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There's value in 'backwards compatibility' from a process/skills perspective. I agree that companies usually pay too high a premium on that, but there is value.

If the margins are high enough, then it's optimal to overproduce and then sell to everyone who will buy at a certain price point. If discounts will reduce your ability to sell the …

On average your luck cancels out.

Once again it turns out that good management is important. Give people direction and the tools they need to do their work well and you get a lot more productivity!

Business epistemology is not about knowing Truth, it is about knowing currently useful information and practices, and it is expensive to validate or generate this knowledge. Hence …

And PowerApps is slow as balls. Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in…

Just lots and lots and lots and lots of vectors. So Black Magic!

Tumblr has better checkmarks.

Good for them! Knowing when to call it quits is very wise. I mourn the end of a characteristic internet site, but I respect the founder.

He'll probably get 45 years and serve 13ish.

Indeed, the trend in corporations is to be actively hostile to web scrapers as well. Programmatic access is not encouraged so they can sell more ads.

Probably billions of dollars in R&D and extremely clear executive guidance?

Start by building a prototype proof of concept on a breadboard or prototyping board!

Classic Tarkov issue. Real bitcoin ruined the economy for a bit.

Privacy. The iOS improvements to privacy with advertiser ID becoming opt-in instead of opt-out has been brutal on targeted advertising.

It's the classic data nerd trap. "I'm pretty good at statistics and can predict things using software... I bet I could make money in the stock market" And then they realize just ho…

Not to mention the original microsoft access database.

I was wondering when this was going to happen. Airtable is a cool technology, but seemingly overhyped at their price point.

Apple thinks they'll make more money this way. Good for them. Long term, I hope this increases competition for quality hardware

Intercity/ interstate migration is a huge contributor to the pressure in major US cities. If NYC or SF were 1/4th the cost I would move there immediately, but the value would be ma…

I had to go in to the office to have my passport verified after 4 months of employment... don't really see the point.

Fecal. Like Sequal.

Doesn't want to get sued by the people who put up the majority of the money.

"The proprietary and for-profit nature of Zoom also has made it subject to multiple cases of algorithmic bias. The once esoteric seeming issues are now a stark reality." As a huge …

The specs were decreased so that "success" was extremely likely, because failure is career ending.