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by exelius 8y ago
By not defining them, you leave the priorities of the business up to what amounts to a popularity contest with each manager. Raises and promotions thus get handed out to the people who are most likable. Senior executives (usually VP and abo
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by exelius 8y ago
Maybe because it doesn’t take a company to test product/market fit anymore? A single developer can build an entire app on something like Heroku or AWS Serverless and use that to test the market, rather than needing to build a whole com
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by exelius 8y ago
Regardless, defined performance metrics are better than none at all. You have to create the formality around performance evaluation or else you end up with those who understand the informal rules outperforming those who don’t simply because
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s all virtue-signaling in the end, and a manager from the same background is going to be more receptive to virtue-signaling from their own cultural background than from someone with a different background. Formal reviews distill virtue s
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by exelius 8y ago
I’m not talking about preferential hiring; I’m talking about removing bias from the hiring process. This must be done by the company because I guarantee the prospective employee is doing everything they can to try to virtue-signal the compa
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by exelius 8y ago
*she But gender is only a part of it; unconscious bias is intersectional just like identity. The fewer intersectional traits you share with someone, the greater the cultural gap you have to cover. More formality at work in terms of expectat
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by exelius 8y ago
Not that they’re the only ones willing; but they are overwhelmingly the only ones capable of operating in the way OP describes due to a variety of societal pressures, lack of family attachment, confidence/ego, etc. Other people are c
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by exelius 8y ago
No offense, but this is the kind of thinking that leads to workplace bias. Working styles like this tend to reinforce hiring single, young men who are otherwise unencumbered so they can work long hours and push the envelope of the job des
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by exelius 8y ago
This is true of more than just a mountain... it’s a story as old as mankind. See also Moby Dick, Macbeth, Beowulf, etc. It’s basically the achievement treadmill. Either you realize you eventually have to get off the treadmill or you die try
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by exelius 8y ago
That site is as old as the Internet... I remember reading it when I was a kid looking to learn about drugs. I’m in my mid 30s now. Looks like it hasn’t changed a lot since the 90s.
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by exelius 8y ago
Looks like they want companies to pay to avoid the platform lock-in that k8s helps you avoid...
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by exelius 8y ago
I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t throw in with Microsoft soon around mobile development. There’s a lot of symbiosis there — Apple and Microsoft don’t really compete in very many markets against eachother anymore. Visual Studio is actua
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by exelius 8y ago
Oh I agree; Apple’s brand carries a ton of heft in the laptop market because they generally get the “product” features (keyboards, battery life, screen quality, etc) right. It’s only so noticeable because their track record has been so good
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by exelius 8y ago
More that both laptops and desktops are dinosaurs compared to mobile so Apple isn’t pouring R&D into them. And it’s a smart move.
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by exelius 8y ago
The “enthusiast” segment of the market is small. Even then you don’t have nearly the choice in vendors you used to, so people mix and match parts from the same 5 or 6 vendors who’ve been there forever. Cryptocurrency mining has kept the ent
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by exelius 8y ago
Sure; but users stopped buying computer hardware on specs last decade (or at least the mass market Apple is chasing). Macs aren’t even any more expensive than top-end PC laptops. They’re just a brand choice.
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by exelius 8y ago
Everyone is coasting in the desktop / laptop market. Refresh cycles are like 5-10 years on PCs now, and it’s not clear tablets even have a refresh cycle. You can’t get growth on PC hardware anymore, not even if you’re Apple. So it goes
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by exelius 8y ago
My bet is they spin the whole gaming division off or sell it to someone like Amazon. It’s not really a great fit anymore and IMO they need to be bolted to a company with a greater interest in the creative side of the business (i.e. running
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by exelius 8y ago
All it took was a few companies LESS trustworthy (Google, Facebook, Uber, et al) to come into the public conversation. Microsoft has been downright benevolent in comparison to some of these companies.
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by exelius 8y ago
For real; my mother wears a glass replica of her real stone. What’s the point of owning the real thing at that point?
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by exelius 8y ago
That’s a small market, and most photogs I know who shoot MF/LF film are using cameras that are 50+ years old (Hasselblads mostly). A digital back can improve workflow, but quality is still better with film at those sizes. These are s
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by exelius 8y ago
I don’t think there will be an AI winter frankly. A lot of the use cases that businesses want can be built with a combination of decision trees and some ML for classification. ML works incredibly well on even lightly-structured data (which
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by exelius 8y ago
I think companies that don’t have some statement of corporate ethics are going to find themselves starved for talent while the ones who do eat their lunch. I’m seeing it happen across the professional services industry; the big 4 are consis
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s not just pro-LGBT; it’s a whole liberal ideology that values people of all kinds, and looks to transform the culture to include all that diversity. Trump is very much against this ideology... but he’s also reminded the country after
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s pretty easy to get laid period if you’re not a straight man.
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by exelius 8y ago
Exactly. Those kids will eventually reach a company, look around and see it’s 95% cisgender/heterosexual people, and they don’t feel welcome because that’s not the world they grew up in. The whole “trans agenda” is really about letting
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by exelius 8y ago
I think you’re very wrong. Companies like Google have trained an entire generation to seek greater meaning in their work. Even if Google’s promises were hollow, millennials don’t have the cultural institutions our parents did. Thus we seek
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by exelius 8y ago
I’ve had great success with e-mailing CEOs. I have engaged in (respectful) debates with them, and on more than one occasion they have come around to my point of view enough to actually implement changes at their companies. Most CEOs are act
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by exelius 8y ago
It ain’t politics; it’s a particularly aggressive form of argumentation that holds no boundaries. Even the most hateful subreddit enforces standards (no doxxing, no brigading, etc) because if they don’t, they know the Reddit admins will shu
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by exelius 8y ago
s/changing the world for the better/chasing those sweet adtech dollars/g Is anyone else cynical about this phrase?

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