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> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less? Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo ord…

During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, ev…

> It's not going anywhere. Including towards a potential revenue stream?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_Go...

> There’s not enough slack in the system. Everything is strung so tight that any disruption causes a cascade of delays The MBA effect.

> Oracle was one of the reasons for the catastrophic failure of eToys circa 2001 Would love to hear a from-the-trenches summary of that.

Pre-release this was a reason [1]. Not sure if its still a compatibility reason: > There is also an option to let pandas know we want Arrow backed types by default. The option at t…

Does this refer to privacy.com, or something else?

Why not $LANGUAGE ?

How do you brick a machine with venvs?

> I don't think I've ever met another dev who likes PowerShell I have. But they have never used bash, zsh, Fish, or NuShell.

Fox News reporting on something CNN did that is very Fox News like. Maybe it’s just meta-enough for HN.

No, I find it odd to spend that much cash on a celebrity endorsement when the target consumer audience (businesses) know that the celebrity is not a Sales Force customer: "What the…

I.e. Soylent Green ?

I would be fine with that. The problem is both with the host and AirBnB, neither of which I would want to do business with again after this.

It does seem odd that companies would pay for services from Salesforce because of a celebrity quip, instead of a determination that said services would improve the company's operat…

Microsoft loves to rename things and make them less specific to search. I still can't understand the change from "Parallel Data Warehouse" to "Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools".

If “deep work” means can’t function as a team member and communicate in a timely and professional manner, like we all did when working in an office was more common, yes I let them …

> A lot of people will often not respond to Slack for several hours Fire them. One hard rule I have for my team is not being responsive on IM for extended periods is treated the sa…

Interesting opinion contrast to this posted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531284

"He didn't mention that during his time at the helm Google has been hit with billions of dollars' worth of antitrust fines, been left in the dust by OpenAI's ChatGPT despite "pivot…

That is because shareholders are focused on current / next quarter gains, and will blame management if short term expectations are not met. Then when long term goals fail, sharehol…

TL;DR Their management does not know how to foster creativity and teamwork when everyone is not in the same cubicle farm, and apparent can’t learn anything new.