demian

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by demian 11y ago
But that can change quickly, history has lots of examples of how asymmetric power relations between the owners of the means of production and the workforce can end in conflict and a heavy push for a regulatory framework.
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by demian 11y ago
100% agree. Pushed goverments to review their approach to labour law.
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by demian 11y ago
The most successful redefinition of labour relations since the begining of overseas manufacturing.
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by demian 11y ago
I can attest to the fact that people from the US does not dress more casual than people from the Southern Cone of South America (Argentinians/Chileans/Uruguayans).
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by demian 11y ago
I "love" this tweet about how 10 people died on an earthquake last week. It has the same problem as "Like".
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by demian 11y ago
"One of the best indications of a well-engineered product is the rigor of the engineering specification document." We have come full circle.
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by demian 11y ago
Organizational Software is, in essence, bureaucratic automation. And if you try to impose bureaucracy, control, tracking and/or regulaiton inside a deeply "brotherly" organization, you are bound to have issues.
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by demian 11y ago
Basically you need to go into this knowing it'll take 3-4 years before you can show any traction. I hope some visionaries VCs will start thinking in those terms, and start investing in this kind of high-impact life-time ventures.
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by demian 11y ago
Isn't this solved by paying a fixed amount, and only paying if the project works and is well done? The problem with that approach is metrics. How can to specify that the softwere "works"? How can you measure if it's &q
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by demian 11y ago
It seems to me we are in the same place Front-End Web was a couple of years ago: There is an explosion of new tech and frameworks. BUT there seems to be a bump for the adoption of new tech for data engineering, the HIGH cost of migrating te
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by demian 11y ago
Some people argue that Uber and AirBNB are not actually changing the way we use capital on a fundamental economic level, but are instead using new channels in a way, and with a magnitude, never used before. IMHO I tend not to agree with the
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by demian 11y ago
By which metric would you measure this "efficiency"? The difference between VC-backed-startups vs traditional R&D departments is that the first one seems more short sighted, and with a tendency towards a narrow subset of IT pr
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by demian 11y ago
PowerCenter is a piece of shit.
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by demian 11y ago
Thank you, I'm currently looking for alternatives to "enterprise" ETL tools. Most of leading tools are HORRIBLE as programming enviroments and also are incredibly expensive.
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by demian 11y ago
Tool-level data integration is supported by tools like Spotfire, but for analyzing high volume of data you need to mantain a data warehouse using ETL code to integrate the data from all the diferent sources. For better performance you may a
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by demian 11y ago
This is capitalism critique 101. Marx was a tech writer in a way, he wrote about the emerging power asymmetries between the people that owned the machines and the people that operated them. I know you guys are not big for socialists authors
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by demian 11y ago
Not really into using darwinian language, but I like the focus on fitness. It may work better for customer-facing products ("Market Fit" is a thing), but It may be harder to sell it for internal products ("Functional Fit&quot
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by demian 11y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by demian 11y ago
Just "Culture of Learning" sounds great.
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by demian 11y ago
"Culture of Failure" Good luck selling that to upper management. On the contrary, quick iterations are about reducing the risk of building the wrong thing. Of course in the normal "blaming" corporate culture this won&#x2
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by demian 11y ago
But if they create wealth, isn't the "cost center" label outdated?
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by demian 11y ago
This is the same problem people faced at the turn of last century. The solution at the time was a mix between unionizing labor and adding regulation, like anti-monopoly laws, from the public side, and basically "inventing" the ser
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by demian 11y ago
Good to know, then time will tell and we will see his impact on the product.
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by demian 11y ago
Right, he fits a role in the company's narrative, both for the inside and outside. He is perceived as twitter "creator/inventor" after all, so I can understand why the employees are thrilled.
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by demian 11y ago
He seems to be there mostly for PR and customer relations.
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by demian 11y ago
How about "data is the n-dimensionally measured point and information is data plus some reference and dimensional axes" as a working definition?
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by demian 11y ago
Yup, it's not going to be easy.
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by demian 11y ago
Try this http://www.refinery29.com/rejection-therapy Then this: http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm Focus on learning to really listen to what people say. IMHO that's generally t
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by demian 11y ago
Optimize for two variables: * User Validation or Knowing You Are Building The Right Thing: data flows, ui design, modes, triggers, and so on * Tech Validation or Knowing You Are Building The Thing Right: unit tests, performance tests and so
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by demian 11y ago
IMHO the same thing happened with the "object" concept in the '90s.

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