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What Happened to Yahoo (2010)(paulgraham.com)
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The $8.6B Yahoo Dilemma Facing Japan's Second-Richest Man(bloomberg.com)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
He was also a brilliant math student who edged out Gates on the Putnam. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/business/yourmoney/28ballm...
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Everywhere I've worked has had "unlimited" vacation policies. I've actually taken about 4 weeks per year.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
So... I worked with over 50 engineers prepping for their first SF/Silicon Valley tech interviews. And I worked at Groupon, interviewed at a bunch of YC companies (including one where I took a job). In my experience pretty much nobody i
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Warren Buffet talks about "moats" all the time. Basically a business with a moat is just a business with a defensible advantage. If you think of your business as a castle, a moat is something that stops others from taking your cas
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Yes, tech founders are making more money, but athletes and musicians are more famous. Unsurprisingly brains tend to win at the economic game while physical talents dominate the social one. Of course being truly exceptional at either can hel
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by xiaoma 11y ago
>Although NFL stars win big with pay, it's the Gates and the Zuckerburgs who loom high in our minds. That's interesting. I have the opposite view: people in tech tend to earn more, but it's the LeBron James's and Tayl
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by xiaoma 11y ago
All of them, arguably. Google "the traitorous eight".
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by xiaoma 11y ago
China clearly believes so.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
What do you believe the best case is?
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Just under the article title, there's a link called "past" that shows previous discussions.
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>So I'm probably not getting another Windows phone ever again. Life is long and product cycles are short. Growing up, I'd never have imagined I'd be using a Mac now.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
That deal with Microsoft was one of the first things Jobs did after returning. There's no way Gil Amelio would have or could have gotten the same out of Microsoft. The agreement itself was a significant accomplishment. Similarly slas
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>There’s just one example everyone can think of — Apple — but that effort took nearly a decade to show results It didn't take a decade. Apple was months away from bankruptcy when Jobs went back.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Earnings are difficult to compare due to the selection bias in admissions. Even if that weren't the case, you'd have to factor in the compounded interest from all of the money spent on schooling as well as that of the money not ea
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by xiaoma 11y ago
What about taxes?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
>I'd like to know why you think that. When the job application says you must have a bachelor's degree to be considered, gumption doesn't enter into it. Yeah it does. Many of the jobs I've gotten have had various requi
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The permits were, but apparently the process for issuing them wasn't.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
>this fits really well into the age-old pattern of Western societies barging in and imposing their will on other cultures >...justified by the Western societies >...the pattern in Western history You should try living in the East.
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Yeah, just as long as they make sure their permits are in order first... oh wait, that didn't work so well.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The interesting question to me is if Twitch would have done as well if he hadn't gotten rejected 9 months earlier. Unfortunately we can't spin up another universe, alter that one variable and run a test.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Living in Asia, I've seen a lot more news about "white males shooting up schools" than I have about other violent crime in the US, except perhaps police brutality. It's on major news pages / channels. Admittedly, mo
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by xiaoma 11y ago
If we're going down that route we'd might as well eliminate the letters c and x, use phonetic spelling and reverse the meanings of driveway and parkway. Until the language is remade to conform to logic though, I think it's be
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It's fast compared to Ruby or Python, but slow compared to Java or C#. You really wouldn't want to do number crunching in it anyway, since it only has one type of Number—floats.
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Coming from North America, I found it interesting how often I got asked for business cards in China. I usually just exchanged FB or email addresses back in the US.
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Every single keystroke?
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> The finance sites are all drop in replacements and better than yahoo finance. I completely disagree with that. I tried for over a year to switch from Yahoo to Google for finance and found it completely lacking, despite the nicer UI. T
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>Do you really expect a person under a pile of medical-school debt to give you an unbiased answer? Yes. I expect lives to be put ahead of economic gain. Someone lacking the ethical backbone to do this should never even be admitted to med
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It happened in the fall of 2007. I was actively reading both sites and saw it happen.

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