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by floppydisk 11y ago
I think what we're seeing is institutional money moving around. Mutual funds, pension plans, and other such entities need to retain a certain ROI to ensure their primary objectives get completed--i.e. making pension payments every mont
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by floppydisk 11y ago
I think I'm missing the gist of your argument and I see it going one of two ways. 1) Drone Program / Terrorist Hunting / intelligence = bad therefore companies helping with intelligence gathering / processing = bad/
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Tim Ferriss discussed the idea in the Four-Hour Workweek and on his blog here [1] [1]. http://fourhourworkweek.com/category/low-information-diet-an...
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Lots of reasons: 1) Everyone knows it or has touched it. Walk down a street filled with developers and you'll run into many who know or have worked with Java. 2) Apache. Apache. Apache. The saying goes No one ever got fired for using J
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by floppydisk 11y ago
One of their big projects was helping forces predict the locations of IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan [1]. It did a better job at aggregating all the intel they were getting on IEDs into a unified interface and platform that let ground command
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by floppydisk 11y ago
They still are popular, especially in the government contracting world. It's almost a mandatory requirement their business analysts use Tableau when creating dashboards for clients.
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Nokia had a clunky version of a smartphone on the market for years before Apple launched the iPhone. Apple iterated on the idea, but they didn't create it. Similarly, Blackberry was already there. Didn't have touch screens but the
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Apple has never been disruptive in the "we invented a new product category" sort of way. They've been disrupted in the "we take a raw idea, simplify it, refine it, make it KISS simple to use and polish the presentation&q
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Write better emails. Seriously. Once I learned how to do this, my response rate for emails jumped substantially and thankfully, it's not hard. The two areas that are the fastest to focus on optimizing are the subject line and the organ
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by floppydisk 11y ago
That's a good point. One of the best arguments I've read about corporate structure argued the higher up you go, the more of an enable you're supposed to be and it's less about you and more about how you empower the peopl
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by floppydisk 11y ago
I think it was part of the management culture and how they got things "done" back in the day. The CEO came from a background where solution finding was sticking people in a war room for hours churning through things to find soluti
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by floppydisk 11y ago
1) Phrase it as a help-me-help-you arrangement. You're getting gauged on how much stuff your team is getting done. Let me help you improve your performance metrics by reducing my meeting load and letting me focus more on coding. Our ou
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Indeed. One gig I was at consisted of spending 9-5 doing nothing but meetings/groupwork/collaborating/email and dealing with bosses who kept asking why the coding wasn't getting done and behind schedule in one breath whi
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Yes, you can get very general macro insights from metrics like that--if they're publicly available--but they are kind of worthless from a understanding point of view because they don't tell you what/where/when/who.
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Interesting. Hadn't thought of that angle before. Be interesting to see the correlations between rail freight company revenues and Amtrak timeliness.
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Volvo's order book (future orders) is indicative of how shippers see demand for new capacity. If I see demand increasing, I increase my purchase of capital assets (trucks in Volvo's case) to capture the business. If I see demand d
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by floppydisk 11y ago
As someone going through a job hunt at the moment, my biggest pain point is lack of standardization in resume formatting for online job portals. My biggest pain points are: 1) No standardized resume format that all job portals parse the sam
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by floppydisk 11y ago
The best indicator for anything transportation is utilization and how much stuff is actually being moved. Not just the price of moving something from A --> B. Yes, the presence of more movers, as the article points out, suppresses the pr
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by floppydisk 11y ago
The BDI is a summation of a lot of information into a single price point. Megaships, and the general push for more fuel efficiency in new ship builds do impact it to some extent, but not to the degree necessary to account for a major push d
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by floppydisk 11y ago
The problem is, if the statement is word in a very open ended manner and the firing company perceives the comments as disparaging in any way, they come after you. The company could argue revealing they're completely replacing departmen
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by floppydisk 11y ago
The game isn't producing working projects, the game is getting so embedded you're there forever and then you nickel and dime for every little thing. Need a 30 second change of color on the HTML bar to fix accessibility? That'
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by floppydisk 11y ago
I think you're right in one regard, it will induce a race to the bottom amongst larger companies going this way. Quality is going to decrease over time. Lay offs mean the loss of institutional knowledge, team experience, internal quali
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Email and being expected to read every email as soon as it arrives and craft a perfect response in a timely manner while hitting all deadlines. Then, if you don't answer quickly, three people come swinging by your office asking if you&
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by floppydisk 11y ago
A little bit of tough love: You're going about this the wrong way. Build from the problem down to the tech stack, not the tech stack up to the problem. Here are some questions I'd ask in the following order: 1) What is the problem
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by floppydisk 11y ago
First of all, good luck! It's exciting to get your first major pitch to a big potential client. Hope it goes well and you guys close the deal. There's also some great advice in this thread. With regards to your question, Zig Zigle
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by floppydisk 11y ago
It's like the blogging site boom from back in the day. Lots of platforms emerged and eventually the market coalesced into a couple major players that drive a lot of the traffic now. I think the same thing will happen to this market. We
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by floppydisk 11y ago
We're in the same boat, I always got envious of the people doing the mad cool stuff and playing mad scientist -- that's what makes the tech blogs, but missed the fact that $MAD_COOL_THING was only a fraction of what they did and t
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by floppydisk 11y ago
Tangentially, the cost of paying a mortgage is comparable to or cheaper than paying rent in the metro areas I've priced. The problem is getting enough of a % downpayment saved to "unlock" the house purchase option. People I&#
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by floppydisk 11y ago
At the abstract level, get a standardized process for your analysis that you can use from project to project. Doesn't have to be complicated, but it needs to be consistent and applied to each project. Here's what I'd recommen

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