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by curun1r 9y ago
Quickbooks isn't that hard, but it's got a lot of inconsistencies. For instance, when I'm viewing a list of customers, I have to drill way down to the individual customer edit screen to make the customer inactive, but when I&
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by curun1r 9y ago
Upvoted both for being spot on and for the excellent VfV reference!
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by curun1r 9y ago
Quickbooks isn't slow to use, it's unintuitive. That's a crucial difference to your calculation. An experienced Quickbooks user can still work very quickly by internalizing the wonkiness. The inefficiency is suffered by novic
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by curun1r 9y ago
Yes, it's ridiculously backwards. But it's reality. Intuit, at various times, has tried to make the kinds of changes you guys are suggesting. And every time they've run smack into reality and had to backpedal. Reality is like
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by curun1r 9y ago
You're still not getting it. A Bookkeeper's goal isn't to keep the books. That's their product, but they have their own small business that has more fundamental goals. Accounting software that's easy to use makes it
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by curun1r 9y ago
I was a dev manager for a team that was working on a Quickbooks-adjacent product. I had a lot of meetings with core Quickbooks teams and met many of their PMs. They are, for the most part, really good at their jobs. Your comment comes off a
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by curun1r 9y ago
I completely agree. The observation is less useful when looking at how Quickbooks is/was built and more useful from the viewpoint of building a Quickbooks competitor. Just fixing broken UI interaction patterns isn't going to be su
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by curun1r 9y ago
They may not have purposefully designed it originally, but they purposefully keep it hard to use now. Internally, they have Quickbooks training courses that new employees and employees who work on other products can take. When I took the co
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by curun1r 9y ago
Having worked at Intuit, I'm always amazed at the number of people that look at how crap Quickbooks is and think that beating them is a matter of just making better software. There's some really important psychology that most comp
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Simpler languages aren't always simpler to actually write software in. I completely agree with this. But when you're learning to program, the goal isn't to write software. It's to learn the lessons and concepts that
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by curun1r 9y ago
I do think a lot of it is inherent in the design choices that Rust has made. Rust, as a language, has a fairly large surface area. There's a lot of different syntactical and conceptual lessons that need to be learned by new Rust progra
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by curun1r 9y ago
$4/mo doesn't include the cost of monitoring and maintenance that come with running your own instance. When you can't amortize those costs across a large fleet of instances, Lambda is often much cheaper when looking at the to
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by curun1r 9y ago
There's a quote from Blaise Pascal that captures my feelings on small changes fairly well: "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Small changes mean front-loading a lot of the t
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by curun1r 9y ago
> is ban further amendments I'm not sure it even does that. Reading the passage you quoted, it seems like it only bars amendments that give Congress the power to interfere with state slavery laws. But the amendment that freed the sl
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's funny...I love waking up in darkness. I like to get an hour of meditation in before I start my day and lighting a candle in a dark room makes that easier. I also love sunrises and sunsets, so being awake before sun comes up means
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by curun1r 9y ago
Even with libraries, DST creates headaches. Just having an hour of ambiguous time (Nov 4, 1:23am 2018 has two possible meanings in most places) means having to write test cases, parse log files differently and there are areas (e.g. database
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by curun1r 9y ago
There is cargo-deb [0] which is, IMHO, a far superior way to distribute Rust software. I've been hoping for something similar for Mac/PC distribution (.pkg and .msi...stuff like homebrew is not a substitute for proper packages). I
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by curun1r 9y ago
> When did people lose sight of the fact that the primary purpose of film on the silver screen is entertainment? Your points on cherry picking not withstanding, this statement is incredibly short-sighted. Movies are just the latest incar
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by curun1r 9y ago
> The origins of the language don't matter to the point being made, which is that having one's native language adopted by everyone else provides massive benefits in spreading one's culture and values, while weakening and e
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's not that I value one over the other. It's that I observe a dynamic that has persisted throughout human history and see people trying to fight it. Why is right now the time that we should "freeze" language adaptation
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by curun1r 9y ago
I find the debate over English superseding other languages to be somewhat comical. On the one hand, sure, there are parts of different cultures being lost. But they're being replaced by possibly the best example there is of a language
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by curun1r 9y ago
The other part that's worrisome, and this could just be me reading too much into it, but it feels like Blackstone4's perspective is slightly paternalistic towards this potential cofounder. He's younger and recently graduated.
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think the question becomes, at what point do we use cross-cutting concerns to identify our tribes? Class is the obvious example...when do middle-class people of different national, ethnic or political backgrounds band together to realize
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's one thing to lower tax on investment income. But the problem with capital gains taxes is that they don't just cover investment income, they also cover lots of earned income. Stock options, IMHO, should never be taxed as capit
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by curun1r 9y ago
This is one area where I kinda hope open source doesn't have much success. OSS seems to struggle with UX and a poor UX in a car unit will get people killed. Simply put, this kind of system needs to function almost entirely without the
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by curun1r 9y ago
I've had good results from kiwi.com. They allow you to use date ranges and will can show a map with fares to various locations. They also include airlines that don't normally participate in aggregators (e.g. Southwest). They also
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by curun1r 9y ago
To be more specific, the US government. Other governments seem to figure this stuff out, from time to time, but there's something about the FPTP, federal/state split or other such details that's sabotaged efforts here. We sho
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by curun1r 9y ago
A few ideas: - Don't do large tasks. Spending more time up-front breaking down a large task into smaller, more-manageable tasks might help. This is something that many engineers struggle with, but there are huge advantages to this kind
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by curun1r 9y ago
In the grand scheme of things, 100,000 deaths is a non-event for a government representing over 300,000,000 constituents. Almost 6 times that many people die from both cancer and heart disease each year. Where it becomes a problem for gover
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by curun1r 9y ago
TL;DR cities have so much more money that there's an initial boom as farmers fill the need to feed the cities. Eventually, the market responds and farmers are challenged by razor-thin margins and turn to technology to become more effic

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