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> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.

During the pandemic, some of my company's Lenovo laptop orders were backlogged by weeks (or months for a brief period). We had difficulty obtaining laptops for remote employees, even when lowering requirements to "Anything reasonably suitable".

At the same time MacBook Pro's did not have significant changes in order times. I suspect this is because that for large corps, Macs are not as prevalent as Windows laptops. More "specialist" less "commodity".

Personally, I have 10 year old Macs still usable. This message comes from a 2012 MacMini - laptop level hardware. Equivalent age Windows laptops are either Linux (which is also not as corporate common) or our of service.

> It's not going anywhere.

Including towards a potential revenue stream?

> There’s not enough slack in the system. Everything is strung so tight that any disruption causes a cascade of delays

The MBA effect.

> Oracle was one of the reasons for the catastrophic failure of eToys circa 2001

Would love to hear a from-the-trenches summary of that.

Pre-release this was a reason [1]. Not sure if its still a compatibility reason:

> There is also an option to let pandas know we want Arrow backed types by default. The option at the time of writing this article is partially implemented and has a confusing API. In particular, it's not yet working when creating data with pandas.Series or pandas.DataFrame. And for loading data from files it will only work when the parameter use_nullable_dtypes is set to True. For example, to load a CSV file with PyArrow directly into PyArrow backed pandas Series, you can use the next code:

> pandas.options.mode.dtype_backend = 'pyarrow'

[1] https://datapythonista.me/blog/pandas-20-and-the-arrow-revol...

Does this refer to privacy.com, or something else?

Why not $LANGUAGE ?

How do you brick a machine with venvs?

> I don't think I've ever met another dev who likes PowerShell

I have. But they have never used bash, zsh, Fish, or NuShell.

Fox News reporting on something CNN did that is very Fox News like. Maybe it’s just meta-enough for HN.

No, I find it odd to spend that much cash on a celebrity endorsement when the target consumer audience (businesses) know that the celebrity is not a Sales Force customer:

"What the heck to Matthew McConaughey use SalesForce for ?"

  or more importantly:

"Why is SalesForce paying that kind of money when they could be investing instead in their abysmal support?" - as a SF/Tableau customer this is my perspective.

I.e. Soylent Green ?

I would be fine with that. The problem is both with the host and AirBnB, neither of which I would want to do business with again after this.

It does seem odd that companies would pay for services from Salesforce because of a celebrity quip, instead of a determination that said services would improve the company's operations.

Or perhaps these Marketing departments are just really good at internal marketing of budget usage?

Microsoft loves to rename things and make them less specific to search.

I still can't understand the change from "Parallel Data Warehouse" to "Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools".

If “deep work” means can’t function as a team member and communicate in a timely and professional manner, like we all did when working in an office was more common, yes I let them know.

> A lot of people will often not respond to Slack for several hours

Fire them.

One hard rule I have for my team is not being responsive on IM for extended periods is treated the same as not showing up for work.

If people need to be taught how to work remotely, or anywhere for that matter, then the company has the wrong people, or maybe interns who need such training.

Interesting opinion contrast to this posted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531284

"He didn't mention that during his time at the helm Google has been hit with billions of dollars' worth of antitrust fines, been left in the dust by OpenAI's ChatGPT despite "pivoting the company to be AI-first," and seen its core search product get steadily worse."

> I'd be more curious what makes someone think their jobs are worth that much.

Multiple strategy failures on core business elements would suggest the job being performed is not worth that much.

That is because shareholders are focused on current / next quarter gains, and will blame management if short term expectations are not met.

Then when long term goals fail, shareholders will blame management when long term expectations are not met.

Shareholders are not strategic, with the possible exception of a few rarities.

TL;DR Their management does not know how to foster creativity and teamwork when everyone is not in the same cubicle farm, and apparent can’t learn anything new.

Because many politicians see individual enrichment as a goal over law making. Corporations pay to prevent consumer protections that would limit their revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying

Can you provide example of what makes it easier than alternatives?

In IBMs case, this is a regular occurrence, no?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/01...

> Meta laid off 2x the % and there was less news or general backlash

Google has tools that people use to get stuff done.

I doubt many HN readers give a rat's rear end what Meta does.