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by pinaceae 14y ago
Related to this, Showtime is currently airing a rather brilliant set of documentaries narrated by Oliver Stone called the 'Untold History of the United States'. It basically puts this article into broader context, from the entry to WW2 onwa
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by pinaceae 14y ago
oh well, look at the core of his site: http://postmasculine.com/10-best-ways-to-make-money-online awesome.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
agile is particularly hard once you have paying, enterprise customers on any kind of SaaS - they demand stability as they have live, costly processes running over your stuff. any bug, regression, UI change will be met with hostility (down t
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by pinaceae 14y ago
won't name it, but all international expansion is self funded (and it is more than 4 offices). we focus on a single industry, delivering enterprise products in a SaaS model. we're not public yet, so sorry for my dancing around. think Workda
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by pinaceae 14y ago
oh, i agree completely and basically know the results. business class allows you to work in the plane, as you have power outlets and more importantly, space. once the guy in front of you leans their seat back in coach, you can't work on t
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by pinaceae 14y ago
was flying longhaul business for years, doing consulting. then joined a startup which rocks its space - but has a strict internal frugality policy - coach at all times, no matter how long the flight (we have offices in US, EU, CN and JP). f
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by pinaceae 14y ago
point 2 is the most important one in the long term - once your initial sources run dry, you need to find new clients/customers. this breaks a lot of freelancing careers, have seen this time and time again in my circle of friends. going solo
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by pinaceae 14y ago
all fine and dandy until you move into areas developers simply have no clue about - compliance heavy, enterprise, etc. you mention "early", this is key. PMless agile is super simple until you have live, paying customers (as in corporations,
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by pinaceae 14y ago
It is currently being tackled in various industries by specialized document platforms. Specialized because taking vanilla Sharepoint or Documentum and making it compliant with very specific rules and regulations is a costly nightmare. We ar
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by pinaceae 14y ago
ever tried Google Spreadsheets vs. MS Excel? it's like drag racing a Yugo vs. a Porsche. the browser is such a shit environment to deal with large data sets.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
The problem is the word "fact". Somehow this is now perceived as an eternal truth, rather than a statement which is true right now, but might change soon. Some of the examples point this out nicely, let's take the 10 biggest cities in the U
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by pinaceae 14y ago
I don't get what you're saying? There is a large private insurance market outside the US. A lot of private insurance is augmenting state-run schemes, just look at Germany - the Krankenkassen system is not that different (lots of players, go
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by pinaceae 14y ago
best of luck to them. very hard area due to regulation and compliance issues. you better like being audited. i just wonder if it's clear to them that this likely will be a national company? scaling this past the US will be very, very hard -
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by pinaceae 14y ago
motorcycle group rides are the worst - overtaking a slower moving vehicle becomes way more risky. the first guy assesses, knows he will fit. second guy has enough power and reaction time to follow. the third+x goes in blind and behind and s
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, here it gets tricky. we are working closely with MS, they are guiding us. Visual Studio also only allows you to deviate so much from the UI sets. then, let's take a look at the BI app you're using as a reference: http://www.pushbi.co
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Enterprise IT as in systems for end users (you can call it Commercial IT). The IT guys themselves will not use Win 8 Pro / Surface of course. Just the business users. But Enterprise IT departments make the purchasing decisions. It all depen
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by pinaceae 14y ago
Android is yet another different platform. No real upsides, not really enterprisey and not really secure (at least that's the perception). availabilty in enterprise is key - can I equip a global workforce with exactly the same hardware? loc
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by pinaceae 14y ago
They are indeed confused. We are working with large enterprise clients (big pharma). Last two years they practically all adopted iPads for their field forces. Went with single device policy, which created a lot of pain for IT - no Office, n
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by pinaceae 14y ago
to lay this out more precisely, and I live in Austria, so I have a front row seat on how to use bureaucracy to steer behavior: you do not simply raise prices to 5000$. no, you gradually boil the water through addition of red tape. selling a
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by pinaceae 14y ago
do you think the black market for ammo would be more like the drug market rather than the current black market for guns&explosives? remember, it needs to be hard for mentally unstable kids like the recent one to get ammo. no one will ev
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by pinaceae 14y ago
this is my point - printing the whole thing does not do anything without adding gunpowder. creating that out of a 3d printer is a bit longer off, re-arranging molecules is a tad hard. the US already regulates handling of explosives. simpl
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by pinaceae 14y ago
guns are not the key here, it is ammunition. chris rock made a great argument about it, no clue if he re-hashed an old saying or came up with it himself: make ammo really expensive. make ammo really regulated. ammo contains explosives. it
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by pinaceae 14y ago
there never was a time when everything was built to last. sure, to this day you can find old stuff that is still working perfectly. but what you don't see is all the other stuff that has been discarded, thrown away, replaced. survivor bias
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by pinaceae 14y ago
this is such bullshit - it is not available in my itunes app store (non-us). why not mention that in your release post?
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by pinaceae 14y ago
There is a big Drucker fan over here in Europe, Fredmund Malik. He is hit and miss in his observations, but his riff on Drucker's insight into 'learning' management fits my personal observations. - MBA... Master of Business ADMINISTRATION.
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, this has been not true for a long time now. Mines. Anti-personnel, anti-tank, whatever. Those are killing automata, some very simple, some quite smart - not that easy to kill a tank with high probability. so, yeah, there will be next
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by pinaceae 14y ago
well, it is a correct observation that HR (and marketing) departments have the highest female ratio in pretty much any company. let's look at famous examples: Carly Fiorina? Marketing. Brigitte Ederer (Siemens)? HR. Meg Whitman? Marketing
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by pinaceae 14y ago
the problem you're trying to solve is discovering new movies for a user, right? i assume it is, so let me try to expand on why you might have trouble with your current offering: - some people enjoy movies and are always looking for new stuf
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by pinaceae 14y ago
great case study of why product design is very hard and requires deep understanding of the factors involved. as others have pointed out: - your goal is to clear an area, hence you need a systematic approach to be able to deem a strip of lan
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by pinaceae 14y ago
we are focused on mobility, field force solutions. for this you need offline capable apps. always online is still a pipe dream and will be for quite some time.

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