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I've done both.

Fastest I've scaled a large team was from 6 to over 130 in just about 1 year. Fastest I've had to down size was ~14 to 2 in 2 weeks.

I've scaled many other teams between those ranges and timeframes over the years. Like going from 1 to 20 in just over a month, that was crazy. Adding 20 people when you are already 200 people isn't nearly as hard as adding 20 when you are starting at 1.

Really depends on type of people and job functions you are hiring IMO. My large team scaling was ~98% engineers, which in general is far harder to do quickly than many others I have done. Knowledge workers are harder to find, recruit and retain than others just because in general they are independent thinkers and so mission is just as important as getting paid & benefits (at least it has been, but I see some changes lately). When hiring retail, manufacturing, factory type labor it is almost always pay/benefits which act as the major hurdle, but in general that is easier to overcome than selling many people on the company, goals and mission.

Downsizing is "easy" to do overall, but hard to do quickly & correctly.
Nah its more complex than that. Micro targeting allows political groups to tailor their message to specific small demographics. They can tune their message slightly for each different group, drastically improving their targeting and voter appeal. When they have to target broad groups, they have to have a consistent message across all of those groups. This hurts their ability to manipulate and pander to sub populations.
A reasonable ask seems to be for society to provide resources to help people learn to overcome the challenge and an environment where they are able to. After all, the point of society is to allow its members to meet their needs.
Let’s be honest, $10k is chump change for engineers pulling $400k. If you want people to move, how about offer $400k ?
every day I look at it, this site has become increasingly anti-White. we need to speak up more about this.
I love the meta debate about HN. I frequently click out of a thread after reading the first half of the first comment, it's always the same thing over and over. HN is a great as an aggregator of interesting article, but the discussion is frequently lacking substance.
In any emergency scene, the first thing to do is check for traffic to prevent the victim or yourself from getting run over (sometimes merely because you need to cross the street: while running to provide help in an emergency situation, you're likely to forget looking both ways).

If any one of those emergency scenes was outdoors and you didn't think of this, you're doing it wrong. And even if you've always remembered to do this yourself, it's essential that you explain it to others so they will remember it as the first thing to do.
From what I see in general MS like Linux on the server, not so much the desktop. The reason for that is pretty obvious.

They want as many organizations as possible to use their cloud platform, for that to work, they need first class Linux server support.

On the desktop, they'd prefer people to be using Windows, but they want to ensure that developers who deploy to Linux have a great experience, thus WSL, VS Code et al.

With that said, I think there are some groups inside MS who would like to see more desktop Linux support, thus announcements like the Linux Teams client. It's probably a mistake to view MS (or any other v.large corp) as a unified entity. There will be groups inside that corp. with differing goals.

You only have to look at MS presence at Kubecon where you'll often see MS staff with Macs or Ubuntu laptops on their stand.
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Windows. Vista.

Ballmer was responsible for this blight upon humanity. How many human hour / lifetimes were wasted trying and failing to get things to work on Vista?
"I think all of these would be strategic blunders from the point of view of Microsoft shareholders"

It seems to be working well for MS thus far, so I'm curious why the author thinks this.
I'm always impressed at my primary care doc's breadth of knowledge. Whatever the topic (knee injury, heart rate, asthma...), he has working knowledge at easy recall, which he augments by consulting electronic reference materials during appointments—all while staying engaged with the patient (me). This is all in the context of a standard physical, and often the subjects (such as the knee injury) haven't been mentioned beforehand.

I do think he's in the top 5% of MDs, so of course we can't expect this of everyone. And specialists obviously specialize. But there is a large segment of the profession that requires a wide breadth of knowledge in a domain that frequently changes.
I actually think this is due to their liberal return policies and so other retailer's dont have to price-match.
It’s not hard at all, and in fact is Typically easier. Google has degraded search to the point where it rarely gives me a useful result; instead the primary results are ads and “boxes”, so switching to ddg was a pleasure. tools like mail and photo aren’t as fast or convenient as local apps; with local data I can switch from app to app. Yes Apple Maps isn’t as good as google maps, but in some ways is better. I watch the odd YouTube video in private mode but if I watch three videos a month it’s a lot so if it went away I doubt I’d notice. and docs...blech, where to start. I still get new documents from companies I left long ago. The editing tools are primitive.

I know people talk about Apple having a “walled garden” but really for me it’s google that has one, now with a shitty web based interface.
Idk, remember taxicab confessions?
While not yet at coastal levels, the cost of living in the City of Atlanta has shot up in recent years, mostly due to increasing real estate prices. Some, but certainly not all, of the suburbs are getting expensive at a even faster rate than the city. The reputation for low cost of living is deserved but not as much as it used to be and probably will continue to change. If you don't need to commute into one of the business districts each day, there are good bargains to be found especially if you don't have school age children.
> Since when did science become about predicting what will happen in the future?

