cmdkeen

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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Rather than reporting your boss to HR what are the opinions of others re reporting him to legal / compliance? You're dealing with Federal compliance issues, odds are there is a nominated person at your company who is responsible f
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
This. It also applies to the enterprise, all those in house data centres that are ripe to be migrated over to Azure. Microsoft care an awful lot less that you migrated your Oracle server to Linux if you run that server on Azure...
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Which links with one of the previous posts about Microsoft wanting to be "cool" to developers again. The bright sparks who will go on to found massive tech firms might join a big tech firm first for a few years - odds are they wil
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The problem with trading bans is that they effectively kill the bank, or a substantial chunk - which then causes all the knock on effects of a bank failing which might very well be more expensive to the Government / society in the long
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The Economist also raised the point recently that these "offers" from the Government are essentially shakedowns, the risk to the bank if they actually fought the charges is so great that it is never in their interest to do anythin
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
I'd hardly call over a decade of regional stability a farce. It checked any expansionist tendencies of other regional powers. It helped make a very powerful point to Iran who didn't cause any problems with the Straits of Hormuz fo
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
GW1 militarily was a huge success, Kuwait - a "five feet high nation" in the Lloyd George sense, was defended from aggression from its much bigger, nastier neighbour. The principal of territorial integrity was upheld. The strategi
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
There are actually interesting parallels to Silicon Valley and startups for techies. It is "the place to be", "the place to prove yourself". The cosy safety net of corporate life leaves you with the naggging feeling that
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
No we need weapons to defend others. The USA and UK are in part two of the richest nations in the world because they are physically isolated from threats, we grew, and continue to grow, rich of trade with the rest of the world. The West has
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's pretty similar to all these tiny city jurisdictions which finance significant portions of their revenue via fines, especially those that cover a couple of miles of major roads.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
I imagine he'll be getting calls from management theorists wanting to do some long term studies to see what happens to happiness, motivation etc. Traditional management theory has that money is a poor motivator because the effects wear
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Or they find other forms of compensation that do not equal "pay" to game the figures. I'm sure the army of lawyers out there can find a loophole or two.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
What is wrong with that sentence? TFA focuses far too much on the coding aspects of Scrum by asking "what does the senior dev do?", my point is all the things a senior dev does are fit to be tasks or stories in Scrum. It's ou
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
>developers being empowered to work on what's most important at the moment There's the problem, the "moment" is the sprint. If you're need for a flexible time frame is less than a week then Scrum isn't going
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
To go through some of the points I fundamentally disagree with: "There is no place for an actual senior engineer on a Scrum team" - There absolutely is, who is peer reviewing the code, working with the BAs to design the architectu
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Intriguingly you've not mentioned 2/3rds of the people in a Scrum team - the Product Owner and the Scrum Master - both of whom are supposed to be the ones who handle many of the problems you list. Build servers being on fire feels
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Well there is an interesting concept - you're talking about jargon like "sprints" yet referring to "Agile" which is a very, very broad church. I like Scrum for the power of the retrospective, if people actually talk
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
hillaryclinton.com: Mail server: Gmail Ironic given she's such an expert on running her own mail server...
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
However there are strategies available to active investors with billions - being an "activist investor". If you buy significant stakes in companies - which might be only a percentage point or two, but still putting you in the top
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Pension funds these days do an awful lot of work to decide how to invest, and who to invest with. They send out RFIs which an awful lot of due diligence questions, have access to independent consultants to advise on active/passive stra
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Because they have $3 trillion in assets under management - which is $600m a year even at 2 basis points in fees, which not everyone pays. Economies of scale ramp up quickly.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Fund managers also employ dealers who very much do not buy stock one batch an hour so as to allow HFTs to profit from them. They have a fiduciary duty to their clients to aim for best execution, so if they were being disadvantaged they woul
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Oh it will be a problem for other countries. But there are short term consequences to a Grexit for Greece, the long term consequences may be good but immediately you'll be looking at; capital controls so people can't move their mo
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's a really bad strategy in that it doesn't prepare the Greek people for anything bad happening. The short term consequences of Greece crashing out of the Euro is going to be very painful for Greece.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
In the UK certain academic disciplines have a long record of post docs disappearing off for a few years and then coming back, often driving a nicer car. Being publicly funded universities probably helps, but all it takes is establishing a r
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The unfortunate side effect is that it shafts pensioners who should not be investing in equities because of the time scales involved. The UK (though a hefty dose of electioneering is involved) is offering bonds to pensioners which pay a hig
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
HFT are making huge profit margins - their entire industry profit is estimated at around $1bn, or a percentage of what a single large financial institution will make in a year. It's all relative - they can only make so much profit be
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The world as a whole is in one of its most peaceful periods ever. The 1990s saw a genocide in Europe, horrific civil wars in Africa, before that you had the Cold War with all of its attendant problems. Growth and Peace aren't mutually
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Because not everyone has a Swedish lifestyle, and you seem to be stretching the upper bounds of immigration. So how do you propose dealing with the 1 billion+ people in the world who need their stands of living increased? Capitalism has wor
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Hasn't the existence of Echelon been common knowledge for years? The concept was popularised in Enemy of the State in 1998. Before that you had Clinton and the Clipper chip which could easily lead the poorly technically informed to ass

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