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by beachy 5y ago
"I’m smarter than you, so I’m going to pick your ideas apart and tell you exactly why you’re wrong." Early on, someone told me never to sell to IT, because IT types love to try and point out where you're wrong, and to catch y
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by beachy 5y ago
In the UK, there are these things called ransom strips, a very thin (maybe just a few inches) but long strip of land that is used to control and interfere with other people's access to their own land. It could be there are some downsid
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by beachy 5y ago
Dental hygiene has come a long way since then. Photos of British troops in WWII often show terrible looking teeth, not just on one unfortunate but whole groups of people.
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by beachy 5y ago
That's actually one of the strongest signals that recruiters look for - who do you work for currently/ previously.
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by beachy 5y ago
Some places use virtual roundabouts, where the roundabout part is simply a small painted circle on the road. Emergency vehicles can drive straight over it
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by beachy 5y ago
This article is desperately in need of some examples. I can't believe there isn't one.
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by beachy 5y ago
With hindsight it was sure exciting but not really fun. There was huge pressure to get the machine back up again. An outage might mean that an entire bank branch was down, or that payroll could not be run. The CEO could be looking over your
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by beachy 5y ago
Great book. I relentlessly and boringly quote the commandment from the CEO in that book that there was to be "no mode switch". I have found this to be a great rule of thumb in software too. Engineers often first instinct is to add
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by beachy 5y ago
These articles are fantastic. When I started at IBM in the early 80s there were plenty of 360s still around, but the new hotness was 370, so all the training courses, installations, management focus were for the new machines. The cool kids
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by beachy 5y ago
This culture of radical openness must be quite refreshing for people inside the company. A lot of companies would never want this sort of thing to be out in the open. But really, why not? I imagine it helps to keep things sensible if you kn
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by beachy 5y ago
Cross posting software for HR people to push jobs to multiple job boards is a whole product area in its own right.
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by beachy 5y ago
What? That sounds like Alice in wonderland. Sure a manager can affect performance but ultimately it's down to the individual. And happiness is all nice and good but if work is the only thing that affects your happiness then you have so
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by beachy 5y ago
Chasing a shiny stack is not a good idea. It might not be shiny for long, and it's not worth putting up with a shitty environment, team or management structure just to play with the latest hotness. You can do that in your own time anyw
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by beachy 5y ago
I co-founded an ATS company and I can say that we were never asked for, nor provided, any functionality to automatically screen candidates out based on keyword filters (though candidate answers to actual questions like "Do you 5 years
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by beachy 5y ago
> Who are you to dictate what someone does with energy they pay for? IMO this is the strongest case for a carbon tax - it respects individual freedom. You want to cruise in your diesel-sucking massive launch? You want to take your person
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by beachy 5y ago
Yes. That's why you need big players - like the US, EU - to use leverage to force the rest of the world to follow suit. But the change has to start somewhere.
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by beachy 5y ago
Or a carbon tax and solve the problem at source.
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by beachy 5y ago
A union won't help you get your own tailored work situation, where you enjoy never ever being contacted after hours. They'll work for a situation where everyone gets that, and everyone is treated the same. That's the whole po
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by beachy 5y ago
> But there's good news. I cannot stress enough that it's entirely possible to control the level of exposure to said digital noise. You don't have to follow news, politics and social media intensely. You can just opt out.
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by beachy 5y ago
In the case of plagiarism, require proof, make the reporter do the work. Ask them for the url for the alleged original source.
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by beachy 5y ago
Just because you earned a single dollar from a customer doesn't make it a success either.
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by beachy 5y ago
That's incredible dismissive towards women generally. I've worked with many, many women who are strong and capable enough not to let hypotheticals about male behavior derail their trajectory.
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by beachy 5y ago
> Managers dont care about tech debt, they just want new features Founders (technical ones anyway) likely do care about technical debt. They know it could be death to their future ambitions. Managers have little reason to unless the orga
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by beachy 5y ago
The only concrete point in your rant seems to be this: > So saying that they „ignored the PC” implies that they ignored themselves, which doesn’t make sense. This makes perfect sense to anyone who has seen a large lumbering schizophrenic
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by beachy 5y ago
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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by beachy 5y ago
So basically a full table scan, where the table is stored on tape instead of DASD. Sounds very plausible!
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by beachy 5y ago
IBM's already had an enormous slide from undisputed #1 so I don't think they seem unstoppable by any means.
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by beachy 5y ago
If you're both technically accomplished and also have an inner urge to hustle doing marketing and promotion then great things probably await you in life, that's a valuable combo indeed.
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by beachy 5y ago
I was reflecting myself on the brand damage this would have caused. We've always had a thing in our family that a Toyota is a safe, solid purchase. I must have shared that with 10 people or more over the years. Then in the last couple
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by beachy 5y ago
When I was a mainframe engineer at IBM, I heard more than once that IBM would never fall behind because we had a whole pipeline of incredible machines in development, and they could just be brought forward if there was ever a really serious

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