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My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.

I do this too. The unique email address I create for each is identifiable to the place I’m using it. This has other benefits. If an organization you created and account with sells or has a data breech you know exactly which company it was when you start receiving spam or phishing email directed to that address. This is also nice because you can “black hole” that email address and all the spam goes with it even future spam not sent yet.

Unless the CEO also sits on the board of directors … but at least they won’t be making the decision unilaterally.

Exactly, and even then the CEO isn’t the final all-powerful boss.

The person that holds the office of CEO can also be as high as holding the Chairman of the Board role, which would give them incredible power in the organization. However, even then their decisions can be overridden in extreme cases by the rest of the board. I’ll admit that is pretty rare though.

It doesn’t work the way you’re describing for a bunch of reasons.

First, while everyone thinks the CEO is the boss, they aren’t. They are hired and fired by the Board of Directors. The Board has a strategic objective for the company and has tasked the CEO with making that strategy reality. So in your hypothetical, the Board may not be interested in developing new features or putting lots of resources into R&D at that time. Its also possible that the Board is wanting to pivot the company into a different business segment where that new features isn’t attractive to that customer base.

Lets assume for the moment the Board does have interest in the result $NewFeature might provide.

CEO does something like this:

• Contact Marketing and confirm our customer base would want this $NewFeature that $competitor developed. Also, we’ll need pricing strategy fairly quickly to know how much we will net out of implementing this $NewFeature or how much of our customer base we’ll lose to $competitor if we don’t have it in our product. Also, Marketing will need to come up with a new name for $NewFeature under our banner.

Those number from Marketing will give us an idea of our budget for building this $NewFeature

• Contact Legal and confirm that $NewFeature is not covered by any filed or pending patent or copyright claims. Take the name that Marketing came up with and search for existing copyright and trademark claims to see if we can use the new name or if we have to come up with something else. If there is existing IP covering the functionality, we need a breakdown on what that is to see if Marketing and CTO can make something else that does all or some of what $competitor’s $NewFeature does. Depending on how important $NewFeature is, don’t rule out licensing the IP from $competitors

• Ask CTO to work with the Project Management Office (which probably works under the COO) to come up with a rough Work Breakdown Structure and folding into a Project Plan with identified Milestones and rough release date. CTO will also need to provide a Resource Allocation (how many people, how expensive of people, and for how long) to complete the development of $NewFeature. This Resource Allocation will be folded in with the additional development costs of tools, etc, and compared against the number Marketing is providing to see if this is a good business decision to even pursue making $NewFeature.

There’s a bunch more, but this is a taste.

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Gotcha, on a re-read, I agree with you.

You know they’ll boost it after just a few months of timely payments, right?

Just to dismiss this myth. How many times you put charges on a credit card or how many payments you make has ZERO bearing on your credit score. The only thing you have to do is, when you have charges, pay on time. There isn’t even a measure for “you paid on time” there are negative measures of “you didn’t pay on time” though.

FICO score is only 5 things and they aren’t a secret. Its published right on their website for all to see.

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Credit scores at total bullshit in the first place.

Credit scores are mostly fine. They do only one thing. They provide a good measure of how likely you are to pay back a loan. Thats it.

What other companies decide a credit score means and how they use that is bullshit.

You did more damage by canceling the cards than getting them and keeping them. In the end, had you kept the cards, it would have improved your score (even if you never put any charges on them because having the space counts positively toward your debt-to-credit ratio in FICO).

So far, speaking from experience, we saved loads of money DIY’ing it, even when deploying to the cloud, and we saved loads of time, in the long run.

First, I’m glad its working for you up to now. I’ve been in similar orgs. It works great, until it doesn’t. Have you had an production outage yet from a datacenter or hardware failure yet?

Should I ask home much did your Broadcom licensing renewal cost you this year?

If you hire talented workers, you save money and time, by DIYing the approach, as long as it’s done in a sane, and controlled manner.

