Demoneeri

Lol Google Assistant can't even tell me what I ordered despite having all the emails in Gmail.

I'd expect nothing less, if I ask Google assistant about my last purchases, I expect it's going to show me the data. It's bad enough that Amazon doesn't include what you are purchasing in the email and that you have to open the site to see...

I might not necessarily want to go back to the office full time (I always had the possibility for part time remote work anyway), but I'm missing my bike ride commute and some off-record discussion with colleagues that are harder to have over Teams.

Like if an organization with >500 000 employees across the world is the same everywhere. You might have been working with incompetent people, but it's not my case. Successful projects are delivery every day.

My worst experiences always come from working with Americans and I don't come to the conclusion that all Americans are incompetent.

It's always funny to see Silly Valley people that think they are so cool while working on yet another app that show ads.

Meanwhile at Accenture, I just delivered again another successful project with a real impact. When a very large organization across different regions were struggling to produce schedules for thousand workers with different skill sets, different union rules, night and day shifts, they came to see us. Now, everything is automated and the client saves months of work.

I sleep better at night knowing that I helped those workers now get access to their scheduled weeks in advance through a portal instead of having surprise night shifts thrown at them. Maybe I should make another app that track people online?

Well, it might be a mistake, but I find that the best communities I'm a part of are echo chambers.

I like urbanism Facebook groups where we can discuss how to improve a specific intersection, for example. Where we are like-minded people and we try to find the best solution.

When we have the same discussion in the neighborhood group, the thread becomes a shouting match with drivers requesting to be able to run through the intersection at full speed with no inconvenience and to get cyclists and pedestrians out of the way. With the usual "they don't pay taxes". So it is less interesting.

Like any other platform, it's hard to get started. If you are curious, you can start with this free training materials: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/...

Or go directly into this module: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/integrate-power...

I'm Power Platform architect, I have been working with Dynamics for more than 10 years. Your post feels more like you were thrown on a project where you didn't know the stack.

I've seen those projects where I'm brought in to fix some internal project gone wrong because they took internal softdev with no knowledge of a platform that exist for more than 15 years.

Meanwhile, I shipped whole systems in half the time you took to "roll your own".

Just try to roll your own ERP/CRM, we saw plenty of time how that goes.

I came exactly to say that, the guy is a nut job manager. Working weekend and probably being belittled by this guy while doing that, for what? A driving app, wow.

Because business always end up meeting client expectation. Sometimes they do it kicking and screaming like the music industry, but now you can pay only one streaming service and have all the music. The movie industry will have the same fate in the end.

It's funny that you are using "heavily subsidized public transport" while using the entierly subsidized road system...

I agree with this. I use any pronouns or name someone wants to be called. I'm not a jerk.

I don't understand the backlash, do you go around and call people other name that they want to be called because "you don't feel like it"?

Exactly, I don't understand either. Most of my friends (and myself) just "cruise" social media as a way to keep casual contact with people we meet along our life.

Excuse my ignorance (I'm trying to understand by googling). I know it's not the same technology but is it the same concept (public/private key) as for example the Estonian government uses for identity and accessing government services?

I think you should read again my comment, the "we" doesn't refer to anything you mentioned.

"We" as people in developed countries who have the luxury of having kids in high school with smartphone.

Let me rephrase that.

People in developed countries don't work the same way as a 100 years ago. (farming, manufacturing, etc.)

People in developed countries don't entertain the same way s a 100 years ago. (social media, TV, etc.)

Almost everything is different. So, why are we trying to teach the same way as a 100 years ago?

Phones are a distraction to an institution that refuses to evolve. We don't work the same way, we don't entertain the same way but for some reasons we teach the same way as a 100 years ago...

No, countryside seems like prison to me. You have to drive everywhere, you have to shop at the only one shop with limited choices. The isolation, etc.

Seems interesting, I added it to my read later list but this font is killing me. I'll need to change it to read it.

I don't understand how managers at amazon can believe this is okay and that it won't blow off in their face.

You are mistaken, I work for one of these. I have 12 years experience and I have only one failure to deliver and it was stopped in the design phase because it was too complex and the client wasn't ready.

There are multiple rules based on collective bargaining (union).

"The software platform itself, a heavily modified version of Oracle’s PeopleSoft program, had yet to be encoded with many of the payroll complexities faced by a massive and diverse public service, such as unique shift rules for Coast Guard officers or prison guards."

I don't understand, here is my news feed right now: - A beautiful video from Patrick Seabase (person that I follow) - A post from a friend asking a question I don't know the answer to, but already 8 comments. - A post from The Economist (that I follow). This article is not relevant to my interest but sometime they are. - A post about about a comment that one of my friend left on another post (this the kind of post I don't want to see) - A friend posted a video of something funny happening in my home town. - A post from my mayor telling us that the snow removing in the street is nearly done. - A post from CityLab relevant to me.

So on and so forth. If your feed is irrelevant, it's your fault...

It's a geometry problem, you don't have enough space in a city to have all those pods and pods station.

I find the comments here depressing. Like everything, only a small portion of people are addicted to something. I use social media every day. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. If I read the comments here, I should be alone in a dark room envying other people's lives. But last Thursday, I met some of my friends after work for a 5@7, Friday I had dinner with my wife and her friends. Saturday, a friend couple from another city came for an event in our city and we went walking and stopped to take a beer in an Irish pub. Then Sunday, 2 friends came home for brunch. Yes people checked their phone 1 or 2 times, but nobody was "addicted"...

Most people go on with their life while enjoying social media.

Density =/= high rise. Lots of 3-5-story building mix with townhouses creates the density you need with a human-size feel.

Not every city has delusional real estate price. The point I made in another comment is that the "choice" of going into the suburb has a price put on everybody else. Urban sprawl has a real price (Highways, interchange, pollution, etc.). Here in Montreal you can have a decent townhouse for 500K to 800KCAD.

Yes and no, yes it's preference but urban sprawl is a real problem and every other people pay for the preference of having a large backyard away from the city.

This is crazy. We made the choice to live in the city. We have a townhouse with a 300-square-foot backyard, a 20-minute subway ride to the office or a 15-minute bike ride. Friends choose the suburb, have I don't know how many square feet backyard, a bigger house and a 1.5-hour car commute. I don't know how they do it plus all the time spending maintaining this big house and backyard.

Oh God, my Facebook feed is way more interesting than the comments section on HN of a post about leaving Facebook. Are you all wearing your "I left Facebook" badge?

If your Facebook feed is worthless, it's your fault. Either you have nobody you care about or you like worthless stuff. I'm connected with family and friends, I'm following interesting people and liked interesting pages. My newsfeed is full of great content, from people I care about or page with content I want to read/watch.