Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist moral panic?
IMO it doesn't matter if your theft is a felony or misdemeanor, police should still patrol and try to pursue it. Cops, however, claim they are overworked and understaffed to do this.
This is the "broken windows" theory- if you let minor crimes like shoplifting go unpunished in a city, more people will do it.
A relatively-new (built in the last two years) Taco Bell near me has a sign up saying that they are only open 4PM-10PM, drive-thru only. Something weird is going on with employment. It's as if some of these big firms will suffer some huge penalty the moment their average wages go over a certain threshold.
The drive-thru only restriction is almost certainly because of COVID.
... But the hours restriction is interesting. I've noticed weird hours at the Taco Bell near my place, and this is probably purely anecdotal, but it does make me sort of wonder if there's something unique to Taco Bell making it hard for them to flesh out their hours.
This is the first time I have ever heard the claim that the CCP's hold on power is anything but rock solid. Unless you mean that specific leaders within the party have a tenuous hold against their party rivals.
Yes! It refers to that all web-applications are "just" CRUD-applications in the end, reading and writing data to and from a database (e.g. Angular and React).
For those of us who want to start an indie one-person SaaS, this is sobering - because it means that for a while, you’ll be doing all 50 of these jobs. And, paid far less than any of them.
No, you won't. Most of these jobs are consequences of scale, and exist to support it.
For example, you don't need any of the management jobs until you've hired enough people that you have to manage them. You don't need to do sales and customer management jobs when you have no sales and no customers. Etc.
Of the job titles that remain, these are all specializations. The projection of the work that you'll be doing onto any of the roles will be so small, that there's no point in even identifying it. E.g. you're not really doing "Dev Ops/Infra" if your project is running on a single server in whichever cloud you had the most free credits for.
For a indie one-person SaaS, this list is useful only as an identification of broad areas of concern. I wouldn't even try to read anything from relative number of any type of positions - jobs don't scale at the same rate. E.g. sales workload may grow faster than dev workload in B2C, the opposite in B2B.
Here's the good news: when it's just you, you don't need HR, because there are no interactions between employees, no hiring and no firing. Before you have any income, you barely need a CFO function, and so on and so forth.
Really, you only have about five roles:
- make the service
- run the service
- market the service
- accept money for the service
- support the service
I think there's room for (i.e. I think I'd read) an IndieHackers type site that focuses on one-man armies! Like IH has done in the past couple years you'd probably have to expand it, but even including <5ppl companies might still place a lot of success stories within arm's reach of OMA ambitions.
As much as I hate _Kelo vs. City of New London_, I can see the temptation in this case to invoke eminent domain and hand over those vacant properties to another private owner who will put them to good use.
The quotations excepted from his videos are unsettling but ultimately positive - apparently he’s talking about his journey to overcome anti-Semitism. But in a way, the central message is irrelevant. If you’re a VP of Developer Relations, you talk about one thing and one thing only, and you do that with measured, pleasant enthusiasm.
