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by mathattack 11y ago
4 years on, neither will save you. That's an issue of trading off short term schedules for long term flexibility. (Not an absolute right or wrong) Agile could have helped uncover the need earlier, or enabled the project to react to i
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by mathattack 11y ago
There's a lot of people saying that MBAs are a sign of the top. Others are saying all MBAs are evil. I think it's more nuanced. (Full disclosure, I'm a CS undergrad with an MBA) Some generalizations.... 1 - MBAs tend to be
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by mathattack 11y ago
Maybe I'm just burned out from all the Work Hard rhetoric that got me here, but nobody on their death bed laments that they didn't spend enough time at the office. Perhaps, but a lot may have lamented not having more financial s
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by mathattack 11y ago
This assumes that the managers know the details of the employee's jobs too. This gets less true when you become a general manager. But there's a big difference between "I'm managing your time" and "I'm m
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by mathattack 11y ago
There's a lot of space between "Don't be 5 mins late" and anarchy. My firm is "10-5 is encouraged, but there's some flexibility, and be available early morning or late night to accommodate customers and employ
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by mathattack 11y ago
I believe that the title captures everything. Similar with having kids too, btw. Anything worth doing does require a lot of work. Long days, and you forget the time periods.
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by mathattack 11y ago
I can absolutely see this at an investment bank, or at a job where physical presence is mandatory (such as a security guard, a teacher, or a bank teller). In a creative job like software, it's absurd. Especially when so many places s
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by mathattack 11y ago
If you won't trust a 30 year old with life advice, would you trust one with your career as an investor or boss? Wisdom can come from many sources.
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by mathattack 11y ago
I think we're going the same direction. The investment is less before you have to change. If you spend 6 months gathering requirements that are obsolete (or wrong for unanticipated reasons) before they're finished, you've l
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by mathattack 11y ago
This is a prime example of where the writer is stuck in a pre-Agile world. (This was 15 years ago, and most of his hands on work was well before then) If one follows and believes in the Waterfall method, tightening requirements is the mos
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by mathattack 11y ago
I like this one - and remember it every time I try to pay up for a good programmer. One also has to wonder how much it's that poor programmers are overpaid. P2. Good programmers are up to 30 times better than mediocre programmers, ac
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by mathattack 11y ago
In his defense, the full quote is actually not so bad. I don’t expect you to agree with all these facts; some of them might even upset you. Great! Then we can begin a dialog about which facts really are facts and which are merely figments
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by mathattack 11y ago
If you trust the Economist [0] it's been 7.5-15K in recent years. It's very supply/demand driven, and firms tend to move in lockstep. It goes up to 100K and beyond for the senior-most non-partners. The big raise comes (lik
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by mathattack 11y ago
This is true in most countries. One caveat is that some countries that do it this way (Brazil, and perhaps Japan?) have very stringent entrance exams to enter that major. The other point is some schools have undergraduate degrees that look
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by mathattack 11y ago
All the worse, then.
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by mathattack 11y ago
Perhaps they were looking for free SEO?
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by mathattack 11y ago
Moreover, why not make an effort to warn users? My best guess is that Ancestry intended to export the data properly, hit a technical snag, and made the cynical decision to not follow through, in the hopes that nobody would call the company
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by mathattack 11y ago
I've seen a lot of complaints about the interview process at Google. One core issue to me seems to be that they outsource a lot of their recruiting. Another may be the metrics. Hiring the equivalent of gym membership salespeople to do
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by mathattack 11y ago
Poor wording on my part - I wasn't putting in a value judgment. By positive synergy I mean on the revenue side. "They have A sales people selling B per year on product set C. We have D sales people selling E per year on product
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by mathattack 11y ago
In theory technology costs should drive others down, no? But that's more true in the corporate world than non-profit or government which the universities resemble. I agree on tenure costs. It seems like they're really bloating t
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by mathattack 11y ago
What amazes me is how strongly the Waterloo folks do in every field. I bumped into quite a few that excelled at Finance too. Combination of solid skills and humility.
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by mathattack 11y ago
Shouldn't the overproduction of Phds drive down university costs? I hear you on the bogosity factor. I wonder why this persists. Perhaps because by the time someone realizes it's all BS, their career it too invested in exposing
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by mathattack 11y ago
Usually the acquired gains most of the boost. There's a net gain if there is an increase in market power. It's rare to get positive synergies, unless you consider layoffs a synergy.
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by mathattack 11y ago
I wonder if this death of criticism is misty eyed nastolgia for a future that either never, or rarely existed. Let's not forget that our so-called great universities: - For a long time excluded women, Jews and many minorities. - Were t
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by mathattack 11y ago
There's a lot of backroom dealing on things like this. Some depends on how many suitors, and who wants the deal more. Other times it's more nefarious, and involves things like golden parachutes or planned roles in the new compan
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by mathattack 11y ago
It says something about a deal when the stock price of both companies rises after an announcement like this.
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by mathattack 11y ago
It's bad for everyone - it's not fair to firms, and justice isn't served. But follow the $... The states get a lot of income, and executives stay out of jail. If every bank is getting shaken down equally, no exec loses rel
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by mathattack 11y ago
Hang in there! I don't mean to sound trite, but if your personal situation allows you to go to college, do it. It will pay off in the end. I stress personal situation. You'll always be able to fix your teeth later - after coll
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by mathattack 11y ago
I'm to steal joke/head. Do I need to cite it? :-)
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by mathattack 11y ago
“I’ve been working on crews for three years, and I’ve been abandoned 11 times,” said Stephanie Dobbs, a mother of three who worked with another company, Young People Working, LLC, until being stranded in Cloverdale, Indiana, last month. “B

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