Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
> spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office
Reminds me of a NYC startup I was at (while hired living on the west coast).
CEO was really big on in-person (well except for all the LATAM devs I had to manage...) so they required me to fly out frequently, and my boss was incredulous I would book the 6 hour flight during week days because it "ate into work time". Like WTF is sitting on JetBlue flights on weekends for me but "work time"... I'm on salary anyways
dang editorialised the previous headline into a Betteridge Law question - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no" - when it in fact is not such a thing, and strongly makes its case.
But we checked directly with Ian Betteridge on Mastodon (in a local post) and he said "I love Ed's pieces so he gets a thumbs up from me." FWIW.
Good one (for real, it made me chuckle) but really it's "I told you we should reinstate all the banking and financial restrictions that came into force in the 1930s because financiers and bankers can't be trusted to regulate themselves. Now we got this"
There’s no need for more regulation— this is working as intended. It will all be worked out by the checks and balances inherent to modern American capitalism. That is, when the banks’ balances are low, the government writes them huge checks to cover it. See? No need to panic: The market always does what’s right in the long run for bank shareholders and executives.
a recruiter for a company with a hybrid schedule that i balked at had starting telling me about the economic implications of not using offices, how the building value would go down, and shops nearby wouldn’t have traffic and loans against all of them would go delinquent
and I asked if that was the company’s stance for their office park
and no, it was just a vicarious interest in commercial real estate doomer articles
From what I can tell, the “Ubuntu Mozilla Team” does not consist of people from Mozilla but rather just people packaging Mozilla software for Ubuntu. The latest packages in that PPA have been uploaded by Rico Tzschichholz, who does not appear to be affiliated with Mozilla.
Get rid of your PPA package and use the official repo, it's 99.9% better in almost all cases. More details on google/youtube on how to do that, it's too much to type on HN and should be on the first page of google/duckduckgo. I would guess the people supporting the PPA will stop updating it after a while due to there being an official repo to use.
This made me remember one anecdote written in one of the books about how Amazon became what it is today (it could be "The everything store", but I'm not sure.)
If my memory serves me well, the book mentions that, for a while, Amazon had "the most read books in your zip code", until someone realized some corporations were so large a zip code was basically just them. So that became "the most read books at Intel's research department", and the entire thing was scrapped.
In the UK, it’s not uncommon for a large building to have its own postcode. It’s quite useful because in most densely populated areas, you can use the postcode alone to navigate to within a hundred metres of your destination.
