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The only way is mesh. It’s the only way to permanently stop it.

Awesome story. Very touching.

Maybe unsustainable in the traditional sense, but if they can negotiate contracts with the talent on their platform, that may be a different avenue for profitability.

I mean look at the success of Lil Nas X. Highly successful TikTok talent.

That’s my biggest gripe with stand ups. Management has as much if not more access to all the project management tools the developers do, so if they need a daily standup they should be able to get a sense of what’s going on simply by correctly using the tool.

“while being paid six figure salaries.“

And that’s still not enough! Think of the value we return to an organization, and we’re only paid six figures.

Ya know, you’re allowed to fight for the absolute best working conditions as a worker.

You’re perspective reeks of some sort of corporate shill. Like I should just be happy to even have a job however shitty the working conditions. That perspective keeps developers underpaid and stressed out.

“This stuff is always highly context dependent”

Well I think standups, on average across all possible developer contexts, are useless.

To put another way, standups are likely to be useless regardless of context.

“It help immensely with production as your colleagues often help keep things from falling through the cracks.”

But your job as a developer is to not have this happen. It’s nothing something that would be a nice to have, you’re supposed to always keep your team informed about potential gaps. The standup is designed to catch gaps but really that should be something you should already be doing.

Yup. This situation is about to get somewhat complicated.

Many American C-level execs at many large tech companies are huge pro basketball fans.

I can save ya even more time and you can just call business software: software.

It’s 2019, software is the business. There’s no need for the redundant “business” prepended to it.

I've recently been very intrigued about executive pay.

Because your average work makes like, what, 1/1000 of what an executive makes. But those 1000 workers help that executive earn very high compensation, but then I guess managing 1000 workers is 1000 times more valuable than the work those workers do.

But all that sounds like an idea an executive would invent to justify earning 1000x more than what an average worker makes.

It's fascinating to watch first hand, management's inability to properly estimate project timelines. I think it's from a lack of really digging in and solving the thousands of tiny problems that eventually add up to solving whatever larger problem it is the general organization was trying to solve originally.

Instead, I've seen mostly attacking a problem head on which involves a really inordinate about of planning, more planning, some execution, and then more planning. Planning so much, that timelines must be altered to make room for more planning.

That's been my experience though.

I believe the desire to blow through timelines planning instead of executing, is born out of fear and what I call the sensation of movement. Fear because management doesn't want to mess up and miss something important. The sensation of movement causes management to incorrectly perceive work is being done.

At the end of all of this, nothing is done because no one has done any of the work to accomplish it, they've only been planning.

This thread annoys the shit out of me! What are we talking about?! Y’all are like “man Apple sucks so I develop for Android now”

We only have two options?!? That’s fucked up! This is not at all an okay state for software development ecosystem!

There’s a virtual monopoly on consumer applications! That’s the actual, real problem!

“Is he worth that much though?”

Of course he is. He is(was) about to help Google make many billions of dollars of which he and his team would only ever see a very small fraction.

“Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google”

God forbid an engineer get paid what he’s actually worth.

If anything he should’ve been paid much more. The automobile industry is a multi trillion dollar industry he’d be be disrupting.

Honestly, Google may have been paying him to “die” like tech companies do sometimes as rationale for acquisition: to eliminate competition.

Maybe he picked up on it and decided to move on.

Google doesn’t own technology he invented.

I'm pretty green but I love how they break things out comma-separated like "Z, Y, X from years C, B, A, respectively"

Feels slightly awkward as you have to make the associations in your head(Z to C, Y to B, etc.) but actually gives a way better sense of progress.

I absolutely love that they shared the dataset. Hopefully deters future bad actors as the raw data itself will be shared with the greater public and hopefully for greater analysis.

I think the biggest realization I've ever had is that things take time away. The sensation of procrastination happens when you feel the "thing you need to do" should take some smaller constrained amount of time, usually in days or weeks or sometimes months.

But if you can stomach that the thing may take years or even a decade, you'd feel much less like you were procrastinating.

In addition, if you assume that the thing will always be done piecemeal, here and there, or when you can remember to do it say like cleaning a room or organizing a thing, then that can also alleviate the sensation of procrastination.

The sensation tends to occur when you maintain a false belief that the things you need to get done should take hours or days instead of weeks or years.

When there's this much money floating around, it's not surprising it brings out the worst in people.

“Our core "business logic" lives in Rust.”

Uh oh. So immediately you do understand that you have taken on the risk of potentially being unable to find any good(or bad) Rust engineers in the future, correct? Also they won’t be cheap as there won’t be many of them.

A smarter, business-friendly, future-proof approach would be to have done that in Java. Future you will want you to have done that in Java, but if you’re trying to retain good engineers maybe I get the Rust thing.

YouTube sets the rates it pays creators not the advertisers. A union would require YouTube doesn't arbitrarily change the rates it pays it's creators and also might be able to prevent them from instantly demonetizing videos. A union would create stability in the marketplace.

For example, if you're contracted to do a job, the client doesn't usually arbitrarily change the rates it's paying you unless you have some contractual agreement to do so(overtime, paid leave, etc.).

But that's built into the original contract during negotiations.

YouTube is just "here read this shit and do what we say and we can pay you or choose not to pay you or change what we pay you whenever we feel like it whether you like it or not"

“Of course, to be honest, the consequences usually fell on a more junior programmer who had to deal with an irate developer that had something unexpectedly stop working when I tore up the code to make it “better”.”

Ye people like you kinda suck.

Unfortunately, you’re just now learning that maybe the new implementation isn’t “better” but that it’s just...new.

And now it’s slowed down the team too. I know it’s John Carmack, but still it’s not very collaborative nor empathetic towards your coworkers to plow through code like you’re the only one working on it.

it blows my mind that people don't understand that c-level people at corporations literally legally cannot have control of their own stock in this capacity. it sells off at predetermine intervals throughout the year set by accountants that aren't made known to the executive. this just a another example of that.

The heart of the problem is that neo-nazi's are secretly compiling lists of opponents they wish to harm.

Unfortunately for the current administration, it would be cheaper to remove them from office that it would be to comply with their investigation. A future administration may be much friendlier towards tech.

Big tech will likely drag this out as long as they can.

"Only 7 of them could be reproduced with reasonable effort. For these methods, it however turned out that 6 of them can often be outperformed with comparably simple heuristic methods, e.g., based on nearest-neighbor or graph-based techniques. "

Ha. I get a feeling there's alotta overpaid data scientists out there.

timing clearly is everything

Hopefully this is just US-based employee surveillance as this type of employee-data data mining is strictly illegal in Germany.

"I heard he purchased a bunch of real estate and then lease them to WeWork and made a killing."

Clearly an ethical guy we're dealing with here. I'm sure this will all pan out well down the road.

Fascinating. A microSD card is 0.5 grams. I could tape one of these to a postcard, overnight for $25 using USPS and probably achieve a faster data rate than I could if I just send it over the air.

"That's fine."

idk the suits have a very different viewpoint; 30 minutes of downtime for a large financial system isn't fine. it can be very costly.