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by johngalt 8y ago
> As important, what should we NOT be doing? Exactly this. The most common 'cause of death' for a good strategy is when too many bad ideas are tacked onto it. Most organizations have a good plan somewhere. The problem is that t
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There is definitely something missing in the current management/employee relationship. For example, the Wells Fargo account fraud issue. Where they had thousands of new accounts being opened without customer authorization. Caused by ra
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Barring a major accident, powertrain failure tends to be what actually takes a car off the road. You may not want a beat up 20 year old car, but if it runs well, someone will drive it. Yet once the engine or transmission fails it is done. A
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This is a common problem in tech: "I've just learned a neat new tool but I never apply it because I can solve all the problems in front of me with the tools I have." In effect, you've found a local maximum where every di
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> Engineers who use Go are also especially strong. If you know why, please let me know. Because there is almost no reason to learn Go. Most shops want JS/Java/Python/C# etc... The primary reason to learn a language like Go
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Initially I was skeptical as well. One server in a colocation will handle enough traffic until you can afford to hire all the people to make you web scale. But then I started playing with the various tools and seeing how people used them, a
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747s burn a lot of fuel because they haul a lot of people over a long distance. Per passenger you are getting something like 50mpg.
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Tapes have a use case that hard drives do not. Tapes are the lowest cost/GB stored and are more shelf stable than hard drives. SSDs are higher performance than HDDs and have none of the packaging constraints. Flash storage is going to
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Isn't this an exceptionally lossy, and circuitous feedback method? When I'm managing a team, I'm spending all of my time ensuring that any obstacles are obvious, and that everyone has the stuff they need. This article seems
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In most cases the problem with link bombs is that the stated conclusions don't fit the linked facts, and people can't separate the verifiable fact from their conclusion.
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It might be more palatable if the benefits accrued to the people assuming the risks. Reliably the people absorbing the risks capture almost none of the added value.
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In my experience it's better to pay attention to what your customers do , rather than what they say. Often peoples true goals aren't directly stated, or even known to themselves. If you asked people what type of store they want t
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A/C consumes less energy than heating. A/C is effectively a closed system when operating. A fireplace or furnace is not. A/C is needed most in places and times where solar panels work the best. Heating is the opposite. Object
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It is rare to notice small improvements differences when they are delivered incrementally. You would notice if you went back to that machine from 7 years ago and tried to use it today. There is also the idle nature of most computer usage. T
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" Critical emergency services fix now! Huge problem! wait what? It costs $60? Well.... Let me see..." It never ceases to amaze me how worked up people can get over an outage, yet still balk at tiny costs. This puts me in the unen
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Not eliminate roads. If anything actively acknowledge their utility and work to specialize/classify them for discrete applications. Right now mopeds and 18-wheelers share the same space. Commuters and emergency vehicles. Bus stops over
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It would be interesting to greenfield design transportation. Cars are very well executed machines, but I've always wondered what alternatives could happen if there wasn't the weight of backwards compatibility.
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Most of human history is defined by doing manual labor until crippled or dead. Only a subset of people in history have ever had any sort of engineering role. Only in the last few decades have jobs like mine been invented. No I don't fe
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by johngalt 8y ago
The best advice I can give to a soon to be parent. There is no single program that guarantees happy/productive/well adjusted kids and specifically adolescents. The biggest surprise with children is just how different they all are,
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There certainly are consistent answers in economics. But they tend to read more like safety rules than active policy measures. E.G. Regulatory price fixing below market rates will create shortages. The runaway printing of money will simply
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You are talking about a fairly elite team here. Tossing in a few average/random people via sortition would only be a humiliating waste of time. Could you imagine a few random people in an NFL game?
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As a sysadmin at the bottom of the signaling hierarchy, I find this hilarious. Am I managing a complex integration and operations task? Nah, clearly I'm just someone who clicks through installers in windows.
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I agree with the overall theme of the article. People certainly overreact. It lost me when it attempted to make it a gendered issue. If anything, it has it backwards. Imagine that we had an article that described the tyranny of high expecta
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Technology fads are often about momentum. [Thing X] is created and suddenly it is supposed to solve all problems. Or it unlocks a new way of operating that suddenly everyone is jumping into. Focus on learning the scope of [Thing X]. What pr
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Data gathering is valuable only because it's a concentration of a huge number of very low value things. Think of it like a dam and reservoir at the drainage of a major watershed. You can position things to collect all the rain and snow
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Imagine their surprise when the estimates are still wrong after doubling.
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This is one of those scaling vs. switching cost problems. If you have a small town, then cars are a better option than transit. In a large metropolis, transit is better. The problem is that as a city scales up, each individual step results
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Why? If you were worth hundreds of millions, wouldn't it make sense to have some means of self defense?
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Either you run wireshark directly on the endpoint, or you setup some means of tapping into the traffic. The most common method is to use a managed switch to setup a mirror port. Basically you tell the switch to copy all traffic and send it
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Ever been 'promoted' into a new role with only a small salary bump, and an inability to hand off your old role to someone else? Or perhaps you are a driven/smart person. Which management rewards by increasingly spending your

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