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by doonesbury 6y ago
A prof of econ stigler (Nobel laureate) made a decent argument that the discrepancy arose with the a movement somewhere in the 60-70s (US) I believe that corporations do the best good by increasing shareholder value measured by stocks and
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Agree. Nothing about this reads senior engineer. The writing is quite lacking. The material isn't technical, or engineering oriented. It's essentially self promotion.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Nah, a bit dramatic I would say. Anyway to the extent people see Facebook, Bannon, Trump, and the like powerful I think is because they do so in a power vacuum. Congress both in its institutional action and a lot of inaction over the last s
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by doonesbury 6y ago
What I am learning ... is you have a lot to learn. The relatively minor and patently obvious point that there are assholes, players, and politicians in human organizations doesn't give us that much to work with. Moreover, you have defi
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I deplore this list as antithetical to good business. Nobody who's had to reform a loss making human organization (think Motorola and SPC, IBM in 1990s, Xerox late 80s, Iacocca and Chrysler, or Dr Schutz of the book Human Element) used
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I can't find the link now, but there was an article link on HN about 90 days ago about that criticized allocation of money to innovation saying essentially that self help joined forces with disruption which has lead to tons of money an
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Agree. I also prioritize why then usually how with what dead last. I focus on why because it helps simplify and clarify requirements. However the who is our current customer set, which we knew already. Customer's will balk at a great w
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by doonesbury 6y ago
This is credit cards. I consulted at a major credit card company many years ago. Their main system was the usual: mainframes with three money buckets one for charges, one for cash advance, and other. They tried to move the whole thing to UN
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Agree.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
This article explains why travel in a lot of the US (born and raised here) is not interesting except for New Orleans and maybe Austin, or SF and Berkeley. There's a despair here that I bet the French or Portuguese have a perfect word f
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Nice job Op. Thank you.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Totally agree. If you've got something to say, and have some real value marketing is legit and darn helpful and a strategic need. Of course without the preconditions marketing and sales sounds like a BS exercise of desperate come on.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I despise marketing and politics insofar as how it's done: lying, picking very narrow talking points without acknowledging the larger context and contradictions it comes with. Marketing is what you do you don't have to hard sell:
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by doonesbury 6y ago
The American system is equal opportunity not equal outcomes. The latter is the euro model. Both parts of the world often underperform the stated value/goal and we American's have some work to do here. Without throwing capitalism o
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I agree with this position. Let workers decide for themselves how best to use their time. Here's what I don't understand about uber/Lyft and finance people who invest in them: - they are loss makers bleeding serious money. -
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by doonesbury 6y ago
>Deliberate obfuscation by main actors who want to protect their jobs Sure. There is mal-adaptive behavior, and it's not consequence free. >rarely captures the truth accurately Accurately? There's nothing going on in your re
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Sure the first 65% is work hard. But guess what? The last 35% is a much different ask that just does not succumb to that same hammer. As the immediate parent implies, wall building is not all or nothing. Even in statistically controlled man
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Loved loved this series. As it happened broderbund hired me out of arcade to test video games. Had fun testing spelunker, load runner, whistler brothers among other home computer games. Loved it.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
You'd be right but the closest 7-11 for snack top off is taking them off the optimal route. Yah it's not looking good either way. Ops comment was hilarious!!
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I like these three: Eating the menu isn't the same as eating the meal. (I believe from fritz pearls). Thinking is hard that's why most people go straight to judgement. (C Jung) There's nothing more disgusting that a person wi
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Fast isn't the salient metric. Efficiency is.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
BC is a counter example & does not help here at all.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Hey - try answering the question as asked. I didn't ask you for links. I didn't ask you to rephrase your first assessment on why people are negative on BC. I'm not interested in any of that. I asked you for a 1 or 2 paragraph
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by doonesbury 6y ago
I work broadly in financial markets. BC was talked into the ground thankfully ending 2018. Haven't heard squat since. I was genuinely interested particularly on aspects of dis-intermediating custody banks. But it doesn't take long
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Periodically I'm jealous of googlers who try new stuff. Our company started ~1975 and comes with a good bit of crappy legacy code that as good business and customer driven people we maintain while we deprecate and replace components. A
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Well, hmmm, if only there was one or two more FUs then I would have agreed with the Op.(sarcasm). A phd quit my employer and went to google. On last week we were discussing relative differences. He pointed out searching for X really had
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Sometimes I get the impression from rust advocate articles on HN that they are snobs. Not here; no way. This was well written, cheeky, thorough, and gave me a solid sneak peak at doing rust from a c/c++/go/python/Java ba
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Hell of a good write up. Tx.
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by doonesbury 6y ago
Um no. LaTeX + PDF = awesome. All tech docs in PDF are great. Look, web pages to the degree PDF is bad, is worse because it's riddled with adds and waits for servers you didn't intend to bother that, - "help you" - &quo
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by doonesbury 6y ago
"Now, before you email me about how you implemented THE TEMPLATE OF DOOM in assembly using only five molecules of RAM..." Love the humor.

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