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privateSFacct
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The first sentences are this: France fines Apple €25 million for slowing iPhone software France's consumer watchdog slapped on the fine two years after Apple admitted its iOS software slowed down the performance of older phones. Then a
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7y ago
Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices. Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don't recognize that phone design is a CONSTAN
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7y ago
Hiring bias litigation is common and expensive in other states. The advice you will get on HR side is because no binding arb. agreement is in place you are exposed to full litigation efforts including attorney fees. These can involve dispar
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7y ago
I got paid as a consultant a lot for short term offsite projects -> then they want to hire you. So the random gigs can sometimes be a take home interview. I liked it because if I didn't enjoy working somewhere I could tell them I wa
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80% of the time this is not true. But 20% of time it is. That's often enough to scare folks away.
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privateSFacct
7y ago
which makes it even worse - if you interview 20 people, and 1 in 20 is a media rampager - every time you provide feedback on a hiring cycle you will have a rampage.
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7y ago
I think they've got SpaceX confused with the SLS system - now that has sucked up billions for zero launches.
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7y ago
Huh? Medicine is highly regulated. If this was a market you would have hospitals posting prices and negotiating with customers directly on price / quality. Instead health plans market to EMPLOYERS (not the consumers of the actual produ
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7y ago
What is this product? When people cold call me to sell me investment advice I hang up. When I get a betterment / personal capital / fidelity advert in my feed talking about their new whatever, I'm at least mildly interested a
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These are the scammers that would report 4,000 5 star reviews for tiny law firms supposedly handling high end ip matters? It was a total scam set of ratings (they claimed to just use top 5% of firms as well but the “ratings” they claimed us
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7y ago
My laptop has USB-C charging and already the cable doesn't fit properly ($1,200 machine). I've tried cleaning it and blasting it with air - so annoying. Have on-site service so may have them come out to figure out what is going on
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7y ago
Agreed - I'm curious how they are able to globally deploy so quickly where others (apple / tom tom) take FOREVER to update. Do they just have someone ground truth with satellite and street view? They do have that data for most of
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7y ago
Look at your most used apps - none of them are "responsive pages". That should tell you something. Folks who have tried responsive pages haven't done that well. I am curious - what is the most popular responsive webpage on ip
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7y ago
What's funny is that people who are paying like the masking tape construction - they often just want something working.
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Sorry - but Uber is very much a app first app. Most people using it are coming through the "proprietary" ecosystem parent wants to get rid of. I don't use starbucks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it also had a proper ap
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Does this have anything to do with Dell support info - it used to be literally right after buying a dell product (within a week or so) you'd start getting scam calls with your dell info. Dell always denied it, but it was pretty funny.
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7y ago
Seriously - a big deal to me for sure.
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7y ago
Can you give some examples of simple open cross platform systems that make money? I like my apps to be apps and a lot of the "Apps" that are HTML/js are janky cross platform and are tricky to pay for (vs one touch on ioS)
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7y ago
What’s a good netgear alternative for switches from 5 port to 48 port - too late for us now but for next buying wave
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If you can do it separately from any systems conversion you will be much happier. Either before or after. And see if you can keep some of the key minimum editing in or your users will hate you forever. I've heard comments 5 YEARS later
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The comparison here is to a transit system that uses vehicles which can be serviced by car mechanics. This will be cheaper. And rail has otherwise struggled in the US. The amtrak story is not great. I've tried to use them repeatedly, a
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You clearly haven't. ERPs that allow editing maintain a transaction log of edits. What users like about editing is they can run reporting for LOB's, then edit based on feedback / coding / miscoding, then rerun reports th
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Except you get a cut of the profits - how many "managers" get that - seriously?
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Interesting some decades ago I think McDonald's did a study that led to something called the 4 minute McDonald's universe which was a distance they found people would go for spur of the moment purchasing. Obviously impractical, bu
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Cypto - it might be helpful if you could spell out some of the specifics of their current violent attacks on LGBTQ folks. This would make your "corporate doublethink propaganda" claims stronger.
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And that’s why people won’t like your system, including the auditors
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Yep - having travelled a lot in Europe it is crazy how quiet some trains there are. Some just have a very light tick tick sound
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I hope this is a joke, but if not please look into the cost and timeliness of subway maintenance costs by unionized workforce’s dealing with things like switching and signaling equipment - your claim is that this is drastically more efficie
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And is the hardest thing to do in a big org. My one addition -> focus not on the new things the system will do for you (which is what the bosses are into) but focus on what will change / be lost compared to the system you are using.
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Haha - so true. The first versions of some of the financial packages built on salesforce and elsewhere - so SLOW. Click, wait, dropdown -> wait for it to populate with the 1,500 items when devs probably only tested with 5 etc etc, then c
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