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by viandante 15y ago
I usually assume that the suits are usually normal people and good programmers are usually smart people. That doesn't mean that what a smart person says will be listened. You have to see the world like them, think like them and, especially,
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by viandante 15y ago
You are wrong. Management does have output test: financials. Every executive is measured on the impact he has on the P&L and KPIs. You can say those metrics are flawed, and they can be, but the same most of the IT stuff I saw in my comp
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by viandante 15y ago
That means you either move in the suits department, or you leave the company as programmer skills are not core for the business or the support of the business.
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by viandante 15y ago
Business analyst/finance here. I believe you are generalizing quite a bit. Some types of programming skills are a commodity. Such as some types of 'analytical' skills: all that is done on a spreadsheet on a regular basis is a commodity, tha
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by viandante 15y ago
I am not sure where are you from. I come from the area described in "Gomorra" by Saviano. We have rampant criminality and corruption. People get actually shouted around here. Those are outside forces that will come and knock to your door as
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by viandante 15y ago
You are right, but those outside forces are really strong. I had to fight only to study abroad, which is seen as a waste of time and possible drawback on your cv (because you spent time studying abroad instead of studying for real...). The
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by viandante 15y ago
Yes. I agree with the classes. But this works only for programmers, for people working in, say, finance, monster seems unavoidable... What sucks the most about the whole process job board/application is that if you don't fit the boxes (I wo
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by viandante 15y ago
Ok, Monster is bad, agreed. But what sources would you use then?
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by viandante 15y ago
I still don't get it. If people are buying and the value is not there, they will loose money, right? Speculators can also bid on a lower price (derivatives), right? So, who are all those crazy people bidding only in 1 direction (higher pric
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by viandante 15y ago
I just don't get the point. You buy something if you expect its price it is going up. If the price is going up, it means there is higher demand. If there is higher demand, it means somebody does actually need more food (think of China and I
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by viandante 15y ago
This post is a total flaw. It mistakenly confuses wealth distribution with wealth creation. Let's say that, given the same inputs (raw materials, labour, capital, etc.), in 2011 an economy produces 100 with technology A and that in 2015 it
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by viandante 15y ago
First, I am not thinking money right now, I am much more interested in solving my issue. Yesterday I spent the whole day loading a bunch of filed in hyperion. With a good script that takes 10 seconds. Second, accounting does have a logic (G
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by viandante 15y ago
== which typically involve getting more money into the hands of poor people == An there we go. I absolutely agree if we discuss about helping the poor and having a good public welfare. But there is no connection that I know between giving m
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by viandante 15y ago
You can acquire as many top talents as you want, but if you don't look at your customers and their real needs you go as far as with a group of bottom talented engineers. The real problem big corporation face is that they don't even think th
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by viandante 15y ago
Let's just remember that all the money saved non rehiring people is not lost, it is probably going to increase investments/savings. And with that, the reality of unemployed people is a bit different. The point, in fact, is finding out why t
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by viandante 15y ago
About the credibility. Hyperion (especially mixed with citrix) is not that reliable and still is a reference in the field. I wouldn't think credibility is the main issue, at least not as much as usability and productivity (which I think are
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by viandante 15y ago
=== A lot of accountants make a glorious, tragic mess of Excel. I've seen it -- over and over and over, again. But the big systems are seldom a solution, in good part because rather than looking at those people's problems, they impose a top
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by viandante 15y ago
Do you have some code of the report engine? I'd love to see it. For the accounting knowledge. I don't think that is the point. The point is more what accounting people need and how they think. Most of the accounting could be done with R or
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Ask HN: What about accounting software?
10 points by viandante 15y ago|9 comments
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by viandante 15y ago
Hello, could you link to Kevin Owocki's piece? Regarding the data. Can you describe what kind of data you handle? Is it very structured? Is it big (>65000 rows)? Do you program? I work with spreadsheet everyday. My advice from the heart
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Ask HN: How do you appeal business users?
1 points by viandante 15y ago|1 comments
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by viandante 15y ago
Only problem I see is incentive to write on your website. People write on SOF or HN for reputation, why should they write on listry?
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by viandante 15y ago
Why people are so focused on the top x% of something? I really don't see the point. Sometimes what you need is a person with great ideas, not a top x% that believes to be some sort of god.
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by viandante 15y ago
I think you guys are missing the point. The point is not that people are jobless, the point is that what they would get paid if they worked is just too low for a decent life. At the correct price (even 1 cent per hr), everybody gets a job f
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by viandante 15y ago
The problem with links is quality and structure. If you are just wasting some time on fb you don't need it, but if you are doing a research this is rather useful. Yet, nobody does it. I have been learning web development in python the last
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by viandante 15y ago
This is interesting. You could also add things like geolocation, matching a la okcupido and other.
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by viandante 15y ago
That was the reason. Cleaver to think of that.
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by viandante 15y ago
Maybe somebody could help me to figure out how to save files properly with vim. I made a script that opens all the files I need. I call the script with: :source scriptname. Only problem is that the script works only if I open vim with 'vim'
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Ask HN: any reader of HN in Hessen in Germany?
1 points by viandante 15y ago|1 comments
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by viandante 15y ago
This is totally missing the point. Everybody I know is working hard and is keen to work hard to achieve things. But today it's not easy. 30 years ago you could work hard and you had good chances to succede. Today you may end up working up t

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