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by lbriner 5y ago
That might be true but my experience is that people are much better at building tooling than they are at using it properly. So many organisations can't even get the basics of efficiency and custom service right but they still invest he
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by lbriner 5y ago
Pricing is hard but we also make it harder than it needs to be, especially if we have doubts about our product and the imposter syndrome (our product isn't perfect so can I charge premium?) Once (as the OP pointed out) we see that we a
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by lbriner 5y ago
Because their site is valuable data and if you automate access to it, you can re-sell their services without having to use their site with all its tracking/ads/metrics etc. They want people to hit their site and get cross-sold, no
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by lbriner 5y ago
We live in scary times. Business used to be partly based on Trust but if people flat-out lie, how can we ever reasonably trust them? The man can and should be prosecuted for fraud, never mind what people's contracts actually said. The
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by lbriner 5y ago
Maybe not really easy but it is really just due-diligence and getting a solution that is worth the money you are making by providing the service. If you weren't a mechanic, you wouldn't avoid maintaining a car and then get upset t
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by lbriner 5y ago
The government could scan your stuff anyway so not registering doesn't stop them doing anything nefarious. The better question is, is the security you already do yourself good enough that you don't want or need CISA to do it? If n
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by lbriner 5y ago
OP mentions Medium which is pretty annoying but do know what irks me the most with them and many other premium platforms is that they seem to convert quotes to smart quotes when people upload articles making it impossible to copy-and-paste
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by lbriner 5y ago
There is a slightly different motivation when writing for the public. I have to take a bit more time to make things read well and clearly and this can help my general communication skills. Engineers are often introverts and many can struggl
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by lbriner 5y ago
It can be rewarding in a number of ways, most of which can be split into helping yourself and helping others. To help myself, as another poster said, I record things I've learned, errors I have fixed, processes for e.g. setting up ssh
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by lbriner 5y ago
Ah, redesigns, the preserve of the company who has run out of ideas. To be fair, I don't think that what Meta is doing is a redesign but plenty of other companies think that you make something look a bit swisher then everyone will come
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by lbriner 5y ago
True and most large organisationa are institutionally rigid by default. They also don't like back-pedalling because shareholders get funny and share price is the main driver behind their decisions. Even with massive amounts of cash, yo
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think it's as simple as that, just ask any large company who is paying £100K+ for developers. It generates even more noise than before since there are plenty of chancers who will apply because if they get in then great but
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by lbriner 5y ago
The trade-off question is interesting. I think for us, an implied anti-value would be "Focus on the core product and say no to some customers " As OP said, no-one would deny that focusing on the core product is bad but at what co
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's not defence. It fails the principle of least-surprise. If everyone's experience is that fsync is flushing then why would somebody think to look up the docs for Mac in case they do it differently?
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by lbriner 5y ago
For us, I would say in the UK, all are hard to hire. The main background issue is a lack of supply if you are not in a place to hire worldwide remote (which many companies are not). As a small company, doing the communications required for
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by lbriner 5y ago
There is a general problem with poor customer service. In the past, I think most people had the belief that you had to have good service to keep customers and if you didn't, you lost work and possibly eventually the business. Nowadays,
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by lbriner 5y ago
Be ruthless about hiring and your team. Think about recruitment early on to work out how you can get the right people to do the jobs. As someone said, "if you think hiring a good person is expensive, try hiring a bad one". Plan fo
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's not true, there are a lot of breaking changes here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/6... The problem is that Microsoft can never avoid the temptation to fix things
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by lbriner 5y ago
Isn't the big question, how did someone convince the Court(s) that the software couldn't possibly be wrong and therefore the case is proved beyond a reasonable doubt? This sounds like a failure on so-many levels. The defence shoul
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by lbriner 5y ago
I can imagine a Politician saying that the private business of a "private" company is nothing to do with them but what have Politicians done when their consituents were jailed for fraud? Did they assume it was true because they di
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by lbriner 5y ago
An interesting take and, yes, in the west it is hard to instill in a student that it is up to them to earn their way to success by making the maximum use of the teaching resources and not to sit back and get fed what they need. In poorer co
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by lbriner 5y ago
Sorry this is mostly BS. 1) The justice system will not go easily against any large organisation unless they believe there is a case to answer. It isn't about whether something bad happened, it is whether somebody could be guilt in law
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by lbriner 5y ago
Clearly the implication is that it is another habitable planet and the other comments talking about going there etc. It isn't the rock I am worried about, it would be community that decides to move there and then starts exploiting each
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by lbriner 5y ago
We can't even work out how to run our own planet in a consistent and consensual way, I say leave it to the other more civil aliens to inhabit, otherwise we'll end up with another broken planet.
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by lbriner 5y ago
The elephant in the room is the ability for the President to issue executive orders that can more often than not impinge on liberties that should be protected by the Constitution. The CIA will always want more power, that is the nature of t
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by lbriner 5y ago
The most annoying dark pattern for me was not being able to give 0 stars for something and then averaging across completely dissimilar topics so that it was impossible for most hotels to score less than about 2 out of 5. So the location was
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm unsure of what is surprising to Feynman. Is he saying that he assumed clever men would be obnoxious and self-righteous when they weren't? Although an anecdote, I would imagine there are plenty of examples where the opposite wo
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think there used to be an adage that if you can get enough members, you can monetize it. Twitter haven't exactly made no money but I can't imagine that there is any real trick here other than adverts - the same as most other &qu
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by lbriner 5y ago
The question it begs is if the CEO is not the right-person for the job (which they don't appear to be) then why keep him on as executive chair? That sounds like dragging things out for the sake of it, if he doesn't add anything us
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by lbriner 5y ago
The irony of a site called "observablehq" and the chart is not observable on a mobile!

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