Swannie

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by Swannie 13y ago
I read this mostly as "sales guy, stop being like all the other sales guys, none of you ever get it! You lazy asses! Do your job, which, by the way, includes making our lives in product management and engineering easier". Sales ha
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by Swannie 13y ago
The thing that stuck out for me, is that the mentions of product managers is almost non existent. Beyond calling out "reality" that most product managers hate sales (really?). A strong product manager is qualifying the product r
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by Swannie 13y ago
Analyst expectations is the biggest nonsense. Corps the size of Cisco carefully manage analyst expectations. They have dedicated analyst calls, "we think you're a little off on your predictions, maybe 5% too low"... the aim i
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by Swannie 13y ago
Right! Exactly as described in Cyclecraft ( http://www.amazon.com/Cyclecraft-Skilled-Cycling-Techniques-... ). But some people just ignore your good cycling technique. What often happens is that cars still insist on trying
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by Swannie 13y ago
Alternative suggestion: Its scarily common to see reporting chains that look like this: Dev -> Dev Group Lead -> Dev Director -> Engineering Director -> Single Product VP -> Multi Product VP -> Product Range SVP -> Mark
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by Swannie 13y ago
Thanks... I appreciate the explanation. It's kind of what I thought. I still don't quite understand how I can cancel out the carrier. I have an incoming signal, that includes the backscatter. Do I average out the signal to get the
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by Swannie 13y ago
Agreed... I can be an aggressive cyclist, and I say that with pride. I'm usually slightly more assertive than the norm. However, on the road in the UK, on a bicycle, you have to be very assertive. If a driver has seriously risked my li
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by Swannie 13y ago
Backscatter? Don't you mean just the ambient radio waves? Not quite sure I understand the backscatter concept... but here's an analogy I hope you can help me with. Imagine you and I are sat next to a round pool of water. In the mi
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by Swannie 13y ago
I assume, as it is unstated, that this requires quite accurate information about the radio signals of the device - probably at a level only accessible at the radio of the mast. It's possible that these irregularities are encoded in the
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by Swannie 13y ago
Phrases like "... a dedicated Best Available Technology (BAT) program." give me cause for concern. It amounts to "we're not provably worse than any of the other technologies that have been adopted"... aka it's
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by Swannie 13y ago
But completely unrelated. I agree, it is a better article. But the OP is about Sweden, and reads as a poorly executed "Us too" press release. Your article is about a similar (but slightly different) problem in Norway. Hence my dow
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by Swannie 13y ago
Right, but if you bring them in without changing the top, they either get changed to the existing culture are and somewhat unhappy. Dislike the new culture and leave. Or kick up a fuss, and get asked to leave. But if they see execs who rea
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by Swannie 13y ago
Nice... references would be much, much appreciated!
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by Swannie 13y ago
Culture is set by the execs, and their senior managers, not the developers. Buying up new companies won't change the culture unless they are integrated into a new management structure. Sure, a good junior or mid-level manager can maint
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by Swannie 13y ago
Well played BBC. On the Israel/Palestine topic, both sides claim the BBC unfairly represents the other. That's pretty good going if you ask me!
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by Swannie 13y ago
I agree, WiX is today's version of GeoCities... with Flash or HTML5 - desktop publishing for the web. It's full of interesting content - a lot of photos, unsurprisingly!
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by Swannie 13y ago
"with the holiday season fast approaching"... really?
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by Swannie 13y ago
May be a firmware/hardware issue, as I've had similar issues on Win 7, both with the screen disconnect and the projector display issues.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Am I being naive here? Isn't the whole point of virtualisation, that I can put 50 "average" VMs onto a top-end server, I can put 200 "small" VMs onto it, or 1000s of lightweight LXC containers. What limitation are A
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by Swannie 13y ago
Wondering how the routing is working. If my neighbour and I are 30km apart, and covered by the same balloon, does our traffic get turned around on the balloon, rather than hoping to the base station and then back again? I have to assume yes
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by Swannie 13y ago
Doh. Reading the FAQ. Many q's answered.
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by Swannie 13y ago
I wonder if Google are working with the Serval guys in Australia on this. They are turning Android devices into wireless meshes and have been sending up balloons with device + high gain aerials for quite a while... With the same project mot
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by Swannie 13y ago
This! Who cares if the laptop is a "burner" if you were caught on Starbucks cameras opening a laptop minutes before the communication was sent, in a place you'd never normally go? Or parking up and walking past the bank next
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by Swannie 13y ago
There are many, many programs at Cisco. I don't know any that offer that as an initial salary. There may be a "total benefits package" that, in theory, adds up to that.
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by Swannie 13y ago
That is true, most of the time someone who is "good" (by the authors definition) will also be "nice". But there are many times where being "good", requires explaining to someone that their performance is below expectations, or that their be
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by Swannie 13y ago
Actually, yes. The transaction is stored, and fowarded later. It's a variant on the Card Number + Impression that used to be common place 20 years ago, and Card Number + CCV that is still common place in locations with intermittent/no conne
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by Swannie 14y ago
Who is getting their work done, with least effort? They are. They are using your experience to complete one of their objectives, with less effort for themselves. What about your objectives? Well, if you are measured on helping other people
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by Swannie 14y ago
You're still talking about hammers. Yes, there are a class of customer that will get annoyed because you identified they have a lot of nails to hammer, they don't like cheap hammers, they don't like to replace them every year, and they do
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by Swannie 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. The "agent" concept is quite common in Europe, where niche contractors work through "boutique consultancies" (agents - thats really what they are) to get a lot of their work. The agent does exactly what this article des
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by Swannie 14y ago
I can drive perfectly "non-recklessly" whilst operating a phone, etc. However, put a dangerous situation in front of me, and I'm going to be in trouble if I was not paying full attention. It's much better to provide a disincentive for bad b

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