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Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:30AM (#42193778)
Only because we've ruined our email with automated systems that are way too trigger-happy on notifications. I think I've received atleast a thousand-fold amount of mail from JIRA that someone has clicked on something, compared to actually useful, actionable requests.
Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:26AM (#42193747)
Hamfisting an ideology to human nature just doesen't seem to work no matter how nice the end result could be. People don't generally do uncomfortable things unless they are forced to, take for example literally anything else in life; entire fields of professions exist because we don't like cleaning thing X or Y
Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:19AM (#42193704)
>Record your team meetings, preferably with software that can AI-summarize

If the summarizations are trustworthy it sounds like a good idea, however I've yet to see a reliable AI-summarizer that doesen't result in very high costs when wrong assumptions are made because of invalid or downright sabotaging summaries or generated documentation.

I believe minimizing the synchronized time people need to spend together in any task is best; have the least meetings possible while blowing away obstacles with as few people as is necessary. You can save an unbelieveable amount of unproductive time people would be locked in meetings they don't belong or contribute to.

Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:15AM (#42193674)
>Meet in person every quarter

What benefit would you see in doing this? The only thing I've heard is some consider it nice to be in close proximity to others, but that doesen't really sound like a business reason

Re:Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022) on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @07:48AM (#42193461)
Does Apple ecosystem have any production software any enterprise or industry uses? I recall maintaining Windows Server 2000 related production software just last week. Working software can be really, really old