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My how things change. Last year my manager and director at Google wouldn’t let me be away from the office to work from another location for 2 weeks without forcing me to take a family leave. To quote “remote doesn’t work, if you can’t be in the office you need to take a leave or vacation”. Apparently those two L7 geniuses weren’t consulted before this decision :)

The issue with the study is this was an “unexpected and unplanned” work from home situation.

If a team or employee had better preparation I would expect mostly positive results (ie tools, processes , and employee had time to prepare workspaces, kids at school, etc)

Our industry has created this mess thanks to that stupid crackin “book” and process designed by someone who never actually worked as a software engineer or released and maintained an actual product.

When I “cracked” my Google interview and got the job, I joined a team I never met. Of course we all could code , since we “cracked it”, but did I enjoy the team dynamics or team culture? Nice people but if they were a 10 person startup I wouldn’t choose them or would they have been successful.

None of the social dynamics which are important to teams was there or even fostered, acknowledged.

You just did a transfer and kept fishing.

Why, b/c Google just believe coding skills are all that mattered.

Yet they matter, but so do other things.

As systems get more complex, whether they need to be or not, the issue I believe is no one takes the time to explain or document why. They just plow ahead building complex stuff at times seemingly so they can say “look at this complex system I built to solve that really hard edge case”. When 99% of the use cases were already solved.

I tried a world without Apple and lasted 2 months. I switched to a top of the line Pixel phone (which is now in a box) and top of the link thinkpad. (Sold it for next to nothing).

Overall I am glad we have choices. Everyone should make the ones that work for them.

Give Google can’t make a decent android phone or watch after significant acquisitions and investments, building real amazing things that make your life better is hard.

I’m glad lots of people still are trying hard.

Shocking.

Google is a private company. They should be allowed to do whatever they want. They are not a government.

I had some positive outcomes using Postgres and Mongo as essentially a front end cache. The use case was unique in that all of the spark/etl jobs ran against postgres, which then triggered caching workers to build up a more document oriented cache that the front end talked to. Essentially allowing the front end to get a KV on steroids and documents already prepared well to be rendered and pre joined.

Against a specific use case. I was never burned by Mongo, but I wouldn’t choose it if I had to have one backend only. It lends itself nicely as part of an ecosystem imho

A lot of the mask usages in Japan are to help with allergies

Guessing one of the highest velocity teams on the planet

So little time, so many people wasting it taking money from VCs

Too bad we can’t name things simply with less Grandiosity and cleverness.

Just call it leaf, cheese, or poppy.

Cheese 2.0 that’s some killer tech

Mostly agree but the musician analogy. McCartney is a master of none player. The best bands constantly reinvent their sound and structure exploring and starting over.

The premise here is starting over or learning new languages resets you to Zero.

I disagree.

VCs represent everything wrong about technology. You need them like you need the Mafia.

[a] industry paradox.[a], by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism.

Replace a with basically anything people do.