jSully24

Zero.

Apple's response 4/28/2019: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/the-facts-about-paren...

Good people make any process look good.

No matter how amazing the process is, without good people, you’ll fail.

I like OKRs, but I benefit from being with smart people.

A very smimple approach previously discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16519819

“...cannot afford to eat more fruit and vegetables”

Worse than “can not afford”, they do not have access to fruit and veggis to start with. Do a search on “food desert” or “poor access fruit”. It is not good.

We use both Send Grid and Twilio. Twilio has been outstanding and their API is outstanding. I’m not worried about this merger.

Did a quick google on patents in this area and there are MANY! And, Thomas Edison even had concrete patents http://edison.rutgers.edu/cemepats.htm

https://www.google.com/search?&q=concrete+patent&oq=concrete...

From the post: “The virus affected computer systems of Tribune Publishing Co. Those systems are still shared by the Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times under a service agreement with Tribune, which owned both publications prior to their sale in June. The Union-Tribune and Times are now privately held, but are still transitioning away from the Tribune systems.

The attack seemed to begin late Thursday night and by Friday had spread to critical areas needed to publish the paper. Technology teams from both companies made significant progress against the threat, but were unable to clear all systems before press time.”

I'm curious if your team is ever able to be together in the same location and how often if you do? I'm a firm believer that remote can work, but by getting a chance to spend some time face to face, have dinner or a beer together, you learn a bit more about each other than you can via phone and video calls. That face time is very humanizing. You don't have to learn all about their family, dogs and cats, but you do learn more about their body language, how they like to work, many little things you just don't get when you're not face to face.

We are all so different about what we need for rest. Some need 9h, some need 6h. We all need to experiment. And many/most of us will not, or can not take the time to experiment.

I feel I can’t. So much to do...

Yes! For our latest round of machines we bought for our team were refurbished 2015 MBPs. A great machine.

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Could Apple's next "innovation" not be a consumer product but to own the chip world? The iPhone "just" being the beta test for the chips?

Yes. Yes it is. Your kickstarter commitment to this “worthy” cause is essentially saying you’ll be back with your $1.01 when we go live. And since $.99 was taken I had to go much higher.

I’m firing up a Kickstarter for Who’ll Pay $1.01.

Yes. I’ll get them up soon.

"nobody is going to say it's bad"

It's not about saying "it's bad". It's about talking about what might be better. Flat hierarchy or not, anyone should be able to bring up the topic.

And if you can't, that's a bad place to be working. There should be some kind of trust between people.

You don't need any kind of hierarchy to have real leaders. Every where I've been, you just step up and try to make it happen. Most of the time a bunch of other people are going to "thank you!". It won't always work and you can be diplomatic in how you approach it. But just make it happen and stop waiting for someone else to do it.

And if they, whomever they is, don't like it, move on.

Why can't the team agree on some norms of behavior for this very situation? We're supposed to be collaborating, so how about we all collaborate on where to take a phone call, what is and is not acceptable for noice in our work space? If we can or can not microwave fish leftovers and eat our desk? The important stuff.

A critical piece of making the open space work is people being open with another. For watching big events on tv, you can take that into a conference room too. Cheer all you want. Gotta call your partner or someone else? Go in a room.

I think this is a critical point for engineers to see, and it sends a great message for engineers joining a company: "You don't have to go to the mgmt. track to have great career growth."

In many organizations I have seen the deep technical skills one gains through their career are not valued in the same way "Mgmt. Skills" are. "Mgmt. skills" are or at least appear to be much easier for an organization to see and reward. This is a great story!

I was asked in an interview "What is the first thing you will change?" (I was interviewing for a Manager position, but I think this applies no matter the position you are being interviewed for.)

My response was - "I don't know. I need to spend time getting to know the team, understand our product, and better understand priorities."

I try to use this question in interviews with senior people, be they Developers or Managers. It can expose someone who will quickly blow your team up should they join. I like working with people who have great passion and will stand up for their ideas, but understanding the problem first is alway wise!

Getting to know people, products, and customers, (not that customers aren't people) with listening and questions makes everyone better.

I thought this was a parody on the impact of video games to our current population.

I was wrong.

Working remote is not for everyone. I was in a 100% remote position for 3 - 4 months and really missed the human contact. We had numerous calls, great tools for sharing, but for me personally I need to be around people.

Perhaps it would be better to remove "remote" from the title completely. You may have several locations where people can come together, don't call them headquarters and those not there remote, but instead everyone is team member who sits in various sites. Some of those sites have 1 person, others have 4 or 5 or 10. And those with more than an individual

"It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world."

There are many amazing places well beyond Silicon Valley for STEM careers. And in startups if that is the route you want to go. I'm in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. We have a vibrant startup community and the unemployment rate is near 0. No matter if you want to go startup, small company, or large, you can find it here with great pay and benefits.

The people here are fantastic. You can live in the city or suburbs for an affordable amount of money and escape the city in 30 minutes if you want to get away. Great place.

Not to mention Austin, Chicago, and so many more. Don't limit your looking to just the valley. There is much more out there.

Is the real question not about taxes but what to do about all this cash?

Taxes are necessary. But in the case of corporations I think the problem is not about what the right corporate tax rate should be but instead what does a company do when they effectively have so much cash they can not find good options to invest that money in.

If one of these companies suddenly reports a significant drop in cash due to aggressive investments in something that is failing (say, perhaps building an autonomous car) their stock will be punished, a very negative incentive.

The real question: is a company investing this cash the right thing to do? IMO it is, we want that money at work, building something. I don’t believe taxes can solve this. Instead can we need to find a way for companies to be able to invest this money in new ideas but not be so punitive via the markets when they try things that fail.

Dislike.

Especially the "No thanks, I don’t want to learn more." button to dismiss it. Pretty condescending in my opinion.

On mobile that popped up immediately. I did click on through and read the article despite that, but my interest in coming back to that site is diminished by the sense of arrogance displayed in that pop up.

Could you provide more details on what happened? It sounds like you have a mix of human issues, "users thing to hijack" and something with the product "terrible client support".

I'd be interested to understand what you ran into in more detail.