- ryanmarshI really needed this 20 years ago.
- I worked in the Pennzoil building (mentioned). It was a horrible waste of space, for what? A couple of nondescript black triangles? They could have had so much more leasable space and the floors wouldn't have been these odd shaped low ceiling caverns to make up for the loss of useable space. Just think, each of those triangular towers needs its own core with plumbing and elevator shafts. Good grief.
- I really like the part where the article was phone friendly.
Seriously how does anyone make money with a website where the actual content is so obscured by ads that users don’t bother coming back?
- You had me until "Please support HTTP basic auth for client authentication".
OAuth 2.1 draft spec emphasizes that basic auth is no longer preferred. I read that to mean: MAY, or perhaps even SHOULD NOT.
- "Coincidentally, Lynch's co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, who was also acquitted, died the day of the storm after being hit by a car on Saturday morning in Stretham, England."
Coincidentally indeed.
"Other missing individuals have been identified by The Independent as: Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who had represented Lynch and wife Neda Morvillo; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer."
Oh.
- Nothing will compare to standing in a book store as a teen reading Mother Earth Mother Board, published in wired, while my Coke got warm.
- Has anyone else read the story of the astronaut onboard ISS who lost it (if I recall it was over a romantic interest) and destroyed the toilet and drilled a hole in the space station?
- Hacker News is not the audience for “haters gonna hate”.
The list of similarly cynical responses to great innovations and great businesses is a long one here.
- I’ve spent a fair number of years doing corporate cucumber training.
At every client I emphatically insist that if they are not using Gherkin as a “Rosetta stone” for the business folks then they’re wasting their time with cucumber. Don’t go to the trouble of writing gherkin if you’re not using it as living documentation. Save yourself loads of trouble and just use an ordinary test framework.
- Is this IaSQL reborn or a completely new product?
- Literally halt and catch fire.
- I’ll tell you how, because I had a client in this exact situation. The business just sees fluctuations in sales. They don’t see error rates. In traditional businesses SW engineering keeps the dynatrace logs close to the vest.
I convinced a dev to walk me through their dynatrace console. I dug in and took screenshots then gave them to h to the business. The business demanded access to dynatrace and then was able to correlate error rates with revenue fluctuations (down to the hour of the day, people are habitual). They came up with a cost factor and figured out how much they’re losing. This led to budget being allocated for a project to solve these problems. I bid on the work but was denied. The VP of IT at this point hated me.
- Thanks for troubleshooting for me but no. Just a stock popular browser.
- I was showing this exact problem to my wife, a moment after trying to order something from The Container Store and their website being broken, just after trying to pay a bill and that website not working too.
I swear to God this f**ing industry.
- I’m a little confused. Not working overtime is striking? Is this correct or is there some other missing detail?
- I have a way of recycling polystyrene that’s also good for dealing with tyrants.
- Changing the fan speed (UI slider control) in the model X without killing yourself is fun.
To those who want to say “use voice control” let me tell you about all the times I say “turn the fan speed up” and it turns it DOWN.
- Browsing HN on mobile. New CSS framework appears. I click the link, aaaaand it looks janky on mobile.
Every. Single. Time.
- For many businesses revenue is a function of aggressive deal making. Full stop. In an undifferentiated market of discretionary (impulse) purchases if you don't hustle the customer you make less. The author of this article is confusing companies that are bad at hustling with hustling being bad.
One time offers, limited time offers, mailing list signups, up-sells, and cross sells are time tested ways to increase sales dating as far back as radio era telephone and catalog sales.
Steve Madden is a perfect example of this. They sell undifferentiated popular shoe styles less expensive than high fashion but more expensive than knockoffs. They have to hustle you to get you on their mailing list (for 10% off your order) in the hopes that you'll make another impulse purchase later when you get a text or email from them. If they weren't as aggressive you might never make another impulse purchase with them again as there are tons of brands selling nearly identical products.
Some companies are just horrible at hustling so they actually get in the way of you completing your purchase. In a competitive market this is a self correcting problem.
- Anything north of Baghdad on Day 18 was not a key battle at all
Agreed. Key in the battle, not a key battle.
saved by F-18s flying CAS
That's not how the team explained it.