Yes but the point is you don't always get time or feedback. If you are sending 20 emails a day plus a couple dozen IM/text messages you have to be fast and accurate. Hell even when you are careful you can screw things up. People that screw things up less make a better impression at their jobs, so pretending like you'll get feedback, and a couple months to fix it is kind of silly. The other problem is even if time for feedback is available often its otherwise impractical. I have an issue with a report I need to bring up to my boss or HR: I can't really ask a peer to write what my opinion is for me both because they can't say what it is and there's privacy issues. Same thing with cover your ass memos, or trying to explain to your boss why they are wrong in a way that doesn't piss them off etc.

Basically yes. But if the improvement doesn't happen I guess so shouldn't the improved marks. Starting with the premise that some students come into university ready to write A papers and some don't ... so what? I mean sure it sucks there's bad schools out there, that some kids have to work to help support their families or english as a second language or many other possible reasons. But at the end of the day: can the kid write an A paper?

Fine if she pushes off the evaluation to the final just I hope she isn't grading on a curve depending on her judgement of how advantaged or disadvantaged the kids were coming into her course. I don't see how that helps anyone, them on their next class when they are that much further behind the good students or society when the kids fall out the end of the college pipeline rubber stamped with a degree and looking just like the "real" college grads that actually earned their degrees.

The other thing pointed out by others: is a lot of the time, hell most of the time in business writing, you don't get a second chance. That email to a customer, or that description of deliverables for a contract, or email to HR etc you have one chance to get it out the door, often without someone else to give you their notes first and it better be pretty close to perfect the first time cause no ones going to read your edited version a week from now when you finally figure out what you should have written or even if they do the consequences have already happened.

Left off intentionally to make it a race?

Well if they give your character hard to get perks otherwise the gear is valuable. If you are spending your time in WoW anyways might as well be winning. NFTs though really don't get. You "own" something everyone else has free access to. I might as well "own" some porn I downloaded. Sure you can see it too but I "own" it so my spank the monkey time is more worthy than yours.

Haha yeah that was my first thought too. I assume they are thinking sea level raise is going to accelerate but yeah they have Vatican level of future planning.

Analogous situations have existed for a long time and have been settle law for longer than we've been alive I believe. Ex documents in a safe: they aren't protected you have to give them the combo and/or they can cut open the safe. I highly doubt the courts are going to treat electronic stuff as special in a way that prevents investigations just because when you say I'm not giving you the password there's no way for them to force the electronic safe. Courts said investigators have met the burden for them to get to do the search and you're the one preventing them ... it won't end well for you.

100%. Only thing they did wrong imo is change their mind who gets what feature. IMO but I don't run a multi billion dollar business, best to try to get these things right the first time and if you screw up and don't have enough extras on the paid thing vs the free thing eat it. Not worth the bad press. Ship a little feature light and tout a .1 release with another tasty feature for the paid crowd as a bone to throw them instead of taking the "opps" away from the free folks.

Sure but I'm back in the world with real people in the room and again asymmetry. People can run meetings better but in my experience rarely do. Whoever's called the meeting knows what they want to talk about and have a laundry list of questions they want answers to. It then becomes a quiz show for the technical folks to spit out how and how long it'd take to do things in a 1hr meeting against a least of questions the business folks spent a day putting together. Takes them a day to list what they want to ask but we are supposed to answer their questions while they continually interrupt in a short meeting. Give me the transcript of that shit all you want it's complete bs.

Are they kidding? I get it you get facial cues and quicker back and forth. But you also don't get cut and pasted professionally diagrams, links to sources, snippets of code etc etc.

You also can't easily refer back to the conversation later. At best you have what you remember/think the guy said at the meeting last week. Email: you can refresh your memory, use it as a checklist for features etc etc.

