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Microsoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.

Their competition isn't dashboards it's modelling. Customers want dashboards and Palantir provides excellent dashboard tooling. Dashboards make people feel smart and feel like they…

It is an ontology company - see their website. This is how they derive their analytics and visualizations. So my points are relevant.

You should check out Ab Inito, an even more secretive ETL company that predates Palantir and is also milking the DoD (it's an age old racket). They're $90K per seat per year and it…

You are being worse than Palantir.

I meant generally they are generally not useful. Sometimes they are. It depends on the purpose and what you want to build and who it's for. Given that you're building a descriptive…

This matches my experiences with them and other Peter Thiel funded startups.

There is usually something wrong with the ontologies approach as it rarely works. There is roughly two decades of evidence for this for anyone who cares to look. Five decades if yo…

Thanks. There is some interesting work being done with Deep Learning mixed with Bayesian Models and external databases of facts. The training apparently ungodly slow though. My wor…

That matches my understanding of their tech stack as well. I also understand why people don't do an open sourced version - it doesn't pay nearly as well as having a job. What I fin…

Huh, so they are open about it now. They definitely were not when I talked to them. I guess enough time has passed that people have forgotten the hard won lessons of the past. I wo…

After the BuzzFeed article and Unicorn Flyers they bumped pay and bonuses by ~20%. This was around 6-8 months ago. From what you're saying it sounds like it wasn't enough.

Sure, I'll give a few examples. A guy from BP told me in 2013 that they forked iPython, replaced all iPython references with Palantir and tried to sell it to them for $500K p.a. Fo…

I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir. Their technology is worse than the free alternatives and their consultants are not worth the money. They are losing their big commerc…

It's counter productive for big projects as well. The Too Big To Fail attitudes to process cover all manor of sins and corruptions to the point the projects is guaranteed to fail. …

Samuel Brannon established his tool monopoly by diverting church money and using thugs to keep out the competition. Once he made his money he lost it all in real estate speculation…

I'm in the same boat. I switched to data science / ml.

XMPP is a poor protocol. I can completely understand why they would want to break compatibility.

Giving people a very small stake in their work adds much greater inventive than cost. That alone is a good idea (See Starbucks). Emotions trump math - even for programmers. I expec…

My first day in SF after coming from London for a tech job I accidentally walked into a protest. I asked one of the protestors who they were protesting and he told me it was foreig…

It's so when they kill it there are fewer people to complain

For big companies that benefit from being able to say they have lots of users there is a big incentive not to be good at finding fraudulent accounts. I worked in Big Data Analytics…

I'm pretty sure it's by design.