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If this article is based on these four words, I'm not sure how you could label that anything other than a massive misrepresentation.

Then we should demand better definitions rather than forcing a change on which we have no data is actually better.

> on your feet all day versus your office day job

I have a standing desk, so I am on my feet all day.

> I find that the organization benefits overall.

Can you speak to how that is measured? I find these kinds of claims very difficult to support with any kind of actual data.

Have you seen some of the virtual reality from FB? I think it's getting close to the point where it's just as good as talking to someone in person, with the obvious benefit that not everyone has to be in the same physical office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg

Not saying that you're wrong, but I'm interested in how you're able to measure "overall team productivity." I've found that to be a near-impossibility at any organization that I've worked at.

I don't think the free-market-solves-all-ails response really works here. The issue is that the CEOs of these companies act together, essentially as a cartel. Sometimes formally [1], other times informally [2]. Labor (at least in the US) does not have anywhere close to such a level of organization, and so top-down mandates like this can impact a whole sector, without a clear place for you to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

[2] "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge." - George Carlin

Not clear to me why the requirements should differ if you have been doing 5 years vs. 3.

Nowhere in the article is excess mortality mentioned.

It's not irrelevant, especially considering there were restrictions lasting far longer than "initial uncertainty." It's not like your only choice is to allow for a "collapse" -- as an extreme example, you could decide you're not going to treat covid at hospitals at all (by the way, we make such determinations for other conditions or diseases all the time).

You think Taylor Swift is consistently flying in one of these things? https://www.vansaircraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rv10...

Would be nice to have some sort of benchmark, eg "average US consumer" etc. Looks like that value might be around 10~15.

farmed salmon is alot fattier than wild caught

this is more of a comment on cost of living than anything else

I mean, the default of any new company is pre-product-market-fit, no? How else could you start something new? During such an early stage much of your code may be written as a very rough MVP that you're only really using to validate a concept. Sometimes, you're going to just have to trash all of it because the idea was totally wrong and people don't actually care about the problem you're solving.

Those, among others, are the types of cases where spending extra time getting something exactly right (even if just a few hours) is just not worth it.

As is mentioned in the article, it's not a requirement that you get paid more for working less. Many would take a pay decrease to be able to do the 4-day work week.

Why should an employer always be able to impose their desires on my lifestyle and not the other way around? Ultimately it's just another piece of negotiation, like pay, PTO, remote, etc.

if you place a phone face-down and have the macro lens recording, you could pretty easily see both people at a table.

Maybe spending 30 minutes on one bug is worth it, maybe not. If you're pre-revenue / pre-product-market-fit and you compound tens to hundreds of these 5s to 30m decisions, you're risking running out of time or money before anyone even uses your product.

I would argue it's much worse "engineering" to have no product at all.

rarely are things so black and white. If you're just pushing out an MVP, something that takes 5 seconds and is 95% correct is often better than 30 minutes and 100% correct.

this is basically how GitHub copilot works

> this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists without them.

I don't really see it that way. The sale wouldn't exist without anyone in the pipeline (Amazon, manufacturer in China, shipping merchant, etc.)

> I'm certain CEOs of FAANG are looking at stats to make these decisions

I'm not so certain. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

I mean, not "no matter which time frame you look at." Look at the drop in May 2021, from which the rate didn't recover until 2022. Similar situation for October 2018 - June 2019.

Fourth paragraph of the post:

>Applied to job records, this feature enables simple queue processing queries, e.g. SELECT * FROM jobs ORDER BY created_at FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED LIMIT 1.

Looks like the Streamlit dash isn't available to me: "You do not have access to this app or it does not exist"

>"how I achieved financial success", because it kinds of gives out this illusion to others that they can as well

Why do you think this is unachievable for others?

How would you define an entrepreneurs? I think risk-taking correlates with entrepreneurship, but I don't think I'd use it in a definition.

This is exactly why I'm often confused about cuts to these kinds of programs from companies. The downside of people frustrated with the cut cannot be worth it from a monetary perspective. Even if you reduced how many raises you were going to give out, I think people would care less than "I no longer get upgraded for flying"

Interesting example for a search. I found a few things that seem like bit like basic misses:

* the regular wikipedia as the first result, and the mobile version of the same page as fourth one

* Links to https://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneu..., which never mentions Steve Jobs

* the above link also has the wrong date attached (Kagi thinks it was published Jul 17, 2023)

There's a reason most non-ad-supported, profitable SaaS businesses have switched to a subscription.