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I don't think that Slack's business model is that different from other companies, from a marketing perspective. Sure, they acquired you as a customer in 2014 and don't need to spend anymore on marketing, but other companies spend huge amounts for marketing in the first few years and then spend less over time (think: you picked a detergent brand and keep using it without further marketing, for example). I actually think it is appropriate to recognize the expense now (or in whatever year it occurred), as there is no way to measure what benefit they are getting now from it. Isn't Slack burning now so it won't have to later? If that is true, does that sound like an unprofitable business?

That being said, specific marketing costs already are amortized over the life of contracts - if you pay commissions to sales staff, those are allocated over the life of the contracts that are signed. If you pay inducements (such as free months of service, or whatever), those are amortized over the life of the contract. However, general marketing expenses like ads are recognized in the period that they occur. There are a number of reasons for this: maybe adtech can decide who saw what ad and made a purchase because of it, but that is generally hard to tell. The other is that how do you know what the life of the contract will be. Your company pays $1000/year for Slack, and you likely will, but what if something changes? Slack can't know what you're planning to do. They'd have to make an estimate, and estimates are open to manipulation by management.

Management's incentive is to decrease expenses in the current year to make themselves look better to investors, so they're going to say that their expenses will be good for 20 years. How can they be certain? There's also the other way they can manipulate it by saying that "oh, this was a bad year already, we might as well recognize marketing expenses now to make a bad year worse, so next year looks better". Since there's no actual measurement basis, there's no corroborating evidence either way.

Source: am an auditor, albeit not familiar with US GAAP.
Gotcha. I find Dapper (the only other option I've ever seen used in anger?) really frustrating, too, though--boilerplate and SQL statements for simple stuff really grinds me these days.
You are confusing the state and federal judges. The new MA law doesn't apply to federal agencies and this was a federal judge not a state judge and the ATF is a federal agency.
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756921
I've read elsewhere that there aren't a whole lot of choices since competitors have limited capacity to ramp up? Also, some choices are also built by Boeing. (Such as other 737's.)
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I agree but I think it is worth pointing out the two activities (cardio vs lifting) use different energy pathways (aerobic vs anaerobic). You almost certainly know that, so my comment is aimed at giving other readers some deeper context.

I routinely hit 180bpm deadlifting and squatting.
I expected someone would make such response, and that is exactly why I was talking about people who already made it to US, and talk of that demographic. I by no means, am comparing him with the guy who took a job at Infosys, or he couldn't pursue a masters or get a less paying job at startup for the reasons you mentioned.

That said, we are also making this huge presumption that since his dad is an IAS, he must have have shitload of money for US tuitions and rest. This isn't possible with normal salary, unless of course he is corrupted, and I find it distasteful to deduce something like that about someone specific. It is one thing to say most IAS are not honest, and it's another thing to insinuate that this particular IAS isn't honest.

We all try to make best of whatever situation we are in, and most of us (at-least I most likely) wouldn't achieve what he did even with 100x resources (lack of hard work, motivation, making excuses to ourselves). Let's not undermine that by saying "there is only that much you can do in life when you have n things demanding your attention".
It should be possible to build a PDF from source. The setup guide is here: https://github.com/DS-100/textbook/blob/master/SETUP.md

I tried the following in a python 3.7 virtual environment, but it didn't quite work:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends npm calibre jekyll ca-certificates
git clone https://github.com/DS-100/textbook
cd textbook
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install datascience # due to version conflict
pip install --upgrade folium # due to version conflict
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install lxml py-mathjax # not sure if these are needed
sudo npm install -g gitbook-cli
sudo gitbook fetch
sudo gitbook install
make build
The Axios Harris poll [1] as a general matter is pretty interesting. I am surprised at Amazon's position among the tech firms.

[1] https://theharrispoll.com/axios-harrispoll-100/#2019-ranking...
You mean Slack cloned IRC with markup and pictures
Govt: "We need some money from you to buy things."

Me: "How much?"

Govt: "You figure it out."

Me: "Oh, I get to pay whatever I want?"

Govt: "LOL, no, we have a figure that we want you to pay."

Me: "What happens if I guess that number wrong?"

Govt: "You get to go to prison."
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Or just not use Pinterest at the office.
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As you can see by everyone's responses, you've been sidetracked -- exactly TurboTax's objective.
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That is not how SAAS economics works. You spend a lot money upfront and revenue is earned over years. They can stop investing in sales/marketing tomorrow and be profitable.
I had the exact opposite experience to you.

Outside pressure was the key determinant of waste and bureaucracy. Companies without competition (e.g. banks) had almost zero competitive pressure but most government departments always had at least a bit of democratic pressure.

