GVIrish

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by GVIrish 9y ago
Certainly, and perhaps I'm being a little unfair to the average consumer who got caught in the hype. As a programmer I looked at what they were saying they could deliver and figured that it was a bit too ambitious for the resources th
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't know that he really lied, so much as he over-promised and under-delivered. Lying implies that he never intended to include some of those features. In video game development, studios are frequently forced to cut significant con
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't think No Man's Sky was scam so much as it was a game where the hype far outran what was realistically possible. I mean, there's only so much a small indie studio can get done in a year or two, so people expecting the
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Why would you be worried that your employees will leave after you've helped them grow and develop? If you're hiring employees for potential and fit rather than just going after people with big names on the resume (Stanford, Googl
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't think that would necessarily be the case. If ISP's could extract a bunch of extra profit by throttling there's a decent chance that all of them would do it. Look at mobile providers for an example. Text messages cos
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I think Marissa Mayer's gender was a double-edged sword. She got a lot more media coverage than most males would've gotten in her situation and I think that gave her turnaround effort a bit of a positive perception boost. She al
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I think that is a criticism of the whole concept of golden parachutes in the C-suite. Mayer's compensation wasn't that unusual but it just seems silly to offer a huge amount of money in the event of failure. I mean, even high lev
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I wouldn't say the company didn't have a chance, I would say that it was on a downward trajectory that would have been a challenge for any CEO to turn around. Given the challenge I understand the aggressive compensation package.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I think there are two problems here. One is that since 9/11 the airline industry has gotten far more comfortable with calling the police to remove passengers. In some cases it's totally justified. But in others airlines are jump
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> This is a surprisingly common trap to fall into. I worked at a startup in which the CTO criticized my dev team for not having a perfectly linear burn down chart. You are describing this far more charitably than I would. I would descri
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I have some resource intensive VM's I run, but I also need to be mobile enough to go to different client sites. I could potentially do some of that stuff in the cloud but then the monthly cost starts to get high for just development.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Pretty much everyone who wants a Ford has one, or could buy one. Yeah but it's not like people buy one car, and never buy one again. Ford sells over 800,000 units of just the F150 every single year. Now it's true that they d
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Getting parts from the best suppliers does not by itself ensure quality. What kind of tolerances are you speccing from said suppliers? How tight are your build processes and quality assurance testing? How accurate and precise is your too
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> I'm not sure the stuff shown on the Lily video where you track a presumably radio transmitter from a small device is actually a thing that exists. There are a couple of companies with a camera tracking system like this, Soloshot i
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by GVIrish 10y ago
What I was trying to get at, is that sometimes people use the word 'attacking' when other people are shouting down and being mean and nasty to people who hold a different viewpoint than them. But other times people say 'atta
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Also, main takeaway from this? Don't attack people. It seems like that's a big complaint from the[se] people: I've been attacked for my beliefs and values. Yes and no. If someone is willing to discuss their viewpoint an
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That sounds like a good subject for a long blog post or article in the SF Chronicle.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
What does Uber have that would not be feasible for any of those companies to build? Uber doesn't lock in customers or create any switching pain whatsoever so their current customer base doesn't given them much of an advantage. Th
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by GVIrish 10y ago
But then what's the point? Why admit a bunch of people that are very unlikely to get past the first 2 semesters anyway. What problem does that solve? Class capacity and on-campus housing would have to be increased dramatically to ac
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Where Manning went wrong was the indiscriminate nature of the leaking. Had Manning just divulged only the information regarding specific acts of wrongdoing, she would have had a much stronger case as a whistleblower. Dumping troves of cla
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by GVIrish 10y ago
As the sibling comment said, maybe things only came to Obama's attention recently. There could be information that intelligence personnel were pursuing but felt like they needed to escalate to the president given other information tha
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Without getting too deep into a discussion about geopolitics, it should be abundantly clear that getting rid of authoritarian governments is just the first step. Democracy is hard. Americans of all people should have a deeper appreciation
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by GVIrish 10y ago
It's an interesting thought, but it would be extremely reckless for Obama to do this with the hope of undermining Trump. Trump and those sympathetic to him could easily use the power of the intelligence apparatus to punish anyone who o
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Obama's legacy has good spots and bad spots. In the future, his drone policy is something that may be viewed as a stain on America much like America's cold war meddling in South America that caused misery and bloodshed for millio
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by GVIrish 10y ago
You honestly think that Obama's presidency is what made Trump think it's okay to tweet outrageous stuff and overreact to every perceived slight?
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by GVIrish 10y ago
If we can get there with mostly solar, I'd be all for it. I just hope we don't get into a situation of perfection paralysis where we wait so long for the perfect solution that the adequate solution doesn't get implemented an
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I hope he was being dramatic but judging from how he responded to the NHTSA letter he received and his general disregard for regulations I have to take him at his word.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That's a law going into the effect over a year from now. Backup cameras have been popular long before the Feds decided to mandate it. The point is that plenty of people pay extra of their own volition to have stuff like backup cameras,
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> It seems that car manufacturers have trapped themselves into being feature whores. That's because customers are feature whores. If there are two cars and one has a backup camera, internet connection, and an automatic transmission
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Don't trust the Silicon Valley 'break the rules until you're forced to stop' types either. The traditional car makers are much more likely to be very deliberate and methodical about the tremendous variability in conditi

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