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by wolframarnold 14y ago
There was a book in the late 1990's, "First Break All the Rules: What the world's greatest managers do differently" which was the write-up of a Gallup study about manager effectiveness. One of its conclusions is the point made in this artic
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Yes, that's correct. I've tried the official Sprint Wi-Fi tethering on an HTC Evo 4G for a couple of days and I was only charged for those days. The device supports up to eight wireless connections. Setup was over the phone and was effectiv
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
I've yet to see a startup or any company for that matter that signs over ownership of assets bought with company funds to rank and file employees.
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
How about saying just that then? If you want the person to create a culture, then giving them a $2.5k budget sends the wrong message there too, as to how much leeway they have. I don't think this will attract the right kind of candidate. Ju
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
It's cute guys, I give you points for creativity. But as Rails consultant in San Francisco for many years and recent startup founder myself, I must say that the icon about $2500 for the hardware of your choice kind of backfires and I've ad
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Elected officials should be ashamed of themselves. What are they going to do when Side.cr or Lyft arrives in D.C. ? Ban private car ownership?
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Only startup founders and not-quite-exec's at other companies have kids that are born with a special gene that programs them to wake up or be woken up at the precise time prescribed by some app only available on iphone. Everybody else's kid
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Go through all this trouble but forget to make the font size bigger and the encoding quality such that it's actually legible? Baffling.
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
It's fascinating to me that nobody has commented on the last few sentences of the article. To me this is where the real juice lies: > A more likely outcome is that Facebook uses their assets – a vast number of extremely engaged users, i
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Exactly. That's why I'm saying just be yourself. It's the candidate asking the question who starts the mindgame. So long external validation matters more than inner confidence, I'll always look like a mindgame you can't win. And dropping by
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
I like this idea a lot. Frameworks like Rails come with excellent log messages, granularity and a pub/sub mechanism. Often this can be a lower hanging fruit than throwing in a ton of custom instrumentation for some third party analytics to
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Uh, no. The one who's uncomfortable here is clearly you, if you have to ask. If you really don't know and it's important to you to 'blend in', then swing by the office in the morning or at night and see how people are dressed coming in or o
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The cost of not choosing(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by wolframarnold 14y ago
Yeah, I would agree strongly. The folks who'll use this are beginners and nothing sucks more than having some weird one-off environment that nobody else uses. I teach a lot of Ruby classes and I always tell people to do things in the most c
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by wolframarnold 15y ago
The keys to success as a startup and as individual coder in the present world is not technical prowess, but culture and cultural fit. There is a running joke in San Francisco that companies looking for "Code Ninjas" and "Rockstar Programmer
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by wolframarnold 15y ago
We've been seeing the same behavior for mp4 with various codecs pretty much all day. Perhaps a new all-time record in YC application submissions? YouTube lets you do private uploads also, by the way.
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by wolframarnold 15y ago
The most effective setups I've seen and experienced are those that keep noise and distractions low, communication easy and incentives to drop into and stay in the zone maximized. Incidentally these factors are not limited to just workspace
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by wolframarnold 15y ago
+1
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by wolframarnold 15y ago
This all assumes conditions as usual. Which I think is a painfully mistaken notion. In an era of depleting fossil fuels, inferior ore quality of iron, copper and all the rare earth metals required to make modern electronics, water shortages