Lastly and hugely important: meetings are prone to ad hoc very complicated questions. I hate being put on the spot: hey what's involved in moving this desktop app we've been developing for 12 yrs into cloud based db and SaaS model, and will it be profitable take your time you have 2min. Very susceptible to the best bullshitter in the room overselling their/your team's capabilities. You then go off and burn a week trying to meet stupid deadlines for impractical projects you've gotten volunchose into.

I much much prefer these offline communications for anything technical. Better to spend an hour thinking about the answer to this crap than instinctively commit to something that turns out to be stupid. It also has the right social consequences I think in that the guy with the original dumb idea doesn't get to leave the room with a room full of people thinking how great they are at getting stuff done then you a few days later be the bad guy pulling out of commitments. Instead they ask something stupid. One hour later the group (or them individually if you're being nice) get a 1 pg response enumerating all the ways that was a really dumb idea. Said stupid person then learns to ask one on one first before piling on with a roomful of your peers and superiors.

Techinical decisions shouldn't be made because you can fill a room with people that really really wish it should be the case but can't be bothered allowing you the time to think. Somehow they need a month and a retreat to come up with a new commission structure for the sales team, but completely rearchitecting a product is a question in a weekly meeting between wishing Mary a happy birthday and picking pizza toppings for lunch.

Yeah good point. I know if it happened to me and I felt safe enough to do so I'd probably ask for a raise too. Ok I'm going to eat a 40% pay drop but have settled for cost of living increases for the last few years. Time for you to upgrade me from team lead to senior team lead and give me my 30% pay bump I'm now worth, oh and then this years seniority and cost of living adjustment too. Now lets talk about what my Podunk salary should be given all that.

There's a fairly large cost to rehire/train a position so it makes sense to throw a bone to those that need to stay near by because for example their spouse has a job that isn't remote locally, or actually have roots locally.

Plus I think a bit of fairness for similarly skilled jobs but that by nature require you to be on site. Say the folks running the on prem CD systems that occasionally actually need to physically hands on server stuff. Both them and a dev say masters level education, 5yrs with company making 150k a year. I guess end of the day it is what it is but would kind of suck if the server monkey gets to keep the 150k and not have to worry about moving but the code monkey has to pick up and move to the boons if they want to be able to put ramen on the table.

Basically, sucks but counter argument too: you're doing the same job as your co-worker so why should you live twice as nice just because you live in Podunk, Arkansas?

Start from a clean start and start hiring people again from scratch wherever they happen to be. The folks who are required to live in driving distance of Mountain View will command higher salaries than the Podunk folks cause you'd be competing for them against other high paying employers near by and cost of living.

Taxing people because of citizenship not residency is stupid. if your going to be stupid people will work around it. A drop in the bucket making up for all the expats still sending checks back to the fatherland while living in the UK or whatever.

I'd argue that once PC clones were popular OS/2 was doomed. IBM battled just like Apple would if they sold their OS to competitors between keeping it exclusive and allowing the Compaq's of the world access to it. When win 95 came around they really dragged their feet coming to an agreement with MS to license and IBM PCs became defacto a statement "that thing that might not be able to run the new shiny" pushing people quicker to something other than an actual IBM PC away from OS/2 etc. Essentially, not having to be brand loyal won out vs picking the better tech. I can go somewhere else, run something else and I won't be locked into a vendor trying to shovel their crap (whether it's crap or not) onto me all the time.

I don't know so much about that. MS largely single handedly brought the core software suite needed for business. Office suite, OS, directory services, email, then later db, CRM, etc. They also brought a very popular development environment for business internal apps a la VB and the like. Once a companies picked a platform and started spending years building internal apps and processes around it it's basically impossible to switch. Then when you want to switch there's MS offering O365, hosted Exchange and AD, and tools to port your on prem to their Cloud.

Anyways, not sure that the market had a huge room for a lot of players, maybe not MS but I think a few major players would have picked one of OS makers standardized along it and pulled along all their suppliers etc. Things would have weeded themselves out to the 2-3 options just like the cellphone OS industry.