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Post by b0ner_t0ner »

sircastor wrote: post #363
hliyan wrote: post #104

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A counterpoint (also based on personal experience): recently moved from a company that uses Office365 to a one that uses GSuite. Communications and document sharing feels far more simpler and productive. I can't quite put my finger on why, but working on GSuite just feels faster and less clunkier.

I share this experience. My company switched to Office365 from GSuite. It feels universally like a step down. The workers who all used MS desktop products liked it, but everyone I work with it had expressed nothing but disdain.

We are using Office 365. Outlook's search, spam management and filtering tools are very poor compared to Gmail.

Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

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Post by techslave »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #131
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #33

I am the CIO of a mostly remote, cybersecurity startup (50 FTEs). I balance between not single-threading all choices through me and not letting things get too out of hand. That means no one is every really happy. E.g., we use Uberconference for videoconferencing. We thoroughly looked at a bunch of others and chose UC for its functionality, price, and simplicity (every conference gets a simple phone number, no stupid…

Sorry, but you are not a CIO, you just have a fancy meaningless title with no real correspondence to what it means. If the CFO decided to buy NetSuite without asking anyone, you care not CIO and he is acting as CEO because he can override you with no consequences. Just saying.

he said it’s a 50 person company. even if he had the authority you mention he would not be a “CIO”

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Post by anonsivalley652 »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #33

I am the CIO of a mostly remote, cybersecurity startup (50 FTEs). I balance between not single-threading all choices through me and not letting things get too out of hand. That means no one is every really happy. E.g., we use Uberconference for videoconferencing. We thoroughly looked at a bunch of others and chose UC for its functionality, price, and simplicity (every conference gets a simple phone number, no stupid…

I was a sysadmin, consultant before going EE/CS and AWS consultant after that for Fortune 200. AWS is extremely overpriced for running a stable amount of resources. For a lab, it's trivial to buy some used, power-efficient enterprise servers to run in a second-tier co-lo, install Xen or KVM on bare metal managed by an IaaS solution similar to CloudStack. On top of that, a PaaS like CloudFoundry or CFCR.

Re: A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

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Post by alharith »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #288
alharith wrote: post #159

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This “berniespeak” needs to go away. It’s divisive and further entrenched people into polarization. There have been plenty of people from the “bottom 90%” that entered a new income bracket thanks to technology. Let’s celebrate it instead of generalizing it to conform to a politicians ideological battle against the “wealthy”

It seems you are not aware that economic mobility (i.e. ending up in a different income (or wealth) quintile/decile than you were born into is at an all-time low in the United States.

Do you have a source for that? I am aware, according to the Brookings Institute, and world renowned economist Professor Raj Chetty, that it has been relatively flat for decades. Your parents wealth, and where you are born are the two biggest factors for economic mobility. Always has been, most likely always will be, so this isn't necessarily news or novel. So again, not sure divisive rhetoric and entrenching a feeling of class warfare is going to help anything. California, for example, where most people on this site are located and where a large majority of US-based socialism supporters are located, has some of the best mobility in the country. In fact, the single best thing you can do for your economic mobility is to simply move to a higher mobility area (surprise surprise).

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/mobi... http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/move...

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Post by perl4ever »

wpietri wrote: post #241
fivre wrote: post #74

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The individuals in aggregate may be toddlers, but unfortunately the C-suite as individuals are often also toddlers, at least vis a vis their responsibilities. Tasked with providing IT infrastructure that works for the company, they seem to largely shirk their responsibility and choose IT infrastructure that best serves them, the needs of others be damned. CIOs will seemingly gladly choose something that provides a go…

> this corporate disdain for quality of work environment You may find the term "managerialism" handy. It's the belief that managers and execs are the central story of a company, that everything must flow through them, especially key decisions. And of course, that as the special people, they deserve outsized rewards. It's the dominant philosophy of US business, and although it seems eternal to us, it was invented in t…

I don't think you understand what you think you understand. For one thing, if you look around, managers do not all have MBAs. The manager I had for the longest was a previous analyst who didn't even have a college degree.

The difference between classes or tribes is their value system. The more you rationalize why your tribe is superior, the less chance you will ever be able to switch to another. So ask yourself if you really want to feel superior, or to prove yourself?

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Post by specialist »

nradov wrote: post #397
specialist wrote: post #280

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Maybe we'd all do better de-digitizing our processes. Return to paper. -- I've been struggling to articulate a thesis, for way too long. But here it goes. Complexity catastrophe occurs when cost of change outweighs benefit. Or simply can't be done in time to make a difference. Whereas databasization makes processes inflexible, humans are relatively more flexible. Like being able to make notes on forms, or quickly mod…

Your points are irrelevant because it's simply impossible to use paper anymore for any but the smallest local businesses. Paper is too slow. Customers and employees would quickly leave.

Complexity catastrophes must be suffered because paper mediated processes are impractical?

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Post by perl4ever »

afarrell wrote: post #322
DangitBobby wrote: post #291

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Is it the report's job to bend over backwards to prepare a series of easily digestible info-graphics to convince the manager that the decisions they've made are bad? Or is it the manager's job to follow up on decisions they've made to see how they turn out, and to investigate to see if reports of eye-gouging are substantiated? In theory, the person whose eyeballs were affected by your decisions already have a litany…

Meta question: Why are we talking about people's eyeballs being literally stabbed out? I had assumed that this was an expression of some (unknown) level of difficulty, and that if we could shift the discussion to describing that realities of that difficulty and its impacts on business operations and morale, we could get some insight. But am I wrong? This is the first time I've heard about "literally shooting knives a…

Literally means figuratively. But really vehemently figuratively. That is all.

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Post by dang »

pjc50 wrote: post #73

SoftBank invested something like $24bn in WeWork, which went to the real estate bubble plus free beer for techies. There is an astonishing amount of money out there. In the case of the Saudi investment through SoftBank, it's practically a moral imperative to relieve them of it. Enjoy it while it lasts. Voluntary redistribution through loss making startups is the comfortable alternative to wealth taxes.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22449561.

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Post by james_s_tayler »

penguat wrote: post #398
specialist wrote: post #318

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Superior strategies like this are like hidden lore. Why is that? I'm certain there are dozens or hundreds of these hard won lessons. I had to rediscover the "INSERT only, no UPDATEs" trick on my own. Changed from separate truth and historical tables to a single table which is groomed over time. Major simplification. A few extra benefits: like scaling, testing and auditing. And my peers absolutely lost their minds. A…

"INSERT only, no UPDATEs" - sounds like event sourcing?

Or an append only log. Either way, not things unheard of in software engineering.
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