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by eitally 2y ago
I would compare them, perhaps at my own risk, thusly: MacOS:Windows::Singapore:Brazil* (*The US is probably a better comparison, in all honesty.)
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by eitally 2y ago
To be fair, the Windows experience on managed corporate PCs that are imaged without all the fluff and adware is far superior to what consumers get. I frankly don't know why anyone who isn't tied to very specific software requireme
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by eitally 2y ago
/u/rkangel recommends knitting as a hobby for engineers. I put quilting into the same category for the same reasons. Here's some inspiration for mathematical quilting: https://mathematicalquilts.com/Home_Pag
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by eitally 2y ago
Even within tech companies, the wage gap is the biggest I've ever seen. I've never worked anywhere that entry level employees (or contractors/vendors) could be making 50-75k/yr, entry level FTEs could be making 90-150k,
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by eitally 2y ago
The use case you described is essentially the future of all the RPA vendors, too. BluePrism, UIPath, Pega, Automation Anywhere, etc. They all started as screen scrapers & BPML parsers to "automate" processes. With the power
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by eitally 2y ago
I think the bigger risk is that they don't get the market share and then they're tempted to make unethical decisions to keep afloat as their unbalanced inputs & outputs start to drive increasing pressure from their investors
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by eitally 2y ago
The more fundamental issue was that the first iteration of gPay was born from Tez, which was explicitly created by Google's NBU (Next Billion Users) team led by Cesar Sengupta out of Singapore, for the Indian market with UPI compliance
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by eitally 2y ago
Google lets you create kid accounts and manage them within your family entity, which also then allows you to share purchased apps with them, share Youtube/Music/TV subscriptions, etc. When kids get to be 13, you can convert those
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by eitally 2y ago
I created Gmail accounts for all three of my kids when they were infants. They're now 7, 13, and 15, and the fact that they have accounts makes it SOOOOOOOOO much easier to share them content they may care about in the future, like fa
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by eitally 2y ago
Honestly, I think the problem is people, not tools. Any time a company wants to create an exception-based vs a rules-based process, it screws things up royally from an efficiency POV. To give a stupid example, I was once responsible for al
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by eitally 2y ago
There are good reasons any company Google's size should devote resources to operations research. Google is really good at the research aspects, and has used the outputs to -- in some cases dramatically -- improve its own supply chain
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by eitally 2y ago
These OR APIs (in my professional experience working at Google Cloud between 2015-2023) is that they're 1) academic, and 2) used commercially as a way for Google Cloud solution architects & engineers to build customer-specific solu
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by eitally 2y ago
No, not really. Packing itself is a mostly solved problem. This is a combination of packing + traveling salesman, where the combinatorics of the traveling salesman part are highly variable since there's no requirement that any given
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by eitally 2y ago
I agree, mostly, but I've also seen (and been in) situations where the PE acquired a company for it's customer base and knew going in that it was going to gut the current leadership and install all new systems & processes [tha
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by eitally 2y ago
Not in shipping but in high volume manufacturing it's generally expected that anyone on the shop floor, or creating systems for the shop floor, is exerting at least some gray matter toward optimization. In most places of decent size,
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by eitally 2y ago
I did not work in shipping, but I did work in manufacturing for 15 years, mostly with a focus on test engineering & automation, but also getting into warehouse/material management and shipping/logistics. My masters is in oper
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by eitally 2y ago
You know what's the worst -- paper boba straws, especially for kids.
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by eitally 2y ago
We've tried it. I wouldn't call it a cling wrap replacement because it's a wax-coated paper and therefore not watertight/airtight in the same way plastic wrap is. It's fine for some things, but we never found ours
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by eitally 2y ago
We keep a roll of plastic wrap in the drawer for the rare times it's actually necessary, but we've had good luck with the combo of two things: 1) pyrex containers with silicone replacement lids, and 2) stretchy silicone lids[1] fo
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by eitally 2y ago
There's also a huge difference between "presenting information" and "presenting actionable information". If a display is required to complete a task it doesn't really matter what it [aesthetically] looks like.
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by eitally 2y ago
I'm 100% with you. I ran an Enterprise Apps org within corporate IT for about 15 years and the #1 rule is that the tools must be functional. Unfortunately, this frequently results in technical debt because "functional" often
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by eitally 2y ago
Yes (in this kind of case). I wouldn't be so trustworthy across the board.
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by eitally 2y ago
Per Google, it wasn't a customer error -- it was a bug, that has subsequently been patched.
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by eitally 2y ago
I don't think it particularly matters right now (practically speaking). It's going to take years for businesses and product companies to commoditize applications of LLMs, so while it's valuable for the Ilyas & Andrejs of
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by eitally 2y ago
This sort of design was a style back in the late 90s when everyone was just getting the hang of HTML and using nested tables before CSS was invented & started becoming popular, and anything besides text/hyperlinks and images was pr
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by eitally 2y ago
My favorite part is not having the ability to create a single Workday applicant profile that they can persist across all their customer companies. For that matter, Peoplesoft isn't any better.
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by eitally 2y ago
When I worked in manufacturing IT for a F500, a full 20% of our IT organization was various flavors of Oracle support.
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by eitally 2y ago
I think the point they were trying to make is that enterprise software (served as SaaS for internal-to-the-business users) frequently has awful UX. Think things like SAP & Oracle (or anything Oracle has acquired, like Cerner, AgilePLM,
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by eitally 2y ago
I don't see any value in Google being more transparent here if it was either 1) legitimately a unique bug, or 2) customer error with a Terraform script. Fwiw -- and I know there are plenty of googlers here -- the OMG isn't locked
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by eitally 2y ago
I think there are perhaps trends, but at the end of the day this phenomenon ends up being individual. I have three kids - 7, 13, and 15 - and they're all different. The older two read voraciously from 2nd grade (when they first picke

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