When it comes to methods, you pick the set that makes the most sense, and stick with it. It's like I keep telling my boss. You can't just copy and paste a new method into your culture, and expect it to work properly. Choice of methods should come from trial and error, and a commitment to doing things right. What right means to you may vary. But if you're switching out your method for every solution... you're not using a method. You're playing chicken.
If you choose wisely. Yes. Those methods do impact the bottom line.
But only if you've picked the right method, and implemented it properly.
I thought the real insight in the article came from the piece about the coding culture. Staking out territory and maintaining complete control of the design and implementation of systems. If that's the case, is it any wonder the systems are obsolete? The way I see it, this article is really less about how antiquated Google's systems are, and more about how pig headed the culture can be. Made sense to my feeble warped mind anyway.
What I'm not understanding about the original statement is why Google needs the.kz domain when they can do a Geoip and figure out where in the world you are the minute you hit Google.com. It just seems kind of silly that the domain would be necessary in the first place, for a company that continually hires the best and brightest engineers in the world. You can't tell me that I'm smarter than the entire team at Google. Simply not possible. But if it is, I'll be happy to accept a job there, and show them how to do it.
You know, I don't know who this Anonymous Coward guy is, but he says some pretty fucked up shit. And he posts a lot too. I bet he's living in his mom's basement or something, and gets off on being called the fucktard that he is on the interwebs. Why does Slashdot let Anonymous Coward always say the shit that nobody else can get away with? Huh? Why's he so special? If I could meet Anonymous Coward, I would hit him in the balls and call him gay or something.
It really depends. In some fields, there's just no choice about it. Like selling websites or custom software. If you don't teach your sales guys to basic restraints they're working with, they're going to promise to do things that can't be done, bid the wrong numbers, or do very stupid things like guaranteeing results on highly competitive keywords in seo projects. The approach I've found works the best is to actually sit in on some of these sales meetings, and train the sales guys to say what I say, do what I do, and react the way I react.
Sales meetings are easy enough, because they're all basically the same. The same questions show up time and time again, and the answer is always the same line. If you can be consistent in your approach when dealing with sales guys, they can learn your shtick, and become better at selling this stuff. Also, reviewing contracts that sales guys write before they send it to a client is important. The hardest thing for sales guys to pick up is that sometimes it's better to not take the business, than promise something that can't be delivered.
Single digit commissions? In what industry? I've never seen sales guys for consulting (who are actually half decent at it) make less than 15% commission on anything. Then again, I've never seen engineers paid for their upsells at all. So I imagine it's relative. The way to look at it is simple. When determining a commission, ask yourself this: Is this business I would not have gotten if not for this sale? If so, you pay proportionally. What's it worth to you? How motivated do you want the person who made this sale to be in order to do more of it?
This kid is a trouble maker, a rabel rouser, the kind of kid that's got a big future, that the teachers and administrators at the school will say things about. Things like, "He's just not living up to his potential," or similar. He's probably accused of being a ringleader in class, and he more than likely has a bad case of ADD. He probably looks up to characters like Ferris Beuler, or similar anti heroes, and makes his opinion known. He's good at social networking, as we can see, and the establishment at the school probably hates him as much as they've felt hatred for anyone. That doesn't make them right.
Had youtube existed 20 years ago, I would have been in the same boat.
So I can spot talent when I see it. There's nothing anyone's going to be able to do to shut this kid up.
And there's nothing they should do, either. Let the boy work.
It's a shame that you have that much computer going to waste. What about using as a place to put all the illegal mp3's and videos you get from torrents?
At my office, we wouldn't need a porn server. Everyone's homepage gets randomly set to meatspin enough that nobody wants to see naked flesh. The president of the company has everyone's password for a reason.
Can't say I can see any holes in his reasoning. If we even spent half the money on our children as we do on our prisoners, there would be no issue with America's future. But we don't. So there are huge concerns.
I've used unity. I hate Unity. I haven't wanted to throw an OS out the window this badly since Windows Vista first came out.
