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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Mostly fully remote companies will have something where everyone gets together at least once a year.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Assuming 4 weeks off for vacation, if you do one of them a quarter, each for a week, that's 8%. Close enough.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
An offsite is [in my experience] a dedicated series of days where a team comes together in one place (including from remote and satellite offices) to discuss strategy or other high importance problems together. Historically they were held &
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Actually if it was huge it’s likely because several people clicked the thumbs up in short succession. It plays a different animation in that case.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
The CFO and head of HR were not let go as part of this round of layoffs, they were fired shortly after Dave Clark left. [0] [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/flexport-loses-cfo-hr-chief-...
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
The word “Act” should be capitalized in the title -“ACT”
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
That means you're spending $2-3 per meal per person assuming 2-3 meals a day eaten at home. This is effectively impossible in many places (in urban California I'd say it is actually impossible). I find it hard to believe you'
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I was indeed thinking of Cyberpunk but also games like Redfall, Wild Hearts, Outriders, etc. These games shipped inexcusably buggy and in the case of Wild Hearts, EA recently announced that they won't put in any more effort into patchi
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I think it's telling when games were much (much) simpler mechanically that QA was a multi-week process. Recent AAA games seem to forgo even a multi-minute QA process by the publisher or the console maker.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I agree with you - they aren't putting enough pressure on users to migrate to make me feel they actually want everyone to use the app.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
What I've noticed is there there is a huge "app subsidy" (drive through tax?) for many fast food chains. For example, Taco Bell has a $6 online-only combo that's probably 40-60% discount over the drive-thru menu equivale
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Well, I didn't say it was easy. :) It's a challenging software problem and the final 20% I imagine will be exceptionally difficult to automate. I have some other suspicions about why Flexport hasn't done this but I'm too
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I sat with the Flexport logistics teams for months on end. I watched them move hundreds of shipments. Maybe they concealed all the secret sauce for when I got up to the go the bathroom but nothing I saw was particularly notable. They had ru
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Huge. Gobs of opportunity. One failing of Flexport is it's trying to tackle too much at once. There's a lot of depth to each of the steps and you could build a very solid business out of automating many of them. I seriously looked
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
This is a very nice sentiment but the truth is that the established forwarders operate in a way that is could be greatly optimized. Established forwarders (and Flexport) have teams of people that "move" shipments by applying an SO
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
The digital domain is fundamentally lower stakes and harder to protect than the physical one. It is good that we do not respond to cyber attacks like we do physical ones because we would have escalated to nuclear war over a decade ago. The
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I’m pretty sure most of the car subreddits are managed by dealership employees who benefit from markups via increased commissions. The fact that they make reference to complaining about price markups as economic illiteracy increases my conf
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I'm sorry but I browsed the first two of these and they're 10x the price of Ikea while almost certainly not being 10x the quality. I randomly picked a modern-styled wooden dresser[0] comparable to the Ikea Malm 6 drawer dresser an
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Many studies actually show that smokers are cheaper to care for over their lifetimes, likely because they die earlier. This study[0] shows a +7% for men/+4% for women increase in healthcare costs if all people stopped smoking. I'm
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
This is not exclusively true. You will get people who are willing to jump through a lot of hoops to get hired. Some of them may have strong affinity for Canonical, some may just really really need a job and have no other options.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
While the sibling comment points out that this restaurant is common in large American cities, I think your intuition is directionally correct. At least in my experience with it, it's a bit of a "destination" restaurant that t
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
You're overthinking it. It's almost always a foot in the door tactic to begin a conversation. The "mystery" of wondering why someone would text "who is this" to a random phone number is more disarming than &quo
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Got a link/model number? I’m always down for a new drive.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
It seems like the answer based on this article is "pretty good." The evidence in favor of this is his paper on collapsing stars causing black holes (which the author suggests would have won him a Nobel Prize in other circumstances
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Your comments vis a vis app size are not correct. App size (and battery consumption) have a strong, linear inverse correlation with initial downloads and engagement. There are a number of reasons users may not like large app sizes includin
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
It's geared towards businesses who can expense it.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
ah yes, the well known "hot pocket" problem - one of the most challenging in cryogenics
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
It says right in the first paragraph of your link that it was going to cost $20m per year, not per month.
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by tschwimmer 4y ago
I read the Water Knife on an HN recommendation and I can't say I agree. I like Sci Fi in general, so it was an easy sell. Even then it didn't win me over. I'd characterize the writing as amateurish. Lots of problems with unev
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by tschwimmer 4y ago
Holmes was charged with a federal crime and there is currently no parole for federal crimes. [0] She will do almost all of the 11 years. There is a good conduct reduction, which caps out at 54 days a year, so it's possible she could ge

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