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Travelling Will
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I just pictured heritage filing a John Doe lawsuit, than getting pissed off that even the generic legal person has a deer fursona.
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Travelling Will
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I just pictured heritage filing a John Doe lawsuit, than getting pissed off that even the generic legal person has a deer fursona.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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Also - Dear furry tech people: Heritage is run by people who are connected and well-resourced, although not necessarily all that sharp. So please remember that even if nothing else you did or know about is remotely illegal, it's a felony to lie to the feds and every day is STFU Friday, m'kay?
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John Pfaff
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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Travelling Will
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1-3, she won the presidency of the United Earth in Star Trek.
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Travelling Will
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The FAA criminalized the main part of The Bee Movie?
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Travelling Will
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Speedy recovery
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Cathy Gellis
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I support this move. It is unlikely to succeed, but making the need for it to succeed a political issue to motivate voting is important.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Shiv Ramdas
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If you think the vultures circling is some spontaneous reaction to the debate & not a bunch of shills & toadies who have been waiting for any opp to try & soft-coup the guy who didnt do what the moneybags asked & be a GOP-lite POTUS, dm me, I have this incredible offer on Brooklyn Bridge for you
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Chris Ingraham
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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
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If you think "working class" is white male auto workers who live in the suburbs, and not multiracial Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, and Wal-Mart greeters of all genders, you are perpetuating a revanchist racist myth, the reality of which died with Reagan.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September
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Shiv Ramdas
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Project 2025 will ban sunday sportsball and beer is a message with really serious legs, there is a whole genre of Americans who will put up with basically anything except no football sunday
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Nicholas Campiz
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Do you remember when they did this months ago after they published a poll and the president was apparently too "business-as-usual" to somehow slip in an acknowledgement of it at an event at a train repair depot in Delaware?
bsky.app/profile/nycs...
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Travelling Will
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Are you legacy code? Because if we took the comments out this just isn't gonna work.
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Travelling Will
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Those were the days
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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I mean, of course. Because conservatism is ackchyully the opposite of socialism and everyone knows that was the real problem, in Germany, not the "national" bit.
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Max Kennerly
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.
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Travelling Will
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I do not want to hear this guy describe Grants Pass
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Jessica Pishko
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Travelling Will
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Did you just blink yourself out of existence? 😶
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ryan cooper
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median second term Trump staffer
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Lizard
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The class struggle between Oscar, literally forced to live in trash, and the bourgosie lifestyle of Bert and Ernie is maintained by peasant Big Bird’s faith in the religion of Mr. Snufflupagus. 1/2
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Travelling Will
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You complain, but honey has no expiration date so you have time
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Courtney Milan
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People vote for candidates that they don’t like. If your rule is “no, you also have to like them, and I will angrily insist you do so” you are telling people they shouldn’t vote for a candidate they don’t like. Nobody has to like a politician.
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Glenn White
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There are definitely too many people who think that there's some other choice waiting around the corner than those two. There is no other choice, barring the death of one or both of them. Those are the choices. Pick one.
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Coach Finstock
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Gerry Doyle
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I am not the first to make this point but if the whole premise is that the president is not competent, and the president outmaneuvers you....
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Travelling Will
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The Simpsons would have so many public domain seasons while still making new ones for some reason 😶
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Travelling Will
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Bonus: off the shelf to off the shelf conversions usually are a little easier. Fewer gremlins, less attachment to what weird processes they have, and most know what they're getting into up front with more direct/easier comparisons. People just love/hate their green screens.
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Travelling Will
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23/23 Don’t get me wrong, there are other real, tangible benefits to off-the-shelf stuff. It’s just that a lot of projects fail because custom fits your organization like a tailored glove, and off-the-shelf fits like something off the rack at Ross. (Also I need an editor. Hope it added something)
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Travelling Will
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22/? those old developers who are very expensive (because they want to retire but keep coming back for a sweet paycheck from knowing archaic coding languages and the idiosyncrasies of your system). Bonus, your business processes are probably a lot closer to some platonic ideal
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Travelling Will
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21/? The business relationships could sour, the vendor could go under unexpectedly, or they could sunset the solution you migrated onto, forcing you into a new and unplanned systems replacement project on a timeline you can’t control. At least the old system, with its old pain points, is gone
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Travelling Will
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20/? While most updates/upgrades will probably add nice stuff, at any time a feature you like or rely on could be reengineered or less commonly could be deprecated entirely. You’re subject to their response times and prioritization to fix any bugs or system downtime you encounter.
