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by swingbridge 11y ago
In many ways the weekend warrior that flies his Cessna 172 around for fun is probably a better pilot that a lot of guys flying the big jets. One hand flies everything the other mostly just kicks on the autopilot and sits back. There are cer
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Disney initially 'got away with it' because they kept the whole thing at an arms length by outsourcing to Cognizant. "Oh that's what you did, hire H1B? Yeah that wasn't us... We just outsourced to Cognizant so you s
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The MBA seems very much geared towards creating the middle management layers that bloat many organizations. A class of people too low down to really influence change but too high up to actually do anything. Many companies are slashing such
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by swingbridge 11y ago
No surprise here. As with a lot of these multi-billion dollar valuations there really wasn't a lot supporting the valuations apart from hype and promises of future growth and solid finances. Now that those things aren't panning ou
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Pre check, and the TSA experience in general, depends a lot on the airport. Some are run quite well and others are a total train wreck. At some airports pre check is fantastic. At others they have a bad habit of sending "normal" t
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Agreed. That's all the more reason why I dislike a lot of these software vendors. They deploy all sorts of "solutions engineers" that are essentially just an extension of the sales team and their solution to every problem is
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by swingbridge 11y ago
There are indeed a lot of companies selling expensive pre-packaged data analysis tools and other magic black box solutions at the moment. In my experience most of these are not that great and cost a small fortune. Large enterprises are cert
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by swingbridge 11y ago
I've asked many IBM employees to explain to me what Watson actually does (like for real, not the marketing BS that's on TV) that would make me want to buy it. Nobody could explain it. Literally some where just like "yeah, I t
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Tableau is a decent product, but a decent product doesn't make a great company. Main issues are: A) Its sales team sells it as an end-to-end analytics suite, but in nearly all actual implementations I've seen companies just use it
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The current tech bubble has some fundamental differences to the last one. Specifically, while some of the pain will hit public markets the vast majority of people left holding bags of burning crap this time around are the VC firms and other
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by swingbridge 11y ago
LinkedIn is full of people trying to get people to pay attention to them... but the people they are trying to impress aren't really on LinkedIn (they have a profile but that's it... they don't use it as an actual social platf
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by swingbridge 11y ago
It's a nice story, but in modern times it's massively over engineered and really not practical. I get that the voltages are higher but even that is a bit silly. In many ways the US system makes a lot more sense. 110V for most thin
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Not a big Microsoft fan in general, but must admit that RDP is a nice protocol with good performance relative to some of the other protocols.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Well strictly so far as the markets are concerned Yahoo the core company died a long time ago. Just happens that some previous executives made a few great investments (Alibaba) that paid off big. Per current market cap, Yahoo the company ha
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Just scanning across headlines of the last few days: - San Francisco commercial real estate at record highs, passing NYC in price per square foot (which last happened just before things imploded last time around) - Multiple SF area tech com
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Exactly. SF's problem is not just a lack of sensible zoning but also a lack of adequate infrastructure to handle a modern sensible environment for commerce. Manhattan not just doubles its population size each business day but the vast
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Mixpanel has a great product but suffers quite a bit from the curse of having a product everyone loves but nobody wants to pay for. The layoffs are a likely a further materialization of their struggles to get people to pay for the product a
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Most people don't have a clue how options really work, but are thrilled to get them... until they try to excise them. Truth is companies give options to low level employees because it's cheaper than paying cash. Most employees don
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by swingbridge 11y ago
In general if a company is unfairly receiving bad press claiming its product is a sham, the usual response is to counteract that by being open and transparent and allowing independent assessment to disprove such claims. Want to pop in unann
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by swingbridge 11y ago
A lot of traders have the "illusion of confidence," in fact most of them do. They have good year or two and think it's the result of skill rather than luck. That confidence causes them to place riskier bets which then implode
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by swingbridge 11y ago
I got one of these sorts of things one time. It told me to go to a post office nearby to pick up a package. When I went there they didn't have my package and the following exchange occurred: "Why did you come to this post office?&
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Well, let's see how she responds to this Federal investigation that essentially accuses her of being a fraud. If her company really did fudge FDA testing results then that's beyond bad.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The reason for taking larger samples on many tests using "normal" methods is not that the instruments are not sensitive but that one needs to draw enough blood to get a representative sample of what's actually inside your bod
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by swingbridge 11y ago
It's really put up or shut up time for this company. There's been so much hype around this, but things are starting to smell funny.
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The issue with pointing to things like "the Harvard MBA" is that people who are selected into top tier programs are likely to have done just fine on their own anyway... so it's really hard to say that the MBA is why she was s
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Honestly the MBA has always mostly been an advanced degree for people who didn't get an advanced degree in a real subject. Lets people tick the 'grad school' box. The real world value has always been quite questionable and ye
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Not surprising. That's all standard clauses in a lease. For a long list of reasons you can't treat a rented propert like it's your own and just start renting it out without having the real landlord in the loop. Also doesn&#x2
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by swingbridge 11y ago
JIRA is far from perfect, but in an "enterprise" environment it's far better than most of the piece of $&@? "enterprise" software tools floating around. i.e. "Hey guys check out the new Sharepoint site for
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by swingbridge 11y ago
Sometimes companies have one business that's doing quite well and another that's a real stinker. Shareholders may want to own the good business separately and let the market value that without the drag and risk of having the stink
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by swingbridge 11y ago
The detail of engineering inside of Apple's products is impressive. A lot of attention paid to things that one almost never sees. Like others though the cable ends on computer and iPhoje chargers do always get frayed. I wish they could

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