Just stay off the big planforms. The old weird internet is alive and well if you know where to look.
where would we even start looking?
Readit Newssupercanuck commented on As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media fair.org/home/as-ellison-... · Posted by u/bhouston
That's how you get 3 different values for a core KPI in 3 dashboards.
Then you look under the hood of the dashboards, only to see that not a single one follows the official definition of the business.
exactly this.
The core issue is dimensional data modeling was introduced to address limitations on hardware (disk drives) and limited capacity.
With the advent of unlimited storage and separation of computer and storage, dimensional data modeling would only be possible if there was strong data governance in a system like SAP or a COE.
supercanuck commented on How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data theconversation.com/when-... · Posted by u/mdhb
I think Palantir is highly misunderstood.
As a technology, it is just database joins. It is just that they are able to pull in data from everything from S3 to SAP to ArcGIS, and provide analytics, visualization etc. on top to provide global visibility into any system.
The visibility can be "show me all illegal immigrant clusters" or "show me bottlenecks and cost sinks in CAHSR construction".
When we offload the moral impetus for society from politics to technology, we also squander control. Tech is tech and can be used for both good and bad. It is not that a strategy that aims to cap downsides by preventing the proliferation of technology is inherently bad, but it is doomed to fail. The evidence for dysfunction is not the existence of Palantir but in the failure of the watchdog layer of society (also called the government).
The problem with Palantir is they target gov. agencies.
Most of the time companies who have systems like Palantir, I’m thinking the SAP, Oracle, blah Blah, have to report earnings to the street through a 10k or have to comply with regulations like Sarbanes Oxley.
They will also have in-house IT staff to monitor the logs etc.
The programs installing the Foundry system have an incentive to hide the data from prying eyes and therefore it never leaves the Palantir ecosystem. The government doesn’t hire independent consultants, auditors etc to confirm if it’s being used or not.
They simply have to demonstrate trustworthiness to a security officer and hope an IG doesn’t have an external equivalent of a Forward deployed engineer.
So while the technology is mediocre, it’s the nebulousness or the lack of audit-ability and the are the people writing checks the same people signing them.
So I sympathize with Karp talking about technology being fine it’s the apparatus surrounding it that says “just trust us” that gives pause, especially in today’s culture of conflict.
If I told you that 90% of all transactions get routed through a foreign companies software, you might pause but it’s been like that for years (SAP). The difference is there are controls in place.
supercanuck commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
I was joking with a friend that one of their competitive advantages is that it is a mediocre data platform but their critics get gang stalked.
No. Government is composed of many parts.
The executive moves quickly and is designed to move quickly. Congress and Courts are designed to be somewhat slow and deliberate.
That's why all this change in the President / Executive branch is happening so quickly.
Article is trying to discern a cause and effect.
The fact is people are involved and success and failure can be determined by any number of reasons beyond the control of the obstinate.
You can control the effort but not the outcome. Judgement will come regardless.
This is one of the reasons I'm always singing the praises of Kanban over Scrum. Scrum encourages busy work on too many things. Kanban encourages ruthless focus on a few things that need to be done next, and what is blocking it. Scrum encourages "agile cosplay" with folks taking on things they shouldn't be doing now to make the right (imaginary) story point total for the sprint (which of course gets gamed as points get estimated to fit). Kanban encourages teaming up to get the hard stuff out of the way now.
I have led a team in a transition from an over-done scrum to minimal Kanban process and talked to many others who did the same, from small startups to AAA game companies, and they all loved it. I've never heard one dev say they thought it was more productive to have scrum. As far as I can see, Scrum makes middle managers, "scrum masters" and people who don't care how much work actually gets done happy. Kanban actually helps development go faster.
If anyone's interested, Microsoft press has a great light book on. The WIP limits are a key part.
^this on so many levels.
It has been like that for 20 years.
supercanuck commented on Technical debt is an invisible $1.52T problem wsj.com/tech/personal-tec... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
The only fix is quality forward thinking details oriented leadership.
Given that corporate America has decided that all employees are meant to be replaceable and therefore transient, it is not rational for any individual to orient themselves to the long term or make near term concessions. Likewise if employee compensation is a function of hours worked more than it is a function of the company's success, it is irrational for an employee to make decisions with respect to the long term, especially if they will be rewarded for speed over complexity tradeoffs and they can leave the company with a great resume when the debt becomes overwhelming.
Admiral Rickover's speech Doing a Job speaks quite a bit to technical debt and the forces that promote it: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
^ This sooo much.
You're better off just making friends and moving on so as to not jeopardize your reputation or risk your career.