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sc2862 commented on The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition   filfre.net/2025/04/the-en... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz
JKCalhoun · 5 months ago
> Forbes first became associated with Sierra in 1991, when he agreed to join the company’s board. Ken Williams, Sierra’s co-founder and CEO, considered this a major coup...

And then:

> “Have you and Ken ever thought about selling Sierra?” <Forbes> asked her out of the blue one day in the lobby of the Paris hotel.

> “No,” Roberta answered shortly. “We’re not interested.”

> “But if you ever were, what sort of price would you be looking at?”

> “A lot,” Roberta replied, then walked away as quickly as decorum allowed.

Pretty clear which of the two was the better business person.

sc2862 · 5 months ago
Apologies for my lack of understanding of business, but who was better business person? Was it Roberta because she wasn't interested?
sc2862 commented on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers   engineercodex.substack.co... · Posted by u/thunderbong
stock_toaster · 2 years ago
> What did I miss?

The security team is getting weird reports from their internal nmap scanner that is constantly scanning this network. No, they don't know which of their vendor automated scanners are doing it, no they can't turn it off, so please add code to specifically ignore those scans.

Our VMware cluster has plenty of compute left, but it is out of storage space because there are hundreds of VMs from other teams and nobody knows what is still being used, so you can't get any more dev instances until we get more storage added to the NAS (in the next quarter's budget).

Any unrelated director somehow ended up seeing this diagram and had some "suggestions". Please implement these changes asap.

sc2862 · 2 years ago
> An unrelated director somehow ended up seeing this diagram and had some "suggestions". Please implement these changes asap.

this user gets it

sc2862 commented on Argentina raises interest rate to 97% as it struggles to tackle inflation   cnn.com/2023/05/15/busine... · Posted by u/rntn
miohtama · 2 years ago
Obligatory downvote comment:

Bitcoin hits all-time high against Argentinian peso

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/5bae64b6-9398-4...

On why Argentina can’t fix their economy:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/15/argentina-imf-debt-mass...

Argentina was the 5th richest country in the world in early 20th century.

sc2862 · 2 years ago
> Bitcoin hits all-time high against Argentinian peso

You know what else also hit an all-time high against the Argentinian peso? Cans of tomatoes, airline tickets, Bosch dishwashers... basically everything because that's how inflation works

sc2862 commented on The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs   jacobbartlett.substack.co... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey
vonnieda · 2 years ago
"You based your resume tips on a sexual grooming chart?"

"As a joke!"

"I'm gonna go work somewhere else..."

I know cultures are different in different places, but in corporate America this post is all red flags. Always Sunny is hilarious, but I sure wouldn't want to be sitting in HR explaining "the implication" to someone who has never seen the show.

sc2862 · 2 years ago
"Well don't you look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger"
sc2862 commented on Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living   wsj.com/articles/stop-tel... · Posted by u/klohto
andrewstuart · 2 years ago
I like telling people I’m a programmer. There’s lots of less exciting jobs.
sc2862 · 2 years ago
When I tell people that, they assume I'm somewhere on the deeper end of the autism spectrum.
sc2862 commented on AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating   ft.com/content/2e97b7ce-8... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
jupp0r · 3 years ago
"I'd rather my kids learn to use every tool at their disposal to be as fast, efficient, and effective as possible."

But that's not how (pre college) education works for the most part, unfortunately. It's lots of fact learning and essay busywork, not a lot of actual problem solving and critical thinking.

sc2862 · 3 years ago
> lots of fact learning and essay busywork, not a lot of actual problem solving and critical thinking

busywork and no problem solving/critical thinking? sounds like they're being groomed for middle management!

u/sc2862

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