Since evidence based policy making became a thing. We use it for deciding when to plant crops, deciding what medical treatments should be broadly implemented, deciding what water treatment methods are acceptable...it's fairly popular.

> That concept is completely antithetical to what science is at the core (i.e. making repeatable observations to establish fact).

Either what you have established holds repeatably and you are predicting the future, or it doesn't hold repeatably and it's not, by your definition, science. You may be confusing repeatable experiments with repeatable observations, though.

> I understand that observed trends tend to indicate future direction but this push, rooted in FUD, to make consensus of the scientific community equivalent to absolute fact

At this point the observations are enough where it's an absolute fact. The only question is how much, how fast. That's what the computer modeling is trying to get a handle on.

Plus, your argument is equivalent to playing Russian roulette and claiming that the presence of a bullet somewhere in the gun is not an established fact. That's true. You don't know if it might be loaded. But do you really want to find out?
Dead Doctor, the trauma of sexual abuse, and a bank in denial
I feel like your use-case is quite niche, and either way - it's not a counterargument.
Congrats on the estate!
Google proved the model for embracing, extending and controlling open source by way of Android and the shift to Google Play Services.

Start open and let the walled garden grow within.
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They don't have to. It can default to simple behavior, with the "techy-friendly" options hidden behind a "Settings - Advanced" menu or tab that regular users won't even visit.
The biggest factor is actually heating and cooling. Central heated apartment buildings use far less energy than individually heated houses.
Sounds like you might have shut down (or have exceptional control of) your default mode network. Watch this video for an explanation: https://youtu.be/QeNmydIk8Yo

Would also recommend you check out Gary Weber's other videos and book, it might help you better understand what you have been experiencing.
For those interested in MUCH more detail (without a paywall), you can find the original UNEP Production Gap Report here - it's 80 pages instead of 5 paragraphs.

https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/production-ga...
I think we're in an advertising bubble right now. The internet business model is going to need to change soon.
One downside as a lifelong resident of the South: rather hot. A monthly record high of 103 F (39.44 C) was set last month (October) in Alabama.
Texas is the #1 destination for people leaving California.

https://m.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/move-ca...
They certainly DON'T interoperate. I have a mail-tester score of 100, use SPF, DKIM and DMARC, yet Microsoft still sends all my emails in the spam folder. There's nothing I can do about it, it's a black box. The only suggestion from them is that I subscribe to some paid program with another company in order to maybe, or maybe not, increase the trust in my mail server.
I'd disagree. I suspect the system would have the ability to simply upload when back at the cab facility, or a removable harddrive to transfer files to a computer. So, yes, it's harder for a cab company to keep all that data, but it's still possible.
I need to start writing too. I just subscribed to your RSS feed.
> But no user testing? Not changing the design? We just recently drastically changed the design of a new product we are developing because it failed initial user testing (with clients of us who came in for user testing using a paper prototype).

your company is the exception. Most companies do no user testing. The closest i came was working at a co that did user interviews and ran some mock-ups by them before turning to eng. Once it was in our hands there was no change based on user feedback, because there was no user feedback before release. Not because we weren't willing to, but because ... they just never did.

Most folks i've spoken to do no user testing whatsoever at their companies.
Yeah, I've been forcing myself to make Hard Choices about my largish collection of books, and novels from the last 80-100 years are the easiest ones to ditch in favor of ebooks. Even short story collections, it's kinda nice to have those in dead-tree format for convenience, but ordinary (not, like, Infinite Jest), somewhat recent novels? Hard to justify keeping them around.
Amazon Has Three Million Active Sellers
Or you could, you know, make breakfast for your friends. I don’t really get the brunch lines thing. Most of the food is pretty easily made in even a minimal kitchen. (And bread can be bought the day before.)
Facebook tracks you even if you don't have a Facebook account though. And if I signed up in 2009 did I really agree to sharing location data on a smart phone in 2019??

Completely aside I'm finding how much data my Android phone shares extremely intrusive.
That is not really related to Linux itself, more to the open source / free software world.
Seattle sees nation’s biggest drop in solo car commuters transit, walking surge
I’m with you. I’ve been saying more and more that if Apple can’t stay strong I don’t really like the alternatives. OSX and iOS were so nice together a few years back. Now they’re out of step and the design and quality aren’t strong.

I don’t want Windows, Chromebooks or Android. If not Apple...

