johansch

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by johansch 10y ago
Seems like he should be in the power of defining the reward structure at Google though.
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by johansch 10y ago
It's past working hours in Europe. :)
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by johansch 10y ago
> I doubt 100% of those agents' work involved aiding and abetting scammers, so less than 0.1% sounds totally believable to me. I would say that's incredibly naive and refer you to this comment: https://news.ycombinat
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by johansch 10y ago
Yishan Wong.. Hey, I recognize that name :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Wong
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by johansch 10y ago
I don't have any brilliant insights besides the obvious: - documenting their BS claims (for your own usage, primarily) - building trust and credibility with superiors and peers - biding your time and eventually calling them out on BS i
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by johansch 10y ago
No, traffic fines are not proportional to income in Sweden. Fines for more serious crimes are though. https://polisen.se/en/Languages/Laws-and-Regulations/Fines/ *) Except DUI. That's a "more s
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by johansch 10y ago
Well, thank you for demonstrating quite clearly what I just wrote.
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by johansch 10y ago
AnyDesk, a german cross-platform remote desktop access thing. https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop When you download an app on e.g. Windows you're used to first going through the installation dance. This app surprised an
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by johansch 10y ago
You remind me a lot of that guy I used to supervise who totally refused to do any work estimates on anything, because "there was not enough data to conclusive estimate the amount work needed". There are concepts such as "expe
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by johansch 10y ago
No, it was a Wild-Ass-Guess based on my instinctial knowledge of how money they are moving around yearly and how much is likely fraud. To add a perspective: They paid about a penalty for about a 1/1000th of the money they move around.
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by johansch 10y ago
Yeah, that was a bit rushed :). I edited my comment, please re-visit it. (And yeah, it's still an estimate, since no-one except WU has any possibility of knowing the truth. Still, 0.1% seems fraud seems like an awefully low estimate, d
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by johansch 10y ago
I have worked with similar people. It can be fun to take them down, if you're so inclined. It takes patience and discipline but it's oh so satisfying.
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by johansch 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the real damage is at least 100x larger than that. But hey, this will allow some US authority to declare victory and their heads will get bonuses/promotions. The $586M mentioned covers 8 years (2004-2012). So $73M&
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by johansch 10y ago
I've never worked at Google, but... didn't Larry Page announce a full-blown program to fight that like 3-4 years ago? Work on features/depth rather than new products?
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by johansch 10y ago
Maybe a majority of HN readers these days are fakers?
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by johansch 10y ago
Why did google mess up messaging in the first place? It seemed like this space was ripe for their taking. (Basically, just replicate the gmail concept for messaging. Keep it sorta-open-enough and free enough. Seems like a no-brainer.) I mea
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by johansch 10y ago
There was also that time when it was trivial to login to every single Hotmail account by only knowing the username. And it was left like this for at least 12 hours after it was first reported in media... http://edition.cnn.com&
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by johansch 10y ago
Here's some data that indicates that this "law" is generally not valid: https://github.com/matslina/matslina.github.com/blob/master/... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by johansch 10y ago
My question was directed at "salem" who stated "No, they actually did write parts of the paper.". That statement seemed like it should have reasoning behind it...
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by johansch 10y ago
Source?
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by johansch 10y ago
That is one way of acting for extrovert people. I think it's a lot more common in North America than in Europe. There's something cultural at play here.
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by johansch 10y ago
> Extroverts are not inherently better at "relationship management" skills like small talk, how to change the subject, or how to engage with difficult subjects. Since this flies in the face of common sense (and my personal expe
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by johansch 10y ago
As a contrast, the worst sales people I have been around are extrovert and think they know the tech, so the can handle everything on their own. This has inevitably resulted in losses/disasters. These kind of sales people are a better
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by johansch 10y ago
Yeah. They have to be able to carefully thread that needle between pushy/assertive vs annoying quite carefully and intelligently. And counteract the pushy factor with charm/hosting skills. .. and that's why this job is so hig
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by johansch 10y ago
It obviously differs quite a lot depending on the type of customer. An example where I have seen the type of relationship-building salesperson outperform the aggressive kind of sales person: sales to large, stable incumbent companies in Eur
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by johansch 10y ago
The best sales people I've worked with (in a software/services B2B context - specifically when the customers are large companies) are into long-term relationship and trust building. They analyze the hell out of the customer from a
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by johansch 10y ago
It's not in the nature of operationally minded people to think long-term. They think about the next quarter, or at most towards the end of the current accounting year. To put it another way: all they do is tactics - not strategy.
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by johansch 10y ago
Native English speakers would then need to fake an "asian" accent?
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by johansch 10y ago
I was unclear. What I meant is that Erasmus is brilliant for a) making lots of people in all of the european countries related to each other in a big, beautiful and complex manner - thus preventing future wars b) spreading ideas - good for
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by johansch 10y ago
At least they are well-paid (by Yahoo (sigh)) and an army of well-meaning but out of touch contributors.

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