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by jelling 4y ago
TFW when white collar professionals complain about the prices businesses charge in order to pay the white collar salaries necessary to make the products they use. And so many of these companies aren't even profitable, either. It's
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by jelling 4y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of pension funds are behind so the started taking more risk. Frontline did a good piece called "The Pension Gamble" on this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-pension-g
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by jelling 4y ago
The only thing I support more than WFH is my competitors working 20% less. If they're doing this to compete for talent, go ahead by all means. I suspect they need to do something like this also because they're a UK SaaS company (s
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by jelling 4y ago
Maybe. I’ve been involved with ARKit and Google Glass dev and I’m expecting an Apple TV (the device) level of commitment. The XR community seems to be expecting an sea-change but a lot of that energy seems to be coming from journalists and
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by jelling 4y ago
You should consider reading “Seeing Like a State” for a history of how even well intentioned social engineering policies can go seriously off the rails.
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by jelling 4y ago
It's part of most stock listing pages under "Insider Transactions". Here's one for Alphabet: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/insider-transactions/
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by jelling 4y ago
At least for me, the forced onboarding call - at least until you ignore 5 scheduling emails - is also off putting. Do people with huge email flows really want another meeting? I don’t.
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by jelling 4y ago
Bingo. Andrew Chen, formerly of Uber, says exactly that in his excellent new book The Cold Start problem. The driver side is the hard side of the market and must be constantly tended.
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by jelling 4y ago
Hopefully they also take time to upgrade their archaic forum software. Even a basic search is a terrible experience. For a company fighting for developer mindshare, it’s surprisingly bad.
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by jelling 4y ago
Fun example: there is an issue with Amazon grocery search where it will tell you that they are out of a very common item, such as bananas, but when you check out it will suggest that you add bananas. You can also add the allegedly out of st
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by jelling 4y ago
If anyone is interested in working on a similar product, I've developed a product that is in private beta with users. Raise forthcoming. Developers are always needed but don't hesitate to reach out if you can help with growth or p
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by jelling 4y ago
I'm working on something that intersects and have a private beta. If anyone is interested in this space, feel free to reach out. Right now I need another developer in addition to myself but will need some growth/product/ops h
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by jelling 4y ago
The Yamaha DX7, the quintessential digital-replacing-analog synth, cost $2k USD in 1983, not $4-5k. I can't speak for what that cost in Euros (which didn't exist yet) or with import tariffs in an unspecified country. Today you can
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by jelling 4y ago
Serious answer: expensive synths are the new expensive guitars. For the previous generation, guitar makers began cranking out premium priced guitars for purchase by people outside their prime music making years and into their prime earning
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by jelling 4y ago
There's a giant difference between randomly hitting on the same melody as an existing massive hit AND then re-using that melody as the first hook in your own song. And Scrubs by TLC is a massive cross-generational hit that Sheeran can&
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by jelling 5y ago
Would anyone else be interested in a modular hub / kvm system? Personally I’m tired of buying and replacing so many hubs, both because of new port requirements but also because they tend not to last.
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by jelling 5y ago
I would go up one level of abstraction then and look at chat-as-service / embeddable chat SDKs. If it’s a niche service, it will be a good while at best before you break even writing your own.
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by jelling 5y ago
I’m a Mac user that had to buy an XPS for a specific project. I got the latest 17” model and it died within 45 days due to a charging issue. Digging into it, I learned that my model was supposed to fix a charging issue in the previous model
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by jelling 5y ago
Discord. Join the Discords for everything you use. You will meet people.
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by jelling 5y ago
> 3. If you hold any position that's even accidentally politically incorrect, you will be publicly shamed for it, and some people are quite relentless at bringing up tiny past mistakes. A friend got disinvited from speaking at an N
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by jelling 5y ago
Making people comply with moral values they wouldn't otherwise comply with is the super-glue holding society together. One can wish all day long that someone like Putin would be a decent human being, but otherwise social and financial
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by jelling 5y ago
Pre-existing TV deals. For example, the rights to non-national NBA games are sold to LocalCableCompany SportsNet. On occasion, these games get promoted to one of that national rights holders (TNT, ESPN/ABC) so there's some mechani
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by jelling 5y ago
And it causes a completely unnecessary versioning problem since the API client code lives separately and not even in a repo typically. There’s a VSCode extension that executes REST and GraphQL queries stored in a plain text file. So much si
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by jelling 5y ago
The journalists with access to political power are in D.C. The cultural and business journalists are in New York and the entertainment "journalists" are in Hollywood. All speaking in the main, of course. I moved to NYC from Chicag
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by jelling 5y ago
The definition of survivor bias though
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by jelling 5y ago
> “I want them to understand that if you come at us, it means some of your infrastructure is going down for a while.” Doing that is one thing, and certainly won't increase your personal safety. Doing that and telling the western pre
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by jelling 5y ago
Yes. Pipelines is the new killer feature; super easy dev ops with review apps.
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by jelling 5y ago
Ehh...I get why tech people are suspect of Palantir but they're just disrupting other government contractors. And from my limited experience working with the government, they absolutely need / want / rely on having companies
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by jelling 5y ago
Yup, there was a literal act of congress that made e-signatures legally valid but it's not worth arguing with anyone who asks for an "ink" signature ime.
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by jelling 5y ago
Former Chicago resident here: the variable they need to control for is average speed along the routes with red lights. Because 1) Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in America and 2) the street traffic on the predominantly white N

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