(Love Linux, use Linux, but it’s not providing what I get from macOS.)
I wouldn't say that goes so far as to "dismantle" Apple, but it is definitely a proposition to affect perceived anti-competitive practices. I am not sure where I come down on such question, can you describe the benefits and drawbacks of Apple controlling the App Store?
Not all means exists some. It includes at least one. The further qualification reinforces the more narrow scoping. An existential generalization seems inherently not sweeping.

This is not to mention the personal connection to people with direct experiences (although perhaps availability bias).
Frankly, I'd be more interested in knowing what your grandfather didn't say, than what he did. Lots of people who've been through traumatic experiences use positive messaging to cope. "Every day you're breathing..." is a soundbite, and can't paper over the hard work and self-reflection that's needed to heal. And even then most trauma survivors don't heal 100%. Of course your grandfather isn't obligated to talk about those parts.

My parents survived a genocide in their home countries. One parent commonly says things like "God has a plan". It is the same thing: a soundbite, and not a one-size-fits-all way to live your life.
I mean, whenever a company says they dont sell user data, they just mean they haven't found a price they like yet
Right! Thanks for the reminder. I don't understand why drafts weren't just a list of links to the draft and LEAVE the original channels where I explicitly put them when I was curating my channels.
They have closer to 4k employees, doubly explains the human response.
1k is a studio in Seattle if you're lucky, more like 1200-1500. 1Br start in this range too.

LA, yes.

NYC, nope.
As a remote worker, I've done this. Mixed bag.

Rural Alberta is far cheaper than, say, Vancouver, but it also means I'm married to the remote gig. Freelancing is an option, but that's very hard remotely -- in-person networking is effective, as is word of mouth, and that's hard to get a timezone away -- and it leaves me beholden to my current job.
Sorry, barcodes on the labels on the boxes!
The scientific consensus view of the 4C scenario is not a “collapse in the ability to feed the populace.” In fact world population doubles by 2100 in the RCP 8.5 scenario, while world GDP more than triple: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo469/node/145
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Mobile is “not just like desktop” unless you’re using a cross platform framework and even then you have different constraints - unreliable network connections, different screen sizes and interactions, you have to be more mindful of power and memory usage, dealing with app stores and review processes, etc.

But its really not hard to look at job boards or where the money is going both from internal and external investments to see which cart to tie your horse to. It definitely is not the desktop.

Even Microsoft isn’t really focusing on desktop development and has put .Net Framework in maintenance mode.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on almost every point and a couple you haven't mentioned.

> greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, France, Spain, UK, US, Japan

But isn't this just the nature of globalization? And aren't the corporations in the countries you mentioned complicit in choosing to cut costs by moving production to cheap countries? And aren't we as consumers complicit in continuing to buy cheap goods like it's going out of fashion (wishful thinking lol).
I don't think the issue is that a prototype didn't function as desired, it's the re-framing of that event as a "success" that reeks of cult-like worship mentality.

When something doesn't behave as desired, it is a failure. You can learn from failure, that's how you get to success, but the failure itself is not a success.
Microsoft loves Linux because it makes them money. I'm not sure why anyone would expect differently.

They won't release products like Office for Linux (though a web interface is possible), and they won't move away from Windows-only APIs. Neither of those actions would have any tangible benefit for the primary users of those produts (Windows users and Windows developers, respectively).

Active Directory is so deeply integrated into the Windows stack that it will never come out. You can authenticate Linux clients against AD, but I doubt they'll be writing a Linux AD server any time soon. I'd imagine most corporate mail servers also support SMTP/IMAP, and Office365 has a web client. As far as ActiveSync goes, that hasn't been a thing since 2007.
More taxes, less freedom, more punishments. Yes, I believe this would be unpopular.

However, remind me while you are punishing people for driving cars, how is the public transit outside major urban areas? Have you been outside urban areas?
In the case of PDFs, though, it is almost trivial to edit. Uncompress the PDF, and then search in a text editor for the sentence you want to change and edit it. Uncompressing takes one command, and after that it is almost as easy as editing a word doc (in your favorite editor, search and replace the text you want to change)

It's a little more complicated but not difficult to edit charts.
How Will AR Be Used in Holiday Marketing?
Horizon has a broken exFAT implementation that can corrupt SD cards. Normally it only affects people running homebrew, but it can also be triggered by eShop games (Pokemon Sw/Sh was in the news for this recently).

Some would consider the lack of folders an oopsie but that's probably not what you're referring to.

