Same. This film made me believe that it was possible to be cool and find a social group that were all in to tech. I grew up in a really rural area so this revelation of possibility, whether actually practical or not, heavily influenced my trajectory in life and in tech. It’s still one of my most sentimentally favorite movies of all time.
I have a hard time disabling ad block on sites of this ilk due to their tendency to inject malware into their JS to prey on the unsavvy. I don’t trust that if I enable JS I won get hit with an aggressive malware / zeroday.
The main cause is the proliferation of social media. There's other factors of course, and I'm not dismissing any of the depth of nuance of all the externalities acting on that generation, but it's undoubtedly the thing that our societies and social structures aren't designed for: facebook and instagram.
Did they control for industry? When looking at something like revenue you so much of your outcomes at early stages are functions of externalities as much as they are from how you organize and operate. Did they control for business model? This sample just seems super unrepresentative and cherry picked for an outcome.
The quicker the technorati accept that Mastadon will never have mass adoption even remotely close to Twitter, the better. Glad Mastadon is doing its thing being like the IRC of twitter or whatever, but there's absolutely no way it ever truly competes. It should just be happy being a niche product for a niche audience.
After reading through this I am convinced that the author learned nothing novel outside of fundamental operations methods I regularly see deployed at companies of all shapes and sizes.
Well in the defense of everyone that hated it: the show was unequivocally awful in every way imaginable. The writing was bad. The acting was bad. The casting was bad. The costuming was bad. If they would have done a shot for shot, line for line live action remake, it would have done well, but the hubris of the people producing it would never let that happened.
Ah yes, the 1000 word useless collection of thoughts on a nuanced and dense topic, followed by a flurry of kvetching and outlier horror stories in the comments. Classic HN work organization and management discussion.
The environments were compelling enough I guess, but for me the true magic came from giant numbers popping up when I would hit things. Get something with multiple critical strikes in vanilla wow was so singularly satisfying. I couldn’t tell you anything interesting about the map, but I can tell you where I was when I hit my first two handed mace triple crit as a wind fury shaman in pvp. Big numbers and dead opponents. Pure joy.
Since they’re launching in SF will the autonomous Cruise vehicles be available to queue as get away cars for coordinated shoplifting sprees and/or parked car looting runs?
Same here, really worked exceptionally well with our child. We just chipped away at a couple of lessons in the evenings most week days. Worked surprisingly well.
I love how a bunch of the "headline features" of Hey are effectively replicated with taking the time to make a few rules in another platform. I tried Hey at the peak of it's pre-release hype, but just like Basecamp, it's just a really mediocre experience in a sea of options.
I think it's quite the loss for the US to allow a foreign company to gain controlling interest in such a cutting edge firm. Some of what they've built I'd have to imagine could be of very real national interest as it relates to any of the military applications.
At a (perhaps generous) average of $120K per employee, a week off would cost $1.5MM - given how broadly this will get picked up and circulated in the media, it'll get more eyeballs than 1.5MM spent on mobile or search ads most likely.
The introduction of the idea of a "Market-focused" company is so trivial and unimaginative here that I can't think for a second anyone worth their salt as an operator would do much more than roll their eyes. This kind of content that creates these sort of false dichotomies that capture some bad aspects of poor business strategy and then present some idea where you correct these wrongs as novel is just so... brutally uninteresting. The fact that this stuff floats to the top of HN as become as unsurprising as it is disappointing. Some "bad thing bad" title that people don't even bother reading gets pumped up, and then when you take a moment to dig in and digest the content, it's a whole bunch of nothin'.
Was this post written by a machine as some weird test to see how the community would react? This seems like a mechanically contrived lack of self awareness that just seems too ridiculous to be real. This is not a sarcastic post.
Some of the top hits have questionable human rights histories and in some case significant crime rates. This list seems to just be another “hey it’s cheap here and there’s decent population density ergo, services available”. Why not consider safety and political stability etc in the grading of remote location quality?
Eh people will be salty about the Salesforce name but honestly their acquisition of Heroku hasn't caused me any pains regarding our experience with that platform. I'm as skeptical as anyone else, and I think there's more risk in a tighter "integration" making it a miserable experience. Might be a good time in the market for a new Slack competitor!