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   by jmacd 4y ago

   This approach has a lot of similarities to PriceOps [1] in terms of goals. I don't see why you want to avoid grandparenting. If the pricing model [2] is versioned and immutable, then keeping customers on their existing Customer Schedul
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   I asked ChatGPT to read your question and write an email. Prompt: Read the following diary entry from a worker. Write an email he could send to his manager outlining his concerns. The goal of the email is to create a productive path forward
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   Negotiating an increased salary for the use of your capitalized equipment is a terrible use of resources. The fact that they agreed to that tells me that they detected it was a touchy subject for you and went the appeasement rout. If they c
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   The absurdity of OPs comment cannot be understated.
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   Google Docs supports Markdown just enough to frustrate the life out of you.
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   This is really nice. I am always appending forums names and reddit to my searches.
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   by jmacd 4y ago

   Just unplugged my receiver.
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   How to Make Scrambled Eggs(nytimes.com)

   16 points by jmacd 4y ago|4 comments
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   The Psychology of Waiting Lines [pdf](columbia.edu)

   1 points by jmacd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    The simplest answer for everyone is that asking for gender should be, as a rule, now allowed. Unless the information is important (health) or being used analytically (improving participation, etc) then there is no reason for it.
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    Coinbase may or may not be a good company. I have no idea. What I do know is that they have a lot of things working against them: - Money is not cheap anymoore - Their market is collapsing. I don't see how a company makes it through. E
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    The Hedgehog Concept(jimcollins.com)

    2 points by jmacd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I have hired many developers who have progressed all the way from Jr and Sr through to management and CTO. When someone is enjoying their career path and responsibility growth, it is an amazing experience for everyone. When someone isn&#x27
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    The fish used is mostly Pollack.
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    Also, Air Fryer . Fryers have oil, right? Oh, this one doesn't. Air??? Air Fryer?? Not an oven. Not a fryer? I don't own a fryer anyway, they are gross with all that oil. This fryer uses no oil?????!!!! My oven doesn't use oi
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    +8 in Verbier today. Uhf
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    Stripe's model of product-led, developer-centric growth(lethain.com)

    2 points by jmacd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    https://archive.ph/aCWNr#selection-1357.0-1357.72
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    Shopify in advertising push to fill void left by Apple privacy crackdown(ft.com)

    2 points by jmacd 4y ago|1 comments
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    https://www.spellbook.legal is another one I have seen that is doing the opposite (helping with the writing of contracts)
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I agree on all that. (We had 'Executive Sponsors' and 'Red Accounts' where I was, and they were hugely expensive to manage once they 'went Red'). The issue would be catching things early and managing them cost
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I used to work at one of the big customer service platform vendors. We had some really, really, useful ranking capabilities that would prioritize certain customers based on the data held in a CRM. It was a bit of a pet project of mine. The
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    A HOSTS file to block TikTok(github.com)

    3 points by jmacd 4y ago|1 comments
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I think what's more interesting is whether or not Apple (and Google, and Samsung) can become carriers themselves in the new decade or two. There was a thread on HN in the last few days about space based service for handsets [1] and it&
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    Libraries and librarians always seem to far ahead of things on a meta level. My town (Halifax, Nova Scotia) also built a beautiful library recently. Once of the criticisms levelled at it was that it didn't really have stacks all over t
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I'm a Canadian. I want every single person in this country to get the best care possible right up until they die. If they want to keep the care coming, then I expect us to keep providing it. God help me if you decide that because you a
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    The "Users who got the most voted on hackernews" should exclude the 1 upvote you get for your actual submission (if it is being counted, which I think it is). If it is counted, the sheer volume of submissions by the top posters ma
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    I was involved in building a few decently large e-commerce sites in the early 2000s. One thing I always advocated and we did in a few places was to create an account for a user in every instance. If they ever came back to the login form, t
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    The question is who has the intent here? Netflix clearly and flagrantly enabled this behaviour for many years. Lax security (no 2FA for a long time for example) and viewer profiles encouraged this behaviour. Further, their plans describe th
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    by jmacd 4y ago

    That's a lesson we all learn, and most of us learn it the hard way.