exelius

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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah you're right - I guess I got Bezos mixed up with someone else.
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by exelius 11y ago
> but running them ragged is a mechanism of control. This is actually wrong. I used to think that, but again, the world has changed. Running your team ragged is purely a dog and pony show to win follow-up work. When you go into a client
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by exelius 11y ago
He's not necessarily lying - I have several MBB friends (engagement manager level) who have been flying trans-Atlantic nearly weekly from the US for the better part of the last 3 years. Hell, I still fly coast to coast on a regular bas
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by exelius 11y ago
There's an oversupply of ex-consultants and they all fancy themselves as the next Jeff Bezos (Bezos is ex-McKinsey and his company operates like it). As a current consultant who sees so many of his co-workers with this dream, I feel ma
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by exelius 11y ago
> The installation process he just described was acceptable in the late 1990s but things have moved on since then. Not in the industrial space they haven't. Plant managers don't understand or care about anything other than keep
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by exelius 11y ago
This makes total sense -- you do what you know. As a child growing up, you emulate your parents in a lot of ways. If your parents are factory workers, they probably didn't push you towards college so you will end up in a similar job. L
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by exelius 11y ago
It is; if only for the fact that the very small number of violent radicals can organize more effectively than ever while also having access to better murder techniques than ever before. I'm personally terrified of the day someone decid
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by exelius 11y ago
You're right -- this has always been true. The only people bummed out by it are the people trying to recreate Facebook's core value proposition (maintaining a digital representation of our meatspace relationships) themselves. Bu
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by exelius 11y ago
Obama is right - it is an increasingly terrifying world. But I'm more terrified of hugely powerful centralized governments with the ability to get to any person, anywhere in the world than I am a group of poorly organized, illiterate
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by exelius 11y ago
This was a human interest piece; IMO it was less about the factual impacts of gentrification and more about the emotional baggage that white people feel about it. This was the author's way of coping with the destruction of the history
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; you make a great point about delivering value. I do think the partners brought a lot to the table though: they had usually done these types of projects before, so you at least had someone to point you in the right direction. And if no
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by exelius 11y ago
Yep; though for the purposes of consulting you have to consider the pure execution shops as well (Accenture, Infosys, etc.) Those guys are throwing in strategy for free as well; albeit with a different model (they just hire ex-McKinsey&#x2F
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by exelius 11y ago
Yep, never underestimate the power of CYA... Also, depending on the company, most consultants can be paid for out of CapEx (depending how you word the contract), but you'd have a hard time convincing accounting that a SaaS service bill
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by exelius 11y ago
The consulting work he is referring to is rapidly disappearing. Mostly because the big global consulting firms are execution-focused, and they're essentially willing to give away the recommendation work for free as part of a bid for th
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by exelius 11y ago
You sound like a consultant who didn't like the relationship aspect of the business. 1) This is true; consultants are very expensive. But the $200/hr you're paying for the 23-year-old little shit also has to cover all the hou
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by exelius 11y ago
We all do things that we enjoy that may not make us money. We do them because we enjoy them. The cardinal sin of the web is that it makes it really easy to take something that someone did for fun (and for free) and copy it for the benefit o
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by exelius 11y ago
Right; and the biggest high-profile accidents in the last decade have been caused when the complexity of the automation overwhelmed the pilots and caused them to make bad decisions because they did not know if they could trust the values th
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by exelius 11y ago
> Maybe it wouldn't happen this way, but it could potentially set things back by years. Looking at the technology, pushing for early adoption might save lives. But looking at the politics, pushing too hard could cost lives, by makin
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by exelius 11y ago
This isn't restricted to an open-source CMS; any popular CMS gives you this. SharePoint is the gold standard in DIY CMS platforms, and everything you mention above is doubly true of SharePoint. It's certainly easier to find a Shar
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; it's just going to mean the failure of the Windows store because right now nobody is writing games for UWP when it's as locked down as it is.
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by exelius 11y ago
Except PC gamers expect cutting edge experiences like the Oculus Rift -- something they can't get inside the sandbox. That flexibility is the entire reason PC gaming is popular.
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by exelius 11y ago
UWP would be nice for users -- if the API support was comparable. But it's not. Modern games can be fragile as hell and they need to be able to enable/disable specific settings on specific models of card. Hell, modern AAA games of
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by exelius 11y ago
Right; I'm not saying that using mobile check deposit is the easiest possible method for this (it definitely is not), but it is the easiest method that my major US bank supports.
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by exelius 11y ago
The textbook we used for my organizational power class was Machiavelli's "The Prince" (yes, I'm being serious). Just replace any instances of murder/beheading with firing and it's a good parallel to the corpora
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by exelius 11y ago
Also, because my wife and I use different banks but pay bills jointly, I just have her write me a check every month for her part of the bills. I then accept it using my bank's mobile check deposit feature. While we could do ACH transfe
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by exelius 11y ago
And it's still hard to argue with the fact that out of several million miles driven, this is the first serious accident that was caused by the autonomous car (and the failure scenario looks to have been appreciably complex). You won&#x
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by exelius 11y ago
Any modern argument based on laws written 250 years ago is going to necessarily be roundabout. If the problem was straightforward, there would probably be established case law addressing it.
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by exelius 11y ago
> Unfortunately, fiscal policy is stuck in a quagmire due to deep-seated ideological divisions in Washington D.C. I'm hoping Donald Trump helps to solve this (or rather, helps the GOP implode.). The Republican party has been an ideo
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; unfortunately this is not a space that's super profitable. There used to be a bigger need for it; but airlines have gotten a lot better about communicating delays to customers, so I'm not sure this kind of app is necessarily
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, just saying that with Apple's level of access to the information on people's phones, it would be a very attractive target - and the best way to obtain access and keep it would be an insider. The NSA/CIA are spy agencies

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