jankyxenon

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by jankyxenon 6y ago
I'm not saying it's warranted for Police to have military weapons - but wouldn't departments that request military gear be somewhat correlated with ones with more intense crime. I'm guessing there aren't many sleepy
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
I just bought one. I'm a chromecast user on my main tv (that I control with my phone or nearby google home). I bought this for the remote. There's not really anything to "improve" here. It's a dumb box that aggreg
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
I think the techies are trying to backward-track the product development roadmap. For customers, it's essentially a chromecast + remote + new interface to choose apps (which is pretty generic)
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
I dunno why race is the primary organizing principle for a college.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
What I'm hearing is: Great Courses for technical content and MasterClass for motivation. Progress may require different weights of the two for different people.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
"Animal equality" is not a great brand. Sure, maybe you can get most people to agree that they should be treated more humanely. Equal is not the right word. If it came down to me or a chicken - I sincerely hope society would pri
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
This is not that different from smartphone OS makes building functions from popular apps into the OS
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
This feels like you may get a mighty big slice of a microscopic pie.
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
Is the point that McKinsey didn't know the Great Recession was coming / it's causes ahead of time?
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
Can confirm. Source: am Punjabi; wonderful stuff, pretty much the only social media I consume.
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
I don't think BMW's business model is lazy. You'll come up against design decisions again and again where the trade-off is performance vs. reliability. Toyota would more often choose the latter, BMW the former.
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
Please defined "well deserved". Sounds nice. Who decides?
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
I think Apple has plenty of incentive not to yank reviewable units from people who've gotten them early in the past, when/if they get a bad review. Taints the whole point of doing reviews.
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by jankyxenon 7y ago
Especially if you're punjabi
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by jankyxenon 8y ago
The valley is a pretty capitalistic place and one that's willing to eschew orthodoxy. But managers are still the norm. If it were economically preferable to not have managers, I think you'd see that model gaining lots of traction
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by jankyxenon 8y ago
Does this company make profit per employee anywhere near FANGs? What needs most managing is money - not talent.
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by jankyxenon 8y ago
Within one of those "internal startups" how did engineers make decisions when there were different opinions on the team? Especially when polarizing decisions had to be made? Was there an implicit power structure if not an explicit
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by jankyxenon 8y ago
Let's say your company has 500 engineers. Who does what? What's the highest yielding activity/investment/product? Someone needs to make those decisions and others need to execute them.