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From the long lines at all of the Subway restaurants around Toulouse where I lived, and the fact that my friends in Lyon ate at Subway regularly and took me there often when I visited.

My experience living in France (now about 9 years out of date) is that they did like McDonalds their ("McDoe" as they said), but they LOVED Subway.

I tried to get a 3rd Pfizer shot yesterday, but neither CVS or my doctor would give it to me because I am not 65 or immunocompromised. I have some work travel coming up, and I thought that would be enough reason.

I could have easily lied and said that I am immunocompromised, but that is not my style. Maybe I need to keep looking to find someone who will give it to me.

I enjoy Louis Rossmann and all, and I've learned a lot about computers from his videos.

But this video is purely one lay person's opinion. I'd go as far to say "speculation."

I have to agree with you. For the domain of writing mobile applications with async communication with various services, Dart (in combination with Flutter) seems to allow my to crank more production quality code faster.

More specifically: 1. The Flutter library as a widget toolkit is very intuitive for me. 2. The idiomatic way of extended UI classes through encapsulation is very productive and readable for me. 3. The declarative way in which you configure classes makes other people's code easy to understand. 4. The various methods of doing async lead to many fewer bugs (for me, an average at best coder) than other libraries. 5. It's pretty easy to build an apk and get it on your phone.

All that said, I have never succeeded in getting an iOS build into the store. The build system seems like a house of cards built on top of a house of cards. I know it's possible, but I have never had the patience to power through.

Good. I'm sure the result Chinese vendors will all now understand the intent of these rules and start acting with the utmost in ethics and trustworthiness on Amazon.

/s

First half of 20/20 was really hard on a lot of people: the pandemic, civil unrest, political instability. It was a difficult time for sure. Then there is the whole shock of kids at home from school, spouses at home, potentially lost jobs, etc.. That said, I suppose it is intuitive to think that a bunch of people leaving campus life and suddenly working from home would have an adjustment period anyway.

I'm also a little skeptical of the their leap from their dependent variables to "other research suggests less innovation." It's probably a fallacy on my part, but I am also skeptical that a company with what must be billions of dollars invested in high tech campuses is going to find that remote work is just as good as a campus environment.

I have been working fully remote, in remote friendly or fully remote companies for 12 years or so now. It is definitely a different environment and different way of collaborating than working on a campus. I would be interested to see similar research on such companies. I suspect that the results would be replicated, but would be interesting to know for sure.

Related anecdote: I was visiting Microsoft campus in Redmond pretty regularly around 2018/2019. Most of the meetings I attended included many people calling in to their video conferencing system from around campus and sometimes from home. I thought at the time that it seemed like they were on their way to a remote work situation anyway.

Right. I think the concerns actually played out exactly as feared. Hospitals filled up with people sick with Covid, health care system got overwhelmed, everyone is at heightened risk due to the difficulty in getting treated for anything.

The point of getting vaccinated is not to protect yourself, as much as to protect your community. I view people who won't take the vaccine because they perceive their personal risk as low to be selfish. Additionally, anyone who won't get vaccinated because they don't want anyone else to tell them what to do is childish.

This content looks like it is meant to help people learn how to teach math to blacks and latinos effectively, not an alternative math.

Remember that global warming is not real. If it is real, then we don't know what is causing it. If we do know what is causing, it is not humans. If we do know it is humans causing it, then there is nothing we can do about it. If there is something we can do about it, it's not worth it, think of the jobs.

I'm also surprised that this is the thing that gets people up in arms about iPhones. I mean, you can't even write legitimate application for yourself and run it on your own phone without insane hoops to jump through. Not to mention that you can't buy an iPhone and decide to change the OS or whatever with the hardware, even if Apple stops supporting it.

I have no issue with people who give of very very basic user freedom because they want to opt into the iOS "ecosystem", but I don't see how this particular thing would push anyone of the ledge.

I work on a Platform team, but I'm wondering whether we should rename it. We do provide CI/CD to the rest of the company, and we provide an internal development platform.

Our biggest focus, though, is providing the platform upon which our customers build their apps. We are a Multi-Tenant SaaS development platform. So we offer the APIs and run "The Platform" in production, which includes a database, a task system, a programming language, etc...

For me, often the unaccounted for work is after shipping. Sure, we can ship the new minor feature, but then we have to make sure it is documented, it is one more thing for users to ask about, one more thing for sales to ask about (and ask us to enhance for this one important customer). None of this is programming or development work, but it imposes a drag on the team's productivity.

Interesting. I have a Master's in Cognitive Psychology (from long ago, the 1990s), but it was in the domain Human Factors, so I view "cognitive psychology" in a very different light than these example. See some common examples like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

Also things involving haptics, echo-location, alarm response, etc...

What these things had in common, I think, is they treated the human mind as pretty much a black box, the dependent measures were not much subject to bias, and the experiments were easy to run on large samples of people. Such findings are pretty useful when designing things like nuclear power plants, airplane cockpits, shock trauma resuscitation bays, etc...

My wife pointed out that the shipping is not, in fact, free, because we pay $100 (or whatever it is now) for Prime.

