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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
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#302do you want to be a second verse Google search Amazon bigg Boss I felt something talking to God because he must be called God because not I caught him first
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#303I once knew a guy who had a framed snail-mail letter from Steve Jobs, asking if he'd reconsider his decision to not accept a job offer from Apple. I saw the letter in ~1994, so not sure when it was actually sent. He said he didn't regret the decision at the time as he was a big Sybase DBA expert and didn't figure Apple would be doing much with databases of any sort, much less Sybase.
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Same story for me at a game studio bought by Microsoft. It was simply not worth the hassle. As an employee I still had to sit through the same customer support as anyone else, talking to some person at an Indian call center with a bad line. After some failed attempts I just gave up and lived with my misspelled address.
My spouse is principal architect for a platform made by a large cloud vendor. It takes an Act of Congress, a Papal Conclave who produces white smoke on the first vote, Divine Intervention, and Interdiction by a Vice President, all offered in triplicate upon the altar of subpar IT support organizations, to get a ticket closed -with- a resolution in less than a year. If it’s not something they already have a script for…
Yeah, this has always bothered me. I don't really know what the issue is. One possibility is that IT is a "cost center" and so by making it cost as little as possible, you are doing a good job of running the company.
I look at it more like a "productivity multiplier", where spending money wisely can make other departments more cost efficient beyond the cost you put into IT. I guess they don't teach that in business school, or everyone is already as productive as they can possibly be. Somehow I doubt it, though.
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Everyone in my entire team - best of engineering as well as every manager left. Underpaying and over subscribing people has become a hallmark over there - it's just a body shop now. Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout. Upper management has no vision and everyone's constantly firefighting and struggling to catch up with competitors who had long ter…
"Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout." This is exactly how Epic the Electronic Medical Record company operates, but on new college grads instead of Engineers.
I'm always a little embarrassed when I go to the doctor and tell them I'm a software engineer. I know your EMR system is terrible but if I had done it it would have been better. Sorry :(
(My primary care doctor's office was venture-funded at one point and they actually have a great system. But all my specialists are on MyChart and everything there is always a disaster. Doesn't even have a "preferred name" field, so it has to be noted on my records on a case by case basis and it's ... inconsistent.)
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He screwed Woz out of money before he was even rich, and denied his daughter was his own. They are all pricks.
They're definitely all human. We should all strive to pass tests like the ones jobs failed, but not hold anyone to their absolutes.
At the end of the day, they'll be the "Andrew Carnegie" of the era, and no one will actually remember them unless they have a famous hall named after them.
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Heh. I have a somewhat related story. In the market we sell into, mergers, acquisitions and spin-outs are the norm. People shift employers all the time without changing offices. It's a whole Thing. USUALLY this is somewhat drama-free, and USUALLY there's not an issue with email addresses, but this is not a story about the usual case. Most places now seem to use the firstname.lastname@corp.com style of address. This i…
I imagine that certain people of a particular temperament might deliberately leave such a thing be, perhaps for their own amusement, or maybe because they consider it to say more about the company than it says about them. Is this individual such a person?
Emphatically no. He's very annoyed.
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Dick Smith?
Reminds me of that public speaker announcement asking (in American English) a Mr. Peter File to please report to the service desk. (Not from "Brazil" the film, but Monty Python-originating regardless.)
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#310The Apple Watch uses a pie menu to open apps. You can switch to linear but that’s only useful if you’re trying to confirm something’s existence. The pie menu, as chaotic as it seems, is just a better experience, imho.