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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Interesting phenomenon. It's eerily similar to r/Boston.
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
We could have been twins, when I was in graduate school :) At times I had (still have?) a cynical look at scientific publishing, that it was a symptom of a larger problem: the Peter Principle writ large. Professors and researchers are selec
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
I thought this was the source? https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring Or are you referring to the cloud aspects of Mailspring, like read receipts etc?
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
As usual, I came here to look for recommendations :) I have been enjoying Mailspring[0], an OSS fork of Nylas Mail (RIP). I came across it while looking for the closest thing to Google Inbox (RIP also). Mailspring is cross-platform. [0]: ht
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
No offense to the good discussions here, but this article is no more than a press release. It doesn't even directly address the question in the title! Again no disrespect to the talk here, but this is a Stack Exchange kind of question,
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Yes -- good on them changing, and bravo to them for calling it out and saying why. In my opinion they put a lot of effort into making this post, and it shows.
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Upvoted for being pithy and beautiful. Where's our manifesto? Can I suggest you write it?
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Amen to this: once you get your feelings in a better place, be part of the solution.
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
As mentioned there are dozens, and Wikipedia will show you[0]. Since CRMs can be bolted onto just about every business, use cases vary extremely. If I'm being honest, every sales manager starts with an internet search to find the lates
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
From a business side of things, the advantage of Salesforce is that it can very easily be managed by non-devs. It has straightforward sales functions baked in: reporting, forecasting contact management. For sure, Airtable can be used as a l
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
+1 to developers on HN: if your dream is to have a company with a sales team, it's great practice to get to know CRM softwares early and in-depth. Every seasoned salesperson will need a functioning CRM to do good work...and the best sa
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
This is nearly a universal law in the sales world: products/services pitched to salespeople always 1) are expensive and 2) come with their own sales team who are slick and/or aggressive. I've seen it from sales training, to s
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Thank you for this point (and book recommendation). It has clarified my thinking on dark patterns, something I've long suspected. We need to (re)educate designers about the mistakes they're making, in service of what I assume are
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
You raise very good points. The shortcuts thing has made me miserable for years. Surely the coders of Mozilla appreciate a good set of shortcuts, like in whatever IDE they write their code in!
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by DaveWalk 7y ago
Came here to also recommend LibraryThing. It's been around for 14 years, and the community has lots of similar situations to OP's. Probably a good place to look up anecdotal evidence for this kind of project, too. LibraryThing als
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
Where is the list of offending apps? How hard would it be to name and shame them and keep track? The NYT article cites the company MightySignal claiming 1,200 Android and 200 iOS offending apps. EDIT: The NYT outlines their reporters'
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
I came to say the same about Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." His teachings are aimed at being a better salesperson and you should treat it as such. Taking it as self-help advice is going to lead to
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
To me, it's the end game for consumerism. The products themselves just get in the way -- the feeling is what you really want to have. It's not new, I think. Just perhaps a little more blatant, and for more companies, than previous
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
This was my take also. It's a purely business decision: how much is it worth to not have this person work for a competitor? Also dovetails with the statement that lower level employees are dismissed with a little to no severance. Less
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Signal Desktop Leaves Message Decryption Key in Plain Sight(bleepingcomputer.com)
6 points by DaveWalk 8y ago|1 comments
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
The writers have a union which should be able to help with this scenario, yes? Does the VFX industry have a similar thing in Hollywood?
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
The best distillation I found was that this is all a version of the "Nothing to Hide" argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument There are some points to counter with in the article. Br
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
Possibly naive question: how does reddit make money, and how's it going for them? Ads, promoted content, reddit gold... Is that it? I knew they were purchased by Conde Nast, then spun off at some point? Are they owned by VC now, or so
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
I often use reddit as a search engine for answers with a "human touch" for lack of a better word. I once did this with del.icio.us back in the "social bookmarking" days. I'm curious if this is a big use case for Red
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
Thank you for this: the most telling aspect for me is the history of it all. This is not a new problem. I should like to look at the follow ups / aftermaths of each of these sources. I wonder what excuse(s) academia decided on.
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
Does this remind others of other enterprises, like beginning video game programmers? When your are ready to leave from abuse, there is always another new person happy to take over. The supply of new labor in the academic market seems endles
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by DaveWalk 8y ago
Newsblur is also YC S12. And it has been worked on ever since with some cool features: you can forward your newsletters to it and turn them into RSS feeds(!) for example.
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
I think this is a very important point; independent bookstores in general aren't "thriving" in the normal Wall St sense of the word. I wonder: is their whole resilience is due to more of a downshift in expectations? I.e., ear
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
Super interesting. For the bibliophiles out there, I wonder how bad this is getting industry-wide? Does it happen at indie book sellers, Wal Mart, and Amazon too? Certainly I have put down books that were made way too cheaply, and I have im
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by DaveWalk 9y ago
This sounds heartbreakingly true, especially the part about the CMO being sold a fantasy at a conference. I really like the way you've chained it together from the C-suite all the way down to the lowly cashier.

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