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by devonkim 10y ago
There seems to be a trend among Fortune 100 management that belief = reality. This attitude makes sense perhaps if you're a personal trainer to help motivate people but management doesn't seem to understand that they need to sha
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by devonkim 10y ago
I'm formerly with a large non-offshore contractor for GE recently and you may even be familiar with me given I was in the middle of a number of outages related to AWS that impacted San Ramon and the rest of GE. There were other reasons
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by devonkim 10y ago
AWS is somewhat lucky in that its best market was primarily organizations where an offering like it was actually very simple and transparent is what is desired and that price / performance is not what it competes well upon. This is rat
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by devonkim 10y ago
AWS has offered fairly significant discounts to organizations I'm familiar with that are well over $1M+ / month in usage, but this discount pales in comparison to how much they have saved in labor and availability compared to inte
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by devonkim 10y ago
The "top" idea is really murky because there's so many ways to define leading. I'll make a large bet that GE Digital will not be top at the following for developers due to so much inertia in IT and software in the compan
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by devonkim 10y ago
Modern Linuxes have pgrep to help avoid the inevitable "lol, the grep process I fired will match" issue that results in having to filter that out as well with yet another program.
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by devonkim 10y ago
Besides taking a shower, isn't this basically a day in the life of hobbits as described by Tolkien? I've basically done this for a while when I don't have a job, but it's really, really boring to me. I'm not sure wh
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by devonkim 10y ago
There are as many different interviewing techniques that would be successful as there are different types of software jobs. If you're hiring for people to churn out code 80%+ of the time, perhaps 80%+ of your interview / test proc
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by devonkim 10y ago
This goes back to mastery, autonomy, and purpose as key motivators / engagement of workers today. However, purpose and quality of coworkers are what's different from the two which means that motivation and job satisfaction are at
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by devonkim 10y ago
Funny, I thought ATI had a pretty large presence in Canada before AMD bought them?
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by devonkim 10y ago
I don't see how much room for design there is on a Surface book besides the keyboard dock assembly, but even that looks pretty spartan with clean lines and a rather pale gray that could be mistaken for an Apple laptop from the Aluminum
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by devonkim 10y ago
Depending upon how well / poorly managed the HOA is, HOA fees for $200k condos can easily exceed $500 / mo. The condo I sold for a substantial loss in the Seattle area in 2010 at $175k had a $280 / mo HOA due for a pretty ter
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by devonkim 10y ago
Like most of the US, DC is not an engineering or manufacturing culture as much as a sales culture. Politics and customer-facing roles are valued much more than engineering typically. What's the evidence for this? Most technology compan
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by devonkim 10y ago
A while ago while dropping my MBP onto a hard floor I realized that one benefit of lighter gear is potentially less damage on impact in a fall. Of course, this assumes equal hardness, toughness, plasticity, etc. but the same fall that happe
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by devonkim 10y ago
I wouldn't expect Apple to make it that easy given their history of extremely overpriced video cards and custom BIOSes for them. I would be shocked if an external GPU solution on Macs were supported and sold for less than $700 and Appl
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by devonkim 10y ago
I see this typically in enterprise technology markets because sales relationships are a prerequisite for success. The idea of a long term growth strategy with strong technicals scaling later on with b2b sales is popular but most businesses
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by devonkim 10y ago
The US has a really high number of working poor that continue to have children at higher rates. Lack of determination and motivation to stay away from lifestyles that increase your chance of early pregnancies certainly factors at the indivi
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by devonkim 10y ago
For a great deal of people, a concept of "tradition" and close, emotional ties to family and heritage far outweighs any economic opportunities. Furthermore, I think a lot of these people secretly know that they just may not be tha
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by devonkim 10y ago
The other important part is that IT support is almost never a profit center and will have relatively little business impact on paper. You don't need a John Carmack or Jeff Dean of IT Support in your organization - it doesn't reall
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by devonkim 10y ago
This just sounds like Taylorism is responsible for a lot of disgruntled employees. But most corporations hardly care about unhappy employees outside leadership positions unless it starts to actually impact the stock value somehow. Then come
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by devonkim 10y ago
Every other time I've seen architects used on the business end, you wind up with huge messes that take a long time to produce anything of business value while developers basically sit idle or flail around trying to build prototypes bas
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by devonkim 10y ago
The Intel advertising campaign kept their branding quite strong in the consumer market and there'd have been an uphill battle to get consumers onto the AMD train for even Dell and other OEMs. With consoles, the branding isn't the
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by devonkim 10y ago
The market was already dividing out that way honestly, and if you are going to be a low-margin, higher-volume player, you should try to work on economy of scale as part of your market differentiation factors.
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by devonkim 10y ago
Being a visionary takes a lot, lot more guts and risk-taking than people tend to think. It's not clear what the Yahoo board wanted in its CEO. Perhaps the board had mostly given up on Yahoo reclaiming its branding status in higher valu
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by devonkim 10y ago
The idea was that a CPU + GPU company would be a lot stronger than themselves trying to defend against their respective #1 competitors. Instead, both the CPU and GPU market leaders got stronger and leveraged their massive capital to turn th
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by devonkim 10y ago
We only need to ask teachers that have worked with students in these underperforming schools and you'll see a pattern emerge - students that are not having their needs at home met are oftentimes not able to come prepared to learn at sc
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by devonkim 10y ago
Wasn't the original paper not that happiness decreases after $75k but that you get diminishing returns drastically afterward? For example, more than 50% of billionaires would be more satisfied with their lives while around 75k only abo
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by devonkim 10y ago
AbstractTeslaEconomy. Then it'd be eventually AbstractTeslaNation or AbstractTeslaCivilization depending upon if the class is a singleton. Also, I would probably be evaluating a DI framework long before thinking of anything beyond an I
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by devonkim 10y ago
Having been in a similar position before, here's my questions and considerations. 1. Why are they looking externally for a candidate instead of an internal candidate that is more familiar and has a track record with the company than a
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by devonkim 10y ago
Tons of round trip calls potentially in most RPC-style systems are one start, which Cap'n Proto addresses with its unique style of avoiding round-trips for many network transactions which can drastically reduce network chatter. Securit

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