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by jrs235 8y ago
Is this because of the CMM (Capability Maturity Model)? And therefore the outcome/output/result is knowing that a process was followed, not that the process leads to achieving desired financial or behavioral outcomes?
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by jrs235 8y ago
They might not be completed on time and on budget for the client, but I'm sure their delivery timing and over budgeted-ness is still considered a success(ful project internally) at Accenture!
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by jrs235 8y ago
Reminds me of this comment on the bulshitter article that hit HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749477 Specifically: "Your customers are idiots, that's why they hired "experts." They d
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by jrs235 8y ago
I get this. But this isn't a community problem. It's a community choice.
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by jrs235 8y ago
Probably buried in a clause in your carrier contract. Don't fly commercial (fly your own plane or charter through general aviation not CAT, commercial air transport) and you can avoid searches.
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by jrs235 8y ago
Why is it the public's responsibility to provide and offer people space on public right aways to [temporarily] store people's private property?
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by jrs235 8y ago
No it wouldn't. Constitutionality involves the government, not companies. Your [specific] issue with companies is a civil matter. Whether what they do is criminal is an issue between them and the government (you can certainly call the
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by jrs235 8y ago
Instead of chalking the tire they can chalk the pavement just before and after the tires. Perhaps they could even write the license plate number on the pavement too.
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by jrs235 8y ago
Yup they have the photo taking, license plate reading technology in my city of 60,000 (metro 100,000). And now they also enforce the parking restrictions for the full 24 hours on the entire block face. No longer can you drive around the blo
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by jrs235 8y ago
*Loser not looser, lose not loose. Lose/loser is to not winning as loose/looser is to not tight. This mistake is prevalent even among HNers. Sorry for being pedantic.
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by jrs235 8y ago
While the paper might not be known for its economic/market insight, is that enough to dismiss the ideas presented in it? I would rather discuss the implications of the buy backs and whether there is merit in the argument that a recessi
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Don't be surprised if Boeings escalating problems crash the stock market(thestranger.com)
2 points by jrs235 8y ago|2 comments
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by jrs235 8y ago
I'm like many of the others here. It's not just noticed when it inconveniences me. It also when I notice it does, or would, inconvenience other people too.
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by jrs235 8y ago
Or... stopping at the end of an escalator to figure out where they want to go! This happens way too often at malls, sporting stadiums, airports.
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by jrs235 8y ago
And agility requires slack (unscheduled capacity) which means less than optimal "resource" efficiency. Stakeholders and managers need to understand that if they what to be able to handle changing plans and requirements then their
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by jrs235 8y ago
I feel like #NoEstimates has been a thing. I think #NoMethodology or #NoProcess is the next cool thing (Some might call it #GSD).
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by jrs235 8y ago
And velocity should be an internal team measurement not shared with outsiders because (Goodhart's Law) when management says "Let's increase our velocity" and the team and developers are GRADED/PROMOTED on their velo
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by jrs235 8y ago
>That's another symptom of poor goal selection. If you can miss a goal and somehow receive partial credit it was a poor goal. If you can exceed a goal and get extra credit it was a poor goal. Targets should be selected because they
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by jrs235 8y ago
"low inflation" ... not if you include assets (stocks, houses, education, health[care], etc.) that are not included in the "official" inflation calculations.
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by jrs235 8y ago
>US taxpayers and voters are not the customer. They're the board. I think you mean the shareholders. Who elect the board (Congress). And vote for the CEO (President) who is accountable to the board and shareholders.
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The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It(nationalinterest.org)
188 points by jrs235 8y ago|170 comments
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by jrs235 8y ago
It was legal if the listing contract instructed the agent to not show the seller offers below a certain amount.
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by jrs235 8y ago
I keep seeing people incorrectly using the word 'Realtor'. A Realtor is a member of the National Association of Realtors. Not all real estate agents are Realtors. And not all Realtors are real estate agents (some are appraisers, h
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by jrs235 8y ago
An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quali
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by jrs235 8y ago
>why not just ask them to pay you for your time Because if you "charge" them and get paid for the work then everything else that seems wrong from that point forward they blame you for and expect you to fix it [often for free] b
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by jrs235 8y ago
Population? Fair? That's a conversation. (Personally I think wealth should be taxed somehow too. What's fair? Another conversation. I too think capital gains should be taxed at the same rate or higher than income.)
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by jrs235 8y ago
>Additionally, the Senate does not represent the people, it represents the states. While that is how is was originally designed, the 17th Amendment kinda of took that away. Originally the state legislatures elected their state's rep
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by jrs235 8y ago
>Companies get unlimited SALT deduction, and until this law, people did too. Exactly! Yup! The new limits to SALT don't hurt landlords...
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by jrs235 8y ago
What the Republicans should have done was get rid of the federal income tax, have all taxes apportioned, and leave it to the states to decide how they wish to collect the revenue needed to pay the federal government.
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by jrs235 8y ago
>state goverments, by enacting an income tax of their own, could essentially steal part of the federal government's tax revenue Funny that it is the red states that tend to get more federal dollars returned/pumped into their st

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