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by BryantD 8y ago
Much modern management theory recommends against the praise-criticize-praise format, FWIW -- I noticed this while I was taking a required management course at the Mouse. Everyone knows what it is, so you wind up dissipating the value of the
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by BryantD 8y ago
It's a little tenuous to blame Amazon for this. Yes, the growth of Amazon raised demand, but the city's zoning laws are also to blame. https://medium.com/@15kwhm2a/a-brief-history-of-seattles-ant... is very g
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by BryantD 8y ago
Let's go back a little bit further in the history. In 2010, Washington took a shot at an income tax for individuals making over $200,000 a year. Bezos spent $100,000 to oppose that (along with a lot of other wealthy Washingtonians). Be
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by BryantD 8y ago
Yeah, speaking as someone who was around for AltaVista, the idea that Google was addressing a toy market doesn't ring right. CMGI paid Compaq 2.3 billion dollars for 83% of AltaVista in June, 1999. That's unicorn valuation. Lycos
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by BryantD 8y ago
I think that's the core question right there. For a while, various governmental bodies got to be the authority figure deciding which ideas were widely propagated. It's interesting to consider the outsized influence of Texas school
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by BryantD 8y ago
> It allows them to be refuted - which hopefully stems at least some of the indoctrination that would otherwise occur only in private. This does not appear to be the case. Consider the math, if nothing else: Bad Idea Public convinces .1%
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by BryantD 8y ago
That common argument rests on norms established by millennia of relatively difficult communication. Best not to assume that the same people would come to the same conclusions today. For example, QAnon believers have not had their speech res
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by BryantD 8y ago
This doesn't completely answer the question, but I would distinguish UI and UX from the ability to build systems that run successfully at Amazon scale.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Their operational skills are poor. E.g.: there's a bug in Pokemon Go right now which causes name resets, and there's no way to revert to your old name. E.g.: the new Ingress client is more than a year overdue, and they are facing
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by BryantD 8y ago
It is likely that the severance offered is less than the cost of an unsuccessful PIP.
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by BryantD 8y ago
I am in very strong agreement, and apologize for nitpicking.
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by BryantD 8y ago
I generally agree with you, but I do not think that [4] is the solution for maintaining history. Archive.org is great, but the average user doesn't know how to get there once the base URL stops working. We need maybe proxies as close t
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by BryantD 8y ago
It is immensely frustrating to me that Dave's excellent point about legacy content is obscured by his characterization of the push to HTTPS. At the core, the idea that security only matters for transactions is wrong. For example, I wan
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by BryantD 8y ago
Essentially, sure. On the other side of the power equation, disrupting unions is a way to maintain the company's power. It's just a question of who you think should have how much power in that dynamic.
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by BryantD 8y ago
This assumes consistency of tone over time. It'd be interesting to get some data on how his approach has varied over those 20 years. It'd also be difficult, since this is a somewhat subjective measurement, but perhaps a PPP (profa
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by BryantD 8y ago
You're right -- this has been a very rumorless year. Interesting given how many leaks we've seen over the last couple of years; I guess someone got serious about tightening up. Or, of course, there's nothing much coming. You&
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by BryantD 8y ago
There's some interesting stuff around Nikki Haley's personal Twitter account in the same vein. This is a specific State Department policy, but she's not supposed to make official announcements on her private Twitter account b
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by BryantD 8y ago
Atom was an improvement, but not enough of an improvement to convince people to upgrade from a large installed base.
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by BryantD 8y ago
This is a superb writeup. Question about brand value: the consequence of a programming error for Tesla includes collisions and death, whereas Apple bugs usually don't kill people. (Insert comment about Maps here.) Is Tesla's brand
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by BryantD 8y ago
I didn't! Second to last paragraph. OK, let's make up some numbers... 267 rides last year. Assume, I dunno, average 5 minute wait? So 22.25 hours of waiting; half a week. Huh, that's actually pretty significant given the auth
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by BryantD 8y ago
I had the same reaction, although to be fair I think he's still saving money if you only figure the costs of the Jeep. > Incidentals on the vehicles cost $3,450 per year: $1,000 maintenance, $500 insurance, $1,500 gas (just above th
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by BryantD 8y ago
I think faking is the wrong word here, but it seems entirely possible that the feature was demonstrated using ideal conditions, etc. Consider that we still haven't seen the Google Photo object removal feature demoed last year.
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by BryantD 8y ago
The Watch plus AirPods = the easier 2/3ds of a pervasive computing system. Audio plus haptic feedback is significant. Add a good set of AR glasses, which is the hard part, and you have something really interesting. Siri needs improving
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by BryantD 9y ago
Not all locations are equally good places for cities, particularly now that the Interstate highway system is already built. Still happens now and again, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside,_Florida
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by BryantD 9y ago
Google the owner of the portfolio website. There are news stories about the crime with his name on them.
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by BryantD 9y ago
That's a scary step, but FWIW I think adding the portfolio was smart.
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by BryantD 9y ago
Thanks!
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by BryantD 9y ago
Missing info: how much will it cost to use the Dark platform?
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by BryantD 9y ago
Exactly. I sort of don't care why the media firestorm is so bad, even if it's unfair, because it means we might see some action which will limit bad actors on all sides of the political spectrum.
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by BryantD 9y ago
I have not been involved in FTC decisions but I have worked at companies subject to FTC consent decrees. I agree with adrr's comment. The initial fines are not that big a deal; the work required to demonstrate compliance is non-trivial

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