See, it's not that Unity is too much like Android or Mac OS. It's the fact that I have to go to the command line in order to open up two instances of the same program. Unlike Mac OS which has tools that let you get around it, Unity forces one app at a time on you.
From the look of it, Windows 8 doesn't have that problem.
I dunno man. Just look at the history of Microsoft acquisitions in the consumer software space. That history would differ. You could be right, but the people in charge at Ms's consumer software department are stupid, petty, short sighted morons when it comes to this kind of thing. They just don't get it. Problem is that Microsoft lets this group run rampant. How much money have they lost over the years because Windows has to be the only client platform? Millions? Tens of millions? Billions of dollars? No telling really.
Of course there was a reason it went down the drain. It sucked. And not just in the simple straight forward kind of way that programs suck today. Foxpro sucked in the most gigantic, epic way possible. But it's supporters are still religious about it. Many still use it because, if you can't solve the problem with Foxpro, it must not be a problem worth having.
If you haven't heard of Foxpro, check out the wikipedia page on it. The history of this program is absolutely fascinating.
Absolutely right. There hasn't been anything on tv for years. That's why we've all stopped watching it. This is a great idea for an invention. But it's about 25 years too late.
So this means that the relative honesty and straight forward billing practices of At&t will be available in the 4g space. Clear users will be thrilled to know this. I've been using Clear for three months. Shoot me, please.
Yes, but PNG did unseat gif as a format. The death of IE 6 and consistent png support across the board caused gifs to basically die. It also took a bit hit at jpegs. Difference here is that Png's have been around forever, and it took over a decade for them to gain any serious traction.
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When it comes to methods, you pick the set that makes the most sense, and stick with it. It's like I keep telling my boss. You can't just copy and paste a new method into your culture, and expect it to work properly. Choice of methods should come from trial and error, and a commitment to doing things right. What right means to you may vary. But if you're switching out your method for every solution... you're not using a method. You're playing chicken.
If you choose wisely. Yes.
Those methods do impact the bottom line.
But only if you've picked the right method, and implemented it properly.
I thought the real insight in the article came from the piece about the coding culture. Staking out territory and maintaining complete control of the design and implementation of systems. If that's the case, is it any wonder the systems are obsolete? The way I see it, this article is really less about how antiquated Google's systems are, and more about how pig headed the culture can be. Made sense to my feeble warped mind anyway.
What I'm not understanding about the original statement is why Google needs the .kz domain when they can do a Geoip and figure out where in the world you are the minute you hit Google.com. It just seems kind of silly that the domain would be necessary in the first place, for a company that continually hires the best and brightest engineers in the world. You can't tell me that I'm smarter than the entire team at Google. Simply not possible. But if it is, I'll be happy to accept a job there, and show them how to do it.
Funny thing about the situation is that this is exactly the kind of stupidity that might just happen in a Borat movie.
You know, I don't know who this Anonymous Coward guy is, but he says some pretty fucked up shit. And he posts a lot too. I bet he's living in his mom's basement or something, and gets off on being called the fucktard that he is on the interwebs. Why does Slashdot let Anonymous Coward always say the shit that nobody else can get away with? Huh? Why's he so special? If I could meet Anonymous Coward, I would hit him in the balls and call him gay or something.
It really depends.
In some fields, there's just no choice about it. Like selling websites or custom software. If you don't teach your sales guys to basic restraints they're working with, they're going to promise to do things that can't be done, bid the wrong numbers, or do very stupid things like guaranteeing results on highly competitive keywords in seo projects. The approach I've found works the best is to actually sit in on some of these sales meetings, and train the sales guys to say what I say, do what I do, and react the way I react.
Sales meetings are easy enough, because they're all basically the same. The same questions show up time and time again, and the answer is always the same line. If you can be consistent in your approach when dealing with sales guys, they can learn your shtick, and become better at selling this stuff. Also, reviewing contracts that sales guys write before they send it to a client is important. The hardest thing for sales guys to pick up is that sometimes it's better to not take the business, than promise something that can't be delivered.
