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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   I've read a few books that mention Ray's management approach (my fav is "Learn or Die" by Ed Hess) and I find the approach to feedback loops & developing employees fascinating. Radical transparency, data-driven decis
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   Great find! The fact that it's still selling as an $80 product is amazing to me...
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   Not sure I understand what you or the article consider "revolutionary." I would consider products like the iPod, Mac Air, iPad, hell even iTunes or the App Store concept (which wasn't released at the same time as the first iP
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   I think I would add "Team of Teams," co-authored by General Stanley A. McChrystal. It blew my mind when I read it a year ago at how relevant it is to working in tech, and was a fascinating read in improving how folks make decision
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   Not sure I understand your thesis: are you trying to link "interesting" -> arbitrary "good/bad" utility designation, and use that reasoning to argue that progressing FB is not interesting? It seems like a fallacy
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   You can book Lyft as well - both are pretty solid experiences.
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   This - I live on the East Coast (where they are RARE) and I'm pretty excited to get one. I learned that a bunch of my co-workers are as well -- surprisingly across the age spectrum. One is a mother in mid-30's that loves the idea
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   >The other services are shit. Our company (~200+) just started using MSFT Teams, and I find it's pretty underrated. It's not as polished as a Slack/Hipchat, but the MSFT team is super responsive to our feedback, and you ca
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   by s3r3nity 10y ago

   This...If I wanted my company to pay move to G Apps from O365, my data scientists and accountants would be in an uproar over why we're paying for a worse data analytics tool (G Sheets vs. Excel). At this point, it's a marginal cos
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    No - I get notifications for different apps there (ex: Twitter.)
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Is Asana losing users? I had no idea they were having retention issues...
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Someone once told me that this is how Apple Maps works so that they can maintain a high privacy standard - though I'd be curious if someone else could verify.
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    >As a happy android user...Windows 10 is such a total dumpster fire - privacy nightmare... I don't understand how you can be happy with Google collecting anything/everything you do on an Android, but then complain when Microsof
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I don't know why everyone is so negative on Twitter trying to experiment with an improvement to an experience that most people tend to agree is a lousy one. It's a "test," after all. I agree that the new design they&#x27
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    This might be a dumb question, but can someone elaborate on how you can get such good graphics like they were showing in the Skyrim and Zelda images on such a small cartridge (i.e. not a disc?)
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    My read of it is that there are absolutely a lot of problems that tablets/electronic devices could solve on the sidelines of an NFL game. However, the urgency and real-time nature of football such that a lot of money and careers can be
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I think so - and the fact that it's so in the background speaks to how well the user experience is designed for iCloud. Apple pretty much surreptitiously hides the backup of contacts, photos, calendars, email (yes - a lot of people use
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Citation needed...?
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I don't know how much more they can do when they're at the top of Github contributions [1]. At some point, you accept that their culture is probably different than 10+ years ago. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Can you encrypt a Youtube channel? (I actually don't know...) Seems like this addresses a lot of security scenarios that Enterprise cares about.
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I agree - but you want to first make a smooth + easy to use platform to encourage the user to stick around for that coaching. Otherwise, I'll just find the whole experience burdensome. Hopefully your recommendation is on MSFT's ro
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I imagine this is to compete in the talent war heating up for Aero/Astro engineers, with sexy companies like Space X and Blue Origin siphoning the best talent from places like Boeing.
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I tend to agree, though I tried to do some searches for a law citation here, but struggled to find anything concrete. I imagine this will be a big area of research and exploration for law in the coming years. Some interesting scenarios to c
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Well Facebook has "Facebook At Work" ( https://work.fb.com/ ) that sort of accomplishes this, though at the moment they're not charging anything. Also, it's a bit of support/maintenance/overhead
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I'm _really_ intrigued by this, but the skeptic in me worries that insurance companies would peg rates at ridiculously high prices due to the high risk and low accountability inherent in open-source projects. I'm not suggesting th
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    I think it's not grammatically accurate to use "them" and "they" for a singular subject; if it's one person or thing, the pronoun should be he/she/it or some combination. For press releases, the safe
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    <Semi-Related Anecdote> I remember a friend of mine was working at Dropbox as an intern when they were only a few hundred employees, and we would tell me stories of these "R&D" brainstorm sessions - unofficial meetings w
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Well my hypothesis would be that Microsoft and Box tends to work the other way around as well (biz product -> consumer)...though then again a generality like that for companies of massive size is tough statement to make.
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    Ah good point - at least for Volkswagen...Yahoo has other confounding factors (their sale, etc.) but overall the impact is probably a short-term shock with few longer-term lagging effects.
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    by s3r3nity 10y ago

    tl;dr = "citation needed" =) I also agree with the sentiment here on TC reporting.