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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 …

100% agree. Pushed goverments to review their approach to labour law.

The most successful redefinition of labour relations since the begining of overseas manufacturing.

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).

I "love" this tweet about how 10 people died on an earthquake last week. It has the same problem as "Like".

"One of the best indications of a well-engineered product is the rigor of the engineering specification document." We have come full circle.

Organizational Software is, in essence, bureaucratic automation. And if you try to impose bureaucracy, control, tracking and/or regulaiton inside a deeply "brotherly" organization,…

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 investin…

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 "…

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 …

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 mag…

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 wi…

PowerCenter is a piece of shit.

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.

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 fro…

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 opera…

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 i…

Thank you for the clarification.

Just "Culture of Learning" sounds great.

"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 …

But if they create wealth, isn't the "cost center" label outdated?

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 …