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Some of the comments here by people who think that he got spectacularly lucky one year and might be slowly bleeding out might be missing a subtlety.

There is a perfectly rational strategy whereby you lose a little bit of money every year if you think that the catastrophic tail event is more likely than other people think and so the risk is mis-priced.

One finance professor described it as a "100 year flood that happens every 7 years."

Taleb believes that this is true of markets and he may very well have a similar strategy (consistently buy out of the money puts).

We won't know till a certain amount of time has passed if this strategy is genius or the opposite.
I can't help but think of Peter Thiel's very appropriate comments (admittedly targeting GOOG, but still applies) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ

As I read it: if AAPL had any idea at all what to do with this cash, they would deploy it. They are completely out of innovative ideas, and are just turning the product crank.
Instead, they should return $$ to investors in the form of a dividend.
I live in NYC and note that Google owns the 3rd largest office building in the city which is located in Manhattan and uses it for engineering. Many of the top technical people in the country want to live and work in Manhattan.

IBM HQ is located in NY State and headed by an engineer (Rometty), but I'd argue the difference in thinking between Google and their engineering leadership and IBM and their leadership is night and day. IBM has a lot of engineers and researchers in Westchester and other parts of the state, but not in the place that people want to live.

Notably, of the large tech firms of Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Oracle, IBM, only Google has the right idea of having any meaningful presence in NYC.

If the firms other than Google are truly serious about hiring top tech talent, they like Google, would have a major presence in NYC.
> https://www.wired.com/2015/05/backlash-facebooks-free-intern...

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I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with specifically. "Partial revelation" sounds like a feature of ADTs they mixed into objects, which all modern OO languages have done, so I'm not sure what you think is the relevance to objects specifically.
Their link to the report is broken. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/HousingIndex.as... is more recent and inclusive of the 2014 report.

The title of the original article is malformed. The problem of the empty homes is that they aren't treated as commodities. Commodities are synonymous with low margin and exchangeability with like kind. If homes were seen like normal depreciating commodities, and less like the special snowflake, all legislation must cause them to rise in price gifts to the capital class, they'd be less of a problem.

Thus, homes if actually treated like commodities should exhibit less of the problems the empty homes in this article describes. Artificially cheap/government subsidized credit for home purchase has distorted the housing market, as it has now also done to education. I hope the next bubble they blow up is in healthcare.
The concept of social media is a positive force, not Facebook the entity.
I've been with my hackintosh for 3 years, first it was mavericks, yosemite and now i use el capitan. My pc is 2.99 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gb ram and nvidia gt520 use only to develop. And works quite well.
Good post. If anyone's interested, I have a collection of other "Redux implementation walkthrough" and "Build a mini-Redux" articles [0] as part of my React/Redux links list [1] . In particular, there was one just last week that not only re-implements `createStore`, but `connect` and middleware as well [2]. Dan Abramov also wrote a simplified version of `connect` that illustrates what it's doing internally [3].

Also, I'm currently working on a blog post that addresses what actual technical limitations Redux requires of you (and why), vs how you are _intended_ to use Redux, vs how it's _possible_ to use Redux. I'm hoping to publish that post within the next week - keep an eye on my blog at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com .

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[2] https://zapier.com/engineering/how-to-build-redux/

[3] https://gist.github.com/gaearon/1d19088790e70ac32ea636c025ba...
That's a pretty standard zsh with oh-my-zsh prompt: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Scroll down a bit and you'll see it.

Though I personally prefer zsh with prezto, because oh-my-zsh feels too bloated and heavy:

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
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Via a bit of sleuthing, I managed to figure out what business this person is writing about. I could post a link to the Yelp page, but that feels a bit doxxy, so I don't know if it's appropriate.

The business does have more one-star reviews than one might normally expect, but the texts of the accompanying reviews contain specific details of complaints, and the complaints are appropriate for the ISP/TV category. For example:

Absolutely atrocious. I have never had a worse experience with a company. After multiple calls to service my internet connection they refused to accommodate me efficiently. The customer service representative was rude, disinterested, and frankly mean. On top of this, they have messed up my bill several times, and failed to rectify them even after acknowledging that they messed up the billing. The service was simply unacceptable. If you can avoid using them, by all means do.

A couple of the users' reviews do show cities outside of the business's city, but that could just be out-of-date user profiles, or people who have moved since they posted their reviews. The oldest of the one-star reviews appears to be April 2015. Of the reviews "not recommended" by Yelp (i.e., hidden by default), two are one-star and one is four-star.

