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On the east coast, Stop & Shop has the best self-checkout experience I've seen. You get a bar code scanner when you enter the store and scan and bag as you walk around. At checkout, you scan the reader, keep everything you already bagged in the cart, and pay. Checkout takes all of 30 seconds. Bonus: you immediately know what each item costs from the display on the scanner.

If only we could have predicted that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/26/remote-wo...

Finally! These H1Bs in India are living the 100% remote future that 99% of HN wants!

> Office space is the single most expensive line-item on most companies financials

Is it? Not payroll? Expensive commercial real estate in the US rents for $80/sq ft/year (source: https://www.matchoffice.com/news/rental-rates-for-commercial...). Tech workers are generally factored in at using 250 sq ft (source: https://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee...). So, $20k per year, per employee for rent in the most expensive cities in the country. How can that possibly be more expensive than payroll?

Easily fixed: Make your own damn coffee - it’s not that hard

>> If I am disrupted 5 times with 5 small things in an hour, that will slow me down significantly

But those 5 people who interrupted you are no longer blocked. If they had to schedule a call with you tomorrow or the next day then the overall productivity of the team could very well drop.

Companies care less about your individual productivity and more about the productivity of the entire organization.

Can you list some of the thousands of reasons?

Make mosquitoes extinct to make the area nicer for humans? Mosquitoes aren’t all bad: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-would-happen-if-mosquitoes...

The sources cited in the “710%” chart don’t seem to have any data to support the thesis. What is the source for this data? (see https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics and https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee...)

This is an opportunity for more airline upcharges:

* Reclining seat: +$50

* Seat behind a seat that can’t recline: +$75

* etc

(90% joking, 10% terrified this could happen)

To leave the FC each associate has to walk through a metal detector and empty their pockets. No bags are allowed in. These guys must have stuffed the games down their pants or something.

Also, there are cameras everywhere. Mostly to figure out what happened after the fact - not constantly monitoring.

Or you might win in court and collect. For thousands of dollars, yes, it's worth my trouble to fill out a form and send in a court fee. Worked for me...

Maybe, but the percent of US population that is 80+ has grown quite a bit. For example, between 1950 and 2020 the percent of those 80-84 more than doubled. In the same period those 85+ went up five-fold (source: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2015/10/09/t2_age_...). IMO this is the result of modern medicine extending lives well beyond where they would have gone before. Based on my parent’s experience, once you’re kept alive by machines and medicine, your quality of life sucks.

Funny (or maybe not-so) story: My grandmother is in assisted living. She left with my uncle to go to a doctor’s appointment. As per procedure, she signed out - writing her name in cursive. A few hours later, staff came to her room but she wasn’t there. They checked the sign-out log and didn’t see her name because they can’t read cursive. Then they sounded the alarm: calling the police, family, etc because she was “missing”. Good times…

They mark all of my Google Calendar invitations as spam. Frustrating…

> How are you supposed to "build relationships outside of work" in that environment?

Do the things you enjoy: run, bike, ski, live music, drinking, church - whatever floats your boat. Other people do them too. Meet them. Be friends.

Better title: “Should required fields be marked with asterisks, or something else?”

I think programming is made worse today by how programmers are managed. Agile, Kanban, Scrum, JIRA - they’re all there so upper management can get a sky high view of what’s going on, but it’s all based on “estimates” that are often shots in the dark. They might give the CEO a warm, fuzzy feeling, but they’re often based on fiction. And I waste half my day in “planning poker”, “retrospectives”, “standups” - yuck.

“I also love email, which I’ve always thought of as the digital equivalent of a postcard.”

Postcards would be the equivalent of email if they didn’t require a stamp. And then your mailbox would be full of 5,000 postcards every day from people you don’t know. You can change the mailbox (client) all you want, but it will still be full of junk.

E-tickets for concerts:

- need to fumble through awful apps/sites to find them and hope you have signal

- phone dead? no ticket for you

- went with other people? all the tickets are on one phone. good luck getting back to your seat without that phone

- worst of all? no ticket stub to look back at years later

“One Bridge, One Price” - I’m selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Same price, no matter where you live - trust me.

No, but we do if you want me to believe this.

Seems strange to say “One Job, One Pay” and then not say what that pay is.

Yes

Stop & Shop (in northeast US) has had a scanner gun you carry with you for at least 10 years. Works great. Takes about 30 seconds to checkout. Also helps to verify you are getting the correct price.

Maybe? I think it will take time to know who the winners and losers are. It might be good for your recruiting numbers right now, but market performance over an extended period will decide winners and losers.

I mean, anyone can sue for anything, but if you're suing for this, good luck: a) finding a judge/jury that understands it, and b) collecting

If I took a job with the expectation that I would, at least some day, set foot in an office, then I think it's unreasonable to ask them to foot the bill for my commute, lunches, etc.

Now if only they would fix TIMESTAMP: https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=1872

“Peaceful protestors” don’t climb through broken windows into secure areas of federal buildings.