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Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
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> always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity). Why do I smell Windows Server 2008?
NIST stopped recommending regular password rotation years ago. Why are mega corps still insisting on this? Security theater? Unknowledgable?
MS has their guidance also not recommending password cycling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
But he mentioned servers not users. If those are Windows Servers in AD env, LAPS exists: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=468...
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#313Honeywell after GE acquisition. They basically bought empty buildings at insane values given how fast the talent clears out
Could you expand on this? I thought the GE/Honeywell merger was blocked by the EU.
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Would you rather have a nurse who was a vaccine skeptic or no nurse? Honestly asking.
Would you rather have a fireman who used a firehouse connected to a water source or a water hose skeptic who insisted on using an empty bucket?
That's a bad metaphor, given that the point in question (vaccination) isn't a treatment (water) at the time of severe infection.
Someone can simultaneously (a) be trained in critical care & (b) be a vaccine skeptic.
It's analogous to meteorologists who don't believe in climate change: yes, it's kooky, but it's also not the job they're doing.
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Yes, I'm talking about 2015. The first two Playstation only MoH games were not exactly failures, but they were little more than Goldeneye clones with WW2 themes. The first PC game is really the start of what we think of as the Medal of Honor franchise proper. The team that bailed founded Infinity Ward, which was the origin of Call of Duty, or at least the first like 8 games in the franchise. So yes, my story does in…
You may have found it annoying, but I think it's good to have a healthy level of skepticism on the internet about stories whose source is 'a friend of mine'. I agree OP could have been a bit less confrontational, but... > The first PC game is really the start of what we think of as the Medal of Honor franchise proper. > They took that momentum and started on their own novel IP [...] They couldn't take the IP with the…
The PC games done by 2015 nee Infinity Ward were basically them getting to do whatever they wanted, vs being handed a prepared design bible as was common for 2nd party dev in that era. That team absolutely deserves credit for what people commonly call MoH. Great you loved the PSX games. You're rather alone in considering them the same thing in all but brand.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you rather have a nurse who was a vaccine skeptic or no nurse? Honestly asking.
No nurse. What other kind of bad advice will they give me?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there exist people who are vaccine skeptics and are trained to a higher skill in life support than I am.
I try not to judge people completely based on a single characteristic.
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#317Borland. I worked there up until the mid 90s and then was recruited by Microsoft. They picked off all the great talent leaving barely any competent engineers left. I alongside a ton of other engineers were wined and dined and given a hell of an offer we couldn't refuse. It was insane, I should write a book honestly. I miss those days, it was the wild west of tech.
I wonder what makes a company poach like this vs do an aquihire
If you approach people one at a time and make them personal offers that they accept, you can be pretty sure you end up with people who want to work for you and have at least some initial loyalty and desire to stay. If you acquihire then you end up with a lot of people who feel like they've been forced to work for you and will be looking for the quickest possible exit.
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> Imagine any software company CEO nowadays saying that out loud, no matter what they privately thought. Comarch CEO famous quote: "any developer could be replaced with finite number of interns" This is Polish software company (quite big, one of the biggest) and since this quote went public, they don't have best reputation among developers. You go to work there only if you are actually intern fresh after uni.
Do you have a source? I couldn't find it in English at least
Quote 3 from
https://pl.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janusz_Filipiak
Sadly only in Polish.
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No nurse. What other kind of bad advice will they give me?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there exist people who are vaccine skeptics and are trained to a higher skill in life support than I am. I try not to judge people completely based on a single characteristic.
That makes it worse not better. If my wife were pregnant, I also wouldn’t have her go to a doctor who “didn’t believe in abortion” under any circumstances even if her life were in danger.
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What an interesting story. It made me look up how medal of honor started. Could you clarify a few things? I don't think the story adds up. Wikipedia has the followin information. Medal of Honor was made by DreamWorks interactive. [..] Filmmaker Steven Spielberg Spielberg founded DreamWorks Interactive in 1995. [1] And: Danger Close Games (formerly DreamWorks Interactive LLC and EA Los Angeles) was an American video g…
Yes, I'm talking about 2015. The first two Playstation only MoH games were not exactly failures, but they were little more than Goldeneye clones with WW2 themes. The first PC game is really the start of what we think of as the Medal of Honor franchise proper. The team that bailed founded Infinity Ward, which was the origin of Call of Duty, or at least the first like 8 games in the franchise. So yes, my story does in…
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