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by matt_s 9y ago
The other element is restaurants, I've noticed malls that have name brand chain restaurants always seem busy. People will go out to eat, and since they are there do some shopping. There are still things that are better buying in perso
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Oh yeah this sounds very familiar. Does it get to the point where you start resenting people in upper management because you think they literally do nothing and make more? I started having those thoughts when working at a Fortune 500 - I&
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"Went well" is in the eye of the beholder, right? If you are beholding a spreadsheet that says it saves money you might think it went well. If you are working with the outsourced firm and have to constantly clean things up, educ
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The article barely touches on the bullshit factor. Sure every workplace has BS people have to deal with, that doesn't matter if it is a tech company. I would venture a guess that the majority, perhaps vast majority (i.e. 75% or greater
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They stated their intent was "to see how your algorithms made decisions" that sounds like its your secret sauce. They didn't ask for escrow of source code should you go bankrupt. Have your people interacting with them be con
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The original comment was: "The same willful ignorance of existing examples is also applied to ..." I was merely pointing out that haggy's comment ("I would love to see hard statistical evidence that less guns = less deat
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I believe the less deaths part is really meant as gun deaths. Do you honestly think that he wants information about less guns leading to lower cardiac arrests? Or perhaps less motor vehicle accidents involving death? There is only one type
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Recent study: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2017/10/19/states-wi... The Australia and British laws and results are evidence that is plain in front of you. Those are humans on a different piece
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That is the major difference, mortgages had people underwater on actual physical things like property. They would go bankrupt and foreclose which would have a domino effect on other things. Student loans are ignored in bankruptcy and there
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If you are estimating things at increments like "a month" then you need to break things down into smaller chunks that are deliverable. The key part is continuous delivery - even if nobody uses the small addition or you need to put
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Kanban is better, especially paired up with continuous delivery. Once something is done, ship it and move onto something else. Longer research things can be broken down into smaller cards, you're just constantly pulling them in. We s
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Well if you consider doing lesson plans a project with the goal of students passing year end tests then that is experience. The words are different for education vs PM fields but the activities are similar that a teacher has to go through
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If your goal is fastest to get a production ready MVP built, go with Rails or another similar mature stack in a different language. Chances are the majority of problems you encounter will have been solved by someone. If you want to learn s
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The delivery aspects of waterfall usually means it is a rigid and structured organization with people in rigid and structured roles that have defined responsibilities. This can drive bad behavior, pitting teams like requirements analysis, d
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Move. That's what I did. I was stuck in a corporate fortune 500 world of meetings, unrealistic deadlines, frequent random layoffs, technical jobs being a cost center, etc. The metropolitan area was a bad job market too and I was int
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It doesn't sound like you want to turn your freelance business into a body-shop of contractors/freelancers where you are the manager meeting with customers and you have a staff of developers. So here's a counter idea - hire a
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It's off topic. To make it on topic (going fictional here) it would have to have a hacker angle like: Manafort funded Russian hackers to flood FaceBook with ads denouncing Clinton and fostering opinions that support Trump. They used a
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I see a lot of comments here about increasing code quality, work with your customer on the spec, don't play the lower price game, etc. These are all symptoms of a larger systemic, cultural issue. I'm not referring to the differe
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The thing about cars, or any real-world comparison, is that software is always changeable. Its hard to change manufacturing lines over a new design for cars, thats why they have designs out there for years at a time. I think the vast major
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Surfing the internet is fine and there is all that information out there and new things to learn or funny things to read about. You can get into a flow of internet browsing where you are like a squirrel foraging and just keep hopping arou
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That might be what the Broccoli family wants - a company that will protect the 007 IP with just movies and not dilute/exploit it with other stuff.
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Cheaper per hour is easy to measure but its hard to measure customer satisfaction. When I call a support line and get "Walter" who is going to help me, I know they are in a different hemisphere and am mostly unsatisfied with talki
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Prepared or not, I think there is some element of it being really hard to get funding to go fix things proactively vs. tapping into a Federal organization which will fund the aftermath. I wonder if there have been studies comparing the cost
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If your focus is first on doing what is best for the company, it's hard for others to object to that, use fact based decision making when possible. Managing people is different than being a dev, look to your immediate manager for help
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At larger companies its pretty easy to see where the delineation is in major pay groupings. It is a pyramid and the top two layers are often paid a lot more (per person) than the rest. Working at a smaller company (~100-200) it is really h
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Have you read the actual article that for Parkinson's Law? In there you will find the oft-overlooked Law of Multiplication of Subordinates. The findings were based on the expansion of Admiralty in Great Britain after WWI. TL;DR: admin
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A lot of the times I saw that it wasn't management having a lack of trust in developers it was more believing that they needed external affirmation of what they wanted to do. I believe this is mostly the case of cowardice of making dec
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I was going to reply with a "is this reddit?" But these compact comments are insightful into what could happen.
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A lot of those games make money by time-gating content with the option to buy your way past that. I don't think hardcore gamers like games with pay-to-play features. How can that be competitive if people can purchase their way past t
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I don't think its only millennials. I'm gen-X and would prefer to go out to dinner to a place with awesome food rather than a meh meal at a chain restaurant where they might just be microwaving everything that isn't grilled o

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