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		eru on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer... It might be an interesting experiment to have each employee start their cycles (review cycle, or quarterly numbers for sales etc) on a random offset.

rzzzt on Aug 3, 2021 [–]

(This is what one should do with cron jobs so they don't hammer the server at exactly the same time.)

eru on Aug 4, 2021 | [–]

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