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exotree··on SBA executives ‘beyond doubt’ that teleworking employees are more productive
Why did you take a job that you knew was remote but insist on meeting the stakeholders in person? You shouldn’t have taken that job with that expectation.
exotree··on SBA executives ‘beyond doubt’ that teleworking employees are more productive
What is disconcerting about hybrid? This seems to be the solution that strikes a good balance between your needs and the needs of your other coworkers who probably appreciate the increased flexibility.
exotree··on Surgeons Perform First Human Tracheal Transplant Surgery
These achievements never fail to make me emotional. The incredible amount of effort, risk tolerance, teamwork, and talent for all parties involved is humbling. Every one of these achievements feel to me as another version of landing on the moon.
exotree··on Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
I think this is a great and fantastic idea; it's something I imagine a lot of Crossfit folks would be very willing to buy, especially in a pandemic. And it's a target market with money and motivation! I definitely prefer this over biking.
exotree··on Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
As a regular TikTok user, I’ve been quite impressed with TikTok’s content moderation abilities. What’s more interesting, however, is that TikTok, unlike other mainstream social media channels, does not pretend it takes a hands off approach to moderation. It’s an accepted fact that it’s TikTok’s platform and they’ll moderate what they want and when they want to.

As for large brands advertising on these videos, anecdotal evidence says it hasn’t slowed anything down. Additionally, brands already have a tolerance being alongside problematic content to some, though not unlimited, degree (see YouTube).

exotree··on America's True Unemployment Rate
2000 a month is really tight, even if you live in some of the cheapest rural towns in America. If you have a family, it’s poverty wage.
exotree··on Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (2014)
Autodesk is most certainly used by a huge variety of businesses for a multitude of purposes. Is it the only solution? No. But the school also likely got the software at a steep discount or free, exposing you, as a student, to CAD software in general. What tools you use following that are up to you, but the school did its job in teaching you a general skill that can be applied in a variety of other programs at will.
exotree··on Parents got more time off, then the backlash started
I would hope those who report to me feel comfortable, within certain bounds, to make me aware of personal difficulties so I can manage up, downwards and across—likely in the way of managing expectations rather than saddling folks with more work.

Being kind goes a long way in not just being empathetic, but also in keeping employees retained. Everyone, at some point, will face issues that will drag on their performance. I hope I’m extended the same grace eventually.

exotree··on How you sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer's disease begins
I have been thinking about this a lot. I don’t really regret the random injuries I got from younger me being dumb on a longboard and overdoing it with weight lifting (my wrist, for instance, is going to get way worse over the years because of a bad power clean). But I’ve settled on bodies are meant to be used, not coddled.
exotree··on Expiring vs. permanent skills
This tells me you are either an executive who has forgotten how much work it takes to convince you and your peers that a solution actually works or you are an employee who has not had the experience needed to report up to an executive.

Executives who typically want “conclusion first” for “time savings” often use up the same amount of time or more “backing through the needed explanation.” Does that mean you shouldn’t aim to be succinct? No. You should have talking points prepared. But OP is mostly on the nose. This sort of demand for conclusion sans explanation only to go back over what you would’ve explained anyways is usually driven by external stress.

exotree··on Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team
This is not a competitive amount to pay a CEO of a company that is pretty substantial and integral to the web as we know it today. Additionally, there is no comp related to a successful IPO or acquisition because Mozilla has no shareholders, which is how many CEO and C-suite executives are compensated.
exotree··on Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?
I downvote for personal attacks, comments that are clearly off topic or add unnecessary snark or derisive language to the topic at hand, or very clear disinformation. That maybe leads to me downvoting maybe 1 out of... hundreds of comments I read on here a week.
exotree··on Grain, a startup built atop of Zoom for note-taking and video-clip making
This is a correct way to interpret it. Just an email address sign up is usually used as enough justification to make the statement.
exotree··on Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
I’m an independent contractor with no ties to the company in any capacity
exotree··on Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account
Here’s a reality for folks: right now, Zoom is literally saving entire corporations and jobs in the midst of a global pandemic. Outside this little bubble, no one is blinking twice at this, and neither is our government; frankly, and that’s how it should be. The benefits of Zoom actually _even working at all_ during this time is to be applauded and the engineers and customer service reps should be applauded. This... this right here is a privileged group of people with no conception of what real problems actually look like.
exotree··on She was a star of New York real estate, but her life story was a lie
You don’t often get in with rich people, who likely had parents that were likely rich given her profession and location, by saying you come from a rough background. That just makes most rich people feel uncomfortable, which isn’t a useful feeling if you want said rich people’s money.
exotree··on Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
Depends on the job, purpose of site, and goals being accomplished. Hard to demonstrate value and improve digital business outcomes without GA (and other tools like HEAP Analytics).
exotree··on U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says
In many rooms that kind of honesty can easily be interpreted as weakness. And it’s not so much what they say to you in the moment (we all have to keep up our pretenses)... it’s what they say when you’re out of the room. Is it fair? Nope. But that’s how it works in certain social settings.
exotree··on Clear and Present Leadership
A rather simple mistake should not be used as a reason to dismiss the overall message.
exotree··on The Throughput Problem: Recharging Electric Cars Requires the Patience of Job
I have to second this. I have lived in MN and MI for most of my life and plugs outside are not at all common.
exotree··on Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
This is aggressive and unnecessary language.
exotree··on Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules
Low wage workers are rarely in a position to negotiate anything, much less a non-compete.
exotree··on Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play
Yes. At least one major podcast I listen to regularly makes jokes they don’t know why they talk about subscribing through iTunes anymore.
exotree··on Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News
Are you capturing these folks from FB through email sign-ups? Have seen a couple local news orgs successfully get people to visit their site directly by investing in email.
exotree··on A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
This is only somewhat true. Yes, many people with Down’s syndrome can compensate with proper tools and education. But it’s a spectrum. In just one group home I worked in, the ability ranged from non-verbal in one person to another being able to hold down a basic job, carry on conversation, and distribute their own meds.
exotree··on Republicans Were Sent to Spam More Often Than Democrats
I expected a lot more depth from this article considering the heavy implication that email providers are suppressing republican-sent emails in some purposeful way. This mostly just reads like a marketer trying to find a new customer cohort based on superficial analysis.
exotree··on Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
I don’t think they will be. It’s pretty easy to parse: these users don’t own Patreon; therefore, users whose speech they disagree with are not entitled to their services. This is honestly pretty well established. Patreon does not owe anyone a platform.
exotree··on How I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code (2017)
When you have projects that need to achieve immediate scale, it's easy to see how these projects cost a lot of money. And contrary to popular belief, many people in government do care about efficiency and productivity. However, every government agency is constrained by a myriad of laws that the private sector doesn't have to contend with. Many projects require the approval of tax payers, who often don't see the direct value in investing in software as it isn't very tangible. Finally, that's not to say there aren't bad actors in government and the contractors that serve them. But the same is also true for those who operate solely in the private sector as well.
exotree··on Why Not to Use Quora
It’s a bit odd that the author did not seem to take on Quora’s legitimate concern over a writer’s ability to edit or remove content from Quora and to then see that reflected in Archive. There are consequences to that, sure. But honestly that makes me want to contribute to Quora more.
exotree··on Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
This article is a year old. Does anyone know the current status of the Gutenberg release? Article says first half of 2018 and we are well past that.
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