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by ticmasta 7y ago
It's also not really fair to Balmer to only evaluate performance over his time as CEO - he played a huge role during Gates' tenure as well.
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by ticmasta 7y ago
As a developer MS has treated me really well, IMO. They churn out as much short-lived tech as the next company but I think their windows-based culture of backwards compatibility carried over into the developer ecosystem, and the future of .
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by ticmasta 7y ago
one practical approach I actually learned from Stripe is to prioritize remote. This can be pretty superficial, like remote always goes first in our daily stand-up, to more material - they don't always get it, but I always consider them
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Remote as a cost-cutting measure is the same as offshore, with the same poor results. There is no emphasis on quality; you've traded that dimension for some balance of cost & functionality. As soon as you move beyond trivial softwa
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> Do we have nothing better to do than judge others? That's kind of what you're doing right now. We use judgement all the time but the definition of acceptable criteria is not universal nor static. You can work to change th
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Kind of sounds like you're arguing their "terrible but not an epidemic". It would be nice to live in a society where you didn't have to dig into the stats to determine how much gun violence is actually happening, and in
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by ticmasta 7y ago
Do most hospitals run billing systems supplied by Oracle? That would explain this "size-'em up" pricing strategy...
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by ticmasta 7y ago
>> The delicious irony in it all is that the money in your bank is backed by about $0.10 for every dollar they owe savers. I'll be generous and assume you know thtat banks don't store your money in a big vault a la Scrooge M
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by ticmasta 8y ago
While specific agencies may be consulted and influence what is redacted, the AG is the individual tasked with actually blacking it out
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by ticmasta 8y ago
liquor in AB is no longer significantly cheaper than BC, with the exception of maybe some hard alcohol. Beer and Wine are pretty much a wash...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I agree. Lotteries and Gaming are even worse; they warn you one sentence "please play responsibly" and then with the next sell you "this is how all your dreams come true" Legal weed is the next one. They could have just
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> They say that elephants never forget, and Silicon Valley is no different I'd say this statement is both incorrect and accurate.
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Disclosure: TB bought our company from other PE earlier this year. So far they are pretty hands-off once the top level metrics around sales, growth, etc are established. We'll see what happens in the future or if we don't meet our
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Is this a problem, or fundamental part of development at all but the newest of companies?
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by ticmasta 8y ago
The easiest way to get a raise is to change companies. You can then ask your current company to match, but in my experience (from the company side) this never works out in the long term. You'll be branded (at best) a hired gun and not
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by ticmasta 8y ago
We ask a programming question that's harder than fizz buzz but not terribly difficult. There's an opportunity to get the gist, but miss some edge cases which leads to good conversations. When I go in to discuss the solution, I ask
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> In some cases, all I have to do is not be a huge asshole Man, you can get sooooo far in life with this low bar, yet lots of people fail to clear it....
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by ticmasta 8y ago
This is an interesting, feel-good read and I'm legitimately happy for the OP's success, but I do have a few nits. First this is a pretty simplistic way to value a business, using the tools we were introduced to in 2nd year managem
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by ticmasta 8y ago
What size company do you work at? how many distinct product lines? A sports team is 12-50 people, plus an immense supporting team, many with very specialized roles but all aligned towards a very well understood goal and pretty stratified op
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> A union just evens out the bargaining power between you and them. What if you're better than the majority of "us". I can negotiate a better deal for myself than they can get or justify; now I subsidize the group for
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Have a toonie (for us Canadians) party (or fiver if you have an affluent social circle): Every kid bring 2x $2 or 2x $5 - one goes to the birthday kid and the other to a stated cause, like a charity that is close to the child's likes o
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by ticmasta 8y ago
although in Mazda's case they are working on some potentially very profitable upgrades that do not take the same commitment to long-term R&D, like their compression ignition engine: https://www.just-auto.com/analysi
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by ticmasta 8y ago
This is very true in my experience. I covet and zealously guard the hours between 8pm and my bedtime and/or ~6am and when the kids wake up. It is very hard to do deep intellectual work when you have kids around, but easy to get more ro
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by ticmasta 8y ago
When do you exercise, grocery shop, meet teams at school, get sick, enjoy your hobbies, read for fun, catch up with friends or other parents, drive your kids to activities, help with homework and projects... ? I'm glad this works for y
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> work on whatever is most important or most interesting, how often are these two the same thing? Which are you supposed to do when you've got all this open-ended, distraction free time? And the whole "no schedule" thi
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> I also think it's really, really dumb to push developers into management positions if they can't do the job. This has been known forever, yet it still happens - Why? >> I'd much prefer putting younger managers
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I know the classic argument against giving homeless people money, but what's the argument for not buying them food? They'll stay lazy" and not "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" (which physics shows is actuall
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by ticmasta 8y ago
It's like a an airline ticket. You're happy to have one for the price you paid, but man, if you find out the person beside you paid $20 less, your fury knows no bounds!
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> and it's not a good habit to start kids out sleeping with the lights on. Why? I usually see issues going the other way, where kids from birth get absolute quiet and dark, then can't get to sleep without those conditions f
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by ticmasta 8y ago
If you read the layperson defniition, but the legal one applicable to any legislative or judicial body is defined as: "... the offense of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behav

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