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Why I Still Think Carly Fiorina Was a Terrible CEO(politico.com)
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by dkrich 11y ago
"A crew operating a high-tech fighter plane made a terrible mistake" -> "Had the crew been close enough to the ground to see their enemies, the mistake may have been avoided" -> "A-10's require pilots t
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by dkrich 11y ago
To say that the plane is "WWII era" when it is not, is simply incorrect. I don't understand how it would be considered acceptable practice to state something that is misleading and untrue for effect. If it is a clear exaggera
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by dkrich 11y ago
The author cites a graph of declining Google searches for "Ruby on Rails" relative to "Node.js" and then follows up with the statement: You can see how rails is losing mindshare to newer frameworks. I don't really
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by dkrich 11y ago
Um that's like saying the founders of Intel were a great fit for Fairchild Semiconductor because they all met there. Just because their schools created an extremely fortuitous environment for meeting cofounders does not mean that that&
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by dkrich 11y ago
And Zuckerberg? Jobs? Ellison? Dell? If you think that elite schools wouldn't want one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful entrepreneurs on their list of alumni instead of another lawyer or investment banker even if they k
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by dkrich 11y ago
> I think Harvard would still reject him, he doesn't seem to fit in with what a "Harvard Man" is. I disagree for a simple reason- suppose Harvard could go back in time and reject Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, or Stanford
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by dkrich 11y ago
I could, but it's more of a force of habit- but if I did that would further prove my point that the choice of logo doesn't make any difference to people using the site for search.
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by dkrich 11y ago
Was about to make the same point.
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by dkrich 11y ago
Is that your gut instinct or is there research to suggest that that's the case? My personal process for using Google (not saying everyone is the same, but...) goes something like this: 1. Type "g" into the address bar 2. Pres
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by dkrich 11y ago
That's interesting, because I actually found the article pretty impressive considering the timing. It's easy to look back 13 years later and laugh at the title, but some of the finer points were pretty insightful. Many parts of th
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by dkrich 11y ago
As a former employee (I actually used to work in the office in the picture), I have to say I am very surprised and impressed by this move. I once had a manager on a multi year oracle and Java implementation who didn't know what a datab
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by dkrich 11y ago
This isn't factually accurate. You can have an implied contract from exchanged emails, verbal communication- pretty much anything that shows intent.
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by dkrich 11y ago
Even if the growth curve for Spotify flattens for iPhone users in the U.S., you still have the entire Android market, and let's not forget that Spotify has an international customer base. To say that they are screwed is an awfully bold
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by dkrich 11y ago
>> Spotify is in serious trouble. But, the thing is, they're not. Apple is the one fighting the uphill battle in streaming music. Yesterday they had no subscribers. Today they have nobody paying them for the service. They are pla
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by dkrich 11y ago
I've heard this refrain a lot, and honestly, I don't understand it. Spotify is the incumbent. They built an awesome product before on-demand music streaming was widely available. It will be very difficult for Spotify to compete?
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by dkrich 11y ago
The point is that if the author of the article got on a bicycle with 100% certainty of being involved in an accident, I seriously doubt she would get on it without a helmet or some protective gear, despite her claims that wearing a helmet a
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by dkrich 11y ago
> The point is that ordinary commuter cycling in normal weather on flat, clean roads is a lot less dangerous than standing around while people throw bricks at your head. This is true until you fall off the bike and your head hits the pav
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by dkrich 11y ago
You are disputing that blunt force trauma to your head causes injury? Or that having a barrier between your head and the point of impact prevents severity of injury? Which part exactly are you saying isn't true? And actually, looking a
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by dkrich 11y ago
This seems like a serious case of Black Swan reasoning. In other words, she seems to be taking an apparent lack of evidence that helmets prevent injury as evidence that helmets don't prevent injury. Just remember, you wear a helmet 99.
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by dkrich 11y ago
I actually am wholly opposed to government-run lotteries, mainly for the reasons you cited but also because they prey upon the poor and act as a wealth redistribution engine from the poor to the rich. My question is why would taking advanta
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by dkrich 11y ago
I think this confuses causality to an extent. Aesthetic design has to be a natural extension of the underlying product. A beautiful website for Porsche/Apple/Stripe and other highly-regarded products inspire confidence. Apply this
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by dkrich 11y ago
But then shouldn't the government not be able to sell lottery tickets for the same reason?
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by dkrich 11y ago
Working with a remote team on a SaaS application != outsourcing enterprise-level work to overseas employees. With a small remote team you have the luxury of carefully choosing remote candidates and interviewing them individually. Enterprise
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by dkrich 11y ago
Based on your optimism, I suspect that you've never worked on or managed a project of significance using outsourced employees. Just a few of the realities that you will face if and when you do so: 1) A 12+ hour time difference. I recal
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by dkrich 11y ago
>> If these companies are breaking the law so badly (and they probably are, the top 7 or so companies using H1B are Infosys and other outsourcing firms) -- why don't employees go ahead and sue them? Lawsuits are extremely expensi
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by dkrich 11y ago
Or at least give each user the option and default it to unshared. I don't see why they'd default to sharing everyone's.
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by dkrich 11y ago
>> I can't think of a single company who has reached a critical-mass consumer audience and not been able to monetize. Twitter, just about every news site, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Digg, ...
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by dkrich 11y ago
>> Basically, what the other side is saying is that yes, negotiating is a skill, but the reason why our economy works so efficiently is that we instituted division of labor. Understood, but division of labor is largely gray and only r
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by dkrich 11y ago
I disagree. If engineers are notoriously bad at negotiating (which we probably are), the solution is to improve that skill, not to seek to avoid negotiating in any form or fashion. The idea that you can willfully eschew any responsibility f

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