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wushupork commented on Are any words the same in all languages?   blog.duolingo.com/words-s... · Posted by u/spansoa
wushupork · 2 years ago
Chai or tea
wushupork commented on Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers   cnbc.com/2023/04/03/googl... · Posted by u/zvonimirs
wushupork · 3 years ago
A friend of mine worked at a public airline and whenever they had a bad quarter, things like coffee would get cut so people would feel it. But those types of industries operate on razor thin margins.
wushupork commented on Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission   axios.com/grubhub-sued-re... · Posted by u/cwwc
mabbo · 5 years ago
I hope there's a strong precedent set here. Companies like Grubhub list restaurants on their site/app, but put the wrong phone number on it- one that goes to their own people instead. That's clearly some kind of fraud or misrepresentation.

Makes me feel like I should setup a phone number and a website called something like "GrubhubHelp.com", and list a help number for assistance with GrubHub orders. Then when customers call to complain, I'll play an ad for the competitor who has paid me the most money.

Seems only fair, right?

wushupork · 5 years ago
This would be the most awesome troll of SV startups. Own the directory of help for all SV tech companies and create an AdSense for that.
wushupork commented on Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain   propublica.org/article/in... · Posted by u/theklub
wushupork · 5 years ago
A private equity firm's incentives are almost always not aligned with what's best for the customer of the company and its people.

I've witnessed a P/E firm gut a pretty big firm, ship all the tech work to India, layoff most of the SV employees for quick "value extraction".

wushupork commented on Ask HN: How to learn sales?    · Posted by u/northpoleescape
wushupork · 5 years ago
I was an engineer as well early in my career. As an entrepreneur now, I've been doing sales for the last 8 years. I've never been formally in any sales role prior to running my own business, so I mostly learned on the job and on my own through trial and error.

I think when most people hear the word sales, it usually has an adverse reaction. Someone mentioned here that being a consultant is a good way to approach it and I've found that to be true.

I've recently heard of a great acronym that helps you think of how to approach sales: S - Serve - go in w/ a service mindset A - Ask questions - don't go yapping about your offerings just yet. Find out what their pain point is. This way you know what to offer and what to skip L - Listen intently. I think a lot of times, I'm very guilty of "waiting to speak" vs listening. E - Emphathize - with the customer and their pain. This is why they are coming to you. S - Summarize in your own words what you heard.

Then you can "do your thing"

wushupork commented on The Making of Dune II   readonlymemory.vg/the-mak... · Posted by u/vquemener
pontifier · 5 years ago
This was as favorite of mine in highschool. My friends and I would all play this after school.

We found a bug that made the 1 player missions way too easy. The range of the sonic tanks wasn't really a range so much as a path that the waves took for the duration of the sound effect. We found that by turning the speed of the game up, the shots would travel way too far and made them really overpowered.

wushupork · 5 years ago
We must be around the same age. It was the same for me. I must have played all 3 houses so many times. I loved being able to control the units.
wushupork commented on Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore   apple.com/newsroom/2020/0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
arvinsim · 5 years ago
It's interesting that this is Singapore's 3rd Apple store while other Southeast Asian countries don't even have one.
wushupork · 5 years ago
That is factually incorrect. In fact Bangkok has two Apple stores now: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-central-world-o...
wushupork commented on Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions   reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/claudeganon
mc32 · 6 years ago
Here’s my take. If I think a company is doing wrong and I believe I should stand against it, I would then consider that taking a stand will likely result in termination; but if I believe strongly then I’d do it because of principle not be cause a law is protecting me.

That’s not to say I disagree with workers’ protections only tat if you believe strongly then protections or not should not be much of a consideration.

That said, is Amazon acting illegally so you’re calling that out or do I just disagree with their position?

wushupork · 6 years ago
I agree, but I should not be surprised if they terminated me because of it.
wushupork commented on Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]   mobilejazz.com/docs/compa... · Posted by u/znq
sonofgod · 7 years ago
Cynically, it's a recruitment expense -- there's a pretty good probability of getting a good hire from posting this widely.

It's not, to my mind, an actual corporate handbook -- it's missing boring important things like "here's our password and security policy, please remember we have people's super-personal health data in our apps, so it's really important". I guess that's probably in the company Wiki or similar.

wushupork · 7 years ago
I own a small dev shop and I thought this was a great idea for recruiting. No need for cynicism.

u/wushupork

KarmaCake day887November 5, 2008View Original