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by sbarre 3y ago
I read that whole homepage and I'm still not sure what this actually is, or is for? Not throwing shade here, the headline did make me interested, but maybe I'm just not the target audience at all?
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by sbarre 3y ago
Back in the 90s I managed a dial-up ISP and I had a policy that if a customer calling support was overly rude to my agents, we would just tell them "I guess we're not the company for you, let's start the cancellation process&
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by sbarre 3y ago
I read a comment somewhere a while back: Once you make $999,999,999.99 dollars, congratulations you have won at life! All future income you make beyond $1B goes to helping society. You should probably get a say into where the money goes (so
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yep, I agree with you. Bottom line is it's complicated. I don't think there's an easy answer, and neither "work at the office" or "work at home" are catch-all perfect solutions!
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by sbarre 3y ago
This definitely isn't the norm, but hopefully we see it more as time goes on. Hiring good people is hard, and if you have folks in your organization who have been there a long time (the program is only open to employees who have been w
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by sbarre 3y ago
This is fine for experienced workers who already know the job, but for anyone who is new (say first 2-5 years) or is looking for mentoring and growth/advancement opportunities, then the lack of in-person connections does hurt. > Tho
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by sbarre 3y ago
I'll give a counter-point here. While I agree with a lot of what you said about the challenges of these roles, my company is actively providing opportunities for our call centre folks to access internal re-training programs (designed i
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by sbarre 3y ago
Ok well the text of the literal article we're commenting on seems to contradict you, but all good.
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by sbarre 3y ago
I think it's a bit unfair to say "for aesthetic reasons". The article says it's because projectionists are familiar with the Palm Pilot UI (because to them it's just another tool), and rather than get them to re-lea
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yes, this is something a lot of people don't think about: What is acceptable (even legal) today may not be tomorrow, or in X years (10, 15, or more).. If we allow all our private conversations and messages to be permanently archived (a
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by sbarre 3y ago
I mean, you say "companies" but really you mean "people" because people run companies. You can't, or shouldn't, abstract away the people ultimately making decisions if you're trying to reason about this s
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by sbarre 3y ago
Geez, calm down with the insults. I have no positive proposal because I think the underlying premise is ridiculous. That is my opinion, and I'm entitled to it. I respect yours even if I don't agree with it, give me the same court
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by sbarre 3y ago
It probably wouldn't look like editing the most popular public wiki in the world that records and reviews historical edits and changes?
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by sbarre 3y ago
Again I'll say the same thing I said to someone else: if it was this simple and this easy, it would have been done by now. I've been working with or at telcos for more than a decade and I am still regularly amazed (not in a good
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah that's just not how it works, sorry. Look I get it, you've imagined a very reductive simple solution to a hugely complex problem and I know it makes sense to you, but you're really drifting into the Dunning-Kruger zone h
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by sbarre 3y ago
Like I said, there is too much call traffic for this. Believe it or not, most non-US telcos don't have (or rather don't choose to have) the capacity to inspect and log every single phone call, because it's not a cost they wan
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by sbarre 3y ago
Sure, and how do you plan to do that globally, all at once, in a fair manner, and with everyone (regulators and telcos) on the same page? If you think no one has proposed this or tried this before, you'd be incorrect. :-) Don't ge
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yes that was a first attempt at addressing this, but it's still imperfect and not universally adopted, even though both the US and Canada have required adoption since 2021. The FCC for example still exempts "small rural phone prov
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by sbarre 3y ago
I answered that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058724 And I go into a bit more detail here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058560
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by sbarre 3y ago
Because telcos blindly trust the metadata passed to them from outside their networks, and this is by design (going back decades to when all telcos were "trusthworthy" quasi-national actors). The sheer volume of calls that go throu
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by sbarre 3y ago
The simplified answer is that phone networks were designed and built 100 years ago and have a fundamental assumption of trust built into the interoperability model between telcos. Back when every telco was a quasi-governmental national oper
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah I know a few people who worked at RIM back in the day, and they're all pretty much in full agreement with this op ed.
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by sbarre 3y ago
It's easy to dunk on this when you imagine someone only using this to write all their code and "not doing any of the work". But if you are a programmer and you write code all day, and you want what essentially amounts to an
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by sbarre 3y ago
I never said that them advertising their product was the problem. Please read more carefully. If they advertised it with regular in-video ads like the rest of the ads, sure no problem, I am used to sitting through those and I accept ads as
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by sbarre 3y ago
The people who made those "world shifting" products at Google back in the day are long gone. Google is in the post-MBA-invasion phase where they are focused on value extraction from their market dominance and existing products, no
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by sbarre 3y ago
Ehh the problem with this is that I don't block YT ads (I watch on a tablet), but I am still constantly bombarded (and I mean that) with full-page click-through ads, banners and in-feed blocks trying to get me to buy Premium. YouTube,
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by sbarre 3y ago
When did you join Twitter? I joined in 2008 and have gone through... 7 phones in that time. I definitely don't have all those photos or images.
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by sbarre 3y ago
And today both of those sites are purging historical user uploads, which is completely their right, but definitely doesn't "solve the problem" of keeping control over your social media history/legacy/output. One thi
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by sbarre 3y ago
There's a Discord server for Bluesky/ATProto developers. I would try there. https://discord.gg/3srmDsHSZJ
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by sbarre 3y ago
Someone did post that stat last week (beta users who verified via domain) and if I recall it was under 10%?

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