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by mabbo 4y ago
Sure, but was the company tanking because we were all working from home? No? All I'm saying is that the company was operating just fine despite everyone being remote. There wasn't a financial reason to do it, and probably lots of
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I said this in another thread on this topic, but this was one of the key reasons I left Amazon in 2021. I knew this was coming. It was clear from tech survey (company-wide very long survey on all topics) that devs did not want to be in the
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by mabbo 4y ago
Why? The alternative is to pay those people with cash, which costs the company money. That would lower the value of the stock because profits would become losses. It works out to be the exact same thing, except that Amazon doesn't reco
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If this is fair and legal, why not have Google do the same things? You're using Chrome and on the website to buy Office? How about an injected ad that says that Google docs is free and just as good. Attempting to buy a Windows PC? How
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The number of systems still running DOS is small, but shockingly stable. I worked at a book store on my university campus in 2011 and the entire inventory management system was on a DOS system, I believe running on a VM (but possibly not...
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I don't know what awful experiences this author has had with product managers, but all this article has done is made me appreciate the brilliant PMs I get to work with every day.
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If a queue isn't approaching empty, then its input is exceeding its output. Therefore it's size is trending to infinity. Since we don't have infinite space, we can expect eventually to lose some messages in this scenario.
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by mabbo 4y ago
In an interesting sense, this is because of Apple. It used to be simple. You set up an online store; you put some ads on Instagram and Google; you earn back what you paid for the ads quickly. With each additional sale, targeting of customer
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> I never had to take an ethics in research course as a PhD student. What often happens is that a given program is required to include an ethics portion or course, so the university has some mandatory class whose syllabus reads "thi
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I recall years ago playing some edition of "Galactic Civilizations" on single player and I started to get ready to attack a neighbour. The neighbour saw this and sent me a message saying "If this were a harder difficulty mode
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It's in my profile.
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Sadly we did layoffs first (last summer) and have frozen hiring ever since.
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By summer of 2021, just after that "We all know how excited you are to be back in the office" email, I made my exit from AWS. The senior leadership have survey after survey saying that their employees mostly prefer remote work. Th
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Isn't that what this product is doing though?
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Worth remembering that you don't need the server to completely heat the water to shower temperature. You can get it part way there, and then it will take less heat to get the water heater the rest of the way. I could imagine a future w
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by mabbo 4y ago
My wife has worked in the 'enforcing building codes' sector of engineering for her entire career. And it's so frustrating to watch. Everyone - everyone - is certain that the codes are all overzealous and their little thing
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> a defensive war that is somehow being fought entirely on another country’s territory Russia figured out the magic trick to modern annexation. International law now mostly holds that you can't take land in a war, but that a country
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by mabbo 4y ago
When the Wordle craze happened, I wanted to come up with the best four word combo that hit as many common letters as possible. Not quite a pangram, but pretty close, and as memorable as possible. "DWARF CLUBS MOPEY THING". All it&
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by mabbo 4y ago
Advertisers haven't left for political reasons. They've left because the value of ads on Twitter aren't worth the cost they're being asked to pay. The only thing you can trust large publicly traded companies to do is the
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Reminds me of Target's Canada launch. It's literally a case study in business textbooks of how to do everything wrong.
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What's fascinating about this isn't the study itself - it's the reactions people here are having. From "I guess that means fruit juice should be illegal since it can contain alcohol!" to "Life leads to death to
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It's game code that was written in the late 90s. Unit tests aren't very likely. And a quick glance at the code probably looked completely sane.
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Amazon laid off thousands of corporate employees, many of whom were in tech. I know some personally.
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Apple's underlying economics haven't changed, so they have not had any reason to over-hire in the first place. Amazon, Google, Meta, Shopify and others are all e-commerce based. There was a clear trend that e-commerce had shifted
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A person I consider a mentor took me aside and asked me that exact question many years ago. I hadn't. And him pointing it out made a very big difference in my life.
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> The chosen algorithms are designed to protect information created and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT), including its myriad tiny sensors and actuators. They are also designed for other miniature technologies such as implant
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I have doubts that this is the real reason. I'm reminded of a a time when I was a student at Carleton University where the student counsel voted to stop participating in the "Shinerama" Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser based on the
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> Social media is global, so any effects it has should be visible globally. That isn't true at all. There may be a hundred factors at play, which are all different in different cultures, regions, countries, etc. The cultural context
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> not allowing Optional to contain null undermines most of its advantages This isn't the first time I've heard this and I'm still not certain I understand. To me, Optionals are an alternative way to say "no value&quot
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They have free tiers and are pay by use. Take 30 minutes and get out a spreadsheet. What's your best and worst case expected needs in the next 12 months? Compare those needs to the expected costs on various cloud offerings. Your time i

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