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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
Correct. I think "real" software requires real development and architecture. And to be honest, even the tiny apps I'm doing I wouldn't have been able to do without some background in how frontend / backend should wo
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
Cost and managerial overhead. We don't have a dev on staff. Even if we did, there is lots of managerial overhead to explain "the problem" and then iterate to a solution with a dev. Now you can just build the damn solution you
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
Two examples: 1. Invoice billing review. Automated 80% of what was a manual process by providing AI suggestions in an automated way. Saved 3 hours per day of managers time. Increased topline by 10%. Dev time: 1 day 2. Data dashboards. We us
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
100% this. This is the new age of software - but it will be tiny little apps like this for each little user. They don't need to be mega apps, etc. Bespoke little apps that help your own little business or corner of the world. I'm
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
Vibecoder here. I don't think so. I am a PE investor, and we are using it in our small portfolio companies to great effect. We can make small little mini-apps that do one thing right and help automate away extra work. It's a mirac
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
MS Office is hardly "niche professional software." I hate it, and recognize that I can use the online services, but the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application and I can't easily do it on Linux.
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
My behavioral economics pricing idea for storage unit is to charge $1 for the first month but then double every month (or something like that). You shouldn't put stuff in storage long term and you're getting ripped off.
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
How to run PowerPoint and Excel? I'm stuck with these for work?
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by meetingthrower 9mo ago
...and even if they suck it into onedrive, good luck finding it! Is it in my work onedrive, personal onedrive, a "teams" folder, or did they relabel it to a sharepoint folder? No idea! Everything is now saved on my downloads fold
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by meetingthrower 10mo ago
Now that is cool! What is pricing?
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by meetingthrower 10mo ago
Very cool! Also very high value! Suspect you could raise prices.
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by meetingthrower 10mo ago
We own a towing business focused on heavy recovery. It is true that a huge number of drivers are from eastern europe, and fraud is HEAVY! We take a picture of license, credit card, and the guy with the bill because they all try and scam out
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by meetingthrower 10mo ago
I am a dummy, but can you explain how I should run Office 365 on linux? (not being snarky - if it works I'm in!)
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by meetingthrower 10mo ago
And I think it is actually one of the reasons that linux adoption is slow. No real way to run Excel natively. I would switch today but my life in finance is all Excel and Powerpoint.
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Ask HN: Any actual AI projects in production at bigcorp?
5 points by meetingthrower 11mo ago|6 comments
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by meetingthrower 11mo ago
Mag7 surely is self insured. They have an amazing risk pool of young people. Probably biggest cost is babies. So in this way employer sponsored health insurance screws the rest of the market, as it "hordes" the best risks. The ins
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Or how about the excel copilot which can't do anything inside a cell???? You can't call it in a formula either. Or how about outlook copilot, which can't do the unbelievably simple task of figuring out when someone asks for a
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Trump to Add $100k Fee to H-1B Visas(wsj.com)
44 points by meetingthrower 1y ago|10 comments
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Lol the jail free bailouts of the banks in 2008? Goldman got billions from the bailout of AIG, management got millions and millions in bonuses....
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Dude I am totally agreeing with you!!! Hiking is super tough when there are no switchbacks and trail just goes straight up! But that is the East - we could do with some basic trail design.
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
re: switchbacks. The trail designers, such as they were back in the day, were true masochists. Literally direct lines straight up a ridge or alongside a gully. Given that they are on the fall line, the trails become rivers during rains. Unb
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
I FIREd and this is what I miss. Not a techie but a whitecollar job with a bunch of smart people. Miss that.
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Interesting this comment!!! It looks like there are bots out there shilling specific treatments on message boards? Wonder where this price shows up in our cost structure!!!???
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Good data! Looking at the objective figure on the chart is sobering tho - $4k in income!(I think it may go up after taxes given tax credits?)
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Pre-JC...
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by meetingthrower 1y ago
Totally! Why does it show the same damn videos I've skipped over 20 times? I don't want to watch them obviously!
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
They drink A LOT of milk! I went to a business meeting in the Netherlands and the cafeteria had buttermilk machine on tap like an elementary school in the US. They set the meeting table with pitchers of milk and buttermilk. And breakfast &#
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
This doesn't work as I actually did this game! Had no job and no income. They ask for a list of assets and they take 5% per year. So if you have a $1M in savings they take $50K per year.... $2M and then you are paying full boat in any
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Where can one go and keep up with the latest in special purpose robotics? E.g., if I wanted to know about every new robot in the construction industry and similar labor intensive trades, is there a place that covers that?
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by meetingthrower 2y ago
Right - but as a consulting partner I take home that margin to spend on my boats, homes, and watches. What are universities getting? More university...

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