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by fensterblick 3y ago
Heard a talk by their CEO and I was impressed by his focus on technology as a differentiator and competitive advantage. I will also say that technology is more than just the website/app - it is also their supply chain and how they run
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by fensterblick 3y ago
Recently, I've heard of several companies folding up SRE and moving individuals to their SWE teams. Rumors are that LinkedIn, Adobe, and Robinhood have done this. This made me think: is SRE a byproduct of a bubble economy of easy money
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by fensterblick 4y ago
Questions for the founding team, and others: What books or resources did you helpful in understanding the plumbing of the US banking system?
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by fensterblick 5y ago
That the IRS is not overwhelmingly prosecuting this type of crime. What's the basis for the converse? What numbers don't add up?
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by fensterblick 5y ago
This has been true for decades. When my dad ran a gas station, the profit came from selling goods like food and cigarettes, or repair services. But he stopped selling cigarettes in the early 1990s when my mom, a nurse, thought it was not ri
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by fensterblick 5y ago
That may be the case for some gas stations but it is hardly the case for the vast majority of them. The majority of them are run by law abiding citizens who want to follow the law. They want no legal trouble. I am Indian too, with a father
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by fensterblick 6y ago
My father sold gas back in the day. He told me a story of an incident where he accidentally sold water instead of gas. When the supply tanker was filling up the underground reserves, someone forgot to close up the underground reserve. A hea
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by fensterblick 6y ago
I want to like GnuCash but I just can't. I have found the UI to be confusing. I still use a freeware, abandoned version of Microsoft Money: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207... The
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by fensterblick 9y ago
I just started looking at Pinterest as a company to work for. From the outside, the way they treat their employees looks amazing. Things like KnitCon (an internal conference for employees led by employees) reflect well on the company. On th
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by fensterblick 9y ago
Amazon is still up almost 10x from its peak!
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by fensterblick 9y ago
Regarding Mumbai, it depends on how you define "foreigner". The native population of Marathis only totals 22% in Mumbai. For some in India, these inter-Indian distinctions matter greatly. It is just pedantic nitpicking. The remain
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by fensterblick 9y ago
That doesn't sound normal. Many alcohol stills use copper (wikipedia has this bit of information: "(a copper still) removes sulfur-based compounds from the alcohol that would make it unpleasant to drink")
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by fensterblick 9y ago
I have much disdain for GM's corporate culture. It is a company culture that knowingly allowed dangerous vehicles be sold for a decade until a Georgia litigator connected the dots (source: http://jalopnik.com/your-guide
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by fensterblick 9y ago
The Ford family controls the stock with its supervoting shares. Their opinions are what matter. Otherwise, I agree with your comment.
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by fensterblick 9y ago
I have been a Ford investor for several years. This is a big surprise for me. Ford has said they expect to have a fully autonomous vehicles by 2021 (link: https://corporate.ford.com/innovation/autonomous-2021.html ). Th
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by fensterblick 9y ago
With IBM, one can't help but feel this is a tactic to force layoffs without having to actually do a layoff. I believe they tried similar tactics in their Global Business Services division in the mid-2000s.
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by fensterblick 10y ago
It's already happening. Several examples come to mind, but for now I'll use one that is relevant to Cisco: Palo Alto Networks offers several subscription based services for its security/networking hardware.
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by fensterblick 11y ago
I was convinced to install an ad blocker solely for the safety reasons. It is the new antivirus.
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by fensterblick 11y ago
The article says: "Transferring four petabytes of data, it turned out, took about a day." Quite a feat - How did they manage to get 4 PB from S3 in a day, over the internet?
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by fensterblick 11y ago
But Amazon wasn't the first. The Sun Grid was first (launched in March 2006).
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by fensterblick 11y ago
"Talking your book" == putting money where your mouth is. Bill Gross, especially when he was at PIMCO running the world's largest bond fund, had to invest in what he believed in. They couldn't market themselves out of a
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by fensterblick 11y ago
If they can do this right, they will get a lot more customers. Right now we use Lync/Skype for communication, which I loathe almost as much as Lotus Notes. This sentiment is shared by many. Slack usage has organically grown (as a react
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by fensterblick 11y ago
This reminds me of the NYTimes Amazon story a few months ago. There were several people who wrote that their experiences were nothing like what the story portrayed. It was possible for both sides to be correct. It takes a lot of data points
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by fensterblick 11y ago
I thought it was creative, entertaining and different than the usual boring charts. It's not perfect but I still liked it!
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by fensterblick 11y ago
They often called themselves "AJ America" or "AJAM"
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by fensterblick 11y ago
For influence? If you can't outright bribe a politician, you pay well over asking for his company (or house, or anything else). And then you hope he lends you a willing ear when you need a favor.
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by fensterblick 11y ago
Thank you for this site! I am going through the interview process now and there are times where I feel like a fraud. Some call this impostor syndrome. It's encouraging to read others who have travelled the same path I've been on.
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by fensterblick 11y ago
Thanks, Steve Dorner. I liked Eudora a lot. And now I always remember what happens when you chop off a branch while sitting on it (a question on Eudora's help menu).
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by fensterblick 11y ago
I recall there being quite a few Yahoo employees and execs with McKinsey backgrounds. I think many of them were on previous projects that Yahoo hired them for. If this is the case, I hope they get better results this time.
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by fensterblick 11y ago
As the article highlights, the Arab revolutions were led by the youth. I wonder what, if anything, will happen in the USA when the current generation, saddled by seemingly insurmountable college debt, comes to the realization that it cannot

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