The best run were companies under heavy competitive pressure or government departments that were transparent and closely watched.
I find it astonishing how much people devalue software and information services. The same people who have to have a $1500 phone and seem to think nothing of dropping $150 a month on Verizon or AT&T won't spend $5 on any cloud service.

This is why Google keeps winning and everyone else is losing, particularly the people who get the "free" services but don't have any say about those services.

The real numbers might be different, but I heard that Google gets about $100/yr in ad revenue per user. That is, they are getting $800 a year for all of those people. Everything you buy is $800 more expensive and there is no way you can say no to that!
> Windows 10 works great (and I seem to be the only person who actually appreciates their update policy).

I had an annoying problem last weekend trying to get ray tracing enabled in a video game. After searching around I found out that a my graphics driver doesn't auto update and the "windows is up to date" message is a lie. Turns out I was on win10-1803 instead of 1809 and had to download a separate *.exe to upgrade. These types of problems don't happen with a modern (sane) package manager.

There's also a few other problems with windows that stop me from thinking it's great: no pseudoterminal, rigid window manager, registry nightmares, possibly more.
Is it just me that finds it bizarre that they call Shanghai "the capital of the future" without any references to global warming and the vulnerability of Shanghai to sea level rise?

Although not as at risk as Miami, Shanghai is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/03/miami-shangha...

Shanghai is already one of the most important cities of the world - today. Predicting the future is something else, although I certainly expect Shanghai to do better than Miami, and probably New York as well.
can you please share the name of this marketplace?
It's only amazing, even in startup terms, if you're Han and toe the line. Imagine being a Uighur trying to make in in Shanghai.
As a consultant myself (not Accenture) I chuckled over the difference in titles between the two articles - "digital transformation" vs "website redesign".
What incentives are there for capable people to enter government service on any but the highest of levels?
Dr. Lustig has some good insights. Two caveats on him:

1) He is an evangelist about the dangers of fructose, which is ubiquitous in the Standard American Diet (SAD)
2) I gather that he has a few positions that are not unreasonable but are also not fully supported by research, yet

Having said that, I learned a lot from him about fructose metabolism, how it has to be metabolized by the liver, and what happens to excess. The analogy that sticks in my head is that excess fructose consumption is like foie-grasing ourselves. We get Non-alocoholic fatty liver and it's happening to children at unprecedented numbers.

He too was on Peter Attia's podcast (I mentioned in a comment above) and it has some good show notes.

https://podcastnotes.org/2018/09/11/lustig/
Is a phone number really required to sign up?
Not only saturated fat isn’t bad but at worst neutral, but also LDL is not “bad” when measured as concentration, which is the main argument against sat fats on the page you linked. There is plenty of research on this topic.
> As an aside, FB's continued success, while having such a bad public image is astonishing.

The public image is a bunch of people who want them to be bad, not actual consumers. The media has narratives it drives and a bunch of nerds here hate them for legitimate reasons. The average consumer does not care and never will.
Really? This is a greedy policy, not an engineering decision. How many engineers have managers they disagree with? I'm sure you've always quit every company in such a situation?
Usually those staff are able to setup and manage chat while doing 100 other things for the company, and if they're not then fire them.
>In no world is the SEC's role to determine whether or not a company's business strategy qualifies them to go public or not.

Profitability is objective...let’s not pretend what I’m suggesting is the SEC subjectively making a decision on a business judgement or business plan. Simply you want to register a security for public offering show a GAAP profit...I understand that’s not “how it works” or I wouldn’t have suggested it “should” be considered, I never said anything about SEC subjectively determining worthiness of an investment.
As soon as I get some sort of confirmation on if I will be able to get one of these running on Verizon, I would like to dive in and build some stuff. But right now I still don't even know if this phone will work for me.
"In January 2018, for example, Tesla’s Impression score — which asks US adults if they have an overall positive or negative impression of a particular brand — sat at 15. After a couple of discernible drops, the brand’s Impression score has decreased to nine, making it eight points lower than the present sector average (17)."

"At the beginning of the year, Tesla’s Reputation score — which gauges if people would feel either proud or embarrassed to work for a company — was 22, a couple points higher than the industry average. Today, however, Tesla’s score is 16, placing it a couple points below the automaker sector at large."

https://today.yougov.com/topics/automotive/articles-reports/...

Also, see the Q1 earnings results from earlier this week, which were awful.
Teams is truly mediocre, other than when it rises to irritating. I have no idea how anyone using it could prefer it to Slack.

It is imposed on people whose organizations have Office 365 subscriptions, it is not chosen.
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<shrug>

So something got posted online without first consulting Grammarly. It's just a venial sin, not a mortal one.
The short of it, is that in some cases stocks have gone up 2 to 3 times their value in 5 years, yet revenues have been flat. Also, companies have been doing stock buy backs in some cases using bond debt to do it.

