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by gav 8y ago
Wipro has over 1200 clients worldwide. From their Q4 FY18 presentation: https://www.wipro.com/content/dam/nexus/en/investor/quarterl... Supposedly they are used by 150 of the Fortune 500.
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by gav 8y ago
One of the things that I've learnt is that the world isn't clear-cut enough for YAGNI[1] all the time, and that it's usually worth building things slightly more generic/flexible than the original ask, because it's r
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by gav 8y ago
> Toil is boring yes, but can be relaxing, and as work that is inherently easier to accomplish, can help keep confidence that working on solving unknown problems can deplete. I think it is important for all roles to have a cadence that m
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by gav 8y ago
> Consider larger services than a typical microservice. People seem to forget that there’s a continuum between monolith and microservices, it’s not one or the other. Multiple monoliths, “medium”-services, monolith plus microservices, and
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by gav 8y ago
I agree, there's so much friction trying to get a group of people to signup for and use another platform. A personal anecdote: people were willing to fly thousands of miles to come to my wedding, but (almost) nobody wanted to use the s
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by gav 8y ago
One thing that I learnt from e-commerce is that there’s a segment of customers who will delight in “beating you” to get a discount. It’s valuable to allow them to think they’ve won. Tactics include: seeding “secret” coupons, discount rules
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by gav 8y ago
I think it's a smart choice to give their customers the option for hotels, it solidifies Airbnb as a one-stop-shop for travel experiences. There's a lot of cases where a hotel makes sense, such as short trips (especially if it&#x2
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by gav 8y ago
> you should write tests for things you want to make sure they will not break You should also write tests for things that are already broken before you work on the fix so that you can be sure it's actually fixed. Basically the red&#
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by gav 8y ago
The majority of issues I see with Agile and Scrum is that it's a process added by people external to the teams and it's treated as a rigid process to be followed. I've worked with teams who have had to suffer through a 45-min
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by gav 8y ago
> Seems like on-site open-book 90 minute real-world problems would be a nice solution. It is. And it's superior to a take-home test because you know the candidate wrote the code, you know how long it took them, and you can turn it i
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by gav 8y ago
I still don't understand why Amazon has done so little to combat the plague of fake reviews. It seems like it's something that's going to blow up eventually and bite them. Along those lines: why do they still value reviews th
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by gav 8y ago
There's a list of things that should be right there on the project homepage: - What is this project? - Who is the intended audience? - Why would I use it? - How does it compare to other projects? - Where should I go for help/suppo
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by gav 8y ago
> Target, macy’s, walmart, jet, etc all face this challenge. I've been buying more household items from Jet recently because their smaller category is easier to navigate. Plus there's no third-party sellers and no pricing confu
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by gav 8y ago
I call this the "massive heterogeneous catalog" problem. Generally e-commerce retailers have grown from a fairly narrow set of product categories (e.g. books for Amazon) to adding more and more diverse categories. This has a drama
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by gav 8y ago
> Or the Negroni Personally I think the classic Negroni is interesting because if you play with the ingredients (and/or ratios) in the right way you get a lot of interesting variations: - An Americano is a Negroni without the gi
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by gav 8y ago
I agree. I would argue that I get a lot more value out of the comments than than the linked content. The only major issue I have with the comments on HN is that early ones get a lot more upvotes, causing later--but just as valid--points of
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by gav 8y ago
The solution to the fear of being at fault is to ask the person making the referral a question like: [ ] I have first-hand experience of the candidate's technical skills [ ] I have first-hand experience of the candidate'
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by gav 8y ago
I've had jobs where there's an expectation that you'll do 8 hours of work a day, but they'll also put 4-6 hours of meetings on your calendar. Most people end up staying late or getting in early to try to get some time to
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by gav 8y ago
LTO-8 tapes can store 12TB (uncompressed) for about $300/ea, which is about 30% less than a disk, with supposedly a 30-year life. The drives start at around $5000.
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by gav 8y ago
There has to be something better than tape, I know I'm just a single data point, but I've had _terrible_ luck with tapes over the years. I've tried various options over the years but I haven't found a simple OTS non-tape
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by gav 8y ago
This is price bracketing, which is a form of anchoring. The idea is that if you had two items, one for $10 and one for $40, adding a $200 item is going to increase sales of the $40 because it makes it seem more reasonable in comparison. It&
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by gav 8y ago
> Targets are often useful because they're proxies for the unmeasurable Not just the unmeasurable, there's a lot of KPIs used because they are easier than figuring out metrics that are meaningful. Here's some examples I&#x
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by gav 8y ago
In your first few years your base is going to be low, is it a bad month if you went from 1000 to 1100 customers instead of 1200? The way I think about things is that there is some market with a size Y (or, size X now, but with the hope it w
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by gav 8y ago
Not even close. If you start at 1 million users, 20% monthly growth for 9 years means you would have 13,375,565,248,934 users, or a little over 13 trillion.
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by gav 8y ago
I want to think that the future involves avoiding having to own bigger cars entirely and lease/rent an EV car plus credits for short-term rentals of different vehicles when needed. Need a big SUV for skiing or camping? Swap your small
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by gav 8y ago
Most recipients don't pay tax on that disability income, so the net income in comparison to working is higher.
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by gav 8y ago
I was visiting a large successful startup that had a "no managers" mantra--they hired engineering A players who were expected to work on the right things. It turns out that people want to work on the fun and challenging tasks. Nob
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by gav 8y ago
I've had a lot of success with rewrites where the outcome is a lot less functionality, but with one or two new features that have a huge amount of value. For example, rewriting a crufty ordering system that drops 50% of the edge-cases
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by gav 8y ago
I've heard about "hide the hat" years ago––you lose your hat on a business trip and have to find some other way to expense it.
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by gav 8y ago
It’s also a result of feature-driven RFPs or similar check-the-box driven evaluation. There’s a line item for “integrated log analysis” that needs to be met, but there’s less analysis on how useful that feature may be in reality.

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