Talented workers that know the systems are great, and if you’ve built your own systems and processes finely tuned to your specific applications performance needs and profiles, it also means you’ve got a highly specialized infrastructure and app stack. You’ve possibly built yourself a scaling problem because the skill needed to understand and maintain your well performing one-off solution isn’t ubiquitous. As your organization’s needs scale it will be tied directly to the additional limited specialized and expensive staff needed. Again, this may not be an issue with your org today, but it may not have hit this need yet. This is the “Only time will tell” component that is so important. As in, your sample size may not be large enough to know if your org made the right decision or not yet.

My question is not contextualized against the original example in this thread. You’re welcome to create your own line of questions to them if you like.

Wise companies have limited themselves to the basics

“Wise” is subjective here. Using a cloud vendor’s implementation can yield many times more efficiency, simplicity, stability, scalability, and agility vs rolling you own. Does it come with the cost of vendor lock-in? It absolutely can. Will that make migration to another vendor difficult? It will.

So for organizations that never embraced the cloud alternatives have had to maintain their own infrastructure or use commodity solutions, as you mentioned, to deliver their IT needs. How much more was spent using a general purpose approach with higher portability to deliver the same result vs a cloud providers proprietary version? Then include the time component.

Only time will tell.

Can I ask if you are part of a group that regularly gets belittled, made fun of, or generally disrespected? Do you embrace those jokes and stereotypes that are at your expense and laugh along with them such as “That is TOTALLY us! We are crappy just like that meme says!”?

For a CEO these days that’s an accomplishment to earn just a shrug.

Smaller updates, 4g immediately.

I don’t think this wasn’t my experience. The most notable OTA recall I can remember is when the font size for indicators (including speed). I do not have wifi configured on my Model 3 and when others had received their update (via wifi) I still had not. Days (weeks? months?) passed and I came out to my car one day with the bigger font. I remember a noticeable time delay between the update being released to others and it finally being force over 4G to me. This is anecdotal though, and I’ll concede my memory isn’t perfect.

For NTSA software recalls, Tesla will eventually force the OTA update down via 4G if Wifi never becomes available. I don’t know how many weeks/months they wait to do that though.

OTA updates default to wifi first. If you don’t have wifi configured to a site, you’ll still get notified of an OTA update via the 4G. If enough time goes by they will force the OTA update to download over the 4G then nag you whenever the car is put in drive to apply the update.

So yes, leaving wifi unconfigured (avoiding superchargers with free wifi) and disabling the 4G will prevent any future updates and the car still functions.

With the boycott for Teslas seemingly going strong I was wondering if anyone has successfully removed the proprietary software off any of the models

This will be a herculean effort.

or removed it from the Tesla network?

This one should be fairly straight forward. There are a number of radios in the car. Some could be disabled or neutered fairly easily. Others would require workarounds to preserve require functionality.

As far as I know there are four radios:

• Mobile phone network - (AT&T in the USA I think). This is not required for the car to function. Antennas could be disconnected and shorted at the board connector
• Wifi - this is pretty easy. Simply remove any configured Wifi connections configured in the car. The one exception to this is I’ve heard some Superchargers have “free wifi” which means if you’re in range of one of these, your car could attach to it as these may be preconfigred
• NFC - this one isn’t really a risk as its such low range, and as far as I know, its only used for key access to get in the car or put it in drive when Bluetooth auth isn’t detected. No modification needed to this, and no risk to keeping it in place as is. bluetooth LE
• Bluetooth - this one may be the most difficult because its used by most users as the keys to unlock the car. These radios are also capable of high speed data transfer at decent range up to 100 meters. While I don’t have any knowledge this is used currently for data transfer outside of the car to the Tesla mothership, it certainly has the possibility of doing so with software changes in the future. The antennas for these are in the rear view mirrors, so they could be disconnected/shorted to neuter it.

The ACA was a victory. Do we need better? Absolutley! However, I’m not sure if you remember healthcare before it. Remember “pre-existing conditions” or being charged for wellness checkup? Also, women paid significantly more for healthcare than men did. Balancing that back to equal was important.

Dad gave a me a toy so it is ok that he gets drunk and gives me the belt bulk. No wonder peasants can’t seem to see the picture

If you’re “all or nothing” you’ll get nothing. We could have had real change on Climate Change too if “cap and trade” was adopted, but someone just like you said it didn’t go far enough, and we got nothing instead.

There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.

Obama establishing the CFPB was a pretty big win for Americans.