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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
> This doesn't sound like it'd be any more conducive to productivity on side-projects than a 9-5 at a tech job. Consuming 8 hours of the work day is bad for productivity no matter what. Well, yeah. But it's way more authen
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
I left Manhattan because you had to be in a hedge fund to have a good life. For all the talk of Silicon Valley being expensive, you don't need to add private school costs to a $6K rent. Manhattan vs. Silicon Valley isn't exactly
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
If you're a software engineer and live in the Bay Area and suddenly lose your job, depending on the economy you're probably in for a 1-6 month job search at local companies That long? Funny that we're always hearing about
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
Nope. Just means those kinds of mothers shouldn't try to work at Yahoo.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
Running a company that bans drug usage while you do drugs at work would be a little different.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
His emphasis on social justice (re: your fourth point) is what makes this article a bit confusing to read. I don't live in SF, but from a distance it certainly looks more liberal and progressive than China: http://www.bbc.co
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
He likes it "dirty and gritty." Edit: "dirty and gritty" being a typically Eurocentric way of referring to, I'm assuming, things like (as you mention) pollution, traffic, destruction of architectural history, etc. A
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
> It'll definitely be a shame if plots themselves become increasingly dumbed down for international reasons. I'm curious to hear how you think it can get more dumbed down than Pacific Rim. I actually liked the film -- it did lo
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
"Putting the thumb on the scales" is itself a violation of the DNC's own charter, under which they are obligated to treat every Democratic candidate for president with impartiality and evenhandedness. There was a massive amou
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
The process was guaranteed to be a level playing field by the DNC charter (Article 5, Section 4): In the conduct and management of the affairs and procedures of the Democratic National Committee, particularly as they apply to the preparati
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
The DNC emails show that the DNC actively nurtured relationships with reporters that went against the basics of journalistic ethics. They show that the DNC coordinated with the Hillary campaign to come up with good anti-Bernie stunts (plant
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
> It’s also adorable, a compressed vision of the city in both ethos and mien. Imagine a "groovy millennial" Instagrammming a vegan cheesecake -- forever. I appreciate the job the NYT Real Estate section does. Without them (and
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
I'm going out on a limb here but I'm guessing if this explanation makes sense to you, you don't need to be told the difference between deep and usual machine learning. Could be wrong!
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and say if you are relying on Product Hunt and Hacker News to send you all your traffic, you are still screwed. Heh.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
You really think they're going to be happy seeing the museum folks bragging about getting it for so cheap in the BBC?
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
10 million events for free is insanity. With Mixpanel, we pay $1,000 for 8. Anyone out there with experience using Amplitude?
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
"Business models" are why your devices have such incredible computing power too.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
> Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign was propelled by small donors and empowered by the internet Except he took more money from the financial industry than any other candidate before him. > The country has endured far harsher times tha
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
Was this like that? Because it seems like Theranos had a pretty tough time finding investors, or at least reputable ones. GV laughed them off. As did all the life-sciences firms.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
Wow. How?
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
I thought the subheader was a sarcastic dig. Playing music is virtually the only thing Alexa seems capable of doing, and even then only semi-reliably.
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
Appcues. http://www.appcues.com/
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by wwwdonohue 10y ago
There was no good case because, as the article explains in quite a lot of detail, the team was instructed not to interview anyone in any position of responsibility at Goldman/Paulson. It also explains, in quite a lot of detail again, h
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
> It doesn't make that big of a difference to most people. It'll be interesting to see whether it starts to make more of a difference. Rides may be a commodity now, but so was coffee until Starbucks made people "feel good&
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
He had the cap on executive bonuses removed while Chuck Grassley was on the floor of the Senate calling for AIG employees to commit suicide before the American people. Pretty remarkable achievement for a President capable of accomplishing v
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
It's the "move fast and kill people" crowd.
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
"But I believe what really separates the 1% from the 99% is financial knowledge more than anything else." Why was Alan Greenspan wrong?
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
Because funding a diverse set of companies and founders is how you tap into really new ideas.
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
Reiner Stach is probably the best to ever write about Kafka, and if you have any interest in him then the biography set is worth reading ASAP. Unbelievable scholarship and perspective.
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by wwwdonohue 11y ago
More like "Henry Ford is my favorite growth hacker"

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