We're finally going to not renew our Amazon Prime after many years.

We don't have that much need for "free" shipping on cheap Chinese products, and the convenience of the Amazon marketplace is now counter-balanced by the inconvenience of sorting out the fake goods and fake reviews. We are choosing sellers' own marketplaces when we can these days, and just dealing with longer and paid shipping.

Additionally, we are finding that Amazon Prime Video doesn't have so much that we want to watch anymore either, and we are paying for multiple streaming services anyway.

That sucks, I'm sorry. It sounds like what you really need is a network. You get interviews from ex-colleagues and friends when you don't have a reputation that speaks for itself.

What if paying for all of those things resulted in overall lower health care costs for you? If, theoretically, we all pulled our resources and collectively provided healthcare for everyone and, as a result, your overall health care costs went down (i.e. your share to cover everyone was less than your current expenses to cover yourself + whatever taxes you currently pay) would you be willing to pay for those things in your list?

I have worked for two, and the differences between them are so stark at every level that I wouldn't venture to think that there is a lot of commonality between YC companies in general.

right, but I'm talking full on paid, like Neeva. Such services can offer personalization because they can support themselves without selling your data. If you trust them to keep their word, they can use your usage history and data only for your own benefit.

I'm really glad that projects like this exist.

I note that they site privacy as their #1 advantage:

  * Respects your privacy 
  * Saves your battery 
  * No unexpected mobile data charges

In my opinion, people have given up caring about privacy and expect to receive an inferior experience from products that proclaim this. Therefore, again imo, products that focus on privacy and such will remain niche.

I suspect that the world is ready for paid services that provide a better Ux. I am thinking about how Netflix supposedly put a dent in piracy. People were willing to pay for content with a better Ux.

Aside from saving battery and no surprised mobile data charges, the list many other benefits:

  * No ads 
  * No annoying registration 
  * No mandatory tutorials 
  * No noisy email spam 
  * No push notifications 
  * No crapware

I wonder if a project could charge a small monthly fee if they focused on these user benefits that everyone cares about, and partially use that money to support OSM and partially use the money to support themselves?

I thought the implication of the article, though, based on their research, was that this plant did not use all of the extra CO2 to grow, but used some of it to produce more growth inhibitor which then cause crops to not grow. i.e. the experiment showed that the extra CO2 does not impact all plants in the same way, and does not necessarily impact plants in a way that is to the benefit of crops.

I don't think I understand the point you are making about climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists. It seems to me that the article is consistent with the two points you made.

The implication of the article is that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere gives this plant an extra edge of other plants because the plants use it to produce more growth inhibiting chemicals rather than only growing more. As a result, in the presence of these plants, crops do not get the benefit of the extra CO2, because their growth is inhibited by the extra inhibitors more than the extra CO2 makes them grow.

> However, it's clear to me and the other execs that WFH absolutely does not work for us.

The "for us" part is refreshing humble for HN comments; thank you for the details of your experience.

I spent about 10 years working on the campus of a very large tech company, and then another 10+ years working for different remote development teams. The remote teams that I have managed were in teams that were built from the ground up to be remote, generally in companies built from the ground up to be remote. And when I say "remote" I really mean "distributed." Hiring the people with the best skills and letting them work from wherever they happen to live rather than relocating them.

I assume in your study that you divided TEAMS into WFM or office based, and did not have teams comprised of some people working remotes and some in the office?

I think that some people are wired to work effectively in distributed teams, some are not. Some managers have the "online social intelligence" to lead distributed teams, some do not. Taking a group of people attracted to working in an office or a high tech campus, and having them "work from home" while the rest of the company is still based in the office does not seem likely to work, though I am surprised by the starkness of your findings.

All scientific findings are obvious or wrong.

Neeva.com

I am in the pre-release program. The hardest initial thing to get used to was not immediately scrolling down to the bottom to avoid all of the spam.

I suspect that their methods are not much different than Google, but the experience has been so much better.

I'll be curious to see how these companies with these super expensive to build and maintain campuses are going to react. If nothing else, it seems like the sunk cost of having a multi-acre campus will force some companies to stick with the colocated in an office model.

This matches my experience. Our neighborhood is rich in a mix of housing. There are large apartment buildings with small, relatively affordable apartments, townhouse of 2 sizes, and then single family homes that run from large to very large. I assume that the many people who own one-bedroom condos are just as interested as the people who own the six-bedroom houses in keeping the common areas well maintained.

It's important for the condo to build up a substantial amount of cash in case there is a necessary high capital outlay needed. Sit on a condo board for a while and look at all of the expenses, and then also imagine saving up enough because, at a minimum, you will need a new roof in 20 years, etc...

Also, deferred maintenance will destroy a condo, and the ability for any owners to sell. If the board has to recover from previous years of deferred maintenance while also building a fund for the future, people will simply have to face the reality and pay until the problem is fixed.

This does not match my personal experience. I live in a 10,000 person neighborhood that is covered by an HOA, and it is a very diverse place. In fact, one of the things that I like about living here is that there are people from all over the world living here.