From Deadspin to picket lines, a moral workplace is 2020's stealth issue - <AUTHOR> https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/deadspin-gm-chicago-teachers-strike-worker-rights-medicare-20191105.html <comment><USER2> The GM strikes devastated many of the local suppliers, which were forced to layoff employees. Some people never got their jobs back and these businesses still haven't recovered.

One of the main complaints is that they don't want GM to sell more electric cars.

The reason is that it requires a different set of skills (more engineering/software and less blue-collar mechanic work).

Instead of the unions educating their members and helping them transition to a new position, they instead strike and use mob tactics to prevent advancements in technology.

<comment><USER3> It seems like the strike is primarily about keeping jobs and healthcare while raising wages:

""" Union demands for job security, higher base wages and retaining arguably the best health care coverage in the private sector are certain to clash with GM's plan to negotiate the shutdown of four U.S. plants and its push to close the cost gap with non-union foreign automakers operating mostly in the American South. """

[https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel-...](https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/columnists/daniel- howes/2019/09/10/uaw-demands-profits-gm-cost-cuts-portend-potential- strike/2267255001/)

""" STEVE GORALSKI: We've got a company that had $35 billion in profits in the last few years. We've got temporaries that have been here over seven years and are still temporaries, and they're asking for more temporaries. They're moving our plants out of country; they're taking them to Mexico and to China. And now they're asking for concessions on our healthcare. I don't know about you, but that's the only reason I took this job. I used to have my own drywall company. I took it for the benefits. """ [https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strike...](https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/uaw_nationwide_strikes_gm)</comment></comment>


CSS Animations: The Untold Story - <AUTHOR> http://greensock.com/css-performance

<comment><USER2> If you need advanced animations for things like interactive experiences of very complex scenarios, then a fully fledged animation lib is the right tool for the job, and GSAP is an excellent choice.

If you need fairly simple things like sliding panels, off-canvas menus, fades, and other common flourishments, CSS is always going to be the winner in terms of performance and lower overhead.

Look at it this way: No matter how good JS-driven animation libs get at tweening, syncing frames, and playing in the DOM, they'll never be able to beat the browser itself in the long term.

JS performance in V8 and SpiderMonkey is so good that we get to be competitive with the browser itself when it comes to things like animating. That's awesome! However, no matter how many tricks or strategies libs exploit and leverage, the browser will always have the upper hand. You're running inside of it and abiding by its rules, after all.

Thanks for the article. The video was interesting and the comment section has some good discussion.

I didn't see mention of mobile in the article, which I think is where the performance characteristics of both approaches will really become apparent. I'd be very interested in seeing these benchmarks on iOS and Android devices.</comment>


The Secret Uber Data That Could Fix Your Commute - <AUTHOR> https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ubers-coughing-data-nyc-fix-commute/ <comment><USER2> If they want the data, they should pay for it.</comment>


Alamofire – Elegant Networking in Swift - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire

<comment><USER2> I went to the Meetup yesterday. Matt was talking about how it's not a replacement for AFNetworking, It's a completely rethought framework.

Also AFNetworking is going to be still maintained. He made it sound like if you're working in Obj-C you should use AFNetworking, Alamofire for Swift; two completely different entities.

I'm sure there will be a blog post soon.

</comment><comment><USER3> Can't track down any other info on this new repo - guess it's a replacement for AFNetworking purely written in Swift? Mattt gave a talk on the future of AFNetworking on Wednesday...does anyone have any links to such? Super curious to see what the plan is!

<comment><USER4> The official announcement is coming up soon. Stay tuned :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Here is the talk page: [http://www.meetup.com/new-york-ios- developer/events/19503920...](http://www.meetup.com/new-york-ios- developer/events/195039202/)</comment>


Ask HN: How do you guys manage your photos? - <AUTHOR>

Simple as dropbox, google drive?
Or do you have external hard drives in Raid  1 config?
Something different? <comment><USER2> What do you mean "manage"? Backup? View? Share?

</comment><comment><USER3> Flickr + Backups (local and online)</comment>


Andreessen Horowitz Is Both Right and Wrong - <AUTHOR> http://www.littlebarbarian.com/andreessen-horowitz-is-both-right-and-wrong/#more-111 <comment><USER2> "It's not hard to generate massive revenue's with a really bad business model. One case study is Groupon and how, at one point, they were spending almost 80% of revenues on marketing."

I've found the amount of marketing spend required to _sustain_ revenue to be a contrarian indicator.

While "if you build it they will come" doesn't work in a pure sense (in most cases), if you have a good product and business model it should "take off" on its own at some point after you've primed the pump. It should not require you to constantly ram it down the market's throat to sustain revenue. If revenue has no "buoyancy" without marketing pushing on it, that's an indicator of something that people maybe don't really want/need that much.

For example: if Apple ceased all of their marketing spend I would expect a small revenue dip and a dip in growth but not a huge one. Their revenues would not crash and burn. That's because people like them and tell their friends and that would sustain some level of growth even without marketing spend.

</comment><comment><USER3> Don't forget the Horowitz in Andreessen Horowitz.

Ben Horowitz is an authority on management and I bet a17z investments get as much focus on sustainability and fundamentals as anyone.

I recommend his blog [http://www.bhorowitz.com/](http://www.bhorowitz.com/), and there's a book based on it too. It's a level headed management blog with far less future gazing than you'd expect.</comment>