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Technically talented employees receive a pittance and are sold into the Palantir machine, a morally unscrupulous high-tech consulting shop that takes in talented engineers and churns out one-off software black boxes designed to lock in customers and extract a long-term tax.
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Interning for Palantir is a pretty big resume boost for college students, and they have one of the highest paying internships in the valley. There's some serious benefits to going to Palantir.
If you have the ability to intern at Palantir you have the ability to intern at any number of more responsible companies. Palantir has a bigger booth at the career fair, but I'd bet working at Apple or Uber is just as much of a resume boost at much less of a societal cost. (source: am a college student)
Apple and Uber are hiring like crazy and so it's quite a lot easier to get in there as an intern than at Palantir (which is more selective).
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First of all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Contro... Also: > When intruders from the hacker group Anonymous gained access to thousands of emails stored on the servers of the security firm HB Gary Federal, the emails revealed that Palantir had worked with HB Gary Federal to develop proposals for attacking WikiLeaks’ infrastructure, blackmailing its supporters and identifying donors. http://www…
The sex accusations ended up being baseless, and Stanford reversed their ban on Lonsdale entering the campus (and Stanford has a lower evidentiary standard than the courts) Also, your quote doesn't appear in that article at all any more.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup...
Second to last paragraph.
As for the sex accusations, who knows what really happened. Though the article doesn't exactly paint him- edit- either of them- in a flattering light. It does show poor judgement for the dude to get involved with a student he is mentoring. Then again, he also stumped on the campaign trail for Rand Paul of all people and also pals around with Mitt Romney.
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The sex accusations ended up being baseless, and Stanford reversed their ban on Lonsdale entering the campus (and Stanford has a lower evidentiary standard than the courts) Also, your quote doesn't appear in that article at all any more.
Sorry here's another link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup... Second to last paragraph. As for the sex accusations, who knows what really happened. Though the article doesn't exactly paint him- edit- either of them- in a flattering light. It does show poor judgement for the dude to get involved with a student he is mentoring. Then again, he also stumped on the campaign trail for Rand Paul…
We can conclude from this that they weren't doing very well, right? I mean, you don't accept an acquihire if you're doing great.
basically its like hiring a bunch of regex gods because you have regex problems on large scale
I wonder what it's going to look like for import.io as well, their business model is identical to kimono it seems. edit: why the downvotes seriously.
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It wasn't really faster. The OP actually touched on that point, but let me repeat it without ambiguity: An actual parser for the complex use-cases requires some custom code and isn't covered by what Kimono does. What Kimono does can trivially be achieved by writing 15 lines of python (after importing httplib2 + BeautifulSoup). Which is even reusable. The only real use-case they had was the visual interface, so that "…
We, as programmers, are called in to solve the "complex use-cases." So we tend to divide the world into "things that need a novel program written for them" and "trivial problems." You know what else has a visual interface? Excel. It works great! For "trivial problems." It gets stretched all the time into places where programming would have been faster, but for the "trivial problems", just being able to have a domain-…
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