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by mathattack 13y ago
I feel like I fell for link bait - awful title. That said, this is hardly a fair sentence. He should have to serve time equal to all those lives he destroyed. How about surrendering the money and life in prison?
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by mathattack 13y ago
The issue may be that there are things that we find very funny, but shouldn't.
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are also complaints of incoming freshman being too fragile, again from overparenting. http://southfloridafamilycounseling.com/blog/?p=60
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by mathattack 13y ago
My interpretation is the story helps find the end user's need. It isn't just, "Go Bla Bla Bla to everyone" Rather, it's find the story that appeals to the one person you want to pay up.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The Semco story is fascinating. I wish I knew some folks that worked there. The wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler ) doesn't tell much but from what I remember of the book, they cut organizations f
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by mathattack 13y ago
Exactly - organizational hierarchy. :-) This is where the "There are no managers" can break down. Another area that organizations struggle with is spending the time to put the structure in. They may say, "It takes more eff
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good point. CEOs tend to be good relators, so that biases the number up. They have to relate to a lot of externals, which would push the # down. My guess is salespeople would utilize most of their attention externally. Perhaps junior eng
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by mathattack 13y ago
Fair enough. I think my bias showed. :-) So a question in return... Do you share my belief that documentation tends to lag in most projects? And if so, is the bottleneck not enough documentation writers, or not enough engineering time a
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by mathattack 13y ago
Dunbar's number. I frequently quote 150 people as the breaking point, though it's a little less precise, and depends on the strength of the leader and organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_
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by mathattack 13y ago
"seek first to understand, then be understood (can't remember where I read this one)." I heard it first from Covey's 7 habits.... Good comments overall. I like your point of "Traditional Management" not being
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by mathattack 13y ago
Much more detailed than I thought. "To help with this, instead of a focus on employees, there’s a focus on roles. Each circle has a ‘Lead Link’ who determines what roles the circle needs and how they get assigned. In fact, one person c
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by mathattack 13y ago
This captures my point.
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by mathattack 13y ago
True. And if you always roll over when you have explicitly said you won't, you'll lose respect. (Or lost appreciation for standing up) The key is you have to deliver on what you say will. Then you can earn the respect.
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by mathattack 13y ago
1 - At the time, creating the next Microsoft meant creating a company from scratch, which built products that the whole world uses. There are many economies of scales that great software companies can achieve. 2 - He didn't claim this
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm waiting for an "And then what...." Was this truth or fiction?
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm with you on self-documenting code, but what about user documentation, and documentation of APIs? Now I'm not saying the current model in for-fee software is right. I just wonder, "If it's this hard when you're
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by mathattack 13y ago
There's a VERY fine line between helping a client through a bind, and being abused by an individual with a tight budget. The former may stay with you for life. The latter will use you until you say no. It is very rare that it's a
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by mathattack 13y ago
The thought process came to me many years ago when Microsoft was an example of a startup that built itself from scratch and was very current. I've come around to broader thinking since then. And Microsoft has changed some too. But it
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by mathattack 13y ago
It was not meant as an attack at all. It just seems to be a very under-appreciated skill. I've yet to see a firm whose documentation is current more than 6 months after a major release. If you're able to keep up, you're mo
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by mathattack 13y ago
"Richard Stallman, revered by some as a genius (after all, he won a McArthur “genius” grant in 1990) and by others as a crackpot" When I first heard him speak many years ago, I thought he was a real crank. My negative thoughts ce
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by mathattack 13y ago
Indeed - Apple seems to be about quick exploitation of big ideas. Amazon seems to be pushing through long trends.
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by mathattack 13y ago
At the risk of sounding obtuse... When you say philosophical, do you mean non-measurable? (Such as parts of string theory?) To use an analogy, why can't particle physics be like a Mandelbrot which doesn't have a bottom?
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Bond Salesman Who Wasn’t Reveals RBS Human Errors(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
My impression is this happens in Russia a lot. They can't afford to pay the police, so the police find a way to prey on the weak. It's a sign that underfunding is getting extreme.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think the definition of computer has expanded. Mainframes used be all that was computers. Then minis. Then PCs. Now phones and tablets. Our cars have computers in them. It's just a short form of "Computing Machine."
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's intriguing, if perhaps an incorrect model. I am no physicist, but what makes us sure there's a bottom?
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What does equilibrium look like for the book business? (2012)(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Wow - this is amazing, "Can it really be happening in the US?" corruption. Is this also an offshoot of a no tax policy in Texas?
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by mathattack 13y ago
The issue is even if there is very little $ cost, there is very little benefit. They're trying to get people onto games with a larger installed base so that there's more value created between players.
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It now appears possible to hack a (fancy, Japanese) toilet(theatlantic.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|1 comments

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