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BartSaM

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I am Bart and I work as a web/app developer. I am also a marketer and I love helping others. I am moving to creating mainly MVP's and helping young startups to grow. You can contact me at bochbart@gmail.com

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Sounds like a work culture and "top" in your workplace might be not too healthy then.

CEO's should deliver results and help the company grow. If they have issues with him coming to work at 10 am, then the work culture should be adjusted imo for people to understand what it takes for him to deliver results.

I would blame management/top more, than sales. Sales can work only with products they were given. AFAIK Twitter was pretty aggressively hiring 2-3 years ago sales reps across the globe and they were stealing top employees from FB and co.

I would assume that it is the lack of products/top commitment that causes poor sales.

Add one zero.

Remember that Twitter works in multiple countries and in different languages. Then there is a lot of face to face meetings required, so add offices and service staff as well.

1-1,5K would sound reasonable for global sales and customer services.

This was posted as an opposite to what OP posted, to point out his sided point of view while fortifying his opinion with pretty much unrelated, emotional part of history.

I made sarcasm very obvious, especially with exactly saying it was that, in the second line.

Learn how to read in between lines.

Edited the post so no one else thinks it is the real reply.

Land border attracts tensions. It's also a psychological factor. Then it is much harder to launch an invasion from the sea, than from land.

Its same as saying that there is no difference if Cuba will be "east" aligned and have USSR army/nukes or Mexico - after all, it is easy enough to launch nukes from both places.

You think from a "nuke" perspective. There are much more perspectives, like controlling water borders, locking important Chinese ports etc.

I really think that the humanitarian problem is not a real problem for China. A country this size could easily swallow 10 million Koreans (let's be real, surely not more than half of population would flee), allow them to work and assimilate and not even notice it really. I think the issue is that China is afraid that united Korea will become a US ally and allow US forces to station there. Also it could expose China to the world as a weak player that could not handle Korea by itself.

I am afraid this solution could kill second-hand market with "service providers" not happy to dispose of old products to keep the prices high.

Would iPhone allow the second-hand market for their phones? Not likely, thus keeping a huge part of the less fortunate population out of the possibility to get hands-on premium products.

Your model could be an addition to the current service model, not a replacement.

Now, when Steam decides that you have violated their ToS in some way, they will close your account and lock you out of everything you bought. This happens, rarely, but happens.

Do you want to be dependant on an idea of a corporation that they will treat you fair?

Are you OK to give away your washing machine and oven just because you had troubles with finances and you missed one payment?

"most people are just parroting what they've been taught and don't give it much consideration"

Careful here. This can be said about the other side as well to parrot news stations, media outlets and propaganda. This is surely no way to address such a situation - it is one-sided and judgmental. You need to open-minded if you want to hold such a difficult conversation.

This is interesting, in Europe traffic lights are always associated with traffic signs (at least in countries I drove) and one traffic lights are off for some reason, you should obey traffic signs. If the light is on, you ignore the signs.

This way in case of issues with traffic lights or when the city is jammed and they turn off the lights, everyone knows what to do.

You actually make it sound bad. I would more likely to say they are precise and usually won't allow for inaccurate information to fly through the front page without pointing out the issues.

I always postulated that a cubic meter of water should be a constitutional right to every human for free. Every water company etc. should allow one cubic meter of water to every citizen for free. Everything above can be paid. This would give people in extreme conditions at least some way to ease their chances to survive. Why it sounds like a small amount, it would help less fortunate. People should not worry about basic income more than it should about the constitutional right to basic products first like water, education, food and the internet.

Apple Watch 3 9 years ago

I beg to differ. There are ways to improve battery life in Smartphones and increase their life from 1 day to up to 4 days (by removing all power draining apps and adjusting settings differently). I know this would be hard, but this is Apple. I would assume that if anyone, they should be able to deliver. This would be what I would call a real revolution. Give us a smartwatch that can be charged on weekends and is waterproof.

Apple Watch 3 9 years ago

I wish that the other 99.5% of people that do not own Apple Watch actually mean something to Apple then.

I wonder why so many Apple "defenders" are passive aggressive... Being a user is one thing, but being passive aggressive over a tech product have no explanation.

Apple Watch 3 9 years ago

Maybe because every worthy watch brand has hundreds of models of watches, instead of one?

Apple Watch 3 9 years ago

The one thing that everyone besides a quite limited group of people is asking for many years - battery - gives no change.

Give people 1-week battery life. Otherwise just stay a gizmo.