chopete's comments

>> “We always wanted the hero of the ad to eat the pizza,” Helbing said.

>> Gorbachev held firm. “‘As the ex-leader, I just would not,’” Helbing recalled Gorbachev saying.

It is not clear why he wouldn't do that.

>> It hurts to see people continue to make mistakes over and over,

Its because

https://vimeo.com/76499047

Saying "there is age discrimination in the tech industry" is looking at the symptoms. The root cause is not being able to look at it from the system's viewpoint that causes it.

Tech industry especially the cutting/bleeding edge segment, is a crapshoot. Its survival depends on breaking rules, boundaries, assumptions and being starry-eyed believers

Seasoned engineers appear to "project" they are fixated on things knowingly or unknowingly. If you are doing it unknowingly - time to review one's communication style.

Also, this segment survives (or emerges out of) by riding the technology shifts. For example, here is a shift in the software programming segment. green screen -> desktop -> web -> mobile -> deep learning.

Most companies do prefer to hire senior members who have experience with prior technology segment and are attempting a newer one.

Very concise. Btw, I see that you created this tool. It is a brilliant tool. Just wish people would start using this tool to explain the steps instead of writing them in ad filled/narrow column pages.

We have so many satellites up there that can stream photos of specific locations.

Can those companies fund a few days' worth of live streaming of key areas? It gives everybody an option to see the reality/facts instead of opinions.

Nobody knows whom to trust in these crisis times and everything appears as an opinion of an individual or a small group.

These could be old videos.

I always wondered why doesn't the government install a few hundred web cams across the big cities for the rest of world, including the journalists to see the reality. Why do only the journalists have to travel there and take pictures of whatever corner they want and tell whatever story they want to tell.

I tried using AirTable twice. It has a steep learning curve. The UI comes in the way often.

If they really have day-to-day users - they must be from the top down approach (somebody up the chain selected it) or forcefully committed ones or a have a perfect use-case.

It is certainly not for regular/most excel users.

Can think of 2 reasons why it is not free.

a. These are meant for a business to show off its compliance. A business means it is already making money. I am sure every company would be happy to pay that 100CHF to buy it for you , just like they can afford to buy a book, if they are thinking about ISO.

b. The ISO compliance is to be asserted by a 3rd party auditor. They are a member of the ISO community and/or have a copy of the standard with them.

I went through hearing the similar ("talking like an engineer") comment myself. One thing made a big difference in transitioning to company leadership.

I thought I was a leader of the people reporting to me. A leader in a generic sense, as in civic leaders. I have to fight for or work towards their betterment.

With that thinking, every discussion with upper management would come across as the defence, for the team, for the processes.

One executed corrected my understanding that I am not a generic leader. I am a company leader. That means the company is first and foremost. My communication and thought process has to reflect that.

It sounded a bit harsh in the beginning but it helped me become a better company leader and good for the people reporting to me and customers in the long run.

Letting robocalls go unaddressed for this long highlights the greed side of capitalism.

- Make money from problems. It is not in the best interest of companies to eliminate money making problems.

- Problems are more beneficial if they impact average joe. They won't be able to fight and choose to pay ransom for partial relief.

- The greed side of capitalism can only be handled by governments. Unfortunately, this helps comes only after a big collateral damage, in this case, millions annoyed with robocalls.

by Annoyed user who gets 3 robocalls per day, despite using all kinds of blocking mechanisms.

There is a saying in the enterprise software business.

You are a Walmart or becoming one. There is no middle ground.

The enterprise executives do not have the luxury of time or risk appetite to keep doing multi-dollars deals and review MSAs.

In that respective, IBM just extended their life by another 10-15 years. It is a brilliant move by IBM.

No serious enterprise uses an operating system or any piece of enterprise software without costly support and maintenance.

Once they are in, the support and maintenance agreements disappear only if the purchaser goes out of business.

This is provable more easily places in hub cities like Bangalore, Bay Area and Seattle. The benefits are trickling down to other cities slowly.

Most people who are smart enough to jump ships now have 2-3 offers. In cities like Bangalore, a jump can fetch anywhere from 20-200%. 20% is minimum irrespective of the current salary.

Perfect time for anybody who hasn't tried checking this in a couple of years.

>> For a problem to be, in a statistical sense, causally identified there must be some random or as-if random manipulation of treatment.

It would be good to see your ideal example of a casual, for non statistics people to understand your long note better.

Your comment is a great follow up to the article. I am copying(with slight modifications) a few actions highlighted in the article.

>> Staring isn't staring if you're smiling. Or waving. Or if you say hi. Adults- do stare but do it smilingly or say hi

>> Just tell your child to wave.

>> And don't worry if he(your child) asks an awkward question, like, "Can't she talk?" That's a welcome chance for us to introduce Esprit.

>> Just ask a disabled child's parents whether the planned activity will work for their son or daughter. If an adjustment is needed we can figure it out together.

>> A nuisance like leaving a picnic early is normal (for parents with disabilities), so don't make a big deal out of an annoyance with a portent-filled comment like, "I don't know how you do it."

>> They desire the human contact that most of us take for granted. So increase your awareness, by reaching out to one of them.

For same reason one of the founders mentioned >> most people are not the best at advocating for themselves

Is there a service to help negotiate a better raise? (Of course, working behind the scenes)

I presume this is a struggle for every employee everywhere, every year throughout the career.

I managed to do better a few times by writing a nice email but many a times I just lacked the energy to compose such emails and settled for whatever is offered.

>> S&P/Nasdaqs/NYSE won't list you Whats the cut off?. Is there a link you can suggest to read more about % of cash raised/valuation?

The company is taken over by the VCs. Perhaps the new executive thinks it is a waste of time/money to engage in VCPs.

--- From the slide on list of Open Source tools and Algorithms

• Kaggle(www.kaggle.com) is a good start for this - start with “somewhat real” problems • Use higher level tools - Keras(https://keras.io/), otherwise easy to get lost in weeds • Consider having a real world goal - eg: if you’re in real estate figure out how to use a simple CNN (not the latest algorithm) for image search • Depending on need consider integration with hadoop/Spark(http://spark.apache.org/)

False analogy. Creating a file upload service with no authentication or no resources to keep it safe is like installing a fully loaded AK 47 at an intersection and hoping people would just use it to learn how it works or use in an emergency to shoot at criminals passing that intersection.

There are free file upload services and there are ways to upload from command line(1).

[1] https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

It is yammer all over again http://i.imgur.com/DKODqy3.png

I can't help but post this based on my experience pitching to vendors to join an app store.

Slack CEO: Yammer made $1.2B. We need to make $12B. For that I need to make a hit song with 10,000 background dancers with me on the stage.

Board: How much can you pay each dancer?.

CEO: $10/hr

Board: Ok. Announce an App Store.

You are already a hero and there are hundreds of them to jump on stage to dance with you in that 5 minute song.

CEO: Now you are talking!