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by exelius 8y ago
Agree in-person help is required, but the groups aren’t for everyone. Personally I kicked my habit with a psychiatrist, a therapist and some new friends — sometimes that’s all you need. Really the thing folks need most is someone they know
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by exelius 8y ago
Not there yet, but they will be once the Chinese manufacturers start mass producing white box hardware in a year or two. The ecosystem around carrier SDN is still maturing.
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by exelius 8y ago
Right, but at the low end, there are better options than Cisco (all 3 you mentioned really). At the high end (carrier grade), there weren’t necessarily. They’re not going it alone; ONOS [1] is basically the open source carrier-grade network
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by exelius 8y ago
Don’t whiteboard during interviews? Or don’t whiteboard at all? Dropping the former is good, the latter is bad...
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by exelius 8y ago
The entire telecom industry has been asking this question for the last 20 years. They have finally broken Cisco’s hold over the last 5 years by just building their own hardware a la Facebook and Google. Turns out it’s cheaper that way anywa
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by exelius 8y ago
I cut my news consumption down significantly since the election. I don’t feel any less informed checking in once a week, but I get a lot less anxiety. My life is complicated enough. Facebook was a big part of that, so it’s gone too. I’m sim
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by exelius 8y ago
Thank you for proving my point.
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by exelius 8y ago
Correct, I was only stating that this same meta-game exists. It’s not about identity politics, it’s that white men have made the rules for a very long time. So from the perspective of a white man, it’s an attack on traditional values. From
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by exelius 8y ago
One man’s astroturf is another man’s beloved space opera, in this case. The Expanse is probably the most true to human nature of any space show I’ve seen.
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by exelius 8y ago
Anything by Ardbeg, specifically the Uigedail (sp?) More in the $50 range, but delicious. If I still drank whiskey it’s what I’d drink.
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by exelius 8y ago
Exactly! The problem for many of the pure strategy firms is that clients just bring them in for 2 weeks at the end of a project to “rubber stamp” the strategy. Of course, corporate boards got keen to this strategy and realized they didn’t r
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by exelius 8y ago
Rework is often the profit strategy when the client comes to us with a lowball price in mind. Don’t chalk it all up to dishonesty; many times we have to do exactly what the client asks us to first, watch it fail, then suggest a more expensi
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by exelius 8y ago
Sure, the work is done by inexperienced staff — that’s how we train them. But the work is reviewed by someone with experience, who should correct any mistakes before the client sees them. We try to staff experienced people on engagements, b
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by exelius 8y ago
Yeah... consultants really do bring a lot of value for things that are complex, infrequently performed step functions. Of which there are a lot within a company. But ultimately, when you’re talking complex software implementation, you nee
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by exelius 8y ago
Because having a team of polished people spouting buzzwords is an effective sales tactic regardless of the industry. Your sales people do it, so do mine. Generalist consulting is like 90% sales skills, 10% content.
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by exelius 8y ago
As a management consultant, I 100% agree. I would say the main function of a modern management consultant is twofold: we bring in best practices from outside, and we help companies communicate. Best practices is an obvious function, but the
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s better to think of MB as a menu than as a deterministic thing. Many people shift between different types depending on context. For example, I’m a solid, hardcore ENTJ at work but a sensitive-flower INFP at home — it’s hard to get much
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by exelius 8y ago
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
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by exelius 8y ago
This drives me mad. My health insurance company tries to call me on a regular basis, but because they have to verify they’re speaking with me for HIPAA, they ask for the last 4 of my social. To which I reply “You called me. I don’t know tha
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by exelius 8y ago
I think the risk for a business is that when the rates get too high, shadow banking just takes over. Which it will, because the rates will be really high. It’s a whole lot of work to serve 55,000 people with a GDP of $13,000 per capita. The
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by exelius 8y ago
I agree. My life has been much improved since deleting Facebook from my phone. I don’t need a social network. E-mail and IM actually work fine; it’s trivial to include a link to web content in an e-mail which covers almost everything else.
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by exelius 8y ago
Do men’s gymnastics and figure skating draw the same prestige? My comment is simply about the prestige of the sports, not the merit of the sport itself.
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by exelius 8y ago
Prestige is often fickle... it’s kind of a truism that the most prestigious artists (painters, writers, sculptors, etc) never enjoy success in their lifetimes, but rather find audiences well after they have passed. In a hundred years, the o
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by exelius 8y ago
Maybe prestigious from a mass market perspective; but IMO that’s just because both sports feature very young girls in various states of undress (simulated or not). Both sports trade on the sexualization of young girls. Why do we even have a
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by exelius 8y ago
I think a distributed ownership model is actually the most likely model for self-driving cars given the capital investment required.
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by exelius 8y ago
Legally they check the box, which is the important part.
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by exelius 8y ago
I really like the Unifi gear for home use; it’s industrial-grade without completely breaking the bank (can get a good 2 AP setup for $400). PoE is a nice touch that makes it really easy to just snake a cable from a closet and leave a full-p
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by exelius 8y ago
Drug dogs don’t need to be effective; they just need to establish probable cause.
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by exelius 8y ago
And I’ve made more friends than dates with Her, so I guess the stereotypes hold true for lesbian apps as well.
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by exelius 8y ago
I’m saying to step outside the “constant outrage” bubble that is the media and out into the actual real world people inhabit. If I walked in to a Chick-fil-a in Manhattan, would I be aware of any controversy?

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