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   by fl8190a 5y ago

   I made it sound too interesting. I just meant to point out two things that are pretty obvious to external observers (one of which is that manufacturing work is often less predictable and more after-hours than something like SW development)
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   by fl8190a 5y ago

   I didn't mean to imply that exactly (since the margins were still pretty high and comp was still incredible by conventional standards), but I'm implying that high-margin software companies could easily offer previously unthinkable
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   by fl8190a 5y ago

   I was there when it hummed, and I was there when it failed. This is a gross mischaracterization (of an extremely complex failure) that owes its appeal to a simple and familiar explanation: greed / optimizing for shareholder returns. I