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by replyifuagree 2y ago
McDonnell Douglas knows they can continue to drain Boeing of money because the US govt will step in to bail Boeing out when things go really bad. Reminds me of the cynical calculus around power companies here in California.
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Came here to post this!
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Ask HN: What is needed to replicate the Sal Khan ChatGPT-4o trig demo?
6 points by replyifuagree 2y ago|0 comments
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Yep, Tim Cook is a pretty amazing at operations. Creative leader of creatives though, he just isn't that.
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
I covet that guys job big time. However, I'm actually too busy playing factorio to do his job so there's that.
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
I just went with it and enjoyed the visual!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Many human engineers get happy chemicals from helping people! Also many humans!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
lulz @ facebook revenue breakdown
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Visualizing How Big Tech Companies Make Their Billions(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|1 comments
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>it sends all the right signals Wow that just drips frat house product manager!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Did Mayer really just spend two years professionally coding before becoming a product manager? If true, that smells like a root cause for how bad Mayer is at running tech.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
There is a proven relationship between contacts made and sales made. Which is why sales managers constantly push sales staff to be making calls. Sales has been around for way longer than development, the underlying theory for sales is wel
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yes it is.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
lol, I'm just thinking of how awful the Manhattan project would have turned out if it had half the invisible things that can go wrong in software deployments. If software caused mushroom clouds each time it had a problem in the field,
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>if there was some way of estimating how long software tasks would take, software companies would hire a professional estimators That's awesome. In my feistier days I would have used that at work!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
That entirely depends on whether or not the team is making something that is going to fulfill an unmet market need. If they are in the majority of developers being mismanaged to crank out software that nobody wants, then have them code in a
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
But 100 phone calls will, there is actually no such relationship in code - in fact deleting code significantly reduces liability, I guarantee reducing sales calls will not have the same effect.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Integrating VBA into excel was an interesting one as the excel team refused to just pull it in as a dynamic dependency but wanted it embedded straight into the deployment to avoid the DLL hell that was common on the windows platform. In ad
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
You forgot elk dinners at nice restaurants! I'll never forget when CA threw everyone parties to celebrate the sale of software the company couldn't use. P.S. Not really, you covered it nicely under fraud
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Not really, the shotgun approach actually works with sales - especially if the sales force has been slacking and not chasing leads. Whereas with code, deleting code and writing less code is very much preferred because each line of code writ
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
If we consider that Fungibility is on a continuum of very low on the left and very high on the right. Where do you think most sales fall on the continuum? I'd claim that businesses are biased toward chasing a highly fungible sales mod
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
If you are like most business people I've worked with, you love my complicity.
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Hacker News Enhancement Suite is best thing since sliced bread(github.com)
17 points by replyifuagree 3y ago|15 comments
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
I promise you what you are experiencing is a management problem, not a dev problem. Devs absolutely love executing on creating easy to code software solutions to well defined problems. Many of us will work the weekend on that kind of work
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Your are correct in the majority of places where developers work. And this is simply because most developers work under legacy management where they are siloed off from the business - so typical Machiavellian silo on silo violence is emplo
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>Only work on the project half the time, spending the other half on something more worthy/interesting. This is actually a pretty common motivation for devs who work under legacy management.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
>be very careful that you don't make this approach the standard way of working Legacy management steeped in manufacturing has entered the chat!
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Yep it is very unlikely that the business silo has a clue what needs to be built.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Regarding open offices. The Fed commissioned MIT to do a study on the effect of public observation and found that it significantly reduced people's effectiveness at solving puzzles.
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by replyifuagree 3y ago
Because you'll figure out how to crunch enough tickets for a minivan! https://devhumor.com/media/dilbert-s-team-writes-a-minivan

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