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by pgodzin 10y ago
Well put, thank you. Re 2: Often tasks are even meant to be exploratory, where those questions can't be asked upon receiving the task, but only once enough investigation has been done and implementation questions are run into. Rather t
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Sorry, meant to imply I was blocked on that specific task, which is often the highest priority one, rather than on all tasks. Unfortunately, the highest priority ones are often the most difficult and trickiest, requiring occasional question
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1, 4. Yes, documentation is absolutely scarce - given that culture, such back and forth is often required. Some configurations or details of a complex (and often legacy) system are opaque, and used infrequently enough that teamwide trainin
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Sure, I can always do something else instead, but that context switching is costly for me as well, when a minute-long conversation, though briefly distracting for a colleague, would have been able to keep me working at the task at hand.
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by pgodzin 10y ago
I work remotely from the rest of my team, and only started a few months ago. Often, I have quick questions or clarifications that I can't ask about in person, and need to ask over Slack. Sometimes I don't get responses for hours (
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Sure, in the form of stock, incentive bonuses, etc. Not the entire salary
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> "For some reason" We don't need a narrative of sacrifice to glorify an exec with. She has a family, 100 different wealthy suitors if she were to look, and the board approved the compensation because they thought it was w
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What level of compensation would it take to make such a statement OK? I'm sure plenty of execs turned it down because of the risk of failure and the inevitable microscope and personal attacks associated with being the CEO of one of the
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Not sure why a "good faith effort" requires taking such a crazy amount of personal risk. Yahoo was willing to pay millions to the exec they thought had the best chance to turn the company around. She should have declined that and
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The State of UX in 2017(uxdesign.cc)
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DraftKings and FanDuel Agree to Merge Daily Fantasy Sports Operations(nytimes.com)
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Six Designers Take on Some of the World’s Toughest Redesign Challenges(nytimes.com)
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So they spend weeks developing the exploits and when they present it the headline is that it took 4 or 60 seconds? They even used the phrase "breached Adobe Flash with a flick of the finger" as if anyone could hack it with a finge
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Easily one of the greatest songwriters of the generation. As Dylan said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re Number 1. I’m Number Zero.’ His songs are dark and poetic and really keep you entranced. I'm glad he released his last e
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Don't think it was so much desperate as you don't want to make an early call on the presidency without being sure. They acknowledged that they didn't really see a path, but wanted to get specific info in (like absentee ballot
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I definitely agree that it sucks when you're one of the consumers affected. But I would argue that this fail often strategy lets you quickly figure out what works and what doesn't for most consumers, and let's you prioritiz
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It's less about their reputation and has just become a meme nowadays, particularly among techies who were the few adopters of things like Wave. I don't think Google misses on and shuts down a larger percentage of things than any o
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Feels old seeing this on every single thread about a Google product. This isn't something you need to retool your company around and end up screwed if it's canceled. It's a nice analytics dashboard that either provides value
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The article mentions "swarm intelligence" that essentially forms a hive-mind. Where is the AI/ML when it seems like it just picks the most popular responses from its many respondents?
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What stage was Google Cloud at in 2014 that AWS was being recommended by Eric Schmidt?
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Missed that, thanks
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Seems like IFTTT will end up being a niche for IoT-specific integrations while this will be used for enterprise integration. What is the value here for Microsoft when you can create integrations between only competitors like Google services
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> Dylan went on driving. After a while, he told Cohen that a famous songwriter of the day had told him, “O.K., Bob, you’re Number 1, but I’m Number 2.” > Cohen smiled. “Then Dylan says to me, ‘As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re
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I don't think the main issue here is that he is supporting or giving money to Trump. It's that in a time of awful political discourse, he is bankrolling an organization whose mission is literally dedicated to proving that “shitpos
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*Illegal in Turkey I presume, not Iran
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Even with all Android apps being available on Chromebook now?
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Late 80s and 90s also had huge acts like Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis (less so in the US), Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters.
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The first few years the Beatles were a boy band. After that, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper, the 3 albums listed in the article, are highly influential albums that laid the groundwork for more experimental and complex songwriting and
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Your personality. However much you make, it's not important. If you're not confident about the shape you're in, work on yourself. Address your faults, identify exactly the kind of woman you are looking for and figure out how
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OP, it's very easy to develop this kind of attitude after several unsuccessful attempts at intimacy, but this is awful advice that will keep you from ever being happy. This is not a societal problem, it's a personal problem that y

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