SlightRespect

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by SlightRespect 8y ago
No raindrop feels responsible for the flood
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
I work in an organization that asks for innovation, but doesn't allocate any budget for R&D or investigative projects. The company also doesn't have any culture of being ok with taking big swings and accepting misses. The pro
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Garbage removal. If your trash man stops coming to haul away your waste, you've got a problem. You will then ask, "how much do I need to pay to get this service back?" Same with most utilities.
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Craigslist is _the_ case study on how an ugly UI can survive over a long timeline. There are many techies and UI designers that are just disgusted at the UI of craigslist. For some, aesthetic is more important than usability. Luckily, fo
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Yeah, it's bad luck to be superstitious
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Does that kind of stuff lock you in to a specific cloud platform? I've been curious to learn some of this stuff.
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Just curious, can you go into further detail about this bit? "we are all developing on top of either AWS or Azure and are actually using the technologies they provide and not just hosting a bunch of VMs"
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
People talk shit about each other over Slack, and hope it never comes back to bite them.
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Yeah, I never understood who those ads were aimed at. Buying a superbowl ad for a bunch of money to hit millions of consumers in hopes of a single CEO with buy authority watching the ad?
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Someone mentioned in an above comment that managers look out for their own interests, just like employees. There are very few people in a company who are really acting in the best interest of the company. So my take is that the reason comp
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by SlightRespect 8y ago
Some cities are dominated by insurance/banking/healthcare companies. Their IT needs are quite different than the consumer software space. It's more like a salesguy just landed a big fish and the big fish is making these dema
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In Defense of Shadow IT(rollout.io)
1 points by SlightRespect 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone had WFH taken away?
6 points by SlightRespect 8y ago|2 comments