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A huge problem with spending $400 is the build quality of the bike. I went down this exact same route last December. I bought the same Sunny bike in the link, an Apple Watch, a Wahoo cadence sensor, and an entry-level iPad. The Sunny bike broke after 3.5 months of regular usage, right at the start of Covid quarantine. I ended up replacing it with a high quality ~$2k Keiser M3i. The Keiser has been great the last 7 months.

Finally someone else who has felt that pain of GoodData.. I was hired to make it work after GD's consultants set it up at my current company. What a nightmare. It took a year+ but I finally convinced everyone that it was terrible and we switched to Tableau, which let us use our own db's instead of GD's terrible "logical data model"

I worked at a large public 3PL for 8 years before joining a VC backed startup and at first glance the logistics industry seems ripe for disruption by smaller tech-driven companies. I'm super excited that there are companies out there trying to change the industry. My gut feeling however is that the large incumbents have long relationships, tons of cash, and people on the ground in hundreds of countries around the world. Those things might make it difficult for a startup. How do companies like flexport plan to compete with the Expeditors and CH Robinson's of the world? The place I worked would probably benefit greatly by acquiring a company like this and integrating their tech, but the culture would never allow that to happen.

Lol, my first job out of college was as a DBA for a large US-based cruise company. I would go out to the ships to work on the databases used to maintain engine maintenance records. They would put me up in unsold rooms. One time all the rooms were sold so I was basically in a closet down the hall from the MORGUE. Where was my bigscreen, WHERE WAS MY BIGSCREEN~! :)

Not Wanted 13 years ago

Google draft. It's the first result, ahead of things like the NFL draft, draft beer, NBA draft, etc.

I'm a developer at a fortune 500 company focusing on Business Intelligence. We spent 2 years pumping out report after report, dashboard after dashboard on a new BI web platform. The first question always asked was "How do I get it in Excel?" Luckily after years of hearing this, IT management acquiesced and I am now in the middle of rolling out a data virtualization platform that allows users to connect directly with Excel to "virtual" databases that insulate them from having to write complex SQL. Lesson? You must bow down to Excel.

Back around 2000 I took an old full-tower PC I had laying around and built a MP3 jukebox for my 1993 Volkswagen Fox. It ran Winamp with a plugin for a X10 Mouse Remote. I had a power inverter in the glove box and a fancy new stereo that had a 1/8" jack on the front. With a few bungee cords I secured the tower in the truck and the PC would boot every-time the car started. I skipped school for two days to build it. Without Winamp, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it. Kind of crazy that I can now hop in my car and play pretty much whatever I want using my iPhone & Bluetooth.