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The example week is quite concerning. She’s called multiple times for things that have no impact or importance. That needs to be fixed immediately.

My company has strict rules on what is allowed to escalate to on-call and the SLAs to handle that alert. It had to be breaking our overnight batch cycle or we’re not getting up. Brittle processes are stamped out immediately and management backs us up.

Technology is still central to "tech-as-a-cost-center" enterprises. I'm absolutely a cost center and contribute to the firm's market differentiation by using technology effectively.

Banks have provisional accounts which they use to make customers whole. They don’t know where your check went either but they’ll make you whole while they figure it out. Your check will be credited to their provisional account if they find it!

I worked for a large bank and they ran into an “issue” which required making a whole lot of clients whole out of provisional accounts while they figured out what happened. I can tell the balance of those accounts became a metric which many people were evaluated by.

Seems likely that the value may only be realized in hindsight. The post-docs saying it would have saved them time don’t say they would have paid before they realized that. I wonder too if the time they spent was more valuable and enriching than whatever this application would provide them. You don’t become an expert without “wasting time” researching dead ends or excruciatingly manual steps.

Why’s that relevant? The payment is divided by the terms of the agreement with the author and associates. It was mutually agreed by everyone in writing.

I’ve taken this approach in the past.

Heads up on your landing page. I didn’t know what I was supposed to type into the search box. Category, item, zip code?

Gall’s law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)

This is obviously true but most people DCA into the market because they’re investing money as they earn it. The put $X I to their brokerage account on payday and buy more indexed ETFs.

Wrong. That's a software switch, not physical hardware.

YouTube Premium is riddled with the same type of user tracking Firefox is implementing. Firefox Premium would probably do the same.

Thanks for the recommendation. Just purchased the audiobook.

“ Are you asleep yet? The developers are. You promise them an intellectually stimulating work environment and what they end up with is drudgery.”

A 15-minute standup does not nullify a stimulating work environment.

I have thought about this before. As someone who would never use Facebook, I want to judge the Facebook—centric view of the web, but then I think about how I live my entire online existence around an RSS reader (Feedly in my case). There’s obviously a level of manipulation in Facebook that isn’t present in an RSS reader, but I understand the mindset of setting a central portal in the online world.

I'll always have a soft spot for Classic ASP[0]. Makes me dream of a simpler time developing CRUD apps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages

All bugs need to have workarounds in case it can't be fixed by some deadline. A group works on fixing the bug while another group makes some tentative plans to implement a workaround. Bugs can have deadlines for legal, reputational, or other reasons. But there needs to be other ways to mitigating the risk without fixing the bug itself.

Read the tweet

Canceled my photography plan last week. No fee.

Yes! I worked at a well-known regional company about 15 years ago and we built one of these ourselves. It would track servers, software, packages, etc... You could quickly see which web servers were running which versions of .Net and then drill into the applications which had their own tagging to specific .Net versions. Then you'd have a clear picture of the opportunity/costs/consequences of upgrading the version on that machine.

I'm interested in this type of system for my current job and I can't find anything on the market.

So many. I’m a product owner so I’m interested in a lot of things that come across HN: management resources, new technology, trending ideas and concepts, and other stuff that I didn’t know I needed to know.

The real value comes from the thoughtful conversations in the comments. An article on Snowflake is going to touch in competitors, management advice is going to have a link to a book that goes deeper, etc...

Borrowing rates have never been lower and corporate debt issuance has never been higher. Companies are investing.

I tried Notion but got turned off by their security policies. I use a lot of encrypted notes in Evernote and haven’t found a SAAS replacement with that feature plus the other Evernote features I use.

Special needs parent here. It's basically impossible to send your kids to a public school district without advocating for them constantly and understanding the special education laws. The kids with the most involved parents get the best services because they have the best advocates.

I can imagine a use for this when looking for a quick answer without having to wait for SQL Server Management Studio to load up.

NYT accepts PayPal which you can then revoke the authorization to cancel.

Mentioned in today’s xkcd

https://xkcd.com/2421/

I use RSS to not miss anything.