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by nekojima 15y ago
I am also humble, despite, or perhaps because of, earning (the equivalent) of 'employee of the year' award at one of the largest companies in our country. I do know how much some of my classmates know because I've helped them do their work
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I have lived for years in countries where there is no tipping and after the first week I found it quite easy to save 10-25% on every meal I ate in a non-fast food restaurant. Occasionally I'd round up and not ask for change, but it wasn't s
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by nekojima 15y ago
I never lie on my cv or in the interview and have been overlooked because I am honest. At least in comparison to my lesser qualified classmates who've secured higher paying and more senior roles in large part because they openly lie on thei
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by nekojima 15y ago
A variation is used in many financial services sales teams, where the bottom 10-20% each year are fired, or if sales don't increase. Similarly was/is used at IBM to remove the bottom 5-10% of under-performing staff each year.
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by nekojima 15y ago
"But the approach taken by Germany seems very sensible to me." Germany is looking to create a rules-based system that every country follows and is accountable to, like they were supposed to when the Eurozone was created. This isn't a bad th
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"4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous." This figure is far less than the number who will die just this yea
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by nekojima 15y ago
You're assuming he knows how to use email, his staffers have little choice and would just killbox it (no doubt a forthcoming button addition to Blogger for potential terrorists). Note the "article" said he put pen to paper to write to Googl
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by nekojima 15y ago
I'm currently multi-tasking my procrastination. Reading HN & watching football, while avoiding yardwork and if I do that, between games, then "real" work will lie ahead, which I should really be doing instead. Btw, its not a holiday her
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by nekojima 15y ago
> You need a department that can take responsibility for account lockouts and resolve them! STAT! Most companies have teams similar to this, but they are often used wrong, have the wrong type of staff, bad/poor procedures and processes
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by nekojima 15y ago
In the case described in the posting, if I found it to be a valid claim and could not resolve why the problem was occurring within 24-48 hours, I would likely suggest that we create a new account for the client and populate it with the titl
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I'd hate to imagine the size of the bureaucracy required to manage THAT change, much less the mission creep, cascading timelines & massive cost over-runs. :-/
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I led a problem resolution team at a large company. If we ever knowingly received three calls from any client for the same problem (through any method of client contact source), or the complaint was vocal or serious enough on the first cal
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by nekojima 15y ago
In East Germany you didn't have a chance (unless you wanted to be in prison or even more surveillance) and nowadays, most people don't know this is occurring and so its not an issue. There might even be a bias against publicizing it by medi
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by nekojima 15y ago
I would prefer real names, or at least the name(s) I know them by. Many of my friends are Asian and have several "names", most not on their birth certificate or passport. Despite trying, there is no way I can pronounce or even remember many
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by nekojima 15y ago
Of my 500+ "friends" on FB, over 40 (at last count) had non-real names of one kind or another. As far as I know, based on status updates, none of my friends has ever been told to change their name. Other than getting free publicity/bad pres
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by nekojima 15y ago
Around 80% earn at or below the minimum wage currently. Most state figures, which indicate a higher rate above the minimum wage, are either made up and/or only include urban working residents, usually those in state owned/controlled enterpr
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by nekojima 15y ago
Its the third that's bible-based maths. :-/
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I don't understand Applefanboys at all either. Normally, even knowing a few, you expect them to be intelligent enough to see through the hype and marketing. But they still take the Apple cool-aid by IV and lineup hours before the shops open
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by nekojima 15y ago
I like playing new & recently released computer games on my computer. Which is why I have never bought a Mac. Btw, what other operating systems are available on the Macbook? Other than now MS because people want to play new computer gam
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by nekojima 15y ago
> What about married founders. Isn't it very important to have an understanding wife? The understanding can have a time, cost and cashflow/earnings limit. At one of my start-ups, of the first dozen co-founders or staff (who received swe
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by nekojima 15y ago
I went to the top CS uni in my country and its well-regarded internationally. Though CS and Engineering are two separate faculties and I dare say the problem solving skills taught in engineering courses were usually better. I'd agree that s
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An attempt at statistical sarcasm/humour.
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I found that while my CS studies were useful in setting up new software/internet ventures, it has been the research skills I learned from studying history & economics and the strategy & analysis from business management, that has ma
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> I would much rather my kid spend his time working in a small business and learning about entrepreneurship hands-on... As much as I'd want this for my kids, not all kids have the passion for entrepreneurship, or innovation, necessary t
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I'd suggest that 9 times out of 8 many STEMs have contextual biases that fail to account for general knowledge that otherwise would strengthen their argumentative position.