My feeling is that these are not fake reviews, but rather that an ISP/TV service is a business quite unlikely to attract positive/neutral reviews. Personally it had never occurred to me to review any ISPs on Yelp, even those I liked. It seems likely that these are legitimately upset customers who realized they can use Yelp to harm the business they had a bad interaction with. So, if I am correct, these reviews are legitimate, but not representative.
Will Eve ever take off? I like the thoughts behind it.

https://youtu.be/VZQoAKJPbh8 very good talk about the background of eve. When he finally talks about eve you might want to switch to a more recent talk about it.
If that's what they're up to, they're doing an absolutely terrible job of it. My primary motivation for going back to school for a Ph.D. was that I kept running into woefully underprepared engineers fresh out of school. They'd never been taught statistics, feared differential equations, didn't understand the physical models used by their fields, and couldn't write a simple data analysis script to save their lives. Some could barely use Excel. To be fair, there were also a lot of perfectly competent engineers, but the incompetent were a shockingly large minority.

I thought, "the academy needs my perspective! They don't understand that they're failing!" Turns out, it's not so much that they don't know as they aggressively don't care. I went to quite a number of "prepare youself to be a professor" talks in grad school at Big State U. Every single one of them presented teaching as a huge time suck and offered strategies for mitigating it. When I tried to explain my motivations to my advisor, he laughed in my face and told me I didn't get it. I finished the Ph.D., but I got the heck out of academia, sadder but wiser.

The academy would be a lot better off trying to do vocational training, because at least then it would be trying to do anything at all to prepare young people for life. You can get a great education at today's university, but nobody cares if you don't.
The article mentions a bulk of the abuse at sporting events... i remember seeing a youtube video of a crackdown at some sporting event of all these "disabled" cars/vans lined up getting ticketed and fined on the spot. Brought a smile to my face.
I would guess the fact that most starting developer salaries are 60-65k in your city is the reason Amazon opened an office there.

I moved to the Toronto office not long after I joined, and that office existed for similar reasons. Lots of talent, but generally low wages in the city. Made recruiting easy- they went from 25 people five years ago to 500+ today.
Have you looked at the curriculum of a CS Degree at a Uni? The first 2 years you're learning about geography and history with a little bit of modern dance and archeology. The last 2 years are barely related to what the industry needs and CS. My son who will be attending in the fall is still wondering why he needs to. His interest lies in Cyber Security and Programming and the curriculum is a joke.

The majority of American Universities are failing. They are becoming irrelevant at an alarming rate unless of course your interested in Modern Dance and Italian Art History.
There have been a multitude of generational shifts over the years. If you think that thinking it is happening (again) and that being hopeful that people move on is a bad thing, I'm sure you think of the shift away from subsistence farming was just as awful.
Good point.

Finding contact information for certain individuals is more difficult than it might seem initially, though. Especially if someone has left the academic setting per se: a common pattern is for people to leave and go to a business or hospital setting, where real contact information can be guarded heavily. You might see that so-and-so works at such-and-such place (maybe), but not be able to find a working contact address, and might not even see a reasonable way to figure it out.

You're right that using the author-supplied contact info of a potential reviewer is doubly problematic and probably shouldn't be done. However, at some level I can understand why that happens, because the process often devolves into some chain of contacts to get a working email address anyway.
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Hence why Apple implemented the Public Beta program. And it seems to work just fine.
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> But, nonetheless, it is a phenomenological reality, pushing me more deeply into what the author considers a bad idea.

Humans have an awareness of social manipulation being practiced. It helps us to preserve our own independent perspective in spite of coercion from "influencers".
Yeah, they built a great thing...I think they sparked a revolution and empowered founders making vcs play fair. But, they're parents now and life is short, as the essay says....
They do have more than 1000 sales people. Their data sheet shows 2,400
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I did some mentorship at a P-TECH/STEM style academy here in Chicago a few years back when the idea was young. (http://www.goodestemacademy.org/)

About 75-85% of the mentors were in fact from IBM, and the rest of us were from marketing agencies. IBM is very, very highly represented at many of these sites and have enormous skin in the game to propagate the model further. See here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/on_innovation/2017/04/ibm_pre...

Now that IBM has a few years under their belt supporting said academies, and some analytics to determine whether it's benefiting them or not, they're pushing it to the next level.
> We must think of objects from a design perspective, not a technical one

Why? Why should objects exclusively get this distinction when every other programming language paradigm is analyzed technically?

> 42 is not an object because the value can reproduced easily.

So?

What's the point of making "object" synonymous with "identity" when we already have the term "identity" to designate the relevant property?

