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Were the games played with real money? Nobody is going to take fake money games seriously.
It's disturbing that he thinks if he made good managerial decisions, and as a result he made good phones, that he thinks he would get more customers?

It's also disturbing that one of the most successful businessmen is introspective and learns from mistakes?

Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:50PM (#18612394)
Please no recruiter phone screens. It's just a choreographed dance where everybody knows what's goin to happen. The recruiter sells you the company about x, y, z values that nobody cares about. The candidate says something about looking for bigger opportunities and challenges.
Re:Show HN: Price Optimization API on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15983646)
You're right although multi-armed bandit problem doesn't address all the problems in the real world. E.x. adding different slot machines (prices) intelligently, or discounting past data without using magic parameters
Re:Show HN: Price Optimization API on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:42PM (#15983545)
Good catch. It's aimed at software companies at the moment although it could just take into account marginal cost in the future