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First they came for our staplers and now this.
by geenat 4y ago
First they came for our staplers and now this.
- xref 4y agoAnd I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files
- imgabe 4y agoJust use your digital stapler to combine files together until there's fewer than 5 million.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> digital stapler Perfect name for some PDF editing software.
- imgabe 4y agoBluebeam is some PDF editing software (mostly used for architectural drawings) that calls its PDF combining feature the "stapler".
- mananaysiempre 4y ago... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though. Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it. [1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
- jpalomaki 4y agoI would love if Node could consume dependencies from archives (even uncompressed, like tar). Those hundreds of thousands of files make certain things slow on Windows and are cause problems if you want to sync stuff betweek computers.
- demurgos 4y agoYarn provides a "Plug'n'Play" mode implementing exactly this behavior. Dependencies are kept as compressed archives and a loader file is generated so Node can read them directly. If you start Node through Yarn (`yarn node main.js`), it automatically passes the correct flags, but you can also do it manually (something like `node -r .pnp.cjs --experimental-loader .pnp.loader.mjs main.js`). Overall I found this mode to work pretty good. I'm using it for a medium-sized Angular (+ TypeScript) project. It also noticeably improves install times. The PnP mode is stricter about dependencies and expects dependencies to be readonly. A couple dependencies may need to be marked as "unplugged" (installed a regular decompressed dependencies) as a workaround. I'd recommend using this mode if you can.
- candiodari 4y agoI set the building on fire. I warned them many times.
- ramraj07 4y agoThe irony is I visited a google office once and I’d rank a stapler as the 2,575th most opulent thing in there. The furniture alone is insane. Yet they decided to yank staplers.
- bombcar 4y agoWait this wasn't an Office Space reference but Google is actually removing staplers? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employ... my goodness
- danpalmer 4y agoI think the reason is that no one uses staplers, and yet there's a cupboard of them. Obviously it's not just staplers, there's loads of stationery, but why? A few pens and some notebooks is all that actually gets used.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI love staplers. I love playing with them and the rows of staples. My favorite unused-in-decades office accessory that some offices still stock is the staple remover, it's a great little (sometimes painful) fidget.
- iamtedd 4y agoSo the staplers continue to sit in cupboards, unused. They've already been bought, so how is Google saving money? Selling the staplers? I bet they were just thrown in the bin. How wasteful.
- dx034 4y agoBecause they probably hired a third party supplier that gets money every month to make sure stationary cupboards are filled.