OliverSmith

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by OliverSmith 16y ago
exactly... inflexibility to change an old process because of 1% or less of the use cases could be justified or not. If a new process makes 99% of things take 10% of the time and 1% of things take 1000% of the time, you still win. I would
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
Perhaps the actual problem is that there are a lot of people from older generations that were promoted to higher positions than they should have been and now they get to start making decisions. They're bad managers, but because they're in
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
I think as long as you have separate streams, they can be much more powerful and useful than email. Think about github and trac. Both have a type of stream to condense information that would be too much for email. Obviously, no one wants
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
I think those are both the same thing. Plugging it would allow them to redrill later in a different location. Salvaging it immediately would allow them to do both at the same time.
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
So when I go to management and let them know that I've spent my less valuable time and figured out a way to speed up our process, they should then either trust me and let me implement it, or spend the time and evaluate for themselves if I'm
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
As someone who just graduated from college and now working in a large company, this generation gap is extremely apparent. I understand that as a whole workplace technology is evolving, but it definitely takes a bit too long to catch on at
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
In one of the videos the guy mentioned that back in the 90's there was a reason that A LOT of hay needed to be sent to Montana or some other state in the northern midwest. He used that as an argument for why they could get enough hay. Doe
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
probably still angry about the iphone controversy that he wishes involved him
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by OliverSmith 16y ago
being critical of future kickstarter projects would be good, but being critical of kickstarter in general could be bad