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by _jal 3y ago
> I'm always surprised at how much push-back this one gets. Oh, but the explanation is simple. They resent being told to eat their vegetables. They know you're right, but don't want to or can't do it, and attack you
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by _jal 3y ago
When you think of CEOs, do you think of Les Grossman?
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by _jal 3y ago
If you haven't run across it, you should read up on Ted Nelson's Xanadu project. I've heard different arguments for why that failed. I think the likeliest is just that simple and dumb is often more successful than complex and
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by _jal 3y ago
> It is frustrating to watch people continuously buy into his complete lack of vision or execution. "Hey, look over there! I'll make the 6 Million Dollar Man!" I'm pretty sure he just watches 80s TV for vaporware anno
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by _jal 3y ago
So I guess we're back 90s-style business hype? "We're losing money on every click, but will make it up in volume!" Maybe the lawyers and landlords will take payment in blue checks.
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by _jal 3y ago
> Nobody gets to decide what's more or less sensitive That's simply incorrect. Everyone gets to decide.
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by _jal 3y ago
Shopify is trying: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/shopify-meeting-cost-cal... But yes, after we were bought by $veryLargeCo my meeting load roughly tripled.
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by _jal 3y ago
The main competitor was Movable Type. I recall there being several other also-rans, but am having trouble recalling names.
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by _jal 3y ago
> If you have any evidence I never claimed I did, and I have no interest in talking to someone intent on making up crap that I never said, so I'm going to ignore you now. Life is too short to put up with bad-faith bullshitters.
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by _jal 3y ago
Yeah, that's a good one. "Spend the time and energy to build us into your product first and then we can talk price" is not the most reassuring of pitches.
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by _jal 3y ago
Of course it is applicable. The Docusign users failed to use it in a way that would be legally valid. If you have a more recent case that seems relevant or invalidates that result, post it. Otherwise I'm not sure what being 7 years old
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by _jal 3y ago
Like anything, but especially in law, the devil is in the details. Docusign has been rejected by a court before - https://www.cryptomathic.com/news-events/blog/us-court-rejec... That was fact-specific and doesn&#x
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by _jal 3y ago
> This is also why I flat-out refuse to use Firebase. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with a long memory. Or maybe that's better described as PTSD.
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by _jal 3y ago
> The "reframe the conversation to the thing I want to talk about" - man, that one's frustrating. The most effective method I've found is making that person responsible for resolving whatever the issue is. Not always
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by _jal 3y ago
I've been waiting for "board inversion" - where the video card effectively becomes the thing you insert the motherboard/CPU/RAM assembly in to.
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by _jal 3y ago
> Twitter and Musk has been an inflection point. Is the claim, "everyone else who accidentally buys an 11 digit social media operation will choose to run it in to the ground, too"?
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by _jal 3y ago
Yep, very similar situation here. I get a lot of email for two different people, one in Texas and one in Leeds. I also started getting a ton of spam from some cell phone retailer in Jakarta - someone used an email address of mine to sign up
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by _jal 3y ago
I used to spend a nickel or two on O'Reilly books, too. Those were effectively "the manual" for a lot of things, once upon a time.
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by _jal 3y ago
If you're actually asking, https://online.maryville.edu/blog/history-of-accounting/
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by _jal 3y ago
I should have said, "It happens if you're not careful."
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by _jal 3y ago
Really? The IRS is encoding, specific filing details like number of dependents in a machine readable format and sending that to GA? I'd like to see some evidence.
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by _jal 3y ago
For the half that's not, No. First, I don't think Twitter has the competence to do this - they're barely functional now. For instance, they threw away their infra for identity validation, so how will they figure out who needs
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by _jal 3y ago
> Basically if you dont "hop" to management in the first 1-6 years into your career I only recently became a manager. I'm somewhere around year 28 of my career, depending on how you want to count some early jobs. It happen
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by _jal 3y ago
Does Twitter have any other lawyers left? Wouldn't be surprised if Spiro is effectively GC by default. Although I do suspect the audience for this was certain of his other investors, not his glee club.
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by _jal 3y ago
I'm getting people filing tickets for... let's call them complex, medium-large projects that they want implemented. Helpfully, they're including ChatGPT "instructions" for how to do it. I got my first "but Chat
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by _jal 4y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 If you didn't already, now you know what his commitment is worth.
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by _jal 4y ago
Looks to me like Twitter is financially doomed, and he's doing some combination of messing around with a broken toy and courting favor with like-minded people on the way to bankruptcy.
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by _jal 4y ago
If you run something like Little Snitch, blocking the CDNs of the banner-providers does wonders. Takes a little trial and error, very worth it.
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by _jal 4y ago
Tit-for-tat with an authoritarian regime is a bad idea on several dimensions. A far better reason is that a nasty authoritarian regime is using Tiktok to gather intelligence in anticipation of doing nastier things. Just one example: one of
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by _jal 4y ago
> I feel like the rise of only 0.1% October->November is more significant than the 7.1% YOY headline number You are correct. They always report the much more meaningless headline number. The current inflation rate is around 1.2%, well

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