3DS is indeed a damn solid device, though. Nintendo did really well with it.
Seems like ML/AI is still looking for its quantum supremacy moment.
WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
Safari, at least on the iPad, is so incredibly buggy in iOS 13 that it’s practically unusable. Not to mention the ridiculous system where it opens new Safari windows, not tabs, and then doesn’t give me any option to close them. And when Safari bugs out, and I have to force close it, it loses every single one of the tabs I have open, and it didn’t do any of this garbage before iOS 13.
She's done both for a long time. She came up with the replication protocol that Lamport termed Paxos a year before Lamport did (she called it Viewstamped Replication). That was 1988.
We need to SERIOUSLY start considering geo-engineering and artificial methods of cooling the planet. Most people laughed when Andrew Yang brought up space mirrors, but seriously, this is a WAY better option than mowing down streams of migrants. We need to cool this planet with technological solutions, as well as with MASSIVE carbon sequestration by farmers. It's clear our energy transition is going FAR too slowly, so we have to work on the other side of the coin if we have any chance of keep civilization alive.
> I stopped buying important things from Amazon for this reason. I don't want to risk getting counterfeit products.

There's nothing in my life that I buy where I would accept a counterfeit. I accept that it has absolutely happened, that it will continue to happen, but I have nearly completely retreated from Amazon since having children.
Also photo sync launched COMPLETELY broken. Do you have >10k photos in your library you want to sync? Tough luck. So far they've fixed photo sync up to ~20k photos or so but now absolutely zero videos will sync. "include videos" just doesn't work.
I would make the first picture the one where you do an activity. The activity tells more about you than the clothes and the smile (unless the clothes are really interesting, I guess). Seeing someone relaxed and doing something they love is more informative, and in my opinion more attractive, than watching someone posing for a photo. But do make sure they can see your face. Reflective sunglasses are a poor choice.

Also, trying to appear generally positive, relatively charming, and perhaps a bit funny, is not informative either; everybody tries that. I think it's far more useful to show what makes you you. Be yourself. But be your best self; this is no excuse to be a slob or a jerk. But this is more about self-improvement than about appearing attractive. Be interesting. Be nice. Share your passions, but be open to people with different passions, because you're unlikely to find someone exactly like you (which would be boring anyway).

The photo that worked for me was the photo I took at the gates of Timbuctoo. I'd been on vacation there, traveling through Mali for two weeks, and ended up there. Covered in dust, unshaven, but excited. Great photo. My future-wife recognised it and suggested Ouagadougou now that Timbuctoo wasn't so proverbially unreachable anymore. That turned out to be a great way to break the ice.

But most importantly: be open to the other person. They're probably interested in you, and they want to know you're interested in them.
heh last time I stood in line for brunch was in Nashville. There are all sorts of pros/cons wherever you go. I’ve lived in Charlotte, Denver, Chicago, Austin, New York and have traveled enough to places like La, SF, London, etc that I don’t need maps to get around and know many of the neighborhoods fairly well. I don’t have a 6 horse barn like the person above but we did move a bit further out and have a pretty decent chunk of property but I can still be at one of several airports in around an hour. What would I change? I’d be closer to family. My wife and I both grew up as transplants in towns that were separate from our extended families. We don’t know what it’s like to walk down the street to visit grandma. Or having lots of siblings and cousins nearby. I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who bought a house for his daughter and fiancé to renovate. He and his extended family own close to twenty houses in a neighborhood together - I’m sure they have a whole other set of issues being that close but I’d be happy if close was like a two hour drive or less rather than an all day flight a few times a year. Give that some thought. in my view it almost doesn’t matter where you live. Everything has something nice to like and something you won’t like.
So corporate users can set up an IRC server; a network of per-user bouncers for offline state maintenance; an internal file hosting network for uploads; a bunch of server-based logging stuff and a central search repository to check history; train every middle manager to be an IRC server admin in order to add and remove people from channels for new projects; somehow intervene to disable DCC and other methods users could use to circumvent server-side logging; maintain their own fork of an IRC client in order to implement inline code, images, website previews, etc; break IRC's protocol in their client and server to allow text in excess of the maximum line length; and separately find a SAAS video/audio chat vendor or roll their own...

... all to save $7/month/person (or less for some competitors like MS Teams) because Slack is, like, too proprietary.
I think of PDF like PostScript but not Turing complete.

I think of PostScript as an "ink on paper" format.

While you can take apart the PDF / PS format, dictionaries, etc. It's not a high level representation format, like a word processor. It's a way of specifying how to draw vector shapes onto "paper".
Then there’s also the concept of truth that is factually incorrect. Like authors and comedians using made up/constructed anecdotes to convey a deep truth about society.

A great example is the lady scientist character from the Chernobyl series. She herself was a fabrication, but represented the factual voices of opinions of hundreds of USSR scientists. Because you can’t write a story with 200 main characters.
Goddamn it, you have me beat.
GitLab employee here, nice to hear that GitLab is helping solve some of these workflow issues for you.