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danccon AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

Someone wrote about Bending Spoons' history and playbook:

https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/bending-spoons-operating-ma...

I enjoyed this part:

No On-Call Rotations: Bending Spoons aims to build systems so reliable that they eliminate the need for on-call rotations. This is unusual in the tech industry, where on-call duties are standard to promptly address system issues.

For most of their products, they have no on-call schemes at all. Engineers are encouraged to think through all corner cases to ensure robustness, knowing there is no fallback like an on-call team.

danccon Where to find ideas

"We are looking for a person who has an unavoidable priority, where their current options are insufficient or unworkable. This person would be weird not to buy our product."

So in other words, a market need or underserved niche.

danccon We're bringing Pebble back

It sounds difficult to make a definitive statement based on the findings of the referenced paper:

"Overall, the vitamin content of the frozen commodities was comparable to and occasionally higher than that of their fresh counterparts. β-Carotene, however, was found to decrease drastically in some commodities."

It was occasionally lower, too.

danccon Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?

Have you read 1984? It's quite useful for discussing the state of the real world.

danccon Show HN: Engineering Book Club

I'd participate - I find it much more engaging to read and discuss with others.

danccon Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

https://peel.fm/0eeddb0

I'm having too much fun with this. Thanks!