Another kind of interesting thing is the amount of money going into index funds. These index funds buy stocks based on their position in the market. The influx of capital allows companies to stay in the S&P 500 that before may have been removed. This optimizes for whether or not you're in the S&P 500 and not actually company performance. Decoupling your survival from reality is not a healthy ecosystem.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/10115781/1/investors-holding...
Many planes have angle of attack sensors. Normally it is just a warning system. Boeing used theirs as input for their control loop of the MCAS system.
This seems to be common with the product teams I’ve interfaced with. Good intentions, but bad prioritization and little incentive to do anything other than cater to the big revenue drivers.
Boeing still has Outperform rating from Leeham and others. It will be interesting who will be right: random bloggers or financial "analysts"

https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/24/initial-analyst-reaction-t...
His election night model wasn't good, but he isn't known and respected for his election night model, so who cares?
Anecdotally did your team's productivity or quality of work suffer to a large extent after moving to Teams?
Google shuts services down left and right. What large business would trust google with all their documents / spreadsheets / etc. when there is a pretty good chance they just shut the service down in a few years? Microsoft on the other hand supports their office products basically forever.
How does failure-recovery (software bugs, hardware, or otherwise) or resilience-engineering more generally work on a system that demurs isolation and redundancy (honest question)?
Airbus and Boeing take different approaches towards flight control. Airbus will override pilot inputs to keep the plane from stalling or otherwise flying out of the envelope. Boeing allows pilots to override the plane even if the plane thinks it's a dangerous maneuver. Airbus's system needs to be more reliable since a malfunctioning sensor will cause the plane to crash itself.
Not really. SaaS isn't immune to gravity, the difference is that investors are willing to dump infinite amounts of cash into unprofitable SaaS businesses hoping that eventually they dominate their market and become a monopoly/oligopoly
Or, if you don't want to commit yourself to yet another walled garden, there are quite a few other email providers that to choose from.
The US has an extensive rail network, but it's main purpose is for freight transport. There is a lot of freight train traffic in the US, and so many Americans live and work near train tracks, cross them during commutes, are used to interacting with trains. Just not riding on them.

Subways and other forms of light rail are common in large cities and have a lot of ridership. But these are not typically very plugged into broader rail network. Only a few of the major cities like Chicago or New York have shared stations for local and non-local train service. Taking a train between metropolitan areas us very uncommon outside of the east coast corridor.

For my part, I travel between Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago quite often. I've done it once all by train, just to see what it was like. I can park my car at the Mall of America, take the light rail over to the Amtrak station, then the train down to Union station in Chicago, then a commuter train out to my destination in the suburbs. All told... it ends up taking 12+ hours, and costs about the same as the plane ticket down there. The Megabus is way cheaper, and takes about as long. I could just make the 6 to 8 hour drive, which gives me maximum flexibility. Passenger rail face some stiff competition.
Why are you picking on accounting here? There's nothing more vital to the enterprise than understanding how its money moves. It's not easy, and if it doesn't happen nobody gets paid.
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...and that's why we have these ridiculous interviewing systems. It's one thing to take a chance on someone who may have had a bad technical interview but might be fine if they're not currently in a gig, but it's another for us to hire from a stable gig.

So, we as an industry default to "no" instead of "yes."
The parent comment was talking about folding specifically: "I probably spend (at most) an hour a week folding."
To be fair, we call it "contract to hire."
Charles Hugh Smith is pretty perceptive (oftwominds blog) but no one knows what triggers drops in confidence and when these major events occur.
It's probably more the behavior things. Keyboard shortcuts, focus behaviors, menu placement, file dialogs, etc. Settings panels in MacOs should take effect immediately, while in windows you have to click ok/apply... inconsistencies like this can lead to frustration.
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I remember at Uber we had tried Slack for a few months and it could not scale to that number of employees (at the time around 5000 worldwide)...
We still don't know to synthesize breastmilk, even for babies (this is why breastfeeding is reccomended).

Also, it is a relativly recent development that adult humans can even digest milk. Lactose tolerence is the mutation, and a sizable portion of humans do not have it.
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That's not really accurate - the DC-10 was moved out of passenger operations because of operating costs - TriJets (DC-10/MD-11/L-1011) soldiered on in passenger roles until the mid-90's when better fuel performance from twin-jets and natural age based attrition moved them into freight roles.
Slack's "plus" pricing is $15/user/month if billed monthly. That's $180/year per employee which is nothing compared to a salary.
I don't know that this is purposeful in all cases. I've had issues on a mail host where sending an email to a different box on the same domain would reject the message as spam, refusing to even deliver it. With respect to google, however, the fact that they offer a service of their own that conveniently can avoid this issue is more than a little shady.
No-one is saying engineers chose the company policy, they're saying that engineers are complicit by working on it. Someone had to but that no-index instruction on the page, and they knew what they were doing.

