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New comment by NAK21 in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

NAK21 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:15:16 +0000

This is also documented in an old 1-page military paper called the "Doctrine of Completed Staff Work"

New comment by NAK21 in "Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President"

NAK21 — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 01:54:06 +0000

Even worse is the IBM team trying to sell IBM cloud saying cloud-only is the way to go. Customer agrees and compares clouds, settles on AWS or Azure, then IBM team brings in Red Hat to pitch hybrid.

New comment by NAK21 in "Fedora co-mingles its source packages with Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

NAK21 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:23:59 +0000

Maybe I'm missing what's ancient about Fedora or RHEL, care to share?

New comment by NAK21 in "My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable"

NAK21 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:29:37 +0000

Agreed - anyone applying for a job as a data scientist should at least be able to work with SQL.