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> For long stretches of time most manufacturers were offering 0% financing.

On a higher price. If you took a discount that could not be combined with the 0 percent financing, and financed using traditional financing options, you ended up paying less money.

Remote productivity is lower than colocated productivity for the vast majority of the companies ( including 99.9% of those that are represented on HN). Most companies simply exist in the middle of the bell curve of "success" with their competitors being right there, next to them.

During the pandemic the productivity slump was about equal across the board. The first company that brings the workers back into the office will get the productivity gain of 15-20% over its newly "we are remote peers", cleaning its peers clocks. In a couple of quarters the management of the "we are remote peers" will tell everyone to get back into the office.

One word: rents. My rent is going up by 40% next year. I will have to take it because comparable places will be at least just as much, probably move and it will cost me a couple of grand to move.

> The marketing is obviously an attempt to leverage the good faith around OSS and then does a full 180.

The level of entitlement here is staggering: source is available. Go modify it yourself and build it yourself. Oh, right, you don't want to because it is below your pay rate but you want others to do it for free.

Startup: (n) a weird entity that would risk $20/k customer because $100 invoice is too much.

> The _goal_ of open source is to provide free software. Software that is free to _use_ now, and in the future, not _just_ free to get the source, free to use. If you don't provide free software (and free build processes) it's not compliant with Open Source licences

No, the goal of Open Source is to provide a user with ability access the source and do things to it. That's the difference between the Open Source and Free Software championed by FSF. FSF flopped. That's why we are still waiting for the Hurd to be useful.

Source: Sat in the room with Bruce Perens when this was happening.

Name a non-abstract but existing superior free gallery software for Android downloadable from f-droid.

It must:

1. Support mediaapi - not be confused about where Whatsapp puts its images.

2. Allow management of files.

3. Be able to provide basic organization (folders/sorting[per folder]/cover images)

4. Support all modern image formats used by phones and the web.

5. Not crash.

6. Not delete/corrupt files by accident.

7. Be able to play modern video/audio files (pick top 20 popular codecs)

Alas, neither my grocery store nor does my landlord care about nice feels. Hence I do HTTP 402 Pay me.

And Android apps still suck donkey balls as those who normally would pay for them say "Just use stuff form the F-droid. I kind of works, ignore non-polished interface"

> I hate bringing the negative energy, but there is a treasure of apps available with f-droid other than these.

That's the problem with OSS and F-droid in general. Tons of apps. Very few polished enough for use of general population.

Simple is great. Simple Gallery Pro blows away every single gallery app on the market. A few minor bugs that the author(s) keep addressing.

P.S. Developers of useful apps should be able not to live on Ramen. They should be able to eat whatever they want and buy a house. Screw the entitled crowd who say "Shit should be free, open source blah blah" without maintaining a polished product for a few years.

Google simply needs to be broken up.

No, you make closing contingent on certain parameters. Twitter execs aren't going to drop their panties for inspection unless there's a good chance the deal might close.

The highest upvoted comments in this thread are just that: jealous people who cannot believe they aren't successful but he is.

Vimeo is the only infrastructure provider providing that service. It is impossible to insulate a business from it.

> 1. Identify files that need to be deleted; 2. Loop through the list and delete them one by one.

> These steps are decoupled so that the list can be validated. Each step can be tested independently. And the scripts are idempotent and can be reused.

This is the most underrated comment.

I'm saying it as someone who had the ultimate oversight of deleting hundreds of TBs per day spread of billions of files on different clouds and local storage.

Lululemon actually collapsed a few years ago after their switched to cheaper fabric while raising prices. The issue was that the leggings, which is the core of their brand that women wear quite a lot became so thin the sun from quite a few angles introduced near transparency. It completely destroyed their brand. It has not came back since.

No, they were a power house. We will know if they still are a powerhouse if a year from now we no longer have these kinds of discussions.

The ones where it has not been successful at making their own chips using their own designs? Those fabs?

> So in all seriousness, what is the point of crypto, other than a "new stock market"?

The society needs to start hanging banksters. This is a way there.

It is a market where the scum fat cats who entrenched themselves in political class by buying politicians do not have a monopoly on swindling gullible public.

cryptocurrency democratized behavior of scum. It is a good thing. When JPM Chase f!cks grandma out of her house there's some hand waving goes on as Chase does good hence maybe it was grandma fault and the CEO of JPM does not go to prison where he belongs. When grandma gets screwed by Jose the Neighborhood slickster, society will get the incentives to throw everyone who behaves like Jose the Nieghborhood slickster into prison, ensuring that the CEO of JPM and wall st bros go there as well.

And that's a good thing.

If you filter who can complain, you do not have to deal with those that you do not care about.

SAAS with free tier does it this way:

* To contact support via non-app method you need a PIN. PIN is displayed when you login into your paid account. Don't have a PIN? Can't connect to support.

* To contact support via app method your profile needs to be associated with a paid account. Don't have a paid account? Can't contact support via inapp

> I think part of this problem is that people set up complex fancy infrastructure at a company, and then leave once the interesting/challenging work is done.

Most companies do not need complex infrastructure either. It is just cargo culting ( or Google culting )

It is called "Pay me" button.

SaaS.

I do not believe it loses us any clients -- responding to RFPs or filling out questionnaires are a waste of our time. If they want us to jump through those hoops they are not our customer.

We simply do not give a shit about "their procedure". Our procedure is : credit card gets charged or wire hits our account and you can use our services for 30 days. We bill you on a day 25. If you do not pay by the 1st, your service gets shut off in 1 minute after your "paid for" period is over. We do not restore the service until you pay us.

We have gone this way after in a previous company I was involved with found that it is cheaper to sell invoices to factoring companies that take 30-50% than chase checks from companies with signed contracts

I have done a few zero downtown migrations. It is not rocket science if you do not use cloud-specific products.

Where are at least ACL and green header filtering?! This is 2022. If this is not supported at the entry point the product should be sent back to design.

Been there, done that. Can confirm it works swimmingly.

It is much more fun though: don't be clever. Just cache-bust on change.

We have an official answer of how we respond to RFPs - we send an invoice for "RFP response"

* $5,000/h

* 10h minimum

It is cathartic to hear the freak out on the other side. We also say "No" to "Fill out this questionnaire" or "We need answers to the following questions". You either have a product they want at which point they will figure out how to ignore their rules to get you, or you do not have a product that they want and you are wasting your time doing "enterprise sales"

> One interesting thing to note about open-source vs commercial software when it comes to RAW conversion is that commercial offerings like Adobe CS, CaptureOne and Affinity Photo sometimes have a relationship with camera manufacturers to get access to their proprietary demosaicing algorithm for their camera's sensors.

This is absolutely true even for Nikons and Canons of the world.

I'm always baffled about the obsession with open source for photo editing workflows on a desktop. From "I just want to get stuff done" OSS is just junk. It is a better junk than it was before, but it is still junk. And why would not it be? It is all about optimizing for the experience and there's not a single piece of open source software that is optimized for user's experience. Why on earth do we think this -- a fairly complex type of software -- would be any different if we cannot get themes in GNOME work consistently?

I prefer to spend my time shooting rather than fighting with a software.

FDIC does not protect against account hacks. Bank's assets and laws do. FDIC protects accounts against losses caused by bank failures.