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Hopefully without the latency, it's slow to respond on a 2022 M2 Macbook Air (tried Firefox and Safari)

The 'Status' in the product name has two meanings, with the second being the standing conveyed by being able to shell out $189 for a pomodoro timer.

I wrote some PowerQuery functions and VBA macros to facilitate client invoicing that cut down ~2 hours of work to ~10 minutes (and shrinking, as I toy around with the scripts to delegate more of the work to the machine each time).

The billing data is pulled from an external vendor's portal. The contact data is pulled from our internal CRM. Both sets of data are then cleaned up and merged with PowerQuery, and then VBA is used to send emails out to clients.

I probably spent in the range of 3-4 hours getting a working version going and ~20 hours optimizing during downtime at work. I genuinely find it enjoyable to work on—there is something immensely satisfying about automating rote work away.

I use this once per month (a billing cycle). It will probably never see the light of day for anyone else, at least in its current state, because I work in a low-tech, nonprofit environment and using this kind of tool would be daunting for my co-workers (for reference, mail merging is sometimes intimidating at my workplace).

Why make it about race? It's about her being wealthy and connected; rich, well-connected minorities get away with things all the time

> At least the well-off folks won't have their lives ruined if they fail to get tenure

So the downtrodden shouldn't ever attempt anything. Also why is this a binary between tenure and financial ruin?

What indicates that Google is "too scared" as opposed to merely lagging behind?

Does VSCode have anything like Emacs' zones mentioned in the article?

While loyalty to the craft can have the side effect of generating more value to an employer, I don't think the two notions are antagonists. Get better at your craft and you'll have more opportunity to operate as a mercenary.

Why should someone's respect for (presumably) achievements as a technologist or entrepreneur extend to opinions about events like these (or really any event outside of business/technology?)

Bio says "middle-aged software developer," so likely just hoping it's far enough that they'll be retired when it doesn't matter to them

You're right, we should just let inequality fester and wealth disparity grow.

I'm glad that early doctors and engineers working on difficult problems didn't just shrug their shoulders while saying "what can you do?"

Money. Where else are likely to make hundreds of thousands of dollars with a PhD in comparative literature?