yoak

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by yoak 16y ago
I wonder if "boring" here just means "clear." I had a great case of this yesterday. We were reviewing a piece of code by someone that could have been better with a basic algorithm change. It did most of the right things but in the wrong
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by yoak 16y ago
It was great to see Paul make the very first connection that I made upon hearing the news. The deal had to be absolutely fantastic for the founders otherwise some portion of the best wouldn't take it. Having looked at the deal, it looks l
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by yoak 16y ago
I grew up in a steel town and the version of the story there involved whacking with a hammer.
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by yoak 16y ago
Using American English throughout: inflammable, flammable: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cfla... regardless, irregardless: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cfla...
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by yoak 16y ago
I agree with everything you say here. I only take issue with claims that Amazon was violating someone's right to free speech. I no more think people shouldn't boycott Amazon if their dislike of Amazon's decision makes them not want to use
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by yoak 16y ago
It doesn't violate someone's right to free speech or any other right for a company to fail to provide a service to them. A company having to provide service to some particular entity only violates one set of rights - those of the company.
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by yoak 16y ago
My wife, suspecting that there is no such thing as inborn rather than developed talent, ran an experiment. She took something she was terrible at even after some fiddling -- drawing. She sucked at it. Her stick figures weren't very compe
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by yoak 16y ago
I struggle with brevity. :-)
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by yoak 16y ago
I've heard that called the "Spanish waiter" trick and seen it done with full plates. It's cool.
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by yoak 16y ago
That was so well-drawn that I kept waiting for it to be funny but it never delivered.
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by yoak 16y ago
Not at all! For the reason that google explained on the blog, it is a dumb response to remove or penalize this particular company in the wake of the media froth. The admirable and responsible thing to do is to figure out how to make the t
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by yoak 16y ago
The most common thing I see from such people is a desire to break off and do whatever is being done at their current company, but to do it right instead.
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by yoak 16y ago
I heard he totally would have made it too, except no one would sign his NDAs.
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OpenDNS blocked by Verizon Wireless(dslreports.com)
1 points by yoak 16y ago|1 comments
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by yoak 16y ago
I've rarely seen a code of ethics adequately specified such that it accomplishes its aims and can be followed. This is no exception. It seems well-intentioned. It seems that it would like me to be nice, be considerate, be honest, work ha
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by yoak 16y ago
Again and again we see people migrating from closed to open technologies, often despite initial strong advantages of the closed platform. I wonder if the same thing could happen with innovative startup markets.
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by yoak 16y ago
That's an excellent litmus test on whether there is likely to be anything actually valuable there. On the other hand, I wonder how much more traffic they might get from the people who visit just to affirm, "I do too know them..." :-)
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by yoak 16y ago
As the other commenter pointed out, that's not my point. If I issue a billion shares and offer you stock options at a $0.10 strike price you can't really expect the company to grow that 25x . It's an entirely different matter if there are
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by yoak 16y ago
I really appreciate this article. Unimaginably, most programmers I interview to this day in late 2010, react primarily to number of shares an offer includes option to buy. I've written offers with (made up numbers) option to purchase 10,0
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by yoak 16y ago
Re-reading that, I realize it could be read as my thinking that I believe all my ideas are "insanely good." What I meant is that I have many ideas that are compelling to me and seem insanely good... more than I could possibly execute on.
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by yoak 16y ago
My problem is typically how to pick between all the insanely good ideas I have floating around. I would say my number one rule is to pick something that is a deeply personal itch that I can scratch. It is hard to have as much motivation to
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by yoak 16y ago
I see this theme over and over again for businesses and organizations as well. One of my favorites, Good to Great talks about "Stop Doing" lists. Jack Welch pushed GE to end the businesses at which it couldn't be number 1 or 2. In smaller
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by yoak 16y ago
It is awesome to see them being so consistent and publishing all of this. I've never seen a non-profit do so in such detail. Some of the comments here (particularly the stats) might be very welcome there, on the talk page or elsewhere. P
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by yoak 16y ago
That looks like it could allow extending a practice common in only fairly new startups to more mature and larger organizations. I like the idea of people being able to find things that they want to work on and that they think are important
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by yoak 16y ago
Most of the most talented won't have those credentials and, in my opinion unlike getting sample problems, being asked for the credentials is such a red flag that the best won't apply.
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by yoak 16y ago
Everyone is talking like this is such a huge number. If it vests over four years (They mention vesting, but not period.) then it is roughly $900,000 per year. If typical is $150,000 , then we're asking how many people could possibly be wo
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by yoak 16y ago
Though I find little of value in the article, I like the title taken in isolation. Being passionate is key to success in my opinion. Advice to 'Be Passionate' implies that you aren't and can turn it on in some sense. This tends to cause
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by yoak 16y ago
Yeah, the busy part of me has too many other things to do as well, but if you need someone to feed you dozens of other ways to use game theory to abuse people, it'd be worth it just for all the headdesk in seeing them implemented.
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by yoak 16y ago
To do this right, you have to be able to change the terms of the auction. Allow bidding for the $1 to start at a penny so it seems like a good deal. Then allow that the highest bidder gets the dollar, but doesn't have to pay... and the se
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by yoak 16y ago
A bunch of engineers at idealab did this back during the bubble. The idea was the saturate Pasadena, CA with $2 bills, particularly as retailers, lacking anywhere to put $2 bills in registers, tended to quickly re-release them. We tried bu

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