The saltiness isn't a good look here. Especially seeing as he's not the poster.
It's the HN algorithm which is probably due to the fact that other posts from his domain have done relatively well, plus the actual poster here has quite a bit of karma.
Really love this style of writing. Pairing the diagrams/illustrations with the easy to grok copy is really helpful for folks like myself who have been mainly focused on the front-end.
What tool do you use for your diagramming, is it all hand-drawn?
This is what I do for my presentations (on a wacom of course). I have gotten grief over it, but I work faster and get less distracted by the eccentricacies of powerpoint and figma. My handwriting is abysmal so I will do that in a "handwriting font" to sort of look hand drawn. Even if I have to convert them later for some big wig, at least I have my "rough draft". Plus it all feels a little more human.
Question: I have this person on my team who talks WAY too much and never notices it. They LOVE hearing themselves talk and never shut up. Should I tell them to get this app?
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Answer: First off... I believe your struggle with this person is 100% real. I fully believe their behavior is affecting you negatively.
But, my answer is a STRONG NO. Please don’t use Unblah as a proxy for a difficult conversation that sounds like it needs to be had.
Think about it: They would never use it anyways, because, as you’re saying yourself “...and never even notice it.”.
They don't have a problem.
You do.
I don't know how much rapport you two have, how much safe space you can create for resolving this situation, etc.
So, to keep everyone safe, please check with HR or leadership on how to best deal with this situation if it impacts you, your team and your performance.
For learning more on this kind of topic, I can recommend “Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most” by Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen.
To a programmer or scripter, an uppercase $WORD starting with a dollar sign often denotes a variable. Thus, $WORK could denote any sort of work, or if you're religious, you might worship a $DIETY (but which one we don't know without asking, so it's "variable" information).
Half of these tools are behind a demo and don't show pricing, yours included. Usually that is because it's too costly, and it becomes a non-starter for me.
Even outside of pricing issues - demo only or "contact sales to get started" type marketing pages are an immediate (IMMEDIATE) turn off.
I'll usually just close the tab.
If I have to talk to sales to understand your product and pricing - your product/pricing are bad.
And I'm saying that from lived work experience - the products we integrate with that don't provide open signups are sitting in the first, second, and fourth spots for outages and downtimes across the 80 some products we integrate with (and those 3 are the only ones not open to signup).
Eh, kinda depends. Some software tools are complex, and a trial won't really show you the functionality. Free trial users aren't exactly going to spend time configuring a complex piece of technology, so you'll just get a lot of useless signups instead of actual users.
So what. Let them in to play around, they’ll see why they need to talk to a sales engineer (a TECHNICAL person, not the guy who sets appointments with the technical person).
If you’re selling a SaaS product and you can’t let me go in and play with it without talking to sales about my budget, timeline, and favorite color first, I’m not buying your product. Full stop.
We're expecting our second here in a few months, and from my research it's really expensive and most folks would be better off donating. I feel like banks feed too much off of peoples fears instead of the better good. What are the odds of someone needing their own cord blood vs. it being a publicly accessible thing? It feels like donating blood to a bank to store it for myself in case I ever need it.
Again, it's an exciting field with a lot of really good outcomes, but it kind of plays into the whole, "what if something happens to your kid fear" to sell it to people, instead of thinking about all the other kids that you could be saving.
Congrats!! Donating can definitely be positive, but I think in a perfect world everyone has access to their own stem cells. Chances of survival are higher if you use a genetically related donor for a stem cell treatment. Beyond that, I'm a firm believer in the fact that if someone has access to these stem cells, they will use it at some point in life. Even if someone spends their whole life being healthy, they could be used for dementia/whatever old age brings. In the US, this is not quite as popular, but in other countries, people use stem cells in the same way they use botox - for anti-aging purposes. It could potentially be used for that down the line too.
Plus, standards for donations are very high. Some donations are rejected, so if you try to donate and it's rejected, then nobody wins :(
As for the fear mongering-related marketing, we do our very best to stay away from that, but truthfully it's a necessary thought when it comes to positioning a preventative care product.
It's a fairly popular trend now, doing exactly what OP said. It usually involves buying a few acres and trying to be self-sufficient. Of course there's a subreddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/
It has been popular for a long time. Internet has made concept exposure & social networking easier. My parents did it as hobby and crisis management; two generations further back my relatives were living it in earnest as norm for immigrants and descendants.
It's the HN algorithm which is probably due to the fact that other posts from his domain have done relatively well, plus the actual poster here has quite a bit of karma.