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I also record those mini slack screencasts with them all the time and have no problem understanding on review.
I know I personally am a loud talker, so maybe that helps. I've also upgraded to airpod pros, but did a year of remote without and many coworkers don't have them.
But, one coworker slowly turns into a robot when using his AirPods. Maybe it's about how much interference is in the area? But he's defaulted to using his laptop mic and AirPods to listen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/wa1zob/dont_...
My 6 year old MacBook runs slack, Xcode, android studio, safari, chrome, messages, vs code, vim, iterm2, preview, battle.net and hearthstone all the time without issue, really.
I think for the average user, they'd rather have more features across platforms more quickly than a smaller resident memory footprint and install size.
General discussion of the concept in France. http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-french-shareholder-...
> Despite ensuing controversy in the French legislature over the fairness of elevating one class of shareholder above the rest, the ability to provide prime de fidélité was enshrined in French law in 1994, with several limits.
I'll admit that this behavior is what I want 99% of the time, so it also doesn't bother me.
> It's adding black colleges to its recruiting swing this > fall, as well as reaching out to groups with strong ties > to the black community to increase the pool of applicants, > Altman said.
I think this is an interesting move from a more mainstream outlet. It's miles ahead of my local newspaper and their stupid 5 articles a day paywall.
Also, the argument that nobody would make a product and then make it shittier for free customers seems silly. Companies do this all the time. All those pricing grids where feature X is in a higher tier, or nag screens, or limiting usage?
I know many aren't fans of the content (or sometimes the cover images), but I do think that medium looks beautiful and is very readable.
I'm thinking about a study cited in Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow[1] where the participants did better on a test when the questions where in a blurry font. I believe it was suggested that being forced to exert mental effort to read the questions forced their brain into "actual thinking mode" as opposed to "pattern recognition" mode.
ie. If we know it's probably not an ad, but it looks like an ad, is it a more effective bit of non-ad? (well, it is an ad, but it's an ad we want to see.)
[1]http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
Makes me miss Perplex City.
Not a scientific study, but I'd put money on it being repeatable outside the workplaces of hacker news readers.
Friends that are doctors or lawyers talk about conferences, which as I'm led to believe, are some possibly interesting talks during the day, and then a party/drink-up at night!
(I didn't drink during the sales phase of my life, and generally found there were other people drinking soda or able to handle their liquor and hold a real conversation at most events.)