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Travelling Will
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19/? The temporary solutions have become permanent, which might offset the efficiency gains it gave in other areas. You’re pretty locked in by how expensive it is to move, so you’ll be hit with any ongoing licensing cost increases Hopefully it scales and your costs decreased, neither is guaranteed
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Travelling Will
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18/? To keep the go-live date, parts may have been moved to a parking lot that now needs addressed. After a few months the problems usually settle down to a new normal. Then the costs to maintain customizations made, licensing, new processes/business changes, and all need to be fit into the software
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Travelling Will
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17/? Even the basic things for the first months will take longer to do. Anything that testing and planning didn’t find can instantly become an all-hands-on-deck fire to put out or could force a roll-back to the old system to fix.
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Travelling Will
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16/? If the project pulls through, go-live is a big pain. Go-lives involve downtime, which is expensive. It also attracts all of the once-in-a-decade transactions, without fail. Users will get frustrated and complain a lot because the system is new and unfamiliar.
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Travelling Will
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15/? Add in the risk that at any point something may appear that blows up the whole project - either budgetarily (it’s no longer affordable) or technically (it’s no longer viable at all). All that money spent can be easily lost as an expensive dead end, leaving in place the green screen for longer.
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Travelling Will
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14/? User testing is done by nontechnical staff who have their fulltime day jobs to do, so it’s often lackluster and done later than anyone would like. Any problems identified by testing will be hard to solve while maintaining the original timeline, and any delay/change costs more money than planned
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Travelling Will
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13/? It might add additional ISVs, or add custom development by someone (internal or external), or ugly workarounds you know users will hate that are “temporary”. The scope will creep if you’re not careful because “this would be easy to add in and fix too” while the cap expenses flow.
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Travelling Will
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12/? implementation is where all those custom parts of your solution come to light. You’ll find all the weird things you've developed over the years that are unlike how any other company handles that same transaction. The internal & external project team need to agree on how to deal with these
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Travelling Will
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11/? If a project survives this phase, and signs onto a solution, the implementation project can begin. You still will need to assign your own internal resources like a project manager and possibly additional dedicated staff to help get this whole thing done.
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Travelling Will
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10/? These may come back suggesting an ISV (independent software vendor) add-on has a solution that is absolutely necessary to do what you do. Or it just takes a lot of hours and effort for the VAR/vendor to get up to speed on what you do and how you do it to be able to execute the transition well
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Travelling Will
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9/? (because you’re not starting over from empty, any number of things from your system need to be ported to or integrated with the new solution like customer lists, or contacts, or what-have-you. It's all important and needed data exchange).
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Travelling Will
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8/? A lot of projects fail here. Either the math just doesn’t math to start, or they find their home built solution is too far away from anything off-the-shelf. They didn’t think about all the costs - converting data into a format that’s usable by the new system or integrations to rebuild
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Travelling Will
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7/? More internal conversations happen, a handful of solutions are selected for more serious follow-up, now finally the formal requests can be made for more info. In some cases you also need the right value added reseller (VAR) to get the implementation done and provide ongoing support after go-live
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Travelling Will
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6/? usually this is done gathering input from only some of the folks/teams impacted. Based on that list, a few non-starters are eliminated and what else they’ve found that might work is discussed. Maybe there’s big promises of cost savings and pain reduction, but usually those fall short for reasons
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Travelling Will
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5/? (note: Either way, you’ll find other companies are not like yours, and with generalists how your industry is painfully unique). With all the lovely options, and surface knowledge of all that the in-house software does, you document features you can’t live without and nice to haves.
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Travelling Will
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3/? Usually off-the-shelf comes in two major kinds – generalists who make generic products for all possible customers, and those who build industry-tailored solutions for companies 'just like yours'.
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