hasty_pudding

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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
> was MS buying LI and then wanting them on Azure. LinkedIn's been extremely independent of Microsoft and still are just like GitHub and openAI. This was a 100% internal LinkedIn management decision.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
> Emphasis on knowing Literally your primary job as an executive. Strategic knowledge and wisdom If wasting tens of million on a bullshit initiative isn't an example of bad management then literally nothing is. The only place these
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
That's not good management though. Recognizing you fucked up and only cost the company tens of millions instead of hundreds of millions is "Not Terrible" management.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
The entire company has no Q.A team. The amount of bugs I troubleshot in that tech stack was staggering just for basic day-to-day stuff. promotion based engineering means an engineer shits something out that looks cool in a demo then bails
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
Sunk cost doesn't necessarily mean good management. It actually means the opposite. Instead of management identifying a boondoggle ahead of time they got the company into a mess.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
> I personally appreciate LI management's ability to be clear-eyed about whether the ROI was there. Kind of confusing statement as they threw away tens of millions of dollars in a failed attempt to migrate.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
As someone who worked at LI. They spent years and god knows how many millions TRYING to move to Azure with the Blueshift project..before pulling the plug. They hired armies of contractors. They didn't stop by choice. They stopped becau
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
It started off as a youth culture magazine mostly about style, drugs, and sex built on a couple of founders edgy sense of humour. It was very strange when people started to take it seriously.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
I find it to be a beautiful turn of phrase
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
I don't know how you got into debt but a lot of people do it to survive. lol Student loan debt is massive simply people trying to better their skills to participate in the economy. Housing is massive debt people trying to get shelter.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
Her brothers escape from poverty is to literally face death on the battlefield. Not sure thats a better option.
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
How is behavior NOT a product of ones environment? One only has the information to make decisions about the world they have gathered from their environment. No one is born knowing correct way to behave. As an example do you think everyone i
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by hasty_pudding 3y ago
One if the worst parts of poverty is that it steals all of your time! All your time is devoted to just surviving, so you can never really better you situation. You want to improve your situation? Not happening, you gotta work 60 hours this