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by levi-turner 6y ago
My memory from some introductory classes in African Studies from the mid-aughts has any relevancy here. The standard narrative at the time was that the Colonial investments in Africa, as a rule, involved building infrastructure to connect t
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by levi-turner 6y ago
This all depends on the organization, but that isn't my experience. There's always room to be a trusted technical advisor. Shitty sales orgs do shitty things, but sub sales for any other group and the answer is the same. In the so
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by levi-turner 6y ago
My 2 cents as a person on the sales engineer side of the fence. I can't speak to your experience or all organizations, but what you're getting at in my eyes are two things. Sales Executives _tend_ to be the most transparently comp
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by levi-turner 6y ago
In the video ( https://youtu.be/18x38IMAwrY?t=2201 ) they have a blurb from the chairman of Japan Airlines, Yoshiharu Ueki. I have zero experience in this but a cursory Wikipedia dive shows them as being the 6th largest globa
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by levi-turner 6y ago
> I don't understand why Carta or Opendoor should be affected by Coronavirus. In the abstract, I'd guess the primary theory is that you never let a crisis go to waste. These exigent circumstances allow for making moves which ot
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by levi-turner 7y ago
> Despite Musk’s skepticism, many of the open job listings at SpaceX list a bachelor’s degree or higher education as a basic requirement. Snarky reporting at its best. ---------------------------- At it's core, Musk looks to be clai
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by levi-turner 7y ago
Anecdotal from my experience in Presales selling Enterprise software. Out of 10 enterprise segment customers: - 8/9 would prefer SAML - 2/3 have a compliant IdP which supports OIDC (ADFS needs to be v4.0 therefore run on Windows S
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by levi-turner 8y ago
Counter anecdote: college roommate who grew up the bulk of his life in mainland China had major problems with spoken English but his written English was fantastic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by levi-turner 8y ago
Very good list, although I'd disagree about pay. I'd add: + it's one of the easier routes to becoming a literal expert in how to deploy the software.