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by settsu 9y ago
Some subtext in this article seems to be that the company was already a healthy environment which allowed him to easily adapt and thrive despite his inherent challenges. He could just as easily have found himself in a company that wasn&#x27
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by settsu 9y ago
I'm willing to bet being educated makes you more aware of bad decisions.
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by settsu 9y ago
They certainly would (and undoubtedly have.) However, I would surmise that a better educated society, having learned how to apply rational thought, would reduce the likelihood of that occurring and/or would minimize the damage when it
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by settsu 9y ago
And, unfortunately, you've just demonstrated a common problem in economic and political discourse: that issues quickly descend into one dimensional, black & white, us vs. them absolutionism. Not surprisingly this seems to occur mos
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by settsu 9y ago
They drop the check out of courtesy. On occasion—if I've been in a hurry, for example—I've gotten my card out once done eating and had it ready to hand to the server when they bring the check.
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by settsu 9y ago
A big problem is the U.S. is the level of profit enjoyed at the top tiers of the healthcare supplier verticals. Which either demonstrates everything that is right or everything that is wrong with the world's leading free-market capital
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by settsu 9y ago
A refrain I've often heard from victims of circumstance. Assuming you were living in an ostensibly "first world" society, I'd guess most people are unsettled by the sense that your experience was both sadly typical and e
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by settsu 9y ago
Money's a helluva drug.
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by settsu 9y ago
I can absolutely sympathize with the post's author, having been to my share of poorly-run events and those with poorly-communicated goals/topics. However, I've also been to some that are run quite well, with clear & focus
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by settsu 10y ago
The idea that the responsibilities of a salaried role are typically well-defined, largely fixed, and presented upfront yet compensation is obfuscated, negotiatiable, and settled virtually last is just maddeningly absurd. Just thinking about
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by settsu 10y ago
There is quite a bit that could be mined from this story, but just as a start: 1) The most zealous and persistent phishing awareness campaigns/training I've encountered has been at large corporations. I can imagine a series of art
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by settsu 10y ago
I appreciate that Atlas Obscura delivers truly interesting topical content almost entirely without affect or hyperbole. The contrast against much of the writing found online in the past few years is striking—and refreshing.
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by settsu 10y ago
Seems safe to assume that NeXT's existence was predicated largely—possibly entirely—on Steve Jobs reputation to actually deliver millions of units. In the end, he arguably "made it work" by the thinnest of margins. A better,
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by settsu 10y ago
In an attempt to avoid the appearance of politicking, I'd offer that this is not as significant a sum as it may seem initially, viewed in relative terms to... other governmental expenditures.
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by settsu 10y ago
My theory, as a casual observer and not speaking from experience (aside from having been a 20-something white male), is going straight from college to founding a company with m/billions at stake has the tendency to breed and feed unhea
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by settsu 10y ago
I've observed what seems to be a growing sentiment among 20- to early 30-somethings that is... "child hostile" (?)—no babies or young children doing in public spaces what babies or young children are wont to do: cry, fuss, wh
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by settsu 10y ago
I was there 2010-11 and can't recall the specific policies. One fun thing I do remember was the internal testing system which provided for an unlimited "budget" to purchase any domain which only resolved internally. So, for e
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by settsu 10y ago
I've been casually interested in small time domain name "investing" (with and without intention to develop) since the early days and when it so happened that during a stint at GoDaddy, I was charged with the UX of the domain
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by settsu 10y ago
The author's own website uses automated "chat" that appears to be initiated by a real person.
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by settsu 10y ago
You had to earn your fun with patience waiting for programs and games to load from the cassette tapes...
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by settsu 10y ago
There's probably a general cultural or sociological alignment to such openness you could identify in an area but the best chances are likely where the demand simply outstrips the supply enough that companies will be more flexible in t
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by settsu 10y ago
Not sure I'd want to work for a company with such... broadly defined roles...
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by settsu 10y ago
There's at least three proverbial sayings that apply here, one of which is hundreds of years old and another that is at least 2,000. But as a 2 year old article on this very topic put it: "The decision shows that communities ultim
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by settsu 10y ago
Shouldn't "all-hands" events should be reserved exclusively for dispensing information that cannot or should not be dispensed by any other means? And I'm not so cynical to acknowledge the value of, for example, collectiv
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by settsu 10y ago
https://activetheory.net/work/paper-planes-io for Google I/O 2016. It featured prominently at the beginning of the video stream.
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by settsu 10y ago
The impression I got from the video was simply that Billings is yet another American city on the path to homogenization, as captured (if imprecisely) here: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb
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by settsu 10y ago
What I'm unclear about, as both an Instagram user and with an interest in product development (from a UI/UX perspective), is what question this answered. I suppose it should not be entirely a surprise for a half billion user, Face
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by settsu 10y ago
So the victim is to blame for their honesty? How does this improve security?
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by settsu 10y ago
I worked in the user experience team at that one big American domain company (that's well known for mostly the wrong reasons.) Similar situation as the story: great coworkers, great pay, & great perks. One of the products I was ass
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by settsu 10y ago
Any journalist that "wants to be the first to call the end of a trend" has ceased being a journalist and has become a marketer.

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