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OliverSmith

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    Comment #1362294

    exactly... inflexibility to change an old process because of 1% or less of the use cases could be justified or not. If a new process makes 99% of things take 10% of the time and 1%…

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    Comment #1362262

    Perhaps the actual problem is that there are a lot of people from older generations that were promoted to higher positions than they should have been and now they get to start maki…

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    Comment #1362085

    I think as long as you have separate streams, they can be much more powerful and useful than email. Think about github and trac. Both have a type of stream to condense information …

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    Comment #1361918

    I think those are both the same thing. Plugging it would allow them to redrill later in a different location. Salvaging it immediately would allow them to do both at the same time.…

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    Comment #1361898

    So when I go to management and let them know that I've spent my less valuable time and figured out a way to speed up our process, they should then either trust me and let me implem…

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    Comment #1361824

    As someone who just graduated from college and now working in a large company, this generation gap is extremely apparent. I understand that as a whole workplace technology is evolv…

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    Comment #1347353

    In one of the videos the guy mentioned that back in the 90's there was a reason that A LOT of hay needed to be sent to Montana or some other state in the northern midwest. He used …

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    Comment #1345385

    probably still angry about the iphone controversy that he wishes involved him

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    Comment #1345254

    being critical of future kickstarter projects would be good, but being critical of kickstarter in general could be bad

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