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by anjc 10y ago
I don't think it's that big of a deal. I do think that it's more likely to have a negative than positive effect, in that it risks the proliferation of the negative press surrounding the company at the moment.
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by anjc 10y ago
Yeah I understand, but having a stake in a company doesn't give you the right to act as an advisor to the board or management. You're aren't a worker or a consultant and you're not on the board. If they have an issue wit
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by anjc 10y ago
An investor issues veiled threats while acting as if they're owners or management. Who cares if you're "available to make suggestions", and what makes you think you're entitled to work behind the scenes to change co
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by anjc 10y ago
Man I loved that game. I think it was the first CD game I ever played, having gotten it on a compilation with Syndicate, Ultima 8 and Wing Commander 2, when my family got a Sound Blaster 16 in what...1993? Great games.
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by anjc 10y ago
I specifically said 'perception' of basic needs ;) I'm not talking Maslow's hierarchy here...society's perception of a basic need is to own a modest house, but that puts most people into debt for life. Well that&#x2
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by anjc 10y ago
Oh I see your point now, in that he chose not to. Yeah you're probably right. Tech-world renowned I should've said. And he may not be a self-proclaimed genius but he has a level of talent which is surely rare, at least.
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by anjc 10y ago
Well your pay is going to decline in accordance with the cost of living. I'm mainly talking about salaried jobs here, I don't know how profitable the average startup is (I'm guessing 'not very')
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by anjc 10y ago
> So why the heck bring it even up? =) Because he's saying shut up and work? But working doesn't just...work...
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by anjc 10y ago
I've always assumed this about him. Again, I admire him greatly and I don't think that money trumps everything. I used the Instagram and Whatsapp examples just to demonstrate Linus' almost ridiculous lack of work->earnings
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by anjc 10y ago
That's all very true, but the people you typically hear 'crapping on about innovation' are doing their job, and have more than likely put enormous effort into perfecting their documentation, presentations, delivery, pitchin
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by anjc 10y ago
Nice romantic view but the fact is that 95% of people in the western world can't afford society's perceptions of "basic needs". I'd wager that most people you hear talking about innovation, outside of Websummit and
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by anjc 10y ago
Oh well absolutely, but Linus' value creation/wealth disparity is mindblowing. Again, I'm not suggesting that money is everything, and I'm sure that he'd say he doesn't care about money. But he's advocat
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by anjc 10y ago
Positively impacting lives is surely important. That's besides the point. My point is that working without selling is not a viable strategy for 99% of people. Hell it barely worked for him in terms of earnings, and he's one of the
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by anjc 10y ago
?! Surely that completely depends on whether or not he'd like compensation for your convenience.
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by anjc 10y ago
Someone who should be a multi billionaire says to ignore marketing and sales and just work. Edit: I'm not saying that he WANTS to be a multi billionaire, but the fact is that he has attained disproportionately less value than he's
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by anjc 10y ago
This is a good idea. Ignore the people saying it doesn't have a use.
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by anjc 10y ago
I agree with this. WP is amazing.
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by anjc 10y ago
Well to be more precise, I suppose my position is that if MS want to increase their product userbase, they need a vanguard of advocates who promote their products far and wide. In the early days of Apple's resurgence, this would'v
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by anjc 10y ago
Well obviously if there's enough demand for workers, and immigrants are paid at the same rate, then nobody would displace anybody. I'm not saying that the US should shut off avenues for any immigration, but simply that indigenous
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by anjc 10y ago
There is. Not to be a dick but I'm rushing out...if you search for "STEM IT underemployment OR stagnation" and so on you'll find actual studies. Personally I know several people who had major trouble finding employment,
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by anjc 10y ago
Oh that's interesting. I suppose any internal conflict ultimately comes down to issues of leadership and vision, regardless of the company size.
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by anjc 10y ago
I still want a 950XL even though I know I'll regret it :/ Poor MS. I really feel that their lack of commitment to their platform can't be construed as 'focus', and might come back to haunt them.
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by anjc 10y ago
Maybe not all hardware, but the camera and lenses in the Lumia range trounced any competitors upon their release, and the screens too as I recall. Windows Phone 8/8.1 was amazing. W10M has lost the lustre that 8 had.
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by anjc 10y ago
Oh Phones are gone. Finito. But they weren't a few years ago. They were taking a sharp incline with the 9xx range of Lumias in Europe, and they only declined when Microsoft whipped all Lumias from stores and released nothing for a year
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by anjc 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, I know that some people have major success and I'm glad that they do (I don't think 'white privilege' has anything to do with it as you contend below, as I have as much anti-anecdata as yours whi
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by anjc 10y ago
It isn't just the US too. It's the same all over Western Europe. What sticks in my craw even more is that, to legitimise the process of issuing more visas, companies and governments have to continually say "there aren't
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by anjc 10y ago
Ehh. All the credit being given to Nadella are initiatives that Ballmer not only started, but has to push against the will of the board to pursue. I had major hope for Microsoft in the last few years, and I'm starting to see Nadella&#x
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by anjc 10y ago
>Although it is true that foreign workers at the Indian consultancies receive more visas than higher-skilled workers at better-known firms, a simple solution exists. Congress could raise the number of visas issued. Given that the unemplo
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by anjc 10y ago
Oh yeah I see now, thanks. I was misinterpreting the first column. Obviously it's impossible to glean motivations from a table, but it's telling to me that among the general population the majority of workers work full time, where
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by anjc 10y ago
There's definitely a wide variation in teaching between ostensibly similar courses, which might make some of the simple stats nonsensical. > I get the sense that the "shortage" and "surplus" are capable of existi

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