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by pflenker 4y ago
I am so happy to work in a company that does not work with this business voodoo (and still delivers great results). All goal frameworks I have worked in, OKRs included, were a colossal waste of time.
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by pflenker 4y ago
In all fairness, I would be hard-pressed to name two games that have been released over the decade of my own youth that have offered a map creator system and have been hugely popular.
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by pflenker 4y ago
Every ad blocker asks for "read and change all your data on websites" permission, same as page scrapers/readability tools - so depending on the disguise I think it won't be hard to get this permission.
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by pflenker 4y ago
That was already a major problem when the platform was still called musical.ly and not even remotely as big as it is right now. So this is a problem which is relevant enough to report upon without the need of someone paying for it.
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by pflenker 4y ago
It's an interesting book, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence provided by the book does not really hold up.
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by pflenker 4y ago
No, that’s not it, sorry. The line of argument which boils down to „my side is guided by logic and facts, while your side is guided by emotion and fear“ makes the one who invokes it (ironically) vulnerable to missing valuable facts that mi
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by pflenker 4y ago
I think it’s condescending to claim that environmentalists are guided mainly by emotions and people who share your view are guided by science. The problems surrounding nuclear waste is not as clear cut as the article suggests.
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by pflenker 4y ago
What’s wrong with that? I once read the plot of a horror movie on that page and it haunted me for months. And that was even though I fully expected the article to be unpleasant.
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by pflenker 4y ago
I think it is. They advertise with „ask questions, get answers“, which is precisely what users are doing when they are in need of immediate support.
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by pflenker 4y ago
True, though it aims to cater the use case for „I need support now“ and not for „I want to archive this question and its solution“.
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by pflenker 4y ago
I am surprised this edge case exists - last time I set up an iPhone with Apple Watch I had to specifically enable the feature (it was for an elderly person so it made sense)
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by pflenker 4y ago
StackOverflow originated during a time when finding accurate and up-to-date documentation on the internet was a challenge. Today, however, there is a wealth of easily accessible, hands-on documentation that often includes links to support r
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by pflenker 4y ago
That's not what I took away from the article. On the contrary, to me, the article listed several trade-offs that come with choosing what might be the "right" tool at any given time. The carpenter metaphor does not really fit
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by pflenker 4y ago
> iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app for Apple. I have used iTunes off and on for around two decades and it has never been a great or even mediocre experience. It was always bad. The author is fondly remembering
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Security by Floccinaucinihilipilification(flenker.blog)
1 points by pflenker 4y ago|0 comments
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by pflenker 4y ago
With sap, the end user is not the customer. Hence, the whole thing is designed to pass a sales pitch and nothing else. The people who use this are not the ones who make the buy decision.
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Elite Swiss ski resort flies snow to the slopes after mild winter(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by pflenker 4y ago|2 comments
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by pflenker 4y ago
I do the same with Jekyll. I have tweaked my theme so that it looks great even on very short posts without title or image, and it works fine.
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by pflenker 4y ago
I never played FarmVille, but some friends did, and FarmVille sent notifications to your friends as well. Only a handful of friends playing FarmVille meant 1-2 daily notifications from that game. Notifications were effectively unusable at
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by pflenker 4y ago
For me, the decline in notification quality started with the rise of FarmVille.
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by pflenker 4y ago
My two golden rules of note taking: 1) taking notes is superior to not taking notes. It structures your thoughts and helps you think. The actual note is of less value than the process of writing it. 2) beware the productivity tarpit. It’s
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by pflenker 4y ago
Fun fact: Originally, Wesley was intended to be female: Leslie Crusher. So the original idea was to not even bother with gender-swapping.
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by pflenker 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! How long have you been working with it? My biggest issue these days is that many tutorials or guides seem to be written at a point where the setup is still fairly new and not really tested thoroughly. Some drawbacks only
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by pflenker 4y ago
Fun fact: one of the accused in the fraud scandal around Wirecard claims that he had no important role in the company, as evidenced by his „fantasy title“: Deputy CFO. Source in German: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft&#
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by pflenker 4y ago
While I do agree with you overall, I think the author was right to assume that the non-skip feature was meant to appreciate his result. And calling it poorly-written is uncalled for, I think.
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by pflenker 4y ago
You can at the same time be against the ads and against misleading publicity stunts.
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by pflenker 4y ago
This is common for software where the people who take the decision which software to buy are far removed from the people who are going to use it. No product manager cared about this, because this feature needs to work only well enough for
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by pflenker 4y ago
These rankings are often based on Downloads, and since Teams is required in many companies, it is downloaded often. In my area some crappy banking apps made it to the top list for the same reason: often downloaded.
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by pflenker 4y ago
> If they can offer great prices all year round, why not do it? And if they can’t, then who’s paying for the great deal I’m getting today? Working at a huge online retailer, I can tell you that the prevalent customer expectation is preci
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by pflenker 4y ago
It would still have been available in another canteen right next door though. Also, the canteen which did. the change was not exactly catering to the blue-collar workers he was referencing, IIRC it was an office building.

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