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Interesting phenomenon. It's eerily similar to r/Boston.

We could have been twins, when I was in graduate school :) At times I had (still have?) a cynical look at scientific publishing, that it was a symptom of a larger problem: the Pete…

I thought this was the source? https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring Or are you referring to the cloud aspects of Mailspring, like read receipts etc?

As usual, I came here to look for recommendations :) I have been enjoying Mailspring[0], an OSS fork of Nylas Mail (RIP). I came across it while looking for the closest thing to Go…

No offense to the good discussions here, but this article is no more than a press release. It doesn't even directly address the question in the title! Again no disrespect to the ta…

Yes -- good on them changing, and bravo to them for calling it out and saying why. In my opinion they put a lot of effort into making this post, and it shows.

Upvoted for being pithy and beautiful. Where's our manifesto? Can I suggest you write it?

Amen to this: once you get your feelings in a better place, be part of the solution.

As mentioned there are dozens, and Wikipedia will show you[0]. Since CRMs can be bolted onto just about every business, use cases vary extremely. If I'm being honest, every sales m…

From a business side of things, the advantage of Salesforce is that it can very easily be managed by non-devs. It has straightforward sales functions baked in: reporting, forecasti…

+1 to developers on HN: if your dream is to have a company with a sales team, it's great practice to get to know CRM softwares early and in-depth. Every seasoned salesperson will n…

This is nearly a universal law in the sales world: products/services pitched to salespeople always 1) are expensive and 2) come with their own sales team who are slick and/or aggre…

Thank you for this point (and book recommendation). It has clarified my thinking on dark patterns, something I've long suspected. We need to (re)educate designers about the mistake…

You raise very good points. The shortcuts thing has made me miserable for years. Surely the coders of Mozilla appreciate a good set of shortcuts, like in whatever IDE they write th…

Came here to also recommend LibraryThing. It's been around for 14 years, and the community has lots of similar situations to OP's. Probably a good place to look up anecdotal eviden…

Where is the list of offending apps? How hard would it be to name and shame them and keep track? The NYT article cites the company MightySignal claiming 1,200 Android and 200 iOS o…

I came to say the same about Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." His teachings are aimed at being a better salesperson and you should treat it as such. Takin…

To me, it's the end game for consumerism. The products themselves just get in the way -- the feeling is what you really want to have. It's not new, I think. Just perhaps a little m…

This was my take also. It's a purely business decision: how much is it worth to not have this person work for a competitor? Also dovetails with the statement that lower level emplo…

The writers have a union which should be able to help with this scenario, yes? Does the VFX industry have a similar thing in Hollywood?

The best distillation I found was that this is all a version of the "Nothing to Hide" argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument There are some points to coun…

Possibly naive question: how does reddit make money, and how's it going for them? Ads, promoted content, reddit gold... Is that it? I knew they were purchased by Conde Nast, then s…

I often use reddit as a search engine for answers with a "human touch" for lack of a better word. I once did this with del.icio.us back in the "social bookmarking" days. I'm curiou…

Thank you for this: the most telling aspect for me is the history of it all. This is not a new problem. I should like to look at the follow ups / aftermaths of each of these source…