Closi

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   by Closi 6y ago

   The value could at least be support - this to me would be the minimum expectation for any type of enterprise software, but amazingly it isn't offered in any of their packages (they just state that documentation = support!). Even in smb
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   by Closi 6y ago

   Absolutely - the collabora office site is terrible! They seem to have some sort of cloud version too but then don’t mention the price of it at all. The whole site looks sketchy and unofficial. No support as standard, without paying thousand
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   by Closi 6y ago

   This is the true answer - as per basic economics, the price of labour in a free market is set by demand and supply.
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   by Closi 6y ago

   Why don't the IDIOTS at Heinz just make goddamn spherical ketchup?! Everyone knows that a perfectly spherical ball would reduce the amount of packing material per ml of ketchup yet they are just closing their ears and not listening to
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   by Closi 6y ago

   I just think it's just good practice to remain humble, and consider that the people who own a giant tinned cat food packaging line just might know more about tinning cat food than you do, with your degree in maths, and frame the ques
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   by Closi 6y ago

   I think there is another one to add to the list, which is assuming something is wrong without knowing enough about the problem to know why something is the way it is right now. E.g. Instead of telling a cat food company how much they woul
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   by Closi 6y ago

   I agree with the viewpoint (somewhat). I agree with mask mandates and commerce closures, but when the government starts making it illegal to meet my family, including outside and in own house, then that crosses a civil liberties line for me
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   by Closi 6y ago

   That assumes that there is some sort of intentional disinformation here. It seems to me that this guy genuinely believes what he is saying.
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   by Closi 6y ago

   That’s a good idea, although if you were able to poll often enough and the location was always updated, you might be able to work out the offset by looking at positions when travelling (e.g. if travelling down a desert road). Probably an ex
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I mean the pass the buck projects definitely exist, but they aren't as common as you might think in my experience. They can hire McKinsey for them if you want, it's just an expensive way to go. These projects are invariably ordere
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Hmm it feels like this should be regulated but I don’t know enough about US law...
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Ah apologies. That's totally my mistake!
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    by Closi 6y ago

    > When company management wants to make a big change they hire consultants to provide cover and justification for it. [..] Companies like McKinsey will say whatever you want them to say, and there is no shortage of conflicting case studi
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I’m downvoting it because it paints all management consultants with a broad brush of ‘being evil’ which clearly isn’t accurate. > While amusing, this attempts to humanize them and somewhat whitewash their abominable actions. Ouch - I’m a
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I think this is mixing up 'Management Consultants' vs 'Engineering Consultants/Contractors'. I'm a (supply chain) consultant which is similar and have a full time contract and full worker protections with my em
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Yep I’m in consulting, good guess! (Supply chain & logistics)
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I work in logistics consulting - it’s pretty common to receive orderline data that is a few hundred thousand rows and excel is great at analysing it (eg to build a material flow). Excel for this is significantly faster and more flexible tha
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Additionally both Google Docs and Libre fall down if you are doing more comprehensive data analysis. Google Docs is functionally pretty close to most of excel, but has significantly more restrictions in terms of row count. Libre office miss
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I've been a Product Owner and been responsible for the product strategy, feature roadmap, backlog refinement and management of external stakeholders, reporting up through product leadership. I've also been in a company that had &q
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    by Closi 6y ago

    The difference between product manager and product owner is subtle enough that it doesn’t make too much difference in my experience. What’s a product owner at one company is a product manager at another and visa-versa. The one with marketin
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    by Closi 6y ago

    So you mean their REAL purpose is attribution, but they just chose to build giant databases covering peoples locations, friend groups, hobbies, desires, careers, sex, sexual preferences, relationship statuses, political alignment, voting pr
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Absolutely! Also prior to WhatsApp messaging was even more of a walled garden. The ‘best’ was BBM - I lived in Canada for a year and you pretty much needed a blackberry to message friends because that’s what everyone had. I had moved back t
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I don’t disagree, although I think these reasons do mean that it’s far too early to say “App stores are dying” as in the post I was replying to - at least in Apple’s case they are still central, and even seem to be becoming more core with d
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    by Closi 6y ago

    > The pendulum has shifted, and it's swinging towards PWA. It has for some things, and for others native is king. Native just delivers experiences that PWA can’t (yet). To take a simple example - let’s consider a ‘timer app’. On iPh
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    by Closi 6y ago

    > I'm not trying to pick on you personally here but this comment, like many I see on HN, seems overly adversarial. Ironically I find the first comment non-adversarial and this comment overly-adversarial, but maybe that’s just me. Pe
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I think that’s a slightly different thesis - I think this one is more about ‘lucky breaks’ I.e. Microsoft selling its first basic compiler, vs finding your product market fit.
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    by Closi 6y ago

    I think this is roughly the same thesis with different words - preparation = doing and telling = creating opportunities.
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    by Closi 6y ago

    Oops, I'm happy to be corrected - I'll go back into my hole...
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    by Closi 6y ago

    It seems like a reduction in short-selling will probably help the market be healthier. Companies shorting 130% of a stock doesn't help the market.
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    by Closi 6y ago

    It's a play on "those who can, teach" which was a marketing campaign in the UK, which somewhat backfired within the UK and became the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach". Clearly there are lots o