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by wilsynet 11y ago
But Taiwan refers to itself as "The Republic of China" while China refers to itself as "The People's Republic of China". From the outside looking in, China and Taiwan are merely part of a long running civil Cold War
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Star Wars is not "the sci-fi cultural event of the year". It's more fantasy than sci-fi, it just happens to use space ships and lasers and stuff.
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Yes. There is a new story, Volkswagen has issued new statements: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/12/10/volkswag...
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Well he didn't pass the buck; he resigned.
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by wilsynet 11y ago
The two heads who lead the R&D and engine development are not software engineers. But they would certainly require software engineers to help them carry out the deception. I highly doubt that only 2 people are involved.
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The demographics and politics of gun owning households(pewresearch.org)
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Let's say you make $150K salary, plus 15% bonus and $75K per year of FB/Google/Apple RSUs. That gets you to $247K. At these very successful companies they almost always pay out your full annual bonus and the stocks are outrig
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by wilsynet 11y ago
The idea that a company exists for the benefit of shareholders is not universally agreed. For example: http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/how-shareholders-are... Anyway, you're free to be cynical about G
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Apple employees are not abused like this. They're siloed, secretive, and they work hard -- but it's not like this.
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Only thing I would add is: and leave people with their dignity intact whenever possible because 1) it's the decent thing to do and 2) it's cheaper to keep someone than it is to hire someone new after the person has quit. Clearly t
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by wilsynet 11y ago
IBM approached Microsoft to provide various software for their PC. Microsoft said they could provide BASIC, but not an Operating System, and helpfully directed IBM to Digital Research. Digital Research passed on the onerous terms (close t
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by wilsynet 11y ago
But he's OK that you can't tell USB v1 from USB v2 visually. Somehow he's able to discern or recall the date of manufacture but won't be able to remember that it's a Thunderbolt port.
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Plenty of developers at Apple, Facebook and Google making 400K per year total comp. They aren't the majority, but there are enough of them to not be rare.
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by wilsynet 11y ago
Success in a VC backed company means dilution. Massive success means massive dilution. The only time it doesn't mean that is when we're talking about super unicorns (Facebook) or primarily self-funded early on along with early tr
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A Boy Named Humiliation: Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names(slate.com)
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by wilsynet 12y ago
No, but you can cut them off and say "I'm sorry but we need to move on, you have 5 more seconds to finish what you're saying".
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by wilsynet 12y ago
If you want to say that 2 people resolving an issue is a meeting, sure, go ahead and call it that. But I would suggest that the meeting needed to happen anyway. Scrum doesn't imply that unneeded meetings need to be created for no purp
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by wilsynet 12y ago
They are doing it wrong. 8 people should not take an hour to say: What did I do yesterday, what am I doing today, is there anything blocking me? There should not be a discussion of every point. The only discussion should be "oh let&#
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by wilsynet 12y ago
If you are doing Scrum, the development team should be doing something like over 2 weeks: Daily standup: 15 mins x 10 days = 150 minutes = 2.5 hours Backlog grooming: 0.5 - 1 hour Sprint planning: 0.5 - 1 hour Retrospective: 1 hour Demo: 1
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by wilsynet 12y ago
A good policy is to not estimate bug fixes, to not associate any points at all with them. It creates a drag on velocity, but it's honest. If you need to fix a bug, it means that you are correcting an error from a past (implicit or oth
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by wilsynet 12y ago
That's right. For example, you can construct the integers Z without writing all of them down. Which would take a long time ...
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by wilsynet 12y ago
If Mr. Mason had proposed the progressive equity plan to the board at Groupon, the board may very well have agreed (it doesn't really impact the investor), but he would have had to get buy-in from the rest of the employees too (or risk
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by wilsynet 12y ago
It's pretty common for companies to buy a small license just to experiment in the lab. At the end of the year you have some extra discretionary dollars, why not make a small purchase with startup that came by a few months ago?
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by wilsynet 12y ago
It's hard to keep the planes full if you don't do a variation on hub and spoke. It is also expensive to have sorting facilities everywhere. Could you theoretically be more efficient? Sure. But it's much harder to buy plane
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by wilsynet 12y ago
An awful lot of Canadians increasingly sound like Republicans.
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by wilsynet 12y ago
One of the things you realize after you get some experience as a manager is that not everyone is equal, so not everyone needs to be treated equally. It's a tech company, not the drive thru line at McDonalds. People leave for a lot of
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by wilsynet 12y ago
It's probably not ridiculous, but the idea is overemphasized and taken as gospel in America -- and, I think, has been responsible for a lot of bad, short term decisions over time. Tim Cook seems to agree with him: “When we work on maki
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by wilsynet 12y ago
Apple probably wouldn't have been the success that it was without someone like Markula. As for whether it was Kalin's decision and his alone, there is no doubt that it was his and the other co-founders decision to raise money and
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by wilsynet 12y ago
The article says that it is unlikely that Kalim has a significant equity position in Etsy because he is not listed amongst the principal shareholders in the S-1. The definition of principal shareholder here is: officer of the company, direc
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by wilsynet 12y ago
According to Zach, Github doesn't have managers. So if there are no managers, then who fired him? Or can anyone just fire anyone else? Maybe Zach could just hire himself back.

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