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by zeruch 4y ago
They don't nurture any new tricks long enough to actually prove it out. Their product graveyard is like the SV equivalent to the city of Colma. From Wikipedia: "With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the populati
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by zeruch 4y ago
"That said, despite some basis in fact, the story here likely embellishes the overall nature of the culture clash." That is the pithy, key, interpretation here.
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by zeruch 4y ago
It's also about what is "success" at different scaling. People can enjoy different levels of success at different stages and not always chase the same big targets. I remember seeing an interview with a band that had some ma
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Zhao said Binance needs to get the company "well-organized" ahead of the next crypto bull run and admitted the exchange is "not super efficient."" Would that mean hiring spree or re-factoring existing process
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by zeruch 4y ago
That applies to all commerce really, but the SV philosophy is "growth like a cordyceps on meth", so...
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by zeruch 4y ago
I certainly hope so.
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by zeruch 4y ago
If you skip his body horror films (which admittedly is 70+ percent of his oeuvre), and look at Eastern Promises, Maps of the Stars, A Dangerous Method, or a History of Violence, and you'll likely come away with a different view. Crash,
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by zeruch 4y ago
consumerism as defined today is more aspirational and well, all-consuming as a part of social identity than it was in Boston way back when. everyone everywhere consumes, but when the very habit of doing os becomes part of the social activit
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Again, I can't speak for other parts of the company, and maybe Java's successful integration into Oracle has been a fluke" They only cared about Java, and to a lesser extent controlling MySQL (the latter being one effec
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by zeruch 4y ago
"They all tell me that, despite the normal big-corp issues, work under Oracle's control is better than it was under Sun, where management was more chaotic, strategy unclear, and resources shifted erratically from one project to an
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by zeruch 4y ago
Tech journalism has for a long time been in the tech industry circle jerk olympics. This is a trend going back decades, and I remember when FOSS first got traction and the reporting was somewhere between factually vacant and ideologically
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by zeruch 4y ago
I was at SUN in the mid/late 90s, when Java and the E10K were released. It was a glorious place to work, with an amazing corporate culture. Their sale to Oracle was a tragedy.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Is this an AMC problem, or just that every player now wants a streaming service and people accustomed to bundled TV options (and I count Netflix as that for argument) are now exhausted at the prospect of endless streaming services to subscr
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by zeruch 4y ago
I've been of this opinion for essentially all consumer grade items since the beginning of the trend years ago. For Enterprise software I'm squishier because I have to bear in mind a bunch of things where long cycles and certain gu
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by zeruch 4y ago
It was ultimately all of SW. Before the Valspar purchase, SW used SugarCRM, and my team there (TAMs) were with the account and regularly out in CLE. I really like the team there from SW. One of the best customers I ever dealt with overall.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I worked for a vendor that SW was a customer, and we were asked about integrating with some SW systems...what you are describing resonates
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by zeruch 4y ago
I started in the industry when you were born, with IRIX, HPUX (horrible) and Solaris. I was on Linux by 97/98 and I haven't seen a *nix system in production use in a workplace that I've been in since about 2010.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Depends. If it's services, I could see where the services are delivered from (e.g. location of platform or service personnel), OR where the services are destined for (client location) and commit the rev-rec there.
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by zeruch 4y ago
This borders on absurdist. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've come to expect a certain level of daftness and self-absorption with the Trump Org, but this is just...weird. Like not the normal disconnect from reality, but a more dist
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by zeruch 4y ago
Here's the thing. In an where ads get the volume cranked up, this seems like the natural blowback to that. Good, bad, indifferent, adtech has become so hostile that users (myself included) have found ever more measures to excise it, be
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by zeruch 4y ago
Cue the Butlerian Jihad references...
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by zeruch 4y ago
Kiyosaki must be up to something if he's complaining.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I've never started anywhere with an intention to be a "lifer" but I have had a fairly linear jup from early short stints, to a 4 year run at VA Linux Systems, later a 6 year run at an "anti-piracy" company that was
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by zeruch 4y ago
THis feels like the most salient assessment.
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by zeruch 4y ago
It's ironic in that I agree with many of the things Chamath says, but also that he himself is a cagey operator. He plays both sides in a way that is frustrating because you see him point out something dirty about the industry, then wo
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by zeruch 4y ago
Why do they 'hate' them?
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'd say either VLC or Musicolet let you do that as well.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Good. She got off easy.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Didn't Elon demand everyone back to the office?
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Most low income people pay nothing for health insurance in the US." ...and get the commensurate level of care.

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