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maartn | 10 months ago | on: Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS

Please give it an easier command name than ‘sapphire’ if you want to win people over to use it. Double in size and three times as hard to remember (or type) than ‘brew’. Even cli peeps are still just people

maartn | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?

Microsoft did a very interesting research about this amongst 60k+ employees. Read it to find out why serendipity is a good thing and hardening already existing relationships is not good for the whole:

“Furthermore, the shift to firm-wide remote work caused employees to spend a greater share of their collaboration time with their stronger ties, which are better suited to information transfer, and a smaller share of their time with weak ties, which are more likely to provide access to new information.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4

maartn | 4 years ago | on: European alternatives for digital products

I don’t know who runs this but it’s definitely incomplete. Too bad the “European alternative” to webchat doesn’t even work on mobile. Maybe that’s the reason why it’s so incomplete

maartn | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Advice on Finding Manufacturers?

1 Work with a local party during development. We worked with a local party that co-owns a factory in CN. Will not do it again. Even they had trouble communicating the right information and requirements. It took at least 6 to 8 weeks before we had a next iteration in our hands. We had to do about 8 iterations before the product was OK and 12 before it was exactly right... We will develop our next product locally and only when the mould tooling is finished will we possibly look for remote manufacturing. 2 Have non-manufacturer eyes on the floor in the factory do checks during production. 3 Request certification of the materials and coloring.
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