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Options can a significant portion of sign on bonus but they typically vest over several years so I guess they are hoping for an IPO eventually. IMHO Databricks will be overtaken by…

RFP responses. In enterprise sales, there's a huge amount of back and forth with different teams in a customer when you're selling anything but very simple applications. Most enter…

In case any of you use draw.io note that you can animate lines with a right click. Last time I did this for a presentation I did have to record to gif but it worked really well.

Even the healthiest large companies do this sort of thing, I've worked in a few and heck I've sold to a few too. Low code solutions that somehow need a team of contractors to deliv…

There is. UML diagrams for software, Archimate or C4 diagrams for architecture, value stream for process performance. But depending on the audience you may end up needing to use si…

I used Zim for over a decade but recently migrated to Obsidian because of the mobile support. Definitely a big change but I can say that after a year it has worked for me and I don…

Dashboards are really calls to action hidden in donut charts. I'd rather just see a text message telling me when to start panicking and why.

Wonder what would happen if someone trained an LLM on these texts? A whole new mega religion?

Millions of elderly people are already getting scammed by overseas call centers so unless we do something more significant this tech will not make one iota of a difference.

IMHO Twitter drove its own need and now that it has pretty much gone no one wants the hassle of serving a new master.

Outside of main cities and Germany is the same for restaurants and cafes. Pita

Don't be. It is such a nightmare esp around places like Frankfurt.

Aka I Cannot Even arrive

Me too! I eventually migrated to a school exercise book and an illegal combo of time blocking and Final Version Perfected and it works reasonably well. Now I know what I am failing…

In the EU they send a letter informing of price change and give you the right of cancellation except for rate rises in line with the retail price index or inflation which are inclu…

Elon's Twitter acquisition was exactly to do that but he muffed it.

I work in the enterprise software space and the last thing regular users want is a flash modern ui. They want familiarity, because enterprise software is like an extension of a use…

For a complex and sensitive topic it makes sense to listen to others and potentially change tack.

Price is the only barrier to desalination. Environmental impact is a problem to be solved, but we never try to solve it for other things, so why for this?

Hardware is either niche and unachievable or commodity and widely available. Maybe you could consider pivoting to software for widely available non mainstream headsets until you ma…

Pharmacist here. Most pharmaceuticals do actually work but finding the right one for a patient can sometimes be harder than you would think. I suspect your family members are quiet…

Ah the Xmas edition of the BMJ! Full of funny studies and articles treated seriously. The one about common case note abbreviations was the best one and ended up being quite influen…

Evidence?

I know I'm old guard but uml worked well for me.