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I get to see companies of all sizes grapple with various problems and the most interesting thing I've noticed is that each company has a "culture" that influenc
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
I get to see companies of all sizes grapple with various problems and the most interesting thing I've noticed is that each company has a "culture" that influences everything it does. So if it's an insurance company, they're going to think in terms of risk and coverage. If it's a manufacturing company they're going to make decisions based on flow models and statistical process control. If it's an quasi-military organization, they're going to think in terms of hierarchical structures.
It's neat to see Google continuing this pattern by applying tagged data collection and statistical inference to their quest for organizational optimization.
I can only imagine what it's like to work in a large-scale IT operation in the porn industry ;)
- athom 16y agohttp://www.sabrina-online.com/thismonth.html http://www.sabrina-online.com/thismonth.html
- nostrademons 16y ago"I can only imagine what it's like to work in a large-scale IT operation in the porn industry ;)" I've heard it's about the most unsexy thing ever. The technical aspects are all about shipping massive quantities of data cheaply and reliably. The, erm, video-production aspects are about presenting a picture that will satisfy customers and leave them coming back for more. In other words, it's pretty much like Google or any other big-data startup (and there're employees at Google who used to work in the porn industry). Not having been a part of it, I don't know what the culture is like, but I've heard it's pretty much all business, and they have significantly less fun than we do at Google.
- narag 16y agoThe technical aspects are all about shipping massive quantities of data cheaply and reliably. That rang a bell.