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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I am drawing from personal experience.

    This is a real thing that happened to me, after a CEO ignored a product that we had worked on for years - yeah why would he have any knowledge it was just the entire reason for the company to exist.

    There were 700 interconnected parts, many partnerships, many other businesses, many layers of approval, dozens and dozens and dozens of specs approval rounds that were signed off by dozens and dozens of people.

    1500 hours of meetings which you can extrapolate into 10,000 person-hours of meetings and post-meeting analysis.

    “My wife doesn’t like green”. Like 2 days before a critical milestone on a project with 50,000 visual assets.








  • My mom basically found herself as the person who fixed printers at the school at which she worked, and this was before anybody had much of a clue about computers (our family was kind of ahead in tech).

    She ended up getting some free “MS tech net” subscription which I used, it was just as worthless as the public facing stuff. I will say though, back when having real ms software actually meant something, having access to infinite license versions of most of their stuff was pretty cool.




  • Really? Wow. I have no way of really knowing for sure but I am pretty convinced that they reached maximum saturation of their user base 10 years ago… That’s why there was this sudden whiplash pivot to forcing Indian, Pakistani, and the European content to the front page.

    I saw that as the indicator that the North American market had been penetrated as far as they were going to penetrate, and they were looking abroad.

    Now with what you’re telling me it’s making me question reality, I don’t think there’s a person on the planet that isn’t aware of reddit, I think people just don’t want to use it anymore!

    Question, where have you noticed these advertisements?