MadBohr

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by MadBohr 9y ago
Unfortunately that's the nature of business. Sometimes it's impossible to predict market situations 10, 15 years out. I doubt anybody at Bain could have predicted in 2005 that Amazon would completely dominate the retail market in
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by MadBohr 9y ago
NY Times also has a good article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/business/toys-r-us-bankru...
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by MadBohr 9y ago
People will generally pay a premium for better service, but in the case of retail, it's usually hard to beat the service of "instant purchase with free two day delivery to my doorstep". I for one, very rarely buy something w&
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by MadBohr 9y ago
It's important to note that a lot of the failure of Toys R Us has to do with private equity buyout rather than a poor business model. Of course, their business model was flawed, but remember that Toys R Us was bought in 2005, and the t
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by MadBohr 9y ago
I'm sure plenty of people would but that isn't the point. If you're writing code that potentially costs people their lives, you need to be able to be held accountable otherwise it will lead to negligence. This isn't a ne
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by MadBohr 9y ago
I disagree, you're just passing the buck. Accountability needs to be had at all levels. If an engineer writes a bug into code like this (deliberate or not) and such a bug results in somebody's death, the engineer should be held ac
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by MadBohr 9y ago
> I'm completely blocked for the last two days because I cannot run the repo, so I cannot run any tests and at the moment I'm doing absolutely nothing. That is not asking for help. Asking for help would be "Can somebody pl
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by MadBohr 9y ago
OP said slack. DM is as simple as doing "/msg @joe.blow I'm blocked, can you please help me?". If no response, go to @joe.blow's colleagues. If still no response, go to their boss. If still no response, go to their
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by MadBohr 9y ago
Yes that's true, which is why I said "why not both?" The manager should do more, but so should the employee. Sitting there and saying "I'm blocked, woe is me" is garbage compared to saying "I'm blocke
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by MadBohr 9y ago
This to me sounds like a complete lack of self-ownership on your part. You literally sat blocked doing nothing for days, without reaching out to an individual to help with this? Instead you just spammed Slack saying you're blocked? Whi
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by MadBohr 9y ago
Why not both? I cringed when I read OP's comment where he spammed "I'm completely blocked" in the chat without asking for specifics. What a complete lack of individual ownership. Even the best manager can't help som