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Why do companies treat their office address like a company secret?

Posted by masor on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:52PM
from the self-post dept.

What are they afraid of? Don't they realize that for every angry customer that might show up at their office to cause trouble, there are 1000 prospective employees that just want to get an idea of how long their new commute will take? Sometimes, it's hard to even figure out what city they're in.

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Re:In Event of Moon Disaster (1969) on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:35PM (#14065149)

I think that's just a euphemism for when NASA is no longer able to communicate with the men, which is also a euphemism...

Re:Ask HN: I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave? on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:41AM (#13911996)

Why is everyone quibbling with him about that. He just wants to express his opinion that the codebase is very bad in a more colorful way than by simply calling it doubleplusbad. Let's just take his word for it and move on.

Re:Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:38PM (#13890929)

Aviation. 500 & 1000 ft intervals are very convenient discrete altitude levels for coordinating traffic, and that's probably a key reason why it's held up universally. In meters, the interval will either awkward and hard to communicate numbers or spaced too widely to be efficient.

Re:Launch HN: Fiix (YC W17) – Same-Day Auto Repair at Your Home on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:32PM (#13833917)

There's also Pit Row in Santa Clara. Search for terms like "DIY".