MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Well, I would have to say that there is a synergy to the techniques - using several of them together and consistently is incredibly important. At some point everybody knows that innovation is important, and it just becomes part of the DNA o
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I have a secret I can share. Steve Jobs allowed Edgar Schein to have teams of his grad students follow Steve around and record every conversation and interaction. But Schein made one mistake - He gave Steve the right to veto the final book
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I'm no economist. But I've been reading Paul Krugman's blog for about 10 years now. And time after time his predictions about what would happen turned out to be true. And most of his predictions were the exact opposite of the
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Brookings has a long history of very biased studies. They seem to decide the outcome first, and then carefully craft a study to get the desired outcome. And since Brookings is constantly advocating for less regulation and "free markets
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
They deserve any backlash they get. I've worked for many of the big software and hardware vendors over my career - and their executives talk about security but they don't really care. They will do just enough to convince buyers th
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
This is just a comment section - not an economics class or a tutorial on offshore stocks and derivatives and their potential applications. If you find my comments irrelevant you should just ignore them - I'll do the same for you.
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
The article ended with the students saying that they planned to stay in Germany - they didn't want to go back to a country like the US where their children might be bankrupted paying for their education.
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I've read about programs for new geothermal technology and new wind technology. But most of that work is happening outside the USA. My impression is that "Big Oil" has too much control here in the USA, and has successfully ki
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Where do I start? Do you really believe Niall Ferguson when he says that all trade is good trade? But let me address the hidden money issue. I worked for one multi-billionaire who set up offshore "parts" manufacturing to act as a
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I think the emphasis should switch from employers to our citizens. In the US, we have the ability for everybody to be employed - if we required that everything that is sold here be made here. That would instantly improve everyone's qua
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I have an answer you won't expect: I had been a PM, and I was invited to a meeting. When I arrived, it was a small conference room with the lights out and two very serious guys in suits. I went in, sat down, and asked who else we were
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I was an Oracle Product Manager for the core database. Larry would often offer to be available for anything that might raise the profile of Oracle. He also solicited suggestions for anything high-profile to get involved with - sports, cause
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
Kind of off topic - but I happened to be sitting next to Steve when he created a couple of those conference talks. He literally started preparing months before the talk. He would work on his wording over and over and over. Since I happened
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I suspect that most casual users appreciate that feature. And for myself, as a "power user" - who usually builds multi-hundred page slide decks - I often construct drafts of my presentations that might include slides with a cut&#x
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I'm an old timer. I remember a time before PowerPoint existed - and we did communicate with reports, whiteboard, flip-charts, and talks. Trust me - PowerPoint is better. If nothing else, if forced people to put more thought into their
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I think the biggest change has been the loss of autonomy in development work. When I started programming the programmers were viewed as "professionals" who made decisions about when, how, and what they did. It was much more egalit
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by MrTonyD 11y ago
This article is awful. He ignores that Agriculture drills many wells and extracts water from rivers and streams - and that water is not metered and free. There was the recent article about Starbucks getting their bottled water for free from
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by MrTonyD 12y ago
Bill and Steve would meet in a plane flying over the ocean - in order to prevent anyone else being involved and to prevent any monitoring. And, in general, these deals made them very rich, so the only people who could betray them had both m
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by MrTonyD 12y ago
Well, a lot of the stuff I really only tell friends. And even then I've had people tell me that I'm wrong (eg. they read all the books about Los Alamos - so they think they know the whole story even though it is top secret.) And t
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by MrTonyD 12y ago
You are right, I am an exception - and I think those other commenters would also agree that we are exceptions. At two companies everyone else in my group had PhDs. And I've rarely worked with people who don't have at least Masters
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by MrTonyD 12y ago
I have too many stories...I had dinner with Edward Teller and he described what really happened at Los Alamos (saying that he would be put in prison for such disclosure), I was fired and rehired multiple times by Steve Jobs, I did a stint a
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by MrTonyD 12y ago
I'm 56, and when I started I was an electronic tech assistant. Over time I started coding and specialized in developing device drivers and then OS development. So I have a long resume with lots of experience. After Steve Jobs hired me