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by api 13y ago
Worse. The University of Cincinnati.
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by api 13y ago
In the USSR they were called apparatchiks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik It's sort of funny how Soviet business culture actually is.
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by api 13y ago
Agile / Scrum is the return of the K-LOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code People don't recognize it as such because the LOC -- lines of code -- has an added time dimension now and a differen
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by api 13y ago
Dead on. When you're huge and cash-flush, you have the luxury of really innovating in truly hard areas. This luxury is damn hard to obtain in a short-term gerbil-wheel economy like ours. Once you have it, throwing it away is like set
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by api 13y ago
You're correct that there are smart MBAs, so it might be a bit unfair that "MBA" has become shorthand for something else. But it's not without cause. It's a stereotype with some basis in reality. The key distinguish
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by api 13y ago
"At one company I used to work for, I also saw my leadership completely lose their minds and fire off all of the development staff, thinking we could coast with a new sales team and the product we had and pull ourselves into profitabil
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by api 13y ago
I sometimes do wonder what would have happened if they'd decided to charge for their search engine. Of course, putting it behind a paywall would have been a failure. But they could have possibly done a freemium model, offering better a
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by api 13y ago
(1) Yes (2) A po-dunk school is any school not on the coasts and not in the top ten, possibly excluding a small number of top-tier schools in "flyover country." (*) Flyover country is the large area you fly over when traveling b
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by api 13y ago
"I think that the people who are best at building things that people want don't want to get an MBA." I know MBA school will be the first thing I do in hell.
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by api 13y ago
Google is expanding quite a bit in Pittsburgh, New York, and a few other locations. I wonder if this is why? I also wonder though if the real estate hyperinflation of the valley is a factor. It negatively impacts the ability to attract out
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by api 13y ago
I've had a speculation for a while that this is why Google, Apple, and many other tech giants like to keep their stock float small and thus their stock price per share very high. I wonder if it's a way of trying to select for long
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by api 13y ago
Wave was just bizarre. I called it "4chan enterprise" almost instantly upon checking it out. I did get the impression it had some interesting innovation under the hood though that made it into Plus and Docs.
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by api 13y ago
I'd believe you if the folks I'm recalling had a good track record of having built successful businesses, or if their thinking struck me as... well... thinking, rather than cargo cultism. I know what it looks like when a person is
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by api 13y ago
If you have to crunch a lot, your manager has poor time management skills.
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by api 13y ago
Yeah, Google still strikes me as probably a great place to work. 20% time is not common in the industry, and trust me-- if you work for Google you work in a much better place than your typical "enterprise software" hell-hole. But
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by api 13y ago
"Google’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists. That’s according to former Google employees, one who spoke to Quartz on the condition of anonymity and others w
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by api 13y ago
It boggles my mind, given the big money involved, why so many people continue to bet huge sums of cash on the proven short-term penny-wise/pound-foolish idiocy of MBA-think. I mean sure-- if your company is under cash flow pressure you
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Elites keep ruining America(salon.com)
5 points by api 13y ago|2 comments
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by api 13y ago
Mostly conjecture. There are people who talk about it, but they're independents who are usually tarred as "conspiracy nuts." Example: http://www.madcowprod.com/ It's not the way the media portrays them t
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by api 13y ago
"A hundred billion a year spent on fraudulent security theater." I definitely think there's a pork angle to all this.
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by api 13y ago
The OP implied that this was different-- as in an actual declaration of war. The cold war was never declared, am I right? Vietname, Iraq I, Korea, etc. were declared but they were declared on specific enemies and thus had sunsets. I do agre
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by api 13y ago
And that is the real issue. We are now in permanent war. The constitution is a dead letter. Wasn't it helpful to have a "liberal" Democrat in the White House to make the final stroke of the pen and abolish the constitution?
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by api 13y ago
I think you're partly right. The risk is much higher with the SEC, and I agree that SEC regulatory capture is a virtual certainty at this point. But with drugs I don't think it's the dealers we have to worry about. The dealer
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by api 13y ago
There's kooks out there who think the DEA is captured too. Obviously that's a ridiculous paranoid notion. It's not like there's any money in illegal drugs or anything, and everyone knows being a middle manager at the DEA
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by api 13y ago
If it's owned by a U.S. company or if the country in question has intel-sharing agreements with the U.S., that won't help you. Also if the data is coming in or going out to a foreign server, it falls under the "foreign intell
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by api 13y ago
As a fellow left-libertarian, thanks for mentioning libertarian socialism. My thought for a long time has been that the most practical (as in achievable today in the real world) and best government for actual human beings who want to be f
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by api 13y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks. Edited my original post. But the point remains unchanged. He was not an isolated kook with no money or connections, and his supporters and his financiers definitely were not. To illustrate my point, here's
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by api 13y ago
Smaller companies are mostly hosted on the "cloud." Hell even bigger ones like Netflix are. They don't need to cooperate. All their data is already there at the data center. Only the cloud provider needs to cooperate. So the
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by api 13y ago
When the state comes and asks you to help fight its war, this is not a request . It's an order. If you do not cooperate, there's quite a bit that can be done to you. A lot of it is in the category of "soft power" -- you
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by api 13y ago
You know, I thought of another fallacy behind all this stuff. We're told this is to prevent the next 9/11, but there's a problem with that. It's very unlikely -- for basic political reasons -- that this will be used to i

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