We're getting taken to the cleaners in NZ!! I think it's $50 for a westpac chopper ride...
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Like, why. Why would you need to change the printer system? It works.. has worked for a very long time, there's no reasonable need to change it.
I know you guys have also had it bad over there.
I expect the insurance companies will start removing flood cover soon. Which then becomes a bit of a shit show with mortgages. Or will raise the premiums so high that they're effectively uninsurable.
It would be fair say a good portion of the population don't understand the maths of a weather event just how astronomically expensive a sudden flood is.
In our small town in the last 5 years, we've had 2-3 different "1 in 100 year" floods within 30km of each other (highly localised dramatic flooding and slips). To the point "1 in 100 year" is now a standing joke.
It is absolutely brutal as it invites the chance of hope during the downsizing - and implies staff will be able to provide alternative suggestions. Which is quite plainly bananas.
It's enshrined in law and if you don't follow the process as an employer you can get taken to task by the governing body around it.
It's just far easier, and less harmful emotionally, to rip the band aid and provide a good package.
I know I know, people aren't supposed to be taking off from every light at full chat, but, given the capability some people can't help themselves.
Sample size of 1
- Side hustle #1 funded my toy habit for a long time and gave me the confidence "I can build & support something from start to finish".
- Got to C Level working for 'the man' (aka the board). But regardless of level you're never in control of your destiny, especially with the eventuality of PE. For some that's okay, for others that's not...
- Which lead to Side Hustle #2. Left my day job 3 years ago....
Now have some of the best in our wee niche using our product, a number of team members, gradually growing it in bootstrapped fashion.
No investors, no funding rounds, no chasing growth targets. As "pure" as it can get - adding features, capturing more market, getting positive word of mouth, picking up new countries, finding new edge cases, adding new package upgrades. I think we're around 40% of new clients are referrals/word of mouth.....
In the first 6 months of turning billing on you're going "what the heck am I doing...." now I'm "oh I wouldn't give this up..." immensely rewarding bringing other new people into the business, and seeing that flow through to the finished product for our clients.
At least in NZ, side hustles are the genesis of a lot of tech companies.
Neat idea
Every couple of months the geny gets sparked up and everything tested. For a very small investment it's very comforting to know we've always got power/internet, regardless of what happens.
Given the choice I bet there's going to be surprisingly large number of orgs go "we'll take n+24hrs thanks"
There is just so much misrepresentation out there it's insane.
Love the API it has, aside from some quirks - we can control the printer from within our Android/iOS apps - literally can tell it to half cut the labels or not.
I was talking with one of your clients today (we're not competitors) and you just don't realise how far screwed some of these companies are right now.
It actually made an instant upsell today of 'here's our additional cloud sync' feature. No questions, no umming and ahhing, it's just 'yep done, add it, turn it on'. Heck we probably undersold it by 10x.
I hope you guys start getting some sense of normality soon and get systems back online.
I'm pretty sure one of our recent trialling companies have been using CDK and desperate to get away from it for their restoration work.
"It hasn't been updated in years" was the quote last week..
There's tonnes of companies that have legacy 'pay upfront' models, that hit the wall as they'd saturated their markets, then their revenue stream dropped off and all of a sudden saw the wall of transitioning to web/mobile needing to happen and didn't have the funds to pull it off.
I'd almost completely forgotten about it until I was challenged by a prospect in a meeting monday 'is this one of these new lease software systems, I want to own it!" had to educate him on the way the world worked now...
They really missed the point that it's about not forgetting the brutality of war - to remember those who served and died under horrific circumstances. One of the key phrases is "lest we forget". However I fear we are, as each generation passes from WWI/WWII the horrors gradually get diluted.
While we don't have kids it's apparent the younger generations are not getting the stories of WWI/WWII passed down and their exposure to it is the glorification through Hollywood.
Thank you good HN'er for posting this up. It's always important to remember so we as a world don't go back there.
That OLED video look though, just can't be beaten..
And that line of thinking is damaging in the tech world. There is no one ring to rule them all. Each tool, language, framework has a place - everything has tradeoffs.
I've worked with enough .NET world to know what the tradeoffs would have been.
For instance the critical library that enabled this piece of functionality, the nearest thing in .NET world looks to have 1 star on github, last updated 4 years ago. The ruby gem has 1.8k stars, tonnes of commits and upto date.
So if you were to implement that in .NET you would be (a) hitting the books (b) re-writing that library or (c) doing a hugely in-effecient/naive implementation that wouldn't scale.
In RoR land - drop in the gem and be prototyping that afternoon.
Sure if I was VC backed, and had money to burn, it might be a bit more interesting to use .NET - if were targetting more enterprise oriented clients and potentially wanted an on prem option, then yeah - .NET. Wanting more access to developers in our country - .NET, that's the predominant market. Etc etc.
In our use case RoR isn't a downgrade.
I said "no, can't do that - that's huge".
A weekend later of experimentation (thanks to one very kick-butt gem on that has an amazing way of managing trees) "actually, we may just be able to - it's going to be a long road though - setting expectations..."
A period of time later we've now implemented a full BOM planning/tracking system, tested well upto and beyond the numbers of items these types of companies expect.
To the point they cancelled their renewal with a big/established ERP vendor and went with us instead.
There's definitely some instances where speed to market trumps everything else. We can go optimise queries later on.
What's been fascinating is I left my day job 2 years ago (to the month). We've gone from unheard of to becoming the market leader in our space. There is absolutely no way that could have been done with any other stack (without spending 5x the money - and I argue that co-ordinating a bigger developer team it almost wouldn't matter what money you throw at it, it gets exponentially harder getting everyone on the same page for delivery).
At my old workplace I couldn't convince the .NET team for love nor money to look outside the box.
Sure shaving the last 10/10ths of having a SPA with simple API based back end gets the ultimate user experience and speed but that cost curve goes up significantly for that last 10th (if you were to compared to an 'old school' Rails app)
I can't even fathom what it would have taken to build our startups' product in say React + Node (as an example..) vs OG Rails SSR. I look at a "sort of" competitor in our industry, and their rate of feature development is ridiculously slow by comparison.
Does really show that UBI discussion needs to be had sooner rather than later …
"While systematically removing the unskilled job categories at the company"
The robot missed out that sentence for some reason.