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7y ago
Sure, it isn't exactly the same situation as a war, where one country is fighting his neighbor country to the death. But to say that the art of war has no lessons to teach those of us who are not literally in a war is ignorant.
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"when you are weak, the enemy should think you are strong, when you are strong the enemy should think you are weak" -The Art of War
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7y ago
If you are looking to liquidate the company, then yes, the goal is to get cash when you can. But if you are looking to create a growth story to attract employees, partners, future investment, you may want people to think there is an upside
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7y ago
Taylorism still exists. The employees in the lower rungs of the organization must be managed by people higher in the org. But when you hire a manager that doesn't understand the work that his employees are doing you get into this situa
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8y ago
People like this generally consider seat and monitor warming as work. Is a butt keeping the seat warm and the mouse moving enough to keep the computer from going to sleep? If so, it is work.
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8y ago
Google was openly copying an API for compatibility. Similar to how a toaster company may make their toaster support bread exactly the same size as a competitor does. The toaster company would advertise the compatibility, not hide it. In th
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8y ago
I expected this to be a " I had the idea first" post. But it is actually a copyright infringement post AND makes the offending company look like a bunch of hacks. If they don't have the engineering chops to build an API how a
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8y ago
Think about an ugly, unemployed dude with a bad attitude and bad personality saying that there is a shortage of girls in the dating pool who meet his attractiveness standards. He is technically correct, the number of attractive ladies who w
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8y ago
There is a good pool of talent in ATL and the cost of living is low compared to SF. Kabbage, Cardlytics, and a couple others operate a model of high turnover and low pay. It costs more than the mythical man month method overall, but the out
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8y ago
Musk references OP's attitude in the interview. Tesla gets about 100x attention on it is other car companies. How many people gave died in a Lexus in the past 5 years? And how many of those deaths could have been been prevented by Lexu
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8y ago
I have a technical phone screen with Google this week and I have the same attitude as you. So i'll probably fail the interview, but I'm doing it just in case they ask a real world problem, which I'm pretty good at.
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8y ago
The possible reasons I have heard are: 1. This has always worked before with other CEOs they have blackmailed. 2. There is something big going on with the Saudis or Trump and if that gets discovered everyone at AMI is going to jail and this
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8y ago
It is hard to tell these kids what the chance of success is on the statement "If I did X, I would get Y", because it totally depends on what their chosen industry and other factors like the student's intelligence, personality
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8y ago
Exactly. Also, these PMs are likely to act in a way that will get good developers to quit and will not hire someone because they are too competent. I don't think it is always malicious though. They view themselves as a valuable part of
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8y ago
I talked to a VP from MSFT last year. He asked how MSFT could do a better job appealing to the open source community and start up community. I said just keep doing what you are doing. It is going to take time for those of us that were aro
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9y ago
FBI
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9y ago
These attackers are after the IT blueprints of other organizations. So that they can build a hibernating bot inventory. They can then sell pwned corporate computers to 3rd parties for BTC. Phishing and Spear Phishing doesn't work we
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9y ago
There was not much you could have done. Personally I never used CCCleaner even though folks on my team did. I just didn't have a use for it because I wanted to make sure I understood chrome's caching logic. SO maybe I am sligh