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> Here, team members typically work remotely 1–2 days per week...
> Each team has 2–3 offshore teams that we work with
Does not sit well with this point:
> There's a tendency for information to only be passed on orally
I have found a key part of successfully working in a distributed team is overcommunication via some persistent medium.
Perhaps you can be an agent of change to improve this aspect of your new team, both for your own sake and the team's. Good luck!
Shameless plug: I'm working on a tool to help teams define/share the internal jargon that always seems to develop whenever humans work together: https://jargonaut.net
Sidenote: ads on sites degrade the experience so badly, whenever I browse without adblock I am honestly shocked at how bad it is, and I am amazed others don't seem to care.
> but I think it could certainly generate a more thoughtful discussion than what I saw on this weekend's post.
Thanks, I'd like to think it's not such a mundane idea that it warrants no discussion at all, hence my desire to resubmit.
FWIW, neither Python or Ruby are speed kings, but I think that you'll find ruby is on par, or faster than Python in many benchmarks. It is Rails that is renowned for its slowness.
I have lots of ideas to add more value, but I want to get a feeling from others on whether something like this adds enough value to your bog standard wiki page, enough that you'd consider parting with money for it.
> I found that Xero and Quickbooks are not suited for our needs; that they are more geared toward small businesses that need to issue invoices to customers and for typically low volume transactions.
It sounds like you have identified a niche that you feel WeKeep is designed for. I think that your landing page should reflect that.
I would say that when people are choosing their account software, they really want to know you're trustworthy and are going to be around long term. Are those testimonials all legit? Because that really helps to make me feel comfortable.
Other things I have see similar software do is put on their front page "$1,000,245 in bills recorded", "X invoices tracked and paid". Knowing others are using your software to do their accounting successfully will help people trust you are the real deal.
One thing that I would want to see before I would really start using such software in earnest is the ability to get my data out quickly/easily if I need to switch to another account software provider. Import features would also be important as a "getting started" thing.
Last tiny bit of feedback: I found it a bit difficult to logout as the logout button is hidden in the settings.
It's an interesting to think about what traces an industrial civilization like ours would leave behind if we were to be wiped out tomorrow. Most evidence would be gone in a few thousand years. Wait a million and it would be almost like we were never here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19707426
Never say never :-)
It's a questionable statement. I haven't ever had this happen to me in Australia.
Anectdata, but the last German I talked to said "When i first arrived in Australia I was really confused by strangers smiling at me in the street and supermarket. My family doesn't understand it, but I want them to visit so that they could experience a different, more relaxed way of life."
Two of our last cars have been 7 seaters. Neither have been "buses", just a fold up seat in the boot section. Quite comfortable, even for an adult.
> The people I would expect to own a car with more than two rows of seats are families with 4+ kids, which is nobody here.
We're a family of 5, and whilst we can fit it a standard five-seater, as soon as we have a +1 which is fairly common with friends of our kids you either need two cars, or a 7 seater.
(Apologies if this sounds condescending, but I thought it appropriate)
Politicians are also masters of speech where they are technically correct, they sound like they are saying one thing, but remain evasive/non-committal.
Just imagine the power that such a technology a totalitarian government could wield using this.
Jethro's phone beeped incessantly to remind him that he had not completed his patriot assessment in the last 24 hours. He groaned internally, and even though he was running late for work he decided that he had better take the 5 minutes to complete the test. He couldn't afford to lose any more social credit points this month.
Opening the app, he could see his face in the top corner of the screen to help him know the camera was centered on his face, not that he really needed this after doing the assessment almost daily since his 10th birthday.
The first question flashed onto the screen, "Have you committed any crimes in the last 24 hours"
(Fwiw this is just a gut feeling, I don't have actual numbers to back anything up)
To be clear, I really dislike noise pollution, and welcome the day when noisy lawnmowers, leaf blowers, jetskis and motercycles are banned from where people live, relax, most places really. I think it is really selfish for others to produce such noise around others.
What is silly is to say this noisy thing can't possibly fit into the world without hitting an extreme benchmark, when society has already accepted much worse offenders (whether you and I like it).
To suggest this new vehicle has to operate at a level to not drown out birds before it can fit into society is silly. It's reasonable to place restictions on their use, e.g. you shouldn't be able to takeoff and land in quiet residential neighborhoods, instead limit them to landing on the tops of very tall buildings or transport hubs.
Also, if people are allowed to use lawnmowers and loud exhausts on motorbikes, and have been doing so for years, suggesting a new technology has to be subject to more stringent restrictions is a little unfair.
> Shareholders act in their interest, employees act in theirs. Often everyone ends up fairly satisfied. Is that not how the system is supposed to work and is describing it plainly without effusive praise now automatically suspect?
Apologies, I think I mistakenly inserted an implied value judgement when reading your original post. Rereading your post I see that your words can be read with a neutral tone.
Sounds good. The same rules should apply to lawn mowers, motor bikes, construction, bars, stereos, drones, public transport, bands, dogs, children...
> Owners are pushing for the first, labor wants anything except the first.
There are two important actors left out of this analysis: consumers and parts suppliers.
It doesn't fit the evil owner narrative, but often these efficiency gains translate largely to reduced prices for consumers. Consumers vote with their wallets, so it is often the case that unless the evil owners conspire against consumers by fixing prices, businesses are often forced to pass on efficiency gains as cheaper prices.
As for suppliers, a very large portion of an electric car price is in the battery. If the size of the pie is remaining the same, then this new player is taking a lot $$ off the table, offsetting efficiency gains.
Addendum: Actually, you might be talking about the discussion here, rather than the article...
I resent your implication that I think people are just cogs in a economic machine.
People move location all the time for a variety of reasons. Sometimes economic, sometimes for lifestyle, sometimes for the weather.
I suggested UBI would give people more options, more choice, more power in their lives and you suggest I hold an appalling view and think people are nothing more than wealth seeking particles? Thanks very much.
> your dependency and wield this power against you?
If there are conditions placed on the payment, it is not UBI.
It is also laughable to think that citizens of a large modern country are not already heavily dependent on the services supplied/organized by theri governments.