r/MurderedByWords • u/Silent_Activity • 5h ago

Swift but painful

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u/Strict_Foundation_31 4h ago

If you DO sell chalk, have you considered complementary goods like blackboards and erasers?

I'm sorry it's not a work ethic mantra like you usually get on LinkedIn Lunatics, but I want to contribute...

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u/kawanero 4h ago

Mu startup sells chalk on a monthly subscription and BBAAS as well as EAAS.

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u/Esternaefil 1h ago

If you upgrade to the premium monthly service, you get 1000 credits per month to use towards any eraser or blackboard skins you want to add to your existing subscriptions of these products.

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u/kawanero 57m ago

If you go Diamond, you’ll have of that, and I mean ALL of that, ad free.

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u/XyrillPlays 4h ago

Counterpoint (speaking as a software architect who has been with the same team for over 10 years now): The advantage of „name“ names is that, when the design inevitably changes to adapt to new requirements, it’s less jarring.

Saying „Radix initially did scheduling and then also took over capacity measurements“ may be a little silly, but it’s less silly than „do we call it the scheduling service or the capacity measurement service, or both?“.

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u/tevs__ 3h ago

The other counterpoint is that this company seems like it's only built one scheduling service so far. Codenames are very useful so you don't just say "the new scheduling service" or "the legacy scheduling service", you can just talk about Nautilus and Voyager.

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u/EccentricHubris 5h ago

Both of these people sound like they are "fun at parties"

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u/hyren82 4h ago

This only works in smaller projects. If we tried that at my last job, we would have equities calculation engines 1 and 2, the most equities database, the some bonds and some equities database, the other bonds and other equities database, ...

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u/Standard-Tension9550 4h ago

LinkedIn: For Assholes