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by Tactic 11y ago
To be fair windows phone 10 is not released yet. Their developer preview was a mess for a good long time.
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by Tactic 11y ago
The problem here is you changed customers and didn't realize it. In the beginning your customer was the end user as you helped them implement. When you went to development your customer was no longer the end user but the business unit.
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by Tactic 11y ago
I have no desire to pull the conversation off track but comparing auto insurance requirements to the affordable care act is apples and oranges. You don't have to own a car. (and in fact fewer and fewer people do) You also don't ha
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by Tactic 11y ago
The government has this ability with near all other relationships you have. So much so that they have codified the few that it doesn't apply to. We put lawyers, doctors, clergy and spouses in a special category but others can be requir
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by Tactic 11y ago
Thelma and Louise would come the closest for me. Specifically the scene where they are complaining about men and one says to the other "You get what you settle for." I think about that when deciding things and it has improved my l
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by Tactic 11y ago
"However we're living in a time when absolute right to privacy and anonymity in public no longer exists..." And that is the crux of the issue. It needs to be made a right and enforced like every other right. The problem is th
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by Tactic 11y ago
I think there is a clear balance that can be struck with saying "This is what I have created and I share it with you out of love" and "What I created is yours by virtue of being my child". I think the results he seeks ca
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by Tactic 11y ago
Agreed that data is in and of itself neutral. Similar to a gun it is not its use but how it is used that can be detrimental. In fact, this is true of most anything from a pencil to a car. I think at the core however the issue is not how the
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by Tactic 11y ago
There was a technical error causing clicks to not be registered. It has been corrected and the button reset. This isn't the first time.
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by Tactic 11y ago
I agree this car analogy is flawed because it correlates a movie to a car as if they are both goods. Media is actually a service (a recorded performance). This not only causes this analogy to break down but your underlying argument that bec
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by Tactic 11y ago
I think your counterpoint of a doctor or lawyer is particularly apt. These are both careers where I tend to look for someone that is older and thus more experienced. Yet both of those fields have a constant influx of new information much li
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by Tactic 11y ago
While I agree with you completely the truth is they don't care if you are their customer (individually or as a group). They deal with such large numbers that you in particular are less than a rounding error. While they could provide st
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by Tactic 11y ago
Sadly somewhere along the line Gender Balance became the same as Gender Equality. While it is easy to measure it is a foolish metric since it presumes women and men are the same. The sooner we realize that "equal but different" is
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by Tactic 12y ago
My reading of this is that the problem is less with the data and more with the placing of a tracker on a person or their property because the fourth amendment says you have a right to be secure in those things.
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by Tactic 12y ago
I never considered this with prices. Interesting. Which is odd because I always consider this with project deadlines. Whenever I see deadlines of the 1st or the end of the month I know it is a date picked out of the air and not based on the
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by Tactic 12y ago
The US government is a very large entity. Be careful in personifying it and condemning the whole based on some high profile actions of a portion of it. Many portions of it do good work that are invaluable to our society. A broader view is r
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by Tactic 12y ago
In my personal experience I have found that the people that put stock in this sort of question believe in the "coder" mystique and that someone eating and breathing coding is somehow more competent than someone that treats compute
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by Tactic 12y ago
This brings up an excellent side point that I taught my children... that stealing is not taking something that belongs to someone else, it is taking something that does not belong to you. It is a subtle, but important, distiction that is of
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by Tactic 12y ago
Nobody is invaluable at a company. Period. And especially in the tech industry. Code is just code. It doesn't take a magical power to read it.
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by Tactic 12y ago
The biggest mistake I see managers make is that they think they are there to deliver completed projects to upper management. They are playing project manager when they should be playing people manager. A good manager's job is to make s
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by Tactic 12y ago
You were in a losing situation from the start. You were selected to be the heavy, the patsy and the scapegoat all in one. It is clear from what you have said that your people were overworked, deadlines were not reasonable and there were not
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by Tactic 12y ago
I read it as an attempt to be "not corporate". But I don't know how the author typically is, so it could be normal. But given the rest of the language it felt a bit contrived/manipulative to me, although with good intent
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by Tactic 12y ago
Even worse than culture is when the phrase "core values" comes out. This had both. In my experience "core values" boil down to professionalism and "culture" boils down to hard work. Once they start labeling and
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by Tactic 12y ago
People are just people. Everyone is an amalgamation of insecurities, fears, joys, talents, failures, desires, etc. This has helped me communicate and associate with people at all levels. I don’t care if it is the bum down by the river or t
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by Tactic 12y ago
Tangential to this is that because time is limited your choices will decrease as you approach the end. While your options are wide open at 20 they are far more limited at 40 or 50 simply because you don't have time to start anew. And,
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by Tactic 12y ago
Not only will someone not truly hear what you have to say, they will often become confrontational over it if it is anything of relevence. Considering this and keeping my mouth shut has saved me many a fruitless argument.
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by Tactic 13y ago
I think this is one of the more important points. Most of what we were doing back then is now easily done by everyone. We dropped trunks to get free conference lines so we could all be on the phone together. We scammed the phone companies f
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by Tactic 13y ago
You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by Tactic 13y ago
Your summary of what Eich is "basically saying" seems misleading and intended to incite others. I am highly doubtful that he believes other people don't deserve the same rights he does but instead disagrees as to if certain t
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by Tactic 13y ago
I think you overestimate people's concern with their neighbor's job opportunities versus their own welfare/comfort. I point to Walmart as just the tip of the iceburg in making my case.

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