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by kfcm 8y ago
TL;DR: My advice to you is to get out fast. As more people leave, the further behind the company will get, and the more pressure and blame will be placed upon those who stay. This is sounds suspiciously like my last employer (before I star
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by kfcm 8y ago
I don't. I've first hand experience with groups which have "clandestine" agendas, both in the private sector and in government. And I don't mean UFO agendas, but money and financial oriented agendas. So it's
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by kfcm 9y ago
You have to determine who your market is. Some potential clients may not be in your market--whether too small or too big--and you pass on them. If there's a demand from those market segments, someone will pick up on it.
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by kfcm 9y ago
I only do fixed bid projects (plus expenses). In my experience, clients want to know up front what they'll be paying (or a very tight range, with expenses). Hourly, they get nervous they'll end up with The Never-ending Project,
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by kfcm 9y ago
This movie is an example of what happens when Boeing's Marketing department and USAF recruiting (with assistance from SAF/FMP) team up.
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by kfcm 9y ago
Here's food for thought. Does this happen with experienced positions open in other departments? Are experienced CPAs interviewing for the new position in Accounting required to balance an example set of books? Are experienced Sales int
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by kfcm 9y ago
That's incorrect about the Constitution. While it does not lay down specifics, it does give Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. Known as the Commerce Clause, it's Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: "To regulat
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by kfcm 9y ago
This isn't happening in only SF, or only in tech. It's happening all over, and across the spectrum of ideas. Is the argument that social media is tearing apart our society correct? I think it goes deeper than that, and that it&#
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by kfcm 9y ago
Just saw this. As my late dad and other old timers said a few years ago, the price of land is tied to the price of corn. Land values (both purchase and cash rent) have fallen the past year or two from their high, slowly but steadily. From
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by kfcm 9y ago
There has been some land in Iowa which has still sold for $9-10K/acre this year. Very good CSR. But it's definitely not the norm anymore. $7-8.5k/acre seems to be the range.
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by kfcm 9y ago
Wow! I wish I could have gotten that price for my corn last year. You quoted the price for beans, not corn. Corn averaged 3.40 over the year (currently, around $3.05 cash, not CBOT). That means it was about $640/acre for income. And
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by kfcm 9y ago
I'm guessing you didn't grow up on a farm. There will always be some farmland effectively for sale; but there will also be other farmland which will never be for sale, no matter what the cost. The latter are generally "homep
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by kfcm 10y ago
I'm going to address how to handle the employee who came to you in confidence. You need to sit down with her--before you do anything--and inform her you need to do something and why. Tell her you understand she came to you in confiden
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by kfcm 11y ago
I'm guessing power constraints. More flash you have, more power you'll require. Even increasing power consumption deltas minimally may impact battery longevity between charges on mobile devices enough to make it unfeasible with c
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by kfcm 11y ago
The question isn't how big the farms are. The question is how are those who are "using" Farmlogs, using FarmLogs. Are they active? Are they using just the basic functionality, or are they using more advanced features? I&#x
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by kfcm 11y ago
Always a tough choice. And only one you can make. Here's my thoughts: 1) People/teammates make all the difference in the world. You love working with your current team; you've enjoyed working with the Other Company's (
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by kfcm 11y ago
Geez, what a yawner. This has been either assumed or an open secret for decades.
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by kfcm 11y ago
It's like the old real estate mantra goes: "It's all about location, location, location." There will be some metros where no one cares; they're so short-handed and the tech market so hot, they won't care and wi
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by kfcm 11y ago
I agree with this statement. I lived in the Twin Cities for a decade and worked for four (4) different companies--the last three of which recruited me away from my then-current position. As another responder said, the Twin Cities is very t
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by kfcm 11y ago
Let's examine this law via the perspective of speed limits. In the US, most interstate highway systems have a speed limit of 70 miles/hour (around 112-113 km/hour). If you go over 70 mph and run into a police officer having
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by kfcm 11y ago
-Work to live, not live to work. -Time is your most valuable and most finite resource. Don't waste it on working 24x7 for companies who will take advantage of your desire to do so. -Ask yourself if what you're doing will matter t
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by kfcm 12y ago
Reading this brought back fond memories. Or nightmares. Sometimes it's difficult to distinguish between the two.
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by kfcm 12y ago
Thanks. I associate typewriters with a different era, which really wasn't that long ago. An era where we weren't (all) slaves to our work. You worked hard during the day, and went home to a life at night or on weekends. And by l
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by kfcm 12y ago
All Hell wouldn't break loose, because FarmLogs isn't unique. Deere and Monsanto each have their own "cloud-based" farm management products: Deere with myjohndeere.com, and Monsanto with the Climate Corp umbrella (incl
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by kfcm 12y ago
A couple weeks ago, I had some paperwork to do at a county Recorder's office. As I'm standing there writing, I heard the rough sound of gears turning 3 times, and a chunk-chunk-chunk. Sounds at once both familiar yet distant in
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by kfcm 12y ago
"...We don't have ulterior motives with regard to using farmer data. We help them use it to be more profitable and that is all." Until the investors/board say otherwise. :) Been there. Experienced it. Resigned rather th
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by kfcm 12y ago
There are desktop-based farm management solutions out there from companies like Ag Leader, John Deere, Trimble/Farm Works, and others. Some of these interact with smartphones or tablets (sync on LAN, maybe Internet). Many of these com
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by kfcm 12y ago
The problem with FarmLogs is the same problem with anyone wanting to provide cloud-based services to agriculture: who owns the data? And specifically, FarmLogs Terms of Service clause 7 "Content" does not leave one feeling warm
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by kfcm 12y ago
That's not entirely correct. Accounting and non-trial legal positions can be outsourced overseas (cf, http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/article/10741227/what-tax-... ), or H-1Bed. Most of the other position
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by kfcm 12y ago
Anyone who thinks $140/hr (or whatever per project rate is) is too high, consider the following. My CPA in a Midwest/Great Plains rural town of 10K people charges $175/hour. Her firm has 5 other CPAs. The town has around 20

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