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usecontainers commented on I built a game into our B2B product pragli.com/blog/why-i-bui... · Posted by u/virtuallyvivek

gumby · 6 years ago

I almost didn't click on this link but I'm glad I did. It was a clever and thoughtful approach to fixing an adoption problem.

usecontainers · 6 years ago

agree - this is a clever approach to solving the problem facing a whole group of applications where the "field of dreams" strategy is not going to work. Thanks for sharing.

usecontainers commented on Working all night is not 'a badge of pride' bbc.com/news/business-498... · Posted by u/hhs

usecontainers · 6 years ago

The top firms all recruit heavily from biz schools with the #1 criteria of billing a crazy amount of hours. I'm not surprised they're trying to market themselves as "less ridiculous" than the competition but don't really believe it. We would work until 7 or 8, go eat dinner and drink on the company dime (purposely with only other consulting team members) then go back to work, drag ourselves to (most likely) a hotel room for a few hours of sleep (because they prefer to keep you on the road) then back to work and repeat. Low utilization was 2200-2400 hours annually with many (most?) billing substantially more. It's hard to believe that a business built on taking a piece of every hour worked would be serious about cutting back the number of hours.

They treat young workers like oranges, squeeze out all the juice and pitch the rinds. The math says not everyone can make partner so don't worry about keeping people happy, just load the funnel with new grads.

usecontainers commented on Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy cnn.com/2019/09/27/tech/w... · Posted by u/danso

chewz · 6 years ago

This should be an obvious warning sign.

Someone whose core business is losing money is trying to recoup them in an area that they have no clue about.

This is a typical guy who feels pressure so he buys at the top and puts his money based on recommendation of others in a business that is going to be next big thing. A typical sucker in other words who will end up penniless.

Poor Saudis.

usecontainers · 6 years ago

>> Someone whose core business is losing money

What, oil? Go look up the average barrel cost for Saudi oil (hint: it's less than 2 lattes). Demand needs to drop to essentially zero before renewables are competitive with their oil. They are not losing money.

usecontainers commented on McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs thenextavenue.com/2019/09... · Posted by u/reddotX

nroets · 6 years ago

For 8 months I've been traveling in the US[1] and Europe[2] by bicycle. Most of the time I was camping and McDonalds was the most convenient place to charge my phone. I found that I could easily spend 2 hours per day there without getting bored. I didn't have a stove, so it was my warm meal on most days.

I suspect a lot of underemployed Americans could adopt a similar routine to get their cars charged.

1: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/burgers

2: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/roads2rome

usecontainers · 6 years ago

There was an interesting article[1] a while back about the social/community roles that McDonalds plays for a large variety of groups. They are usually pretty good about "loitering" if you (a) buy something and (b) are non-disruptive.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-c...

usecontainers commented on Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox blog.mozilla.org/addons/2... · Posted by u/akyuu

pbhjpbhj · 7 years ago

If it is, without requesting user authorisation, then that's an illegal act under the UK Computer Misuse Act (and the USA's CFAA I think too) - modification of a computer without authorisation.

usecontainers · 7 years ago

except you agreed and authorized when you installed the software. Take your position to the logical extreme - software can't make any changes without explicit, interactive approval; and you thought UAC was bad.

I look forward to joining your class-action lawsuit.

usecontainers commented on Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox blog.mozilla.org/addons/2... · Posted by u/akyuu

overgard · 7 years ago

I know Firefox isn't being malicious, but ugh, this seems like the worst possible PR move for this, optics wise. "Hey so uh, we accidentally broke your browser, so you need to opt-in to becoming a guinney pig. But don't worry! You probably were already opted in anyway and just didn't realize it! Also it might take six hours to work."

usecontainers · 7 years ago

So that's pretty unfair. 1) They state they are working on a fix for normal, release channel users who don't want to run studies 2) they tell you to temporarily run studies to get the fix within up to 6 six hours (could be faster; set expectation) 3) You can explicitly install nightly or 66.4 before it's pushed if you want a fix now

Yes, it's unfortunate, I'd expect them to meet it head on, push a tested fix in a timely matter, admit a mistake was made, explain publicly how/why and apply learning moving forward. Beyond that, what's your expectation?

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