I was using my company dev machine via Windows RDP remotely during Covid and installed Glasswire which by default blocks all traffic so I lost access. No one was there to uninstall it so I continued development in my personal machine.
>Instagram is underinvested in well-being. We have only 40 engineers working on it. Instagram scored 0 in 22 of 27 integrity categories. This is not sustainable.
What are those 27 categories?
Can't find anything online
There was a HN comment about competitors tracking how many new signups are happening and increasing the discounts/sales push based on that. Something like this.
In a business I once worked for, one of the users of the online ordering system represented over 50% of the business' income, something you wouldn't necessarily want them to know.
However, because the online ordering system assigned order numbers sequentially, it would have been trivial for that company to determine how important their business was.
For example, over the course of a month, they could order something at the start of the month and something at the end of the month. That would give them the total number of orders in that period. They already know how many orders they have placed during the month, so company_orders / total_orders = percentage_of_business
It doesn't even have to be accurate, just an approximation. I don't know if they figured out that they could do that but it wouldn't surprise me if they had.
This is also something that depends heavily on regulations. In my home country, invoice numbers have to be sequential by law, although you can restart the numbering every year.
Yes, even if it's not a legal requirement it's definitely best practice to have sequential invoice numbers. I thought about this at the time but these numbers aren't invoice numbers, only order numbers.
A sequence per "series", where a series can be a fiscal year, a department or category, etc. But I am not sure if you can have one series per customer, I only find conflicting information.
You can have more details here, in the section "Complete invoice":
That's happening everywhere. You can order industrial parts from a Fortune 500 and check some of the numbers on it too, if they're not careful about it.
I am on the fence between Libra and Clara (smaller than Libra). What do you recommend?
Do you wish you had gone with a smaller version? Weight, easy to hold etc.
Price difference is negligible but I am confused by the size difference and ease of use
Clara:
- Small form factor. Super convenient to read and bring it anywhere.
- No issue to read any materials imo.
Libra:
- It's slightly bigger and heavier.
- I find it easier to read books with lots of graph, images since it's bigger.
- I can also read comics with color. Pretty awesome.
Imo, boils down to your preference, hand size (I'm not a big guy). I like both devices. Libra main advantage to me is just color. Size is personal preference. If there's any store nearby, I'd suggest to just go and try it out first (or any ebook with similar size).
Make sure you understand the tradeoffs of color screen. I found it to be significantly less pleasant for reading. It's significantly darker to the point I had to had max backlight at all times and even then the content is fuzzy and less paper like.
I have a previous-generation Clara and quite like it. It's easy to slip into a pocket and bring with me wherever I go. The only thing I miss is physical buttons to turn the page.
One day I'll pick up one of the larger versions for home use, though.
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