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by creer 1y ago
Someone followed up and then deleted - but good questions: We fear imposing on the others. We don't know what to message about. How often? What do we have in common? And I expect most of us have the same concerns. Anyone has interestin
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by creer 1y ago
Please maintain your professional social contacts! It's fine not to have a native interest in that. But it's part of the job. No blog or bragging needed. No Linkedin needed even, if you really don't want that one. Catalog and
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by creer 1y ago
Add: deliberately hiding their local price on their web site. They will try and give all kinds of info about the product in each local store - which aisle it's in, how many their stock mgt system thinks they have - but they will show a
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by creer 1y ago
Covid and remote work reshuffled jobs quite a bit. With people actively moving away from the usual suspect regions - and taking their jobs with them. Which was in part largely viewed as a "making a home and staying home" strategy.
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by creer 1y ago
Isn't this normal? That if you stripped whatever is currently hot from the economy, the rest would be... lackluster? For one, any "special effort" investment money is pouring in there instead of somewhere else, or many somewh
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by creer 1y ago
Separately from "accurate", I would also argue that if the improvement you are proposing is slim or difficult to distinguish from other ongoing ambient improvements - then perhaps you shouldn't try to bring it up as a stand a
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by creer 1y ago
What budget ever gets justified with exact numbers? What fantasy is this? You get a fixed-price quote, you pay a fixed price amount, sure. But only because the vendor was planning to and is absorbing the uncertainty. Except if it was not re
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by creer 1y ago
I'm with the commenter: when my first (or within 15 minute) impression of a vendor or product is craptastic I cut my losses and consider myself lucky for dodging a longer term bullet. The commenter was actually very considerate and rai
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by creer 1y ago
This has been the case for over 40 years by now. Europe has been lucky or has made the best of it, but imagine: 40 years of hobbled economy! But European firms have found some workarounds. For example, lots of engineers are owned, I mean, s
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by creer 1y ago
Sure. This is rough engineering. If you identify a plausible significant cause, and you attack that, and you get useful improvement, people are not too likely to be overly concerned that there was some confounding factor in the improvement.
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by creer 1y ago
> In long run it makes code base way better. is true but may be irrelevant. Your hierarchy may have the correct understanding: that this better code base will be irrelevant because the company would then be out of business (because you s
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by creer 1y ago
Your comment mentioned > cost 200 dev hours, and save 400 dev hours And I argue that this is rarely the right perspective. It's 200 hours NOW - and that the company doesn't have budget for. In order to save 400 hours maybe perh
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by creer 1y ago
Sure. Let's take that idea: > reduce vectors for bugs (which are always based on misunderstandings) Is that really impossible to measure? (For cheap that is. Cheap measure, cheap estimate, cheap confidence). Is that really impossibl
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by creer 1y ago
> Absolutely none of those can be measured They can be estimated (with a wild range) and that's still useful: If that impact is clearly in the noise, drop it. If that impact is clearly huuuge then set up some ongoing measurements an
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by creer 1y ago
Sure except that "saving money" is not what makes a company win, and so it's rightly not what makes a career. If you can show that building that new library for $X will streamline engineering by Y% which will allow doubling s
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Chronicle Series: San Francisco Permit Nightmares(sfchronicle.com)
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by creer 1y ago
I mean, San Francisco could spend that money housing their homeless in random cities spread around the country - investing in these cities and avoiding encouraging influx to a single spot... Possibly even cities with jobs, and funding corre
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by creer 1y ago
The pyramid is mostly a question of incorrect perspective or viewpoint. Of course there are fewer CEOs, managing directors or whatever your current fantasy is. But there are millions of them on the planet - it's not that small of a cla
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by creer 1y ago
Sure. And in the US there is a noticeable class with little savings but not "poor": Particularly noticeable when they have clearly not low income - but cannot manage to accumulate savings or have no interest in accumulating saving
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by creer 1y ago
To argue that Bernard Arnault is clueless in economics is beyond absurd. He did not inherit this wealth. He did start with a family operating business, yes, but nowhere near his life result (and "the job" not even complete yet). H
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by creer 1y ago
It's not like "moderate" wealth tax hasn't been tried - in France itself even.
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by creer 1y ago
> Inflation is a tax on poor already It's a common trope but no. "The poor" don't live / operate on savings. "The poor", kinda by definition live by earning a paycheck or receiving subsidies and spendin
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by creer 1y ago
Public corporations (as is, state-owned compared to publicly traded) already fund the government. At least when they care enough or are mandated to make any profit. The fine article, and France, are concerned with keeping that country from
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by creer 1y ago
The threat of retaliation - in the form of being fired, harassed or moved to a dead end position - is very scary to a younger engineer. But from a rational point of view it's not very strong (HOWEVER many managers or CEOs are far from
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by creer 1y ago
By this article's data and other data linked, reading scores have been FALLING since 2015 (2013 for other scores) - and through 2024. This cannot be because of NOT adopting some reform. Something else has to be in play. You cannot dama
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by creer 1y ago
People are scared of all kinds of things. Is it good management to accept that as a reason to paralyze most of the world? (And no, spending all effort on pushing one hobby and stopping the rest doesn't help. It goes exactly in the dire
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by creer 1y ago
For that matter, how much of it is still stocks or stock-linked?
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by creer 1y ago
> bigger warning signal for me is when I see people in public talking about stocks Which is interesting "this time" because much of the issue may be due to historical and tax-quirk fullfilling index weighting. And the people in
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Is that really A LOT of people? A few posters on X is hardly a lot of people, no? By contrast there is an awful lot of people who are currently overexposed to the usual suspects due to problematic index weighting. Which is aimed at meeting
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by creer 1y ago
Is current illiteracy really founded in WHICH method of teaching to use? Or is that the kind of nitpicking that school districts, consultants and political campaigns love to battle over, while not doing a whole lot on the ground?

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