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I know there's a lot of hate for LinkedIn here on HN but it really is the only place to see where ex-colleagues are working at and what competitors say they are up to. It's kind of like a boring version of TwitterX, but essential to those of us in normie jobs.

I wish there was an alternative but at least there's not much right wing propaganda and it does just work.

Relationship to argument maps?

Options can a significant portion of sign on bonus but they typically vest over several years so I guess they are hoping for an IPO eventually. IMHO Databricks will be overtaken by "events" including AI disillusionment, broader open source tools and broader education across the workforce. So the eventual IPO will not happen.

RFP responses. In enterprise sales, there's a huge amount of back and forth with different teams in a customer when you're selling anything but very simple applications. Most enterprise customers require certified or authoritative responses with backup material that is tested later during formal verification.

In case any of you use draw.io note that you can animate lines with a right click. Last time I did this for a presentation I did have to record to gif but it worked really well.

Even the healthiest large companies do this sort of thing, I've worked in a few and heck I've sold to a few too. Low code solutions that somehow need a team of contractors to deliver business functionality, delayed projects that drop key integrations to deliver something on time but functionally useless, CTOs whose next job depends on giving work to supplier. Worst of all, organisations that insist that they buy not build but then have larger software teams than their suppliers.

There is. UML diagrams for software, Archimate or C4 diagrams for architecture, value stream for process performance. But depending on the audience you may end up needing to use simple box and line diagrams and they work well too. Draw.io is probably the best drawing tool out there and has enough libraries of shapes to get you started.

I used Zim for over a decade but recently migrated to Obsidian because of the mobile support. Definitely a big change but I can say that after a year it has worked for me and I don't miss Zim as much as thought would.

Dashboards are really calls to action hidden in donut charts. I'd rather just see a text message telling me when to start panicking and why.

Wonder what would happen if someone trained an LLM on these texts? A whole new mega religion?

Millions of elderly people are already getting scammed by overseas call centers so unless we do something more significant this tech will not make one iota of a difference.

IMHO Twitter drove its own need and now that it has pretty much gone no one wants the hassle of serving a new master.

Outside of main cities and Germany is the same for restaurants and cafes. Pita

Don't be. It is such a nightmare esp around places like Frankfurt.