Survey a bunch of programmers and ask if they agree with the phrase "objects respond to messages, and the only way to interact with an object is to send it messages". I'd wager a majority would agree with this statement. Which means procedural abstraction/encapsulation, wherein no details about object internals can leak to clients, is the only meaningful property of objects. 42 can then take on many representations, as long as they all respond to the same messages.
I thoroughly enjoy John Ralston Saul -- he popped up on HN a while back[1]. A Canadian philospher with a GSOH - what's not to love?

From his Doubter's Companion (highly recommended) - an occasionally acerbic description of many things - comes this definitive entry under Chicago / Harvard School of Economics:

> A great centre of contemporary SCHOLASTICISM. The economists working there and produced by it are as important to the stagnation of useful thought as the Schoolmen of the University of Paris were at the height of the Middle Ages.

> Like that of the Paris scholastics, their mastery of highly complex rhetorical details obscures a great void at the centre of their argument. They also share a tactical genius for exporting their conceptual definitions to less important centres around the world. The result is a pleasing symphony of international echoes imitating their calculations and cadences and so confirming their correctness, even when their policies bring economic disaster. The percussion section of Chicago’s orchestra is the Nobel committee for economics. Each golden medal is like another congratulatory parchment presented at the end of an elaborate theological debate.

> But what of content? There isn’t much. What of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman? These minor Thomists preach little more than inevitability and so counsel passivity.

> What they call libertarian economics is a remarkable revenge of the scholastics on the men of the Enlightenment, who had theoretically destroyed them. Peel away the tangle of intellectual leaves from the Chicago School and what remains is a great clockmaker god who has set the world ticking. But the conclusion of the Enlightenment was that god’s indifference left humans free to organize the world as they wished. Chicago has so deformed this idea as to invert it. The great clock has been turned into an absolute, all-encompassing system. Better than an ideology, the world is its own absolute economic truth. We must remain passive before its majesty.

> This is a denial of Western experience. It is nonsense which simply comforts the power slipping increasingly into the corporatist structures.

> Strategic thinking can save a great deal of time wasted over tactics. A large number of America’s economic problems, and those of the West, could be solved by shutting down the Chicago School of Economics.

> This would not prevent the academics employed there from preaching their essentially anti-social and amoral doctrines. They would be gathered up with delight by the hundreds of imitation Chicago Schools. The purpose of closure would be simply to disentangle a tendentious ideology from its unassailable position within contemporary power structures. The same sort of liberating shock treatment was applied to European civilization in 1723 when the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was disbanded. The effect was to set free the ideas of the Enlightenment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139144
No, you missed my point. Not funding AIDS research is politics. Not researching a deadly disease is politics.

Answering a question is research, deliberately avoiding a question is politics.
> the day-to-day qualitative experience of Linux is head and shoulders above macOS these days.

For you, perhaps. But given your preamble it strongly suggests your conditions make this boil down to "for someone who wants to use Linux, Linux is better."

For a start: Linux is not a monolithic ecosystem. The sheer number of qualifiers that are needed (what flavor? What window manager? What hardware? because driver hell is still a thing) make this statement meaningless.

At best you can say "I've found a combination of hardware and many pieces of software that work better for me."

Good! Happy for you. Seriously.

For a developer like myself I can do anything I want to in MacOS and I don't have to fight it to get it working right - it "just works".

In a way this mirrors the iOS and Android debate: for those who like hyper-customization of their OS then of course Android/Linux is better. It's better due to a fundamental precondition of the requirements.

For the rest of us - those who don't find that as important - the other system is superior because you don't have to do that.

I love Linux and use it every day, but this kind of statement is the same thing the Linux crowd has been saying since the early 2000s (is it the year of Linux on the desktop yet?) and while it is more true now than ever it still masks it's very real issues to mass adoption as a primary OS
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Judging by the "millennials" (I guess I am one as well) I interact with, at work and through friends, they don't really know how to use computers. I regularly encounter people who finger-peck type very slowly and don't know how to take a screenshot or do simple Excel operations.

People often seem to make this false correlation between "using smartphone apps/watching netflix" and "can use a computer productively". Pressing play on the VCR does not qualify me to repair one.
You know for all three years worth of people that the experience wasn't transformative? You know it didn't have an effect on opportunities or employability for these 3000 or so people? I doubt you know all these people that well.

But even if you do know all these people that well and are right about them your conclusion is still not supported. You criticize the author by assuming they are confusing correlation with causation. I suggest you analyze your own reasoning. You are engaged in flawed statistical reasoning and are committing a famous fallacy.

Even if you are absolutely correct about your own experience and the 30000 or so graduates that you know your conclusion could still be wrong. You need much better statistics, or provide evidence that your experience has always been the case for HBS.