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Hubris
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Is there an equivalent source for presenting ideas? For my sins I prepare a lot of sales architecture slides and I often struggle to find diagrams beyond the smart art graphics in Office and Google Slides (as good as they are).
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Do you have forecasting data as well? Could we use that to figure out how accurate forecasting is from various agencies?
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Programming is a a commodity skill these days, less and less money in it.
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There is history in the material. Touching something that has been touched for 100s of years is almost spiritual. Seeing the cracks and splits, the dings and cuts. In the West history is tactile.
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In life sciences the people are smarter than any developer but software is IT-captured so all they can work with is Excel. No code is meant for these people. Software developers will never deliver what life sciences needs without no code.
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Kind of like what Android does already?
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Fwiw I always answer and then engage the human operator in a one sided dramatic play. Calls always step for a couple of months after that.
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3D TV syndrome
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One app and you're good, but a network of interconnected systems and a couple of domain controllers and the backups are never in sync.
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Your evidence is contradicting your opinion!
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How do you know that reinfection is rare esp for variants? We've been in lock down and meant of those infected self isolate voluntarily or as a consequence of being sick. And what's the consequence of your pov? That everyone just
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What about an mpesa for the Western world? Paying money to bricks and mortar merchants by entering a short code?
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Is this really the semantic web debacle all over again? Curation doesn't scale and if you're going to do it just do it in a database already; standards lead to committees that end up choking progress because we have all the stan
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One note
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Southern was a government funded battle with the trade unions
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The elephant in the room is that UK rail is too complex to be managed in siloes and it should be renationalised for the national good and to save money.
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Shipping containers should be boyant, water tight and include a robotic system to propel them to the nearest landing point, like box shaped fish.
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Covid probably killed off flu in nasal passages kind of like the common cold does to other viruses
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Yes. There's good money in it, the certifications keep the quality good and are reasonably doable. You can transition out once you get some experience with major clients; I did Siebel for years and whilst many of my colleagues jumped
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Archimate for high level architecture, uml for more detail, and masala diagrams (that's what we're calling them right?) in ppt for marketecture
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Or Zotero?
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Seems intuitive because estate agents make bank on a small percentage of the sale, so number of sales is more important that pushing the price by, from their cut's pov, a couple of 100 GBP/USD
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Zim is the best, good speed, files stored as plain text, fast indexing. I use it for personal and work, auto backup with Dropbox or G Drive.
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The Matrix
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Scrum is great because it encourages hyper-communication through ceremonies but there needs to be some acknowledgement of its purpose, right now it has been hijacked by consultancies so they can save money on BAs and analysis, so it always
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I sat in class while we learnt a carol which included the lines 'even if he's black sir'. It sucked. Not just offensive. To kill a mockingbird is a great book but not suitable for kids in it's current form but I don
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One concern with the MS option is that it's not their only product so they could drop or degrade it in the future without impacting their bottom line. The other RPA vendors are tied to their RPA products. The fact that it's going
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Fakespot
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It's always been bums on seats for them. Without that they will be measured by productivity alone which will be a disaster.
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