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My employer created an "Innovation Hub" on our Intranet where people could submit ideas, a committee would rank them for value and feasibility, and a small dedicated team would implement...
May 10, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Is Google promoting a point of view by having AI suggest videos? Or is the AI just a neutral algorithm and Google isn't taking a stance one way or the...
March 29, 2023 at 5:20 pm
I get inspired by blog posts (including yours!) that either present me with a solution to a problem I may not have realized I have, give me a new way...
March 17, 2023 at 2:23 pm
The one thing I've seen is, I'm going to call it, a hesitancy in people to embrace the fact that things are, largely, back to what looks pretty similar to...
March 16, 2023 at 9:56 pm
It isn't just Las Vegas hotel rooms, it's apartment rents across the entire US, via a company named RealPage. Some relevant links:
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/19/realpage-price-fixing-lawsuit-denver-apartment-rents/
https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/realpage-rent-price-fixing-scheme-nationwide
I agree, this use of aggregated...
February 23, 2023 at 7:29 pm
This reminds of Bowie Bonds. In 1997, David Bowie became the first recording artist to sell bonds with the royalties from his previous recordings. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
This was investment of the future...
December 5, 2022 at 2:14 pm
The cloud-first approach seems to be working well for databases, and there is still a "boxed" product for those who can't/won't move to the cloud, and they get the benefit...
November 30, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Great question, but I had trouble with the wording of the correct answer. I'm not sure that's a grammatically correct sentence.
November 23, 2022 at 7:09 pm
And the reason why some companies only want you to work from home is because public WiFi isn't the most secure thing in the world. What a great place...
October 21, 2022 at 3:25 pm
I have been working from home full-time since mid-2019, but I almost never work from other locations because as you said, the ergonomic issues are a big problem. I did...
October 21, 2022 at 2:38 pm
I stepped into a position 5 years ago as a company's first DBA. They mostly had projects that had been developed cloud-first using Azure SQL Database, with a few Azure...
October 11, 2022 at 3:12 pm
I am also in a Teams environment with a single person authorized to add Teams and Channels. The way we work around it for the "quick channels" that Steve mentioned...
September 23, 2022 at 3:06 pm
I am also an American who now works (from my home in the U.S.) for a company based in Europe (Netherlands in my case). The culture shock was significant. On...
July 29, 2022 at 9:47 pm
In every job I've had as a SQL DBA, I was the company's first DBA, and the main reason they hired me is that they realized that the C# developers...
July 25, 2022 at 8:39 pm
I only have bifocals (hard-line, not progressives), but I also have dedicated computer glasses optimized for the distance to my monitors from my usual seating position. That saves a lot...
July 12, 2022 at 7:34 pm
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