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> I think normal salary was USD5 per week, so they would have taken ages to pay it.

Pretty sure they would have made that money and more with just one foreign client for whom they were the scene

> you wouldn’t want to work for anyway.

Sure, but you still have a mortgage to pay and would like to switch companies on your terms rather than on your employer's terms, right? Have enough time to find the right job you want, instead of the least-worst because you're really not comfortable with being out of work in what's looking to be a long economic crisis?

That sounds like rent control to me!

Sure, that's possible, but people at large companies can really "fly to HQ" if they feel like it and they're a manager.

Foodora just walked out of Canada.

> Like most myths, it’s both false and true.

That doesn't _mean_ anything.

> I always wondered why it isn’t called “product debt” because product took the credit to get a feature faster and must pay back by investing the time to clean up. Technology is the bank that gave credit.

I would expect massive pushback trying to push this framing...

Y'all missing the most important paragraph in the whole article:

> I spent many years working in a satellite office. A lot of the time when I had some deep technical disagreement about something, I'd fly to the main HQ, and go out for dinner with the other team. I wouldn't even talk about technology, just about random stuff. Once they knew me, and realize I was a human (and not a faceless blob), most technical disagreements tended to go away. People are more likely to assume positive intent and not malice/stupidity/laziness.

Building relationships is important important to get bug fixed/features built. Bug prioritization isn't a just a technical nor a business exercise.

Now, I want to hear which company this is that this guy could just "fly to HQ" (I'm assuming Microsoft Back in the Day) but the geographic gaps aren't always that large... :P

If developers are difficult to hire in a regular market, you can use this opportunity to hire them now while you trim your marketing team, which is trying to sell to a market which has hit the pause button anyway...

That is a very fair length... Capture launch sales from the most eager readers, then expand the reader base.

Thanks, adding this as a reason to visit Oceania. :)

> The solution is to kick out the tenants/landlords who are concerned

I was going to mention something about housing co-op politics, but it seems that NYC co-ops are a unique beast: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09011...

Either way, NYC style or regular co-ops, the politics can get pretty nasty so I'm not surprised at all...

Something printed on yellow paper, maybe!

Which city is this? I'd read this article/blog post...

But since this was the Lunar New Year, I'm guessing that Ali Baba was already on a war footing?

> Armed with a counterfeit copy of his debit card and PIN, the fraudsters could pull money out of his account at ATMs and go shopping in big box stores for various items. But to move lots of money out of his account all at once, they needed Mitch’s help.

Whoa, a double-tap attack

They would rather establish a framework of proof that they control rather than have a more onerous and inflexible one imposed upon them by the EU. When large companies do due diligence to show accountability, it's less likely that a government will try to force them to do it.

#notallopensource, but the Free Software movement part of open source, for sure, you know? Okay I've re-read my original comment, you're right, it was too encompassing.

Parent was saying "why discuss this at all?" and I'm saying here are some reasons! And you're doubling down while... having the discussion. Case closed. :)

Because open source has always been defined in its very definition by its definition to the for-profit software industry, which Microsoft basically invented? Because in spite of having made a turn towards open source, Microsoft once treated it like a mortal enemy, akin to cancer? Because of how other large companies like Google have smothered open source projects?

I'm personally not worried about the acquisition (I think it's a net positive for the community), but there are plenty of reasons to discuss this interaction.

One does not preclude the other.

That's because they already have to delivery that fast for car repair shops. Fast delivery has never been an extra for them, it's always been the core product.

What's interesting is that considering the existing logistics, none of these guys though of expanding into other ecommerce earlier. One of them could have been Amazon...

This was clearly not an accident, but a dark pattern.

There are way too many complex dark patterns which have been exposed to excuse them as oopsies. This is a company where product managers overruled developers into creating security-breaking implementations for the sake of "usability".

Yeah. But they got selected by the ecosystem because they were GREAT homegrown solutions. While Angular was an accidental success, it seems that Facebook really grasped early on what was happening with React, (we all benefited from the Angular experience, warts and all) and really put in the resources necessary to make React successful, for the benefit of all.

> (that they only barely grasp from their 1 tutorials worth of experience)

If you're going to staff your entire corporate dev team with a bunch of green developers, yeah, things will be nasty. That's not the frameworks' fault though, that's just a straw man.

You're probably right that this is technically illegal, but talking to the media is a different action than organizing with coworkers...

This is a self-solving problem for the doctors speaking out. If the hospital would rather fire them than ensure their safety, then getting fired can save these doctors' lives.

dang , you probably want to change to this URL

So it's not a solved problem on massive scale because there aren't frequent and long worldwide air passenger traffic shutdowns.