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by octokatt 3y ago
This. The move to forced hybrid is most likely to cause turnover to prevent layoffs and save money on severance. A valid, if dickish, move, except they're telling people to use their product less. But they're a remote work softwa
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by octokatt 3y ago
You listed multiple companies. That's the difference. We debate Android vs. iOS (vs. awesome Linux shenanigans), or Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Linux. Those are choices. Most of the market is essentially duopolies, but that's a dif
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by octokatt 3y ago
This article was a half-step away from LinkedIn broetry. Barely. https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/linkedin-broetry...
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by octokatt 3y ago
The Wall Street Journal is reporting climate change now. The debate is over. Can anyone tell me why debate at any level is still happening, and why drastic measures are not being taken? I get this is a relatively slow-moving problem, unli
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by octokatt 3y ago
> For what it's worth, Mozilla was nearly killed at least twice by code quality. > That’s not to say that I now think that “High quality good! Low quality better!”. > As many commenters on Cupać’s post observed, while high qua
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by octokatt 3y ago
Only until tracking hardware is a requirement to have insurance.
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by octokatt 3y ago
N=1; an MBA friend of mine worked for Sears on their website offering. He nearly ripped out his own hair, since instead of being a web commerce department they were "online catalog", and the culture matched. Instead of adapting t
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by octokatt 3y ago
At some point, you were a "whiny, annoying screamling". The way this condition stopped was from socialization, which is harder to do when children are removed from the majority of avenues of socialization. The majority of social
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by octokatt 3y ago
Possibly off-topic, but this is the best way to describe running a good Dungeons & Dragons game I've heard in a while.
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by octokatt 3y ago
You would be correct. To have a true capitalistic marketplace ala Adam Smith, you need government regulation to specifically break up oligopolies: companies which get so large they can collude and price-fix. We call these laws anti-trust l
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by octokatt 4y ago
It's also worth noting that places like Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland are sunken public spaces, which, while helpful in diffusing sound and making a nice common area, also means the tear gas will linger longer. [1] [1] https:&
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by octokatt 4y ago
Additional insight for this, from my perspective as support ops for protesters in Portland. Bad actors from eastern Oregon, a heavily red and still pretty racist part of the state, would come into otherwise peaceful protests and cause prope
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by octokatt 4y ago
As well, the Lifehacker article is largely based on this article from HBR, which is a much better depth read: https://hbr.org/2023/03/how-to-tell-if-a-potential-employer-... It also has specific interviewing quest
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by octokatt 4y ago
Hilariously, the rates are even better if you have a medical transcriber in the room, taking notes for the doctor so they can focus. ... as long as we can get patients to speak in the normal way they would with a doctor, instead of being in
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by octokatt 4y ago
Remote work also means less competition for urban real estate, meaning people who want outlets for socializing, who want to network and go out for drinks, can do so easier! If remote-first workers are able to stay at home, demand decreases.
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by octokatt 4y ago
I'm glad this article brought up the most important part of pen-and-paper: simplicity. If you're using software, you can muck about with it for _days_. Years, even, trying to get to the "right" solution. It's very
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.md/g3u6S
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Apple Officially Cancels Its Plans to Scan iCloud Photos Fr Child Abuse Material(gizmodo.com)
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by octokatt 4y ago
Having worked across three very different companies over the pandemic (tech start-up, boring mid-range company, large conglomerate), and what you've described is about what I've seen. In general, stand-ups and presentation meeting
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by octokatt 4y ago
Nope. Lawsuit filed. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/twitter-s...
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by octokatt 4y ago
From working at Square/Block, I know that Jack Dorsey saying Remote-First was a sudden change that a lot of managers had to scramble to work with (particularly for front-lines ops), but the employees were happy. This is... a choice. I
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by octokatt 4y ago
The trick is how stock is used by corporations. Namely: 1) Employee pay being partially in stock grants 2) Loans and funding being driven by stock grants The first is hard, because most of your employees just got a pay cut when inflation i
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by octokatt 4y ago
This sounds good, but I have health insurance to cover for catastrophic health failure, which is very probable for me. I'd need to pay for both direct primary care and health insurance, and primary care payments wouldn't count tow
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by octokatt 4y ago
I appreciate the Moneyball reference, but the term you're looking for is Taylorism, or Scientific Management [1]. If you're looking for someone to curse for managers always wanting a unit of measurement or a KPI, or race-to-the-bo
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by octokatt 4y ago
N=1, but I can confirm the experience of being disabled and getting medical care is mutually frustrating. Taylorism and one-size-fits-all fails hard. Appointment times are standardized, despite patients not being standard. I know I'm
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by octokatt 4y ago
This is covered in the article, and yes. Specifically: > Physicians reported feeling overwhelmed by the demands of practicing medicine in general and the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 specifically; in parti
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by octokatt 4y ago
> One regional manager at a financial services company Walsh spoke with recently said they felt caught in the middle, as enforcement of different return-to-office mandates for retail and office workers has kindled a burgeoning sense of u
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by octokatt 4y ago
Practically, "If they don't have anything you want, say no" doesn't go well when you're asked to do Excel things by upper management. Upper management leans on your boss, you boss leans on you, and either you sacri
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by octokatt 4y ago
I'm throwing this out there: Jack Dorsey left Twitter, and it's exploding. He rebranded Square into Block, just in time for crypto-winter. He might not be that great of a CEO.
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by octokatt 4y ago
Dear ye gods, for creative shenanigans the iPad Pro is perfect. Drawing with ProCreate, graphic design with Canva or similar, and works well with Ulysses and GoodNotes for writing. Then, when you need to publish, it's a second screen f

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