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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The biggest problem I've seen with performance reviews is that most managers spend very little time working with or observing their employees. Couple that with performance review processes that don't actually measure results and it's a won
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
What are you doing with the history data you collect?
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Seems like the main message of this post is "If you're majoring in Philosophy and Physics, don't expect college to teach you about business or computers."
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
For a company with ambition, the Random and Meaningful criteria are pretty terrible guidelines. A great company builds its name rather than letting the name build the company. There's a reason Amazon passed on books.com.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The difference, of course, is that people these days are quick to say how much they use Facebook or OKCupid, but very few people are willing to talk with their friends about their extramarital affairs.
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Deficits, Romulans, Great Danes, and Pomeranians(nytimes.com)
1 points by jtbigwoo 16y ago|0 comments
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I think that architects and developers often forget the basics software development when planning rewrites. Because they've been working on the product for so long, they think the normal rules of working iteratively and getting feedback do
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
This is how many, many professions work. Musicians, writers, inventors, athletes, research scientists, pilots, and even small business owners all have the same career path. A few really driven, really lucky ones win the lottery and get to
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Because it's easier than critical thinking?
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I thought that line was incredibly sad. Why isn't anybody hugging him at other times?
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I knew a secretary at a big telecom equipment company that had been paid in stock back when the company was just getting started. Twenty-five years later, she was worth over $10,000,000 and still working the same job. She didn't have a ca
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Let's pretend that an assistant manager at best buy had to deal with the same working conditions as we find in the schools: -First off, she would be required to get a college degree and a state certification in retail management. She would
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
>Not to be OCD or anything, but isn't it time to break the teachers unions and eliminate tenure? I took a HR/labor management course in college. The professor summed up labor negotiations like this: "You get the union you deserve." I
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> This is how you make your users upset. More like he's tired of upsetting users on an interactive, case-by-case basis and has decided to move to batch.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> It was designed to be a declarative language that normals could use. We may be getting off the query hint topic, but normals can use SQL Server as you've described. They can write queries and get data out, they just can't expect th
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I bet 420 would quickly pass .coop and .aero...
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
>Which, regrettably, has not been my company's experience with Oracle 11g --- we haven't resorted to explicit hints, but we've restructured queries in other ways for order-of-magnitude improvements in performance. He's not claiming that
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
There are tons of bad managers, but there are also a few excellent managers. I think it mostly depends on their focus. Most middle managers (and most people in general) are focused on what they need to get done--the reports that need to be
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
A good manager can help this by instituting fair meeting hours. The most common track I've seen is to say that meetings can occur between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. That way the early risers aren't held hostage by somebody not showing up until
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Many companies set their calendars using 13-week quarters. April 4 is the fourteenth Monday of the year.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I've noticed four avenues marketers usually take and they're all pretty demeaning. Selling to women? -Men are morons who can't understand this product like you can. -These women are better than you because they consume this product Selling
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New York City is About Average(santafe.edu)
2 points by jtbigwoo 16y ago|0 comments
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
For a while, I worked at a company that had a "lose your laptop and get fired" policy. They backed down after less than a year, but it definitely caused me to think twice about where I stored my laptop at home and on the road.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Seems clear to me that the original advice was, "don't make something that only dorks would like," i.e. don't make it overly complicated. He then took that lesson and applied it to other parts of his business that don't really have anythin
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
What possible benefit would being a rower bring to working in an investment bank? Perhaps I'm being cynical here, but rowers are usually white, tall, and fit. The usually have broad shoulders, long limbs, and tanned faces. Much of the j
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The nice thing knowing how to play the violin, viola, or guitar is that you can carry them with you almost anywhere. The nice thing about knowing how to play the piano is there's a piano in every school, church, reception hall, etc.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The amount of money I have left over at the end of the month makes a much bigger difference in whether I feel rich than the number on my paycheck. But, we're trained and encouraged by our culture to spend up to and beyond our means no matt
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
We're talking about the top 90% of earners so it makes sense to enlarge the right side of the graph. They're trying to illustrate the huge changes in income for every percentage point. A linear axis would be basically vertical at the righ
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Because they think they've designed a money machine, but it needs priming, maybe? Their business model relies on a ton of sales people. Hiring and training a ton of sales people all over the world is going to cost a ton of money.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The trouble is that the poverty rate, like the unemployment rate, can never actually fall to zero in a market economy. "Full employment" still results in an unemployment rate of 2 - 6% (depending on how you're counting.) There are always

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