jonkelly

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by jonkelly 11y ago
No one chooses insurance, it chooses them. Joined a management consulting firm out of school, got assigned to a bunch of insurance cases. Escaped to Oracle. 1998, got a call from a friend of a friend: I hear you know a lot about insurance..
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Refs disciplined for accessing web content made available to them(espn.go.com)
1 points by jonkelly 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonkelly 12y ago
Please don't. Lots of horrible things were said there behind a wall of anonymity. Think Secret + 4chan for failed startups. For those of us that tried to do the right thing by our employees, it was very hurtful.
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by jonkelly 12y ago
I'm just starting out teaching my daughter (10). Any recommendations on how best to get her started with JS?
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by jonkelly 13y ago
Great reply. I'm reminded of a recent New Yorker article about the poverty bureaucracy in NYC. Can't remember the exact details, but one of the recipients talks about how much they could do with the amount the city spends on them
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by jonkelly 13y ago
Family photos are the only items I don't think should be stored on the cloud as they are too important and too large. About a year ago I bought 2 external drives and we back up our MacBook at home and in another location. You can get
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by jonkelly 13y ago
PG offered a clear underlying model in this essay. His model is that a) founders need to sell well to succeed and that b) it's hard to sell well if you can't be easily understood. You have a "guess" that mundane traits a
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by jonkelly 13y ago
I'm also surprised by how often this issue comes up. To use an example other than buses -- many ski lifts and gondolas are designed to take 10-15 minutes, but it's not unusual to be on one for over 30 minutes when there's hea
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by jonkelly 13y ago
In the late 90's, the CEO of our startup told us about a raid on his Palo Alto home. His daughter was away at camp for the summer and his wife had mailed her a care package that included laundry detergent. As they later found out, dete
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by jonkelly 13y ago
Exactly, the "Mark Burnett problem" (producer of Survivor). I heard him claim in an interview that with enough footage he could create any perception of a person that he wanted (hero, jerk, brilliant, idiot, etc.). It seemed obvious after h
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by jonkelly 13y ago
I'd say the biggest issue is that they provide a perverse incentive to the local government -- reduce the duration of the yellow light to generate more red-light revenue. I couldn't easily find a link but I believe this happened in Denver (
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by jonkelly 14y ago
We got hit with one of these letters. I read through it and it was clear that we weren't actually infringing -- it only applied to the use of distribution to employees via the scanner. Luckily that functionality is pretty much impossible t
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by jonkelly 14y ago
This is extremely helpful. I'm looking for a local Realtor and was going to try to compile some of this myself. It would be great if you added the # of sales within the target price range and the median time to sell to the results page. edi
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by jonkelly 14y ago
I'd be interested to see the analysis with the day of week included.
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by jonkelly 14y ago
I'll add that even in the high net worth category, buyer beware. You really need to do your own research as the quality of advice is uneven at best -- and quite likely to be self-serving (to the profit of the adviser). And if you believe in
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by jonkelly 14y ago
Denver, CO metro (Englewood) This or That Media is looking for a software engineer with experience in Java, Hibernate, and Spring. We are a small team that gets a lot done. We offer health insurance, competitive salary, stock options and pr
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by jonkelly 15y ago
Denver, CO (Englewood). This or That Media We are hiring full-time software engineers: JAVA, MySQL, EC2,MongoDB, jQuery, Hibernate, Spring. We're looking for folks who can make an immediate impact. Market salary, options, health insurance,
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by jonkelly 15y ago
Englewood, CO (Denver metro) This or That Media is hiring experienced software engineers: http://thisorthat.com/pt/jobs
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by jonkelly 15y ago
I definitely liked the personality that came through the writing. "On the other end of the scale, I think Black Swan is a terrific film, but I’d sooner pull my nails out than watch it again." - well said and a good illustration of the value
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by jonkelly 15y ago
I attended this last week and had to share. It's very, very long, but it's the best macro-econ presentation I've ever seen. Really worth watching if you are thinking about macro factors over the next few years.
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Economist Brian Beaulieu at the Colorado CEO Forum (video)(coloradoceoforum.com)
2 points by jonkelly 15y ago|1 comments
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by jonkelly 15y ago
If you believe in it still, it's great news. A story that may help... I had a very well-funded dot com in the 90's. A guy went around the valley pitching "this is a big idea because [our investors] invested in it." He got funding and his c
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by jonkelly 15y ago
I loved that post -- it is exactly how I see my job. But the first point is actually to define & tell the story. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html I'll add that it helps to have personal experience in every role in
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by jonkelly 15y ago
That's really pretty neatly evil, I hadn't heard of that.
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by jonkelly 15y ago
Yep, I should have said _about_ 1/2, but that's why I said 5 to 7 rounds. Even 5 straight wins produces the illusion of skill.
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by jonkelly 15y ago
My favorite related demonstration is to do a "tournament" where you start with 64 people and eliminate the 1/2 who don't flip heads each round. Some "amazing" flipper will get through 5 to 7 rounds and win. Something to think about when you
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by jonkelly 15y ago
I love the Monte Hall problem. I've found many smart people who have a difficult time getting it.
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by jonkelly 15y ago
tl;dr one of the most famous people in the PR industry with over 100k Twitter followers gets a free steak after he jokingly asks for one on Twitter. Still, well played by Morton's and well-earned following I believe.
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by jonkelly 15y ago
With respect, I think this is exactly the case people have legitimate worries about, but also the case that we must clearly refute. Why should this idea be protected? Does it benefit society? I think the answer is yes only if one person hav
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by jonkelly 15y ago
Exactly. Whenever I see someone make the "technology destroys jobs" argument, I always think of Kurt Vonnegut's first (and worst) novel, Player Piano. The disruptive change in 1952 looked just as scary to those being disrupted as it does to

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