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by cosmie 7y ago
> It would be a bit sad if they made them repairable because they fail so often. Luckily, it's a matter of market expectations around repairability rather than an expectation of increase failure rates. These are their enterprise mac
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> if large companies are routinely this inefficient (which matches my limited experience as well), how do they survive? Because every other large company is as equally inefficient. When it's par for the course, it's not seen as
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by cosmie 7y ago
I'm not sure how common it is to use it as a workstation, but I've seen a lot of instances where a pi is used to power displays in business settings. Think internal things like dashboards, team/company messages, project calen
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by cosmie 7y ago
Also keep in mind that unroll.me actually was just a convenient tool for unsubscribing from marketing emails. At first. Then the founders stumbled into it's potential worth when the access required for that purpose was secondarily le
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by cosmie 7y ago
Not a DaaS startup, but I've managed millions of dollars worth of data acquisition and sales before. Having seen both the selling and acquisition side of the table, the only concrete advice I can give you is to pay handsomely for exper
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by cosmie 7y ago
Smaller business teams tend to use the "shared hosting" model when it comes to staffing: they hire a person and start subscribing relevant duties/needs to that person. At some point in time, they'll get oversubscribed to
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by cosmie 7y ago
Any particular industry/function/scenario you'd like used as an example? I can think of plenty of examples, but not sure which would click the best for you.
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> cognitive load is the base problem one solves for when scaling development organizations. Just to add, this generalizes beyond just development orgs. I've scaled out analytics orgs at a few companies, and one of the most difficult
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> the CEO would give out... gift cards. Occasionally, usually after someone was severely overworked. And I’m pretty certain he got them for free/cheap in the first place. I've been there, and it wasn't even a startup. The
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> The thought that our future relies now more in Google's product decisions is scary. At least in this case, Google's product decisions are counter-balanced by the variety of enterprise contracts Looker is already beholden to.
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by cosmie 7y ago
And PowerBI is either free[1] or $10/month per user[2]. Having architected and implemented BI infrastructures using all three, their pricing models all tend to converge to the same ballpark once you get to a standard, fully loaded and
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by cosmie 7y ago
I don't have that strong of a reaction, but realized fairly recently that I also get a lot of anxiety from writing on demand. What works for me is not starting from scratch. If I do, I'll either never get it done or procrastinat
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> Unless I'm quite mistaken, that should more than make up for their lost ad revenue. It's not just the ad revenue itself that has to be replaced. In addition to that, you have substantial costs baked into supporting a subscrib
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> I think the lesson I can learn from this is to use a debit card instead of a credit card? That way, the account can go to 0. That debit card would only be for services with automated billing like this, and would have limited funds. Gen
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by cosmie 7y ago
The article is very specifically talking about obstructive sleep apnea, which is caused by a physical obstruction of the airway. It has the hallmark symptom of snoring, as that's the body's attempt to force air past the obstruct
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Contractors for large companies[1] in the US almost always goes through staffing firms - direct contracts with independent contractors are comparatively rare. And even when you do want to bring on an independent contractor, you usually stil
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by cosmie 7y ago
You can add airlines to that list. Here's[1] an article that goes into it a bit. American Airlines actually loses money on their whole "flying people around" business. All of their profit last year was derived via selling p
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> with eventual impacts on human vision correction (e.g. LASIK, esp. for people w/ major astigmatism) That's really neat! I'm a beneficiary of this - with both nearsightedness and major astigmatism, I was told by the ophth
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>I'm sure Uber can find the budget for that. I doubt they had the budget for that or they likely wouldn't have been essentially trying to get someone to making their MVP under the guise of a new hire interview. Keep in mind the
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by cosmie 7y ago
You have the definition that shalmanese mentioned, which is one potential org structure that might be what the Chief Growth Officer is in charge of. I've also seen it used as a a C-level title for head of sales (along with Chief Revenu
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by cosmie 7y ago
Thanks for the link! I've worked with Python long enough to be familiar with those beginner issues, just infrequent enough (and even more so for stuff that needs packaged) that I've never quite been able to wade through the noise.
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by cosmie 7y ago
I've worked at a company that had Dell ProCare[1]. If you have issues, they'll send a technician onsite for a same-day or next-day repair. I've seen everything from keyboards to screens to entire mainboards get swapped out on
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by cosmie 7y ago
Last year, Walmart gave US associates a bonus that were based on a sliding scale of tenure and capped out at $1,000[1]. While not a particularly large amount of money for a bonus, it is in proportion to their associate salaries. And in pr
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by cosmie 7y ago
> not because it's hard, it's really not, but because of the noise we accumulated. In an effort to avoid the noise, would you be so kind as to point me in the direction of the current way to handle packaging in python? I don&#x
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by cosmie 7y ago
There was a recent Ask HN here[1] asking just that. Some of the suggestions overlap with what others have provided here, but it may be useful. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133097
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by cosmie 7y ago
+1 on Donella Meadows. I've recommended her work here a few times. I've always had an affinity for perceiving systems, but was pretty bad at expressing my thoughts. Donella's work was fantastic for providing definition to my
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by cosmie 7y ago
+1 on the Prince's recommendation. But does Hattie B's usually have huge lines now? I haven't gone very often in the last year or so, but I can't really recall ever standing in the ordering line longer than a few minutes
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by cosmie 7y ago
Looking at their 8K[1], $215mm (57%) of the expenses in that category are related to stock-based compensation. In fact, 45% of all of their quarterly expenses are attributed to stock-based compensation. R&D has $506mm in stock-based com
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To expand on the internal tool case from the GP: If your software is designed to support, augment, or automate some sort of internal need for non-IT teams, there's a significant chance that there's already an inefficient, error-pr
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by cosmie 7y ago
Not directly as a developer, but I've wrangled with this a few different times. The most impactful: I was standing up an analytics function at a growing company. There were several internal systems that had been organically created to

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