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by abtinf 6y ago
That is an outright lie. I’ve seen IBM data centers. The most basic googling will show this is a lie.
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by abtinf 6y ago
Apologies, that part of my post was unclear. I didn’t mean replacements for Excel itself. I meant specific vertical applications that are meant to replace common excel use cases. I’ve been part of efforts to evaluate tools like Wrike and Ah
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by abtinf 6y ago
For many organizations, the fact that it is free is less important than the fact that they already have Office. If a team in a mid-to-large company wants to use Airtable, they will have to spend a lot of time championing the process--audits
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by abtinf 6y ago
Records-per-staff is certainly an issue, but in fact the problem is much more severe. A great deal of the value of the Airtable comes from having multiple sheets in a single base. Put another way, the value comes from the ability to maintai
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by abtinf 6y ago
I'm sometimes tempted to use and recommend Airtable. There is a lot to like. But their "records-per-base" limit is a complete non-starter. The highest tier of service (before Enterprise) has 50k record cap, which disqualifies
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by abtinf 6y ago
I would love to be able to define my own CSS that simply replaced the site’s settings, not just for dark mode. It would let me make changes that would be extremely useful to me. For example, I’d hide the “hide” links on the main page. I’m s
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by abtinf 6y ago
Curse words are bad for human life because they seem like tools of cognition, but they aren’t. When used as words, they can only confuse and mislead you. However, sounds that aren’t words can be very useful—they are perceptual evidence that
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by abtinf 6y ago
I went the other way with my kids, greatly expanding the scope of curse words. Words are primarily tools of cognition—that is, they are how we hold concepts and use them to reason about the world. When we use words with other people, we are
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by abtinf 6y ago
It's not just hyperbole, it's grossly unjust. Amazon quite rightly charge a higher price for some portions of AWS--transparently, up front, with tools to assess usage and estimate fees beforehand--because they created a product th
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by abtinf 6y ago
> Are they still extorting customers... That is a contradiction in terms. According to the OED: Extort means to "obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means." Customer means "a person or organization that b
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by abtinf 6y ago
Let the metrics gaming begin.
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by abtinf 6y ago
> constantly providing background music for your neighbor's lives should also be illegal In most areas, it is often illegal, violates an ordinance, or is considered a tort.
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by abtinf 6y ago
I’ll not that I use windows, Mac, and Linux (arch and Ubuntu) all equally effectively. In no particular order, here are some things about macs that are often missed: FaceTime, iPhone, sms/iMessage integration that works even when phone
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by abtinf 6y ago
Any system where the only useful data is whatever was last written. In certain kinds of signals intelligence software, the primary concern is access to the current frame of data. You don’t want to miss an RF peak that lasts just a few nanos
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by abtinf 6y ago
Do you find companies with public facing employees that give talks at meetups and conferences easier to trust? In other words, you trust Facebook, Google, NSA, and Congress more than Apple? Seems like an odd standard.
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by abtinf 6y ago
No, that’s not the only evidence. The patient also presented with the relevant set of symptoms: “ He presented to the emergency ward on December 27 2019 with hemoptysis, cough, headache and fever, evolving for 4 days. Initial examination wa
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by abtinf 6y ago
The Apple list is shorter because you ignored nearly all of the differentiating features enabled by the Apple ecosystem. You also ignored many of the non-obvious details of the Mac hardware.
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by abtinf 6y ago
I think there is an element of truth in it, but I don't agree with that formulation. I think people get the government they demand. There is a concept of "sense of life" that I've found useful. Each person has a certain
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by abtinf 6y ago
I agree with you that this post is really unclear. But it reminded me of another post I recently read that I liked a lot. I just posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035794
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by abtinf 6y ago
> The problem isn’t just government. It’s not as if Americans are demanding that we build and the government is getting in the way. Washington is merely reflecting our preferences. I think this is one of the most important points that is
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We Don’t Deserve Builders(medium.com)
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by abtinf 7y ago
*Vertical I was lured in initially by the novelty. But it has become an amazing tool for organizing myself. When I browse HN, I shift-click on everything interesting, and it automatically gets organized into a nice collapsible tree. When I
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by abtinf 7y ago
Firefox with tree style tabs is on another level. Firefox also supports lazy loading tabs when restarted, so only pinned tabs and tabs you view consume resources. I have nearly 1000 tabs open in Firefox and navigate them extremely efficient
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by abtinf 7y ago
> to reply to its account No, they don’t say that. They use ambiguous wording which could easily be construed to include any post they can see.
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by abtinf 7y ago
I suggest you research the topic of "transfer pricing".
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by abtinf 7y ago
For a sizable factory, massive spaces must be dedicated to renewable energy, which means obliterating lots of pests. And building the renewable infrastructure--mines, crude pumping, transit, smelting, refining, manufacturing, landfilling la
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by abtinf 7y ago
Building your private home with union labor is a completely different thing than unionized work forces in companies. When building your home, you have the option of hiring non-union workers. Workers have the option of not joining the union.
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by abtinf 7y ago
If this is an issue that really bugs you, perhaps consider working for a company that has similar values to you. Working for tech in the valley is going to be extremely biased on focused differentiation, so cost containment has a lower prio
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by abtinf 7y ago
Your company is operating inefficiently in some regard. You’ve done the leg work and determined this inefficiency costs about ~$100k annually. You take this to your leadership with a proposal: we can save this money through better communica
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by abtinf 7y ago
I was under the impression amazon does not commingle it’s own inventory with FBA inventory. Is that false?

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