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by telltruth 4y ago
And what is that?
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by telltruth 4y ago
Imagine you are running at 2 miles/hr and your competitor is doing 4 miles/hr. How much distance gap increases between two of you as time passes? The answer is secret to virtually all success in most companies which started as s
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by telltruth 4y ago
Sprints were actually invented for team and culture that is below average. The goal is to keep putting pressure while pretending not to do so. It works well on boring projects or subpar teams. If you did your recruiting right and didn’t end
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by telltruth 4y ago
People in US will be shocked to know how “caste” politics works in India. It is affirmative action taken to its absolute extreme for no other purpose but gaining political vote. More than half of the seats at all universities, including sci
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by telltruth 6y ago
At the risk of fanboys downvoting this, I think world won’t be better place if Jobs went on to be CEO of Google. He would have locked everything down, imagine all of the massive open source just never coming out, Google Brain never existing
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by telltruth 6y ago
Microsoft went exactly the same route. After certain critical mass of PMs were achieved, things went only downhill. I am not saying engineers somehow are superior but the fact is that there is no real hiring criteria for PMs so overall tale
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by telltruth 6y ago
I'm not russian but curious how this can get published in Moscow Times. I thought Putin owns the whole media and any newspaper printing things like this will have immediate consequences. No? I'm also not sure what really Navalny i
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by telltruth 6y ago
Imagine a $2T company. One day CEO decides that his company should stand for only Republican values, donate them handsomely, buy newspapers for them, start TV channels for them, only offer employment to republican leaning persons, introduce
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by telltruth 6y ago
To me he looks like retiring. Working on new projects while someone else is CEO hasn't worked out well. Ask Bill Gates, Steve Jobs (when Scully became CEO) and Larry Page. Bezos had been buying massive houses and spending a lot more
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by telltruth 6y ago
Looks like a typical MBA business suit to me. Could you elaborate on vision/technical aspect? I'd think he would delegate those to others.
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by telltruth 6y ago
They are not. On the surface revenues keeps growing, profits are enormous but underneath there are virtually no new product lines. If you look at Microsoft of 1990s, there were new $1B business each year - MSSQL, Sharepoint, Dynamics etc
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by telltruth 6y ago
Please also include Google in your list.
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by telltruth 6y ago
"declined" is a major understatement. Too many practices at Amazon is now decisively anti-customer: - Fake reviews have been happening for years but almost no progress from Amazon - Huge number of fake products and/or mislead
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by telltruth 6y ago
It is utterly surprising that even Bezos couldn't resist choosing a business MBA guy as his successor just like Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Bill Gates did! They talked ALL their lives about importance of "product person", inno
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Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks(twitter.com)
71 points by telltruth 6y ago|30 comments
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Notes on Technology in the 2020s(elidourado.com)
15 points by telltruth 6y ago|2 comments
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by telltruth 6y ago
As the story goes Marissa Mayer was "demoted" to take charge of Maps/Places group that till that point no one much cared. To keep her into "leash", she got the budgets she wanted and she truly threw herself at Maps.
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by telltruth 6y ago
Which one of following levels of information you can put in your public resume? 1. I worked at Apple. 2. I worked I’m MacOS division. 3. I worked on MacOS UX. 4. I worked on MacOS dock enhancements.
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by telltruth 6y ago
One thing that troubles me while reading this essay is so much focus on being billionaire as the goal to carry out the building activities. A huge problem with this is too many hackers now building in order to exploit human weakness of ge
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by telltruth 6y ago
Citation: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t... Sample comment: Another ex-colleague here. I was not going to participate in the discussions but your post made me realize objec
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by telltruth 6y ago
If employee is found using company resources inappropriately (in this case, mailing list to rant) then you can't give that employee 2 weeks notice. Google will then have to consider possibility that she will abuse their mailing lists.
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by telltruth 6y ago
Initially I took Google's side given Gebru has history of bullying so aggressively and has no qualms to play race/gender cards at every opportunity she gets. But now that more details (including the paper in question) has been rev
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by telltruth 6y ago
I don't think she ever resigned. My guess is that her manager Megan was being nice to her by saying that this is not firing but "accepting resignation". Unfortunately, her manager was obviously not trained in firing. Never &q
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by telltruth 6y ago
As I understand, she first sent out mass email to large group of employees that outright violated Google's policy. This act alone was sufficient for immediate termination. However, she then tried to bargain with her manager. Her manage
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by telltruth 6y ago
In my opinion, she is being very unfair to a lot of her colleagues by not telling the whole truth and at the same time making very serious accusations. She sent email to large group of employees which violated some standards expected from a
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by telltruth 6y ago
Microsoft takes cake at branding nightmares. This is because each time CVP/VP gets replaced (usually 3-4 years), they want to "redo" the whole thing because last guy did it all wrong. Despite of all the praise that gets showe
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by telltruth 6y ago
If Microsoft missed the train on search business then Google missed the train on OS business. During Vista days Microsoft was extra-ordinarily vulnerable, people desperately looking for alternatives and some guy at Google decided that the C
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by telltruth 6y ago
Part of the problem is also that lot of Google products are free. So there is no real way to measure bottom line impact when they mess with or kill things outright. Their current upper management is basically MBAs focused only on bottom lin
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by telltruth 6y ago
So everything from pre Larry Lage era :). Definitely nothing from Pitchai's rein!
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by telltruth 6y ago
I was an ardent supporter of Google Music. Their web app sucked. It literally took like 10 seconds just to show up! So many missing features and recommendation was worse than someone coded it up in weekend. I still stuck with them, keep pay

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