Single digit commissions? In what industry? I've never seen sales guys for consulting (who are actually half decent at it) make less than 15% commission on anything. Then again, I've never seen engineers paid for their upsells at all. So I imagine it's relative. The way to look at it is simple. When determining a commission, ask yourself this: Is this business I would not have gotten if not for this sale? If so, you pay proportionally. What's it worth to you? How motivated do you want the person who made this sale to be in order to do more of it?
Sure.
Try this one: http://video.tagged.com/#v=AnW2_i0Q_i4&op=0
This kid is a trouble maker, a rabel rouser, the kind of kid that's got a big future, that the teachers and administrators at the school will say things about. Things like, "He's just not living up to his potential," or similar. He's probably accused of being a ringleader in class, and he more than likely has a bad case of ADD. He probably looks up to characters like Ferris Beuler, or similar anti heroes, and makes his opinion known. He's good at social networking, as we can see, and the establishment at the school probably hates him as much as they've felt hatred for anyone. That doesn't make them right.
Had youtube existed 20 years ago, I would have been in the same boat.
So I can spot talent when I see it.
There's nothing anyone's going to be able to do to shut this kid up.
And there's nothing they should do, either.
Let the boy work.
You might learn something.
Who in their right mind would even try that in broad daylight, if it wasn't legitimate?
Beautiful piece of mischief.
Somebody needs to give this kid a fucking tv show.
He's a genius.
So does this mean that my porn habit has to be fed during the day, and out doors? Kinky...
It's a shame that you have that much computer going to waste.
What about using as a place to put all the illegal mp3's and videos you get from torrents?
At my office, we wouldn't need a porn server. Everyone's homepage gets randomly set to meatspin enough that nobody wants to see naked flesh. The president of the company has everyone's password for a reason.
Can't say I can see any holes in his reasoning. If we even spent half the money on our children as we do on our prisoners, there would be no issue with America's future. But we don't. So there are huge concerns.
I've used unity. I hate Unity.
I haven't wanted to throw an OS out the window this badly since Windows Vista first came out.
See, it's not that Unity is too much like Android or Mac OS. It's the fact that I have to go to the command line in order to open up two instances of the same program. Unlike Mac OS which has tools that let you get around it, Unity forces one app at a time on you.
From the look of it, Windows 8 doesn't have that problem.
The only programmers I know that make that much own consulting companies, and I would like to be one of them.
Nobody said they were.
But I wouldn't put money on continued Linux or Mobile other than Windows Mobile support for it.
Would you?
I dunno man. Just look at the history of Microsoft acquisitions in the consumer software space. That history would differ. You could be right, but the people in charge at Ms's consumer software department are stupid, petty, short sighted morons when it comes to this kind of thing. They just don't get it. Problem is that Microsoft lets this group run rampant. How much money have they lost over the years because Windows has to be the only client platform? Millions? Tens of millions? Billions of dollars? No telling really.
Of course there was a reason it went down the drain. It sucked. And not just in the simple straight forward kind of way that programs suck today. Foxpro sucked in the most gigantic, epic way possible. But it's supporters are still religious about it. Many still use it because, if you can't solve the problem with Foxpro, it must not be a problem worth having.
If you haven't heard of Foxpro, check out the wikipedia page on it. The history of this program is absolutely fascinating.
Right. An attack like this is censorship. Plain and simple.
Absolutely right. There hasn't been anything on tv for years. That's why we've all stopped watching it.
This is a great idea for an invention. But it's about 25 years too late.
I don't know about your cat, but the voices in my head say it's a keeper.
So this means that the relative honesty and straight forward billing practices of At&t will be available in the 4g space.
Clear users will be thrilled to know this. I've been using Clear for three months. Shoot me, please.
Yes, but PNG did unseat gif as a format.
The death of IE 6 and consistent png support across the board caused gifs to basically die.
It also took a bit hit at jpegs. Difference here is that Png's have been around forever, and it took over a decade for them to gain any serious traction.
Why do this again now?