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I'm always mystifed as to why the heck this is on any goverment phones in the first place? With the exception of perhaps PR wonks whos job it is to be on "the socials" (thank you PR wonks, btw).

Bookmarked (and appreciated!) solely to let me be lazy and send a link instead of repeating the same speech to other devs.

This sounds suspiciously close to the "we are in no danger except for a bank run" statement from SVB right before the FDIC took over.

They obliviously missed an opportunity to call it "Roxy" and avoid the unfortunate current name collision...

"Why are so many (of .003% of the male population)..." This feels like some kind of weird PR resurge effort to promote a fake trend into real popularity, for who or what reason I can only guess.

Not a finance guy but I think that would literally be the opposite of how banks work. They have to lend out customers money in various forms, including giving that money to other customers in the form of loans, loaning it in huge chunks to companies for larger percentage rates than they give customers who keep their money in said bank, and so forth. Not sure how a bank that kept every customers money on hand all the time would work.

We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week...

I always find the wording of these discoveries interesting where a certain thing started at a particular time, instead of by a particular time. The difference might seem small but I think using "by" better conveys some temporal distance of ramp-up to that technology could be considered, wherease "started at" seems quite abrupt.

If this isn't just playing "follow the leader" behind companies like Meta and Amazon, I wonder if it's related to loss of revenue from customers balking at the exorbitant rates for Jira and Confluence. I understand there's a balance between selling as wide as possible and then having to support that wider dispersal (to eventually diminishing returns) but from the outside the numbers seem rather unreasonable. I know at least two large companies who are actively looking for a replacement because of that (even with the understood compromise in features this might entail).

Didn't that happen when Google bought them?

Basically "We've got so many empty desks you'll have to share them until we have more people filling desks...".

The quote here was interesting though: Pichai said in a companywide meeting last week, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town — it’s just not a nice experience.”

Personally I don't go into the office to measure up "the feel of the crowd", or to get a social experience. I do it to get work done, and only when I have to. We can coordinate social experiences outside of the office if need be. It'd be interesting to see an experiment where workmates only get physically together to do social events like team sports or the like, but work mainly remote relative to each other. I bet this would be just as cohesive to teams.

There's something unspeakably captivating watching a cowboy-dressed academic outside in the apparent wilderness with a backdrop of snowy mountains demonstrating examples of reconstructed ancient proto indo eropean language.

Zodiac was great! The description of the effect on the consumers of the PCB-tainted items (not a spoiler) was spine-crawling.