replyguy912

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by replyguy912 6y ago
this is just a more honest merger. Someone is always getting acquired, in this case they're upfront about who has post-deal control.
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by replyguy912 6y ago
pretty much like you've described. When you're making up the valuation and spending your own currency there's no problem; you control both sides of the balance sheet
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by replyguy912 6y ago
or you could, ya know, walk 8 blocks and keep the restaurant in business, but hey, we all have our limits.
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by replyguy912 6y ago
This is an all stock deal, so valuations are about as realistic as a televised poker tournament. No one is paying a 27% premium in cash; they're spending their own ridiculously valued stock. There is no business model in the world tha
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by replyguy912 6y ago
I disliked JIRA and we switched to Microsoft DevOps about a year ago. Now I really miss JIRA. DevOps is so painful in comparison, especially doing really specialized things like, you know, tracking work items and answering questions like &q
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by replyguy912 6y ago
I'm a big believer and user of 1:1s and don't think they're a waste of time, because if there are no problems it gives me a chance to get a coffee, go for a walk, get to know my direct reports - how is that a waste? The chall
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by replyguy912 6y ago
having sat on both sides of the table, this is a weak rationalization for wasting a lot of people's time. You're making candidates do so much work in terms of applications, preparation and interviews and you don't even know w
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by replyguy912 6y ago
I hear this all the time and it's overly simplistic. Maybe if I give you a single number that is my true desired value, yes. If I give you a range where the low-end is 25% higher than that true value, I've now anchored discussion
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by replyguy912 6y ago
This seems reasonable and beyond what other major employers are offering, but as is the fashion I'm sure Amazon will be convicted in the court of public interwebs shortly...
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by replyguy912 7y ago
Except they were there for 14 years. Unless it became instantly diametrically opposed to their belief system in the past couple of months, the author has put up with the changing environment for a long time. They're not some skill-les
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by replyguy912 7y ago
from a recent modern family: Phil: "Who knew people on the internet could be so mean?"
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by replyguy912 7y ago
I agree - I consider the current president both a hater and accomplisher of impressive things. down-voters should interpret impressive as "making an impression" not "something really good"
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by replyguy912 7y ago
over-commenting is explaining in pseudo-english what you've written in code. Prentend you are at the United Nations but you speak all the langauges, so you don't need a word-for-word translation. You don't understand to motiv
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by replyguy912 7y ago
comments shouldn't explain code period; they are to clarify intent.
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by replyguy912 7y ago
I just don't agree with this viewpoint at all. There are plenty of profitable startups directly focused on education and the environment. Maybe you don't agree with their definition of meaningful but don't let perfect be the
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by replyguy912 7y ago
>> I don't particularly care about meaningful work, I enjoy solving problems that matter and I'm good at it so I want to do that. Isn't this the same thing? Meaningful is highly personal & contextual, so a problem t
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by replyguy912 7y ago
I think the question around performing meaningful work is largely rhetorical; the challenge is where do you find meaningful work? We tend to love the romantic notion of throwing away the high paying meaningless (to us) job to follow your dr
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by replyguy912 7y ago
Yes, likely the inventors' ancestors now work for Facebook or EA.
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by replyguy912 7y ago
I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)
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by replyguy912 7y ago
>> Walmarts core is poor, rural/suburban America. Maybe in 'Merica but not in Canada. It's the go-to for the huge array of products between Costco & the grocery store for a wide set socioeconomic segments. If it&#x2
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by replyguy912 7y ago
We're in the process of migration, first from Jira to Boards. I have some serious concerns but I'm a marginal Jira user and DevOps newbie, so they all seem confusing to me. The build pipelines & release management stuff is eve
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by replyguy912 7y ago
The biggest problem with learning on an "as-needed" basis: You only learn what's needed to accomplish your immediate goals. An inefficient, injectable query will certainly get data showing up on your web page. Most people are
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by replyguy912 7y ago
It's hard enough to identify good or bad, let alone assess to the degree that I can say 2 candidates are comparable. When that happens it really means I've got an equally poor measure of both.
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by replyguy912 7y ago
Must be pretty cool to able to identify sociopaths just by "lookin' them in the eye!" The more I do interviews and get assigned the "culture & fit" asessment role, the more depressed I get. It's really just
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by replyguy912 7y ago
Well, what your typcal symphony orchestra audience wants is a mix of challenging (for the performs & listeners) pieces and the well-known standards. Stray too far either way and it's a miss. It not just entertainment for a lot of p
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by replyguy912 7y ago
We have SQL above that level and relational algebra below it; the challenge with your proposal is it's super-dependent on non-trivial implementation. Upper-level database courses deal with this, but in the same way compilier or operati
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by replyguy912 7y ago
Agree on struggling for real scenarios where you'd use a right-join, but your example with select * from dogs where owner_id not in (select id from owners) You wouldn't actually recommend something like this would you? The query p
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by replyguy912 7y ago
There's a parallel that every consultant or salesperson should use when a client asks for "super-specialized feature X" in their gp-product: reframe what they're asking for in a way your product can address the underlyin
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by replyguy912 7y ago
You're right; there are a number of quality character traits (like this one) that disqualify a person from ever achieving elected office. I fear the list grows longer each day.
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by replyguy912 7y ago
I agree but but I think it should be followed by some indication of the strategy or initiative that you'll use to get in the know: "I don't know - I need some time to research the effect of XYZ on our prooposed solution. Let&

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