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by scrubs 2y ago
Gerstner left ibm far better than when he found it. That's the main point. Now generally speaking most American OEMs lost their manufacturing chops since 1985 when software began eating everything. Today, tech companies need to decide:
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by scrubs 2y ago
No. I want ibm to be a better ibm for its customers, and ditto for intel. Intel clearly is more about manufacturing than ibm. Put another way, dropping hw and hw manufacturing at Intel for something else is net worse.
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by scrubs 2y ago
See comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321673 Re c-suite And for a positive counter example think Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (1993 - 2002) when ibm was in a jamb.
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by scrubs 2y ago
There's something to like in this article. For example, it's rare to see accountability emphasized at all much less in line with control. They are indeed two sides of the same coin. Being right on systems problems or indeed chem e
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by scrubs 2y ago
>is so offensive ... Agree. Poetry is the compact written reflection of an expanded or conflicted soul ... it requires lived experience, self awareness, and ability to compress out superfluous details in language. The question of whether
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by scrubs 2y ago
Well put.
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by scrubs 2y ago
Bingo ... let's not confuse a techie for a messaging app selling ad data as a tech savant (almost) brilliantly predicting the future because it tries to bootstrap itself into the stratosphere with a flourish of art copy & paste by
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by scrubs 2y ago
Google wants to be technically persuasive -- a player in an engineering space (ergo open source) -- without being beset with the roles and responsibilities of a 3rd party being a bonafide customer when push comes to shove.
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by scrubs 2y ago
Agree Sabine is the rush limbaugh lite of physics ... she seems very frustrated which with our knowledge climate right now: cern struck out on susy, no serious line on dark matter, and desire to build a bigger Cern strikes her as a waste of
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by scrubs 2y ago
Good gracious! C'mon! ... science people want science not nonsense not cheap symbolism. The article to which the link responds is cynical. And in my experience cynical assessments are made by people more likely to engage in the cynical
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by scrubs 2y ago
Decent point. Here again the goal is to align accountability with control, which has got to be management 101.
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by scrubs 2y ago
Here and in taxes complexity is a problem. Any chem Eng or Drucker/Ishikawa/Deming person will want to simplify. Second, and as a commentor here reminds, patients are often on the line for money (accountability) when the axis of c
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by scrubs 2y ago
Related: my mac bugs the hell out of me to accept new cloud Eula junk after os upgrade ... it's constantly popping up every 5 mins or so and can interrupt shutdown. Out stubbornness I've ignored for 6 months running.
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by scrubs 2y ago
Related: my mac bugs the hell out of me to accept new cloud Eula junk after os upgrade ... it's constantly popping up every 5 mins or so and can interrupt shutdown. Out stubbornness I've ignored for 6months running.
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by scrubs 2y ago
It's worth pointing out cigar smokers that are left handers exceed 1:10 and I've read elsewhere smoking is a preferred Neanderthal trait.
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by scrubs 2y ago
Agree. In the US in particular congress is by far the worst of the three federal branches. Most long term, strategic problems are due to their inaction whether taxes, current account deficits, operationally effective border control, gun law
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by scrubs 2y ago
I applaud the author (andrews). The guy can write well. A great read, a great mission. Good luck NASA!!
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by scrubs 2y ago
Sorry, all this twaddle is like a culture war ... it's noise. Take the cosmologists and put them out of mind. Now, exhibit a testable hypothesis. Better, try to explain the 67 to 75ish mpc/s ranges in other methods. Then we can ta
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by scrubs 2y ago
Your assessment of the situation is flawed.
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by scrubs 2y ago
This post is great! And so are the comments. Another reason hn rocks.
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by scrubs 2y ago
I hear you ... and in fact you make a good point re: couple of smart guys (or ladies - sometimes the guys are the problem). It's essential to have people with enough self awareness and security and medium to long term thinking to not b
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by scrubs 2y ago
That's no kind of answer! The system made me do it is not an answer! Recall the incentive structures are made by management. So who in hell is in charge here? Management or the paperwork? People or the small 'c' culture of th
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by scrubs 2y ago
Right - capitalism in the the large is fine. In the small ie company by company, board member by member, control and accountability have become too divergent. That's a problem. Along the same lines I recently posted this idealized goal
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by scrubs 2y ago
I strongly recommend modiano's occupation Trilogy on this general subject (jews in europe) 2012 Nobel prize winner (year from memory but modiano (french) def got a Nobel in literature)
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by scrubs 2y ago
I support immigration. I know a ton of university educated parents who either came here so or paid msrp price at American universities to get their education. And their kids all went to American universities. Through undergrad they got no f
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by scrubs 2y ago
I read the article a couple of times. The observation that decay leads to a loss courage rang loud and true. Think all those GOP politicians originally vorciferally against trump now for Trump. We see this is the small in corporate america:
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by scrubs 2y ago
Bingo. I'm already in a bad mood from c++ stl compile errors and template bs ... rust ain't helping. And for my work (low level MT csp (communicating sequential processes) and as another hn post made reference to, better design ve
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by scrubs 2y ago
I liked this article. It's original in thought, and gave some attention to why things work stupidly, and are even upheld. Let's now turn to what one does about. I want to pick one issue to discuss here. Consider, this excerpt: &qu
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by scrubs 2y ago
My father was a field biologist. His specialties: grizzly and polar bears. I've sat on both after tranquilized whereupon basic data is taken and radio attached (1970-1980 tech). Hemingway would have killed to his buddy. He then went on
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by scrubs 2y ago
Oh c'mon. That's just a bunch of vapid nonsense.

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