler Lampson, Erik Meijer, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith, Anders Hejlsberg
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by woan 16y ago
It's amazing how many of these so called CS topics that fell out of favor in the 90s have come back in the web world in major ways. Consistency, concurrency, parallelism, persistence. Yup we're back to basic distributed systems over larger
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by woan 16y ago
I think its a good move but it isn't new. I think UC Berkeley moved the first CS class for CS/EECS majors to functional concepts and Scheme in 1989 and MIT even earlier, though the latter abandoned it later. I remember my Berkeley compiler
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by woan 16y ago
I don't follow unless you are saying that other areas are less competitive. There is a good reason that CA is hot for tech companies. It's the whole ecosystem. Were it not for the ecosystem, these same folks are smart enough to found or mov
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by woan 16y ago
Could be more of a corporate culture statement than compensation... I remember one of the promises my manager made me at IBM in the early 90s crisis was that he couldn't necessary be competitive in compensation but I would always have acces
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by woan 16y ago
Nor does every entrepreneur. I think a lot of entrepreneurial engineers just want to be CTO or VP of Engineering or Product. There's a lot of selling and all that goes around that I think many entrepreneurial engineers are not predisposed t
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by woan 16y ago
Really can't argue with the Oracle that there that the majority of these are over-valued. In a sense that just means they are priced for success though we know many will fail or be limited niche businesses. The key statement though as it re
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The Art of the Business Narrative(strategy-business.com)
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Eight Fallacies of Entrepreneurship(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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For better meetings, set some ground rules | SmartBlog on Leadership(smartblogs.com)
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People x Process - How Facebook Became the Hottest Company on the Planet(limitedwipsociety.ch)
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Google Leads List of Desired Employers(online.wsj.com)
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by woan 16y ago
Or cultural, as in Tiger Moms break down the immediate gratification tendencies. I think its worth exploring the rate of change in software development affording the time for mastery except in extreme specialization (yes you can spend a who
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by woan 16y ago
With a team this size, I think it's spot on given their caveats: http://www.quora.com/Does-Quora-engineering-use-a-code-revie... I assume they have a culture of shame and pride for power and responsibility afforded to each developer.
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by woan 16y ago
I doubt anyone would be offended, but I consider breaking bread with the rest of the company part of the job and corporate culture especially if folks not directly working together get together. It is an effective tool for informal interact
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by woan 16y ago
I haven't seen much evidence to the contrary that the music business is tanking. I don't really buy the disappointment with buying a crappy album argument. Radio stations used to play entire albums at launch when I was growing up. I might b
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95% of Information Workers Use Self-Purchased Technology for Work(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by woan 16y ago|0 comments
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6 beloved scientists who were actually total jerks | Blastr(blastr.com)
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