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After years of low level annoyance, I looked up the regedit incantations needed to disable it. Now start menu search is amazingly snappy and only returns relevant results.
Mind sharing? PLEASE!!!!!
How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
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Re: How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
#412I am currently employed to develop an entire data analytics system because a government department can't get their firewall rules right. None of the members of this government department want a bespoke system, they want to use tools they are familiar with but due to the firewall rules this isn't possible.
Why don't you build gateway to th standard tools?
To put it bluntly, because that's not what the contract (that I had no part in) specifies.
The proper solution is just to fix their firewall. The interim hack is what you've identified, do some sort of gateway.
Unfortunately my bosses are non-technical and think we can simply copy google data studio with 1.5 guys and 12 months.
Understandably I am seeking new employment.
Re: How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
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I know a guy that works at a company where the CEO will sell something to customers not knowing anything about the technical details, and then come back to the business and "make them do it".
Isn’t this the norm? I complained that sales were “demoing new features” to customers before the back-end dev team had even heard of these features. I was basically told to stay in my lane. A property developer making design mockups of new highrises doesn’t run it past the bricklayers first, so why should product/sales talk to us digital bricklayers... In one sense, great, I don’t want to bother about what a customer…
Because he is selling buildings that are too tall to be built with bricks...
Re: How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
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Yes, the best salesperson is usually the one least concerned with reality. Or as one VC put it: Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
This makes more sense when you remember that being "concerned with reality" for a salesperson mostly means "Getting the commission paid and moving to a different role before everything blows up too badly", rather than "delivering software that meets the sales deal's contractual requirements". Salespeople are too rarely judged/punished for the disastrus messes they leave behind, and all too quickly judged/rewarded for…
Hm... Vested commision?
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> They are not bad people. Very few people are "bad" people but the way you're describing it makes it pretty clear that they're making unethical choices, and they're doing so consciously. Actions speak louder than words.
What’s the difference between a bad person and a person who consciously makes unethical choices?
This was the one of the wonderful bit of insights from the suprisingly deep and insightful show "Bojack Horseman". Basically, there is is no such thing as "deep down inside i'm a good person". You are your actions.
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I've worked 6 years as a PM, last 4 at FANG Here's some advice, which you are free to take or to leave, (and that's very reasonable since my advice is generic and I can't speak to your exact circumstances) 1) Just start doing it. Don't wait for someone to give you permission to prioritize customer needs. Pick up the phone and call them. Go to a store and watch them shop for your product. Talk to people. When you set…
See also: Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt (2001): https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don...
That advice reads as "If your job sucks and you can't safely quit, defy your manager and work overtime until you are thanked for it or fired."
Re: How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
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Google Translate was good before the so-called "AI revolution".
From what I've read, the early translations were really rough (but on par with competing free products), until they fired all their linguists and brought in AI guys.
Not exactly. Google Translate was always a statistical approach from day one. That was the reason it was better than the rules engines that dominated before that. The Translate guys really pioneered statistical machine translation.
However it was all done with hand-crafted statistical functions and code. The new stuff using deep learning is the first time it'd have been referred to as "AI".
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What area? I've mostly quit software because of how much I hate working on complete garbage and also don't have the schooling/engineering skills to work on truly cool stuff. Pivoted to wood working.
Funny, I know a guy who was did woodworking (and construction) that pivoted to software. I worked with him on a consulting project used by nearly 30 million people, great dude and great experience. On the other hand, I didn't have an engineering degree, and worked on software for a major bank, and then a consulting company where I worked with ex-construction worker. I found a gig on a team at another company where I…
Been in the industry for over a decade most of which was in fintech, some in crypto. I don't count any of that as "cool". I've still got some years left because it's good money but eventually I want to pivot to wood working. I started working on my own apps this year and it's much more enjoyable.
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Business guys usually comes together and brag about their works. Quite often, they start to talk about things they heard but don’t understand much. And the other one hear about it, get excited, but also don’t understand much. Then on the meeting, he brought the idea up and convince everyone to do it. The next you know, you’re pulling your hair out trying to understand what is going on
Yes, the best salesperson is usually the one least concerned with reality. Or as one VC put it: Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
I don’t have the number but the percentage of success that “best salesperson” is small.
Most of the time, the development will be discontinued, or change the direction.