jtbigwoo

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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
High-achievers (and most people) are trained to simply put in more hours to get past problems. If I'm not doing well in a class, I study more or do extra credit work. If I'm not selling, I can make a hundred more calls. If I ma
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> 1. Everyone has the right to deny being treated without stigmatization or punishment. This is one of our biggest problems these days. You do have the right to self-determination. Others have the right to stigmatize you, especiall
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I've worked with some pretty sensitive information at places where it's a matter of policy to lock your screen whenever you leave your desk. It's second nature for me to click the screen saver button every time I get up from
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
It's partly selection bias. The content here probably doesn't have as much appeal for the middle managers who do a lot of the hiring at big companies.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
If you're a business with the right initial approvals, you can initiate wire transfers online. There are all sorts of monitoring and checks that the run in the background, but an innocuous wire can go end-to-end without little or no h
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
When I was a middle manager, I never had a problem implementing decisions I didn't believe in per se. Reasonable people can disagree on strategy and tactics without having to sell their souls. On the other hand, I had all kinds of pro
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> Thousands of people abandon small side projects and independent businesses every year to join companies as an employee. Just because a company is recruiting someone who happens to have some product doesn't necessarily mean tha
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Except for the 1930's. And didn't California have a bumpy ride in the 1990's?
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Here's a quick overview of my experience in a big consulting company: -Don't expect to work on cutting-edge stuff. They're the conservative choice for conservative clients. -Most consulting companies are "up or out&quot
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I really wish everybody who was a freelancer had a chance to work for six months in a big-time consulting firm (e.g. Computer Science Corp, Accenture, Sapient, or IBM Global Services). Get an up-close look at how much companies will pay fo
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Celebrating failure at a Startup Funeral(fortune.com)
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>> Only if you define the market rate as "That paid by those with the deepest pockets", This is exactly what market rate means. That's why apartments are so expensive in SF or NY.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> The Department of Labor has wage floors for H1-Bs (prevailing wage). Company's can legally pay below that. Companies play games with the experience levels and titles to force wages lower. An "architect" or "dev
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Not sure why this was down-voted. If I rejected over 99% of applicants, I'd start to thinkg I was either looking in the wrong place or looking for the wrong person. I once posted a job on monster.com and we rejected probably 50 resume
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
> > Further, he and his co-authors found, only half of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) college graduates each year get hired into STEM jobs > Maybe those graduates aren't any good. In my experience, it
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> They eased and increased taxes at the same time, which was not a smart move. Increased sales taxes which was an especially dumb thing to do. The folks that spend the largest percentage of their income are hardest hit by sales taxe
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I assume this is really only going to be worth it on big purchases. It's an interesting inversion of the usual process for discount retailers. When I was young, my friend's dad managed the K-Mart in our town. In the 70's an
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Don't forget when it was revealed that a moderator on /r/adviceanimals also owned quickmeme.com. He apparently ran bots that downvoted any non-quickmeme images and upvoted quickmeme images.
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
It's interesting you say that. The very next article on the linked blog talks about Blockbuster Total Access (where you could rent online or in stores) taking a million customers a year from Netflix in 2007. Investor Carl Icahn ended
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
I think the problem is that we tend to treat everything as a moon-landing. There are very, very few times when we should put all our eggs in one basket yet we do it all the time.
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We weren't quite as experimental, but my high school was built around an "open" plan where there were no walls between classrooms (except the noisy or smelly classes like wood shop or chemistry.) Classes would have a designa
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Lower stakes, perhaps? I suspect that far fewer people are paying attention to what business people (even Steve Jobs) say than what Tom Cruise or Lebron James says. If James, for example, says anything interesting you can be guaranteed hu
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
In the U.S., different organizations have different standards. There are 2- and 4-year criminal justice university programs, but many police departments only require a high school diploma. A criminal justice degree or other related degree
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> So why is it acceptable and passed off on the "outer" channels? >> Open source is no longer a new quirky movement. It's the status quo. I wonder if this isn't part of the problem. Many of the massive open
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> You have to understand that the alternative to "Linus is mean" is "Linus let a fucking patch enter the kernel, and it broke millions of machines around the world, causing millions of dollars worth of damage". Ev
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
Others have stated that it was only one Marriott location. In that case, $600k would hurt quite a bit.
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Aside from the specifics of wifi, this is the way hotels work. Going higher up the chain means you get more employees, better location, better fixtures, and better amenities. Those amenities might include a real health club, a real restau
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
> Someone really needs to setup their own DNS server... Or outsource some accounting work...
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
The 2006/2007 versions were definitely a chore to take apart and required three or four different screwdrivers. The unibody ones starting in late 2008 are much easier to work on. (At least when replacing the RAM and HDD.)
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by jtbigwoo 12y ago
>> ...“layoffs” is a Pandora’s Box-type word at a startup. Don’t use it unless you’re really being transparent (and not just fearful and overly panicked as I was). I made a similar mistake once as a manager and experienced this kind o

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