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by csours 3y ago
Revenue folks will care about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106480
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by csours 3y ago
You're not wrong, but I would say it differently - the C suite has been focused on financialization - how to make their operations more tax efficient and make their SEC filings and shareholder meetings look good. So they spin off core
483.
by csours 3y ago
I bet a few people at Boeing got heartburn about this option being added.
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by csours 3y ago
Coin Operated Boy: A Man, Da. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnyYTjjhJ0 (Dresden Dolls singer is Amanda Palmer - A Man, Da)
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by csours 3y ago
That doesn't look like anything to me.
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by csours 3y ago
And yet they've held out for years. The biggest problem is that there is no solution that is both effective and also morally satisfying. The moral injury makes it very difficult to talk about effective solutions - which might include s
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by csours 3y ago
I think the bank might get suspicious when the reassembled bank note looks like it was shredded and reconstituted. I guess you could say something like "My toddler thought it would be funny to shred a stack of money"
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by csours 3y ago
To my understanding Rent to Own was around significantly earlier than the popular usage of credit cards: "Development of the Rent-to-Own Concept: 1950s The roots of the rent-to-own business reach back to the 1950s when a number of peop
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by csours 3y ago
This has been around for decades: rent to own stores
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by csours 3y ago
The shape of managing the work approaches the work in terms of fractal complexity
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by csours 3y ago
Brown
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by csours 3y ago
The employee generally knows they fucked up and can escalate the issue. Discussion on whether or not this actually happens will follow in comments below.
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by csours 3y ago
Comparing a working app to a product running in the market is like comparing a peacefully sleeping baby to a person actively competing in a triathlon.
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by csours 3y ago
I think this is an indication of the difference between the start of project and maintenance of a product. At the start, you can imagine all the cool things it does, once it's working you have to keep it working in the real world.
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by csours 3y ago
> larger organizational issues It's always the incentives. Always.
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by csours 3y ago
Sorry customer, your quality tracking system is dumb. Sorry sales team, your customer is dumb. --- The previous step must be completed successfully before proceeding to the next step. A system records this information for posterity.
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by csours 3y ago
> The UX is always trash Split agency problem - the person who buys it is not the person who uses it. (I am not a fish - Seth Godin) > nobody can hire a skilled team of software engineers to write proper code for this stuff? You see a
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by csours 3y ago
How often does it return to the base station? What is the required latency of the rundown information? You charge it once per shift, and you need an update every minute. The dumb problem exists because of very real limitations.
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by csours 3y ago
=) Have you ever worked in a manufacturing plant? Yes, the solution is TECHNICALLY very easy, but there's a bunch of gatekeepers that really slow things down. The solution to the problem in front of you is always technically very easy
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by csours 3y ago
One of the most famous software defects - Therac 25 - happened because of a transfer of medium. The software was embodied in a machine with physical controls, then the software was embodied in a machine with software controls only. The assu
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by csours 3y ago
"Why is a wrench on the internet?!" Because we need to track critical bolt rundowns (generically called fasteners) and tool condition. That being said it doesn't need to be on the public internet, but it makes it a lot easier
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by csours 3y ago
Hungry Brain by Guyenet is huge recommend from me, and I second the recommendation for Burn
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by csours 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_box_(computer_hardware) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product
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by csours 3y ago
How about this: ACID RDBMS in many cases are sugar. That is, they provide very NICE features, but those features can be implemented in other ways. In the cloud world, the sugar may not be worth the costs. I think the weak case is much stron
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by csours 3y ago
I had a similar experience when writers started using 'she' as a default pronoun. It would catch in my brain and I'd have to think about it, because it was different. I think it's fine to feel that way. I feel like it&#x
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by csours 3y ago
I enjoy exploring different perspectives - something Sci Fi often does for me. I especially enjoy when I find a book that enables a new experience. Becky Chambers has done this for me. You can read Philip K Dick's Ubik for a real head
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by csours 3y ago
> I quickly tire of being hit on the head over and over with an author's novel-length not-so-thinly-veiled self-help message that perhaps should have been an opinion piece or short article. Would you like a cup of tea and a chat?
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by csours 3y ago
Neat! Thanks for the info!
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by csours 3y ago
Is there an equivalent to 'break a leg' in aerospace? Good luck anyway! May I ask what the primary constraint is for not adding a small panel that could at least enable bootstrap functionality? The risk mitigation isn't worth
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by csours 3y ago
> "Failure to maintain a sun-pointing orientation could deprive the spacecraft of the ability to generate power using its solar panels."

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