We're lucky (at least at this moment in time) that engineers are in huge demand. If you're an engineer at an ethically compromised company you could change jobs within a few months, tops. If you haven't then, yes, it's going to affect my opinion of you.
I find your perspective very interesting, because I think most Westerners would really strongly disagree that China "took the best elements from the West".

I think we agree that China took whatever it could to make itself powerful. But if you ask a Western person, is it really the power of our countries that defines greatness?

If I think of any country and what makes it great, I always end up thinking about things that definitely do not exist in China. I think the greatest moments of civilization are found in compassion, humanism, freedom, the fight for liberty, the preservation of peace, philosophy, art, music, poetry, scientific pursuit even against church&state etc.

China doesn't care about these things, at all, or is overtly hostile to them if they compromise efficiency.

China is not the first country to be very efficient while having concentration camps.
People are afraid not because they don't respect China, nor because they think China is inferior.

We are concerned because we think China has NOT taken the best from the Western world. In fact, quite the opposite.
They want your users to use gmail, that's all.
So I can get counterfeit goods with fake reviews faster? Meh.
I'd rather shame the government that allows Intuit to have their way with taxpayers. Intuit exists primarily because of the convoluted tax filing process in the US afterall..
Withholding overtaxes. They're entitled to a refund.
This windbag proclaimed the swingarm to be unsafe at any speed, but having won plenty of local races with an old beetle, and autocrossed some corvairs, this guy is out to lunch.

Sure, the sensor needs a redesign and some automation decisions were hot garbage, but 'never fly again' is just FUD.
The "drunken hexagon walk" doesn't really seem like a big deal to me. In the real world, terrain will prevent you from moving in a straight line in many cases. Just like any type of 2D map projection, hexes distort the world to some degree, but it's a lot less than square grids.
Anything similar in Android?
That work is harrowing, but doesn't seem particularly technical. Couldn't a Mechanical Turk-style service suffice for that? FB treats content moderation as a cost centre, so why would they want to pay Accenture-level fees for that work?
The entire article is blogspam for this article:

https://nader.org/2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-...
The book "why we sleep" as I understand suggests the increase in probability of dementia if you don't sleep enough i.e., lack of sleep leads to brain damage that is not fixed by sleeping longer later.
Their operating expenses are likely dominated by the three types of people: software engineers (listed as R&D), sales/marketing, and administrators.

Profitability will probably come post-IPO in some form of a hiring freeze (or quotas), and cuts in perks/food per capita.

If 80%ile studio rents in San Francisco were closer to $800/month than $3400/month then maybe salaries could be 70% of what they are, and Slack would be almost break-even.

It's worth noting that profitability isn't the only useful way to run a publicly-traded business. Telecoms are typically swimming in debt, but they're (mostly) fine because they have cash flow (monthly payments; making it impossible to quit).
If several different IT departments all start sending that message though, people start to think maybe google has lost it...

Many IT departments still build their networks tailored to Windows machines, to the exclusion of others. Inertia is hard to overcome.
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Most aircraft have the stall sensors for warnings, right down to small private planes.

The 737 Max 8 is different because the MCAS system actually overrides the pilot's input, rather than just sounding a warning to alert the pilot to a potentially dangerous situation.
A good lifting coach is much better than DIY Starting Strength, because they'll help you develop good form before you start lifting really heavy weights. Agreed.

However, there are a lot of unqualified lifting coaches out there, and many fitness certifications don't cover lifting well. So if you just walk into your local fitness club and ask for a trainer, you can easily wind up with the incompetent leading the ignorant.

A practical compromise might be to buy a phone tripod, record your lifts, and work online with a qualified coach. Just looking at the larger Starting Strength community, I've been deeply impressed by Barbell Medicine, and some people seem to like Starting Strength Online Coaching.

There are lots of other good programs out there besides Starting Strength, obviously. And honestly, all the uninjured, grey-haired lifters I've met were careful bodybuilders and not powerlifters (but my sample size is small).
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Here's one: "...yeah, they all wear golden handcuffs :)"
Looking for technical co-founder for SaaS side project
Hi everybody,

At the moment, I'm planning to build a SaaS side project and am looking for a technical co-founder who can help me building the product.

The software will fix a small but very time-intensive problem a lot of content marketing managers and writers are facing: Exporting blog articles from Google Docs to Wordpress while minimizing the effort as much as possible. I know that there are already solutions to this problem available. I've tested most of them and were not really satisfied with the results.

I'm still in the idea evaluation phase. If you're interested in learning more, let me know!