I think the circumstantial evidence is sufficient to figure it out.
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And what do they all say? “We should have launched sooner.”
That’s what happens when the goal of the vast majority of startups is not to build an actual business. Their goal is to “get funded”. It just feels rotten.
There’s an epidemic of “minimum viable” when it comes to software, and that results in flying really close to “not viable”.
Keen was/is great, but Mario 3 and Mario World are on the shortlist for best game ever.
The man is still the Commander-in-Chief. Anyone of limited mental faculties (which clearly describes President Biden), irrespective of their politics, should not be in the chair if they are not of sound mind. Consequently, I believe the responsible act would be for President Biden to resign the Presidency and allow his Vice President to take the mantle.
| Even the Republicans aren’t likely to try that.
I actually don't think it's in the Republicans best interest to do so. Tactically, the Democrats would be wise to let Kamala Harris sit in the Oval Office and make her the nominee. It would legitimize her as both a nominee and a candidate. Given that isn't happening, the cynic in me believes that suggests the Democrats don't want her as their candidate.
Regardless, the political machinations are irrelevant. It is irresponsible for Joe Biden to continue as President given he is obviously unfit to continue as the nominee.
I love the work they do. I wish they did more with what they have. And then I wish they had more to work with.
When they are constrained, like they are with spacecraft already in flight, their ability to problem solve with the tools and systems they have available is absolutely impressive.
Godspeed.
Not without reading the questioner’s mind. Or maybe if the AI had access to your social credit score, it could decide what information you should be privy to. </sarc>
Seriously though, it’s all about who gets to decide what “safe” means. It seemed widely understood letting censors be the arbiters for “safe” was a slippery slope, but here we are two generations later as if nothing was learned.
Turns out most are happy to censor as long as they believe they are the ones in charge.
Truth is, any company that makes getting a job an awful experience (despite every incentive to the contrary) won’t be any better once you’re an employee.
Generally, desktop email clients (and email in general) feel due for disruption.
Additionally, they’ve formalized activities that happens organically in most teams and seem convinced they’ve done something novel.
I thought Shop Class as Soulcraft was excellent and found the author's theories on the lack of job and life satisfaction among those doing "knowledge work" compelling.
It reminded me of the movie Margin Call when Kevin Spacey's character, who manages a trading floor for a wall street investment firm, laments that if he'd been a ditch digger, at least he'd have a bunch of holes left behind as evidence he accomplished something.
Master: “whom, may I ask, is asking?”
Well yes, that’s precisely why they are lobbying for it.
But instead, this will just be a signal to any employers still on the fence to get out of California as soon as you’re able.
I work remote. I’m happy to work remote. And for that convenience, I’m willing to accept that there are some costs - electricity, water, heating and cooling - that I’m taking on. Why the government (and my fellow voters who choose to empower their government in this way) doesn’t allow me the agency to choose my own employment cost-benefits and trust that I can take care of myself continues to baffle.
- rim brakes are easier to maintain. Disc brake DIY maintenance required equipment and expertise beyond most riders.
- rim brakes are more than adequate for the riding the average avid cyclist does.
- A rim brake bike that has been sitting in the garage needs little TLC and service to get back in service, in contrast to a much more expensive and time-consuming effort to get a hydraulic disc back in service.
- rim brakes create torque at beefier parts of the frame (where they are mounted) than at the end of the fork and end of the chain-stays and seat-stays
There is no question a quality disc brake is better at braking than its rim brake counterpart. But generally it was a solution in search of a problem and makes cycling even more out of reach for most consumers despite the industry lamenting for decades that ridership was flat despite a growing population.
No mistake, disc brakes offer better braking power and a superior braking experience to rim brakes but the difference is nowhere as big as it used to be.
I see them a lot on LinkedIn.
Where each sentence is its own paragraph.
Or maybe two sentences, where the first is normal but the second? It's succinct.
It's the textual equivalent of an Instagram filter, delivering generic ideas in a dramatic way.
Make it stop.
So in sum, it all worked out. But there was definitely a stretch were I chewed my fingernails down to the quick.
I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did.
For a soon-to-graduated Comp Sci student, Enron put on an amazing presentation. The interview was onsite at Enron headquarters. They took the candidates to dinner one evening, put us up in a nice hotel, and spent all day the next day grilling us in panel interviews, having us work individual problems, and challenging groups of interviewees with team problems. It was calculated, thorough, and to this day it's the most comprehensive and satisfying interview experience I've ever had. Driving home, I knew they had successfully sifted our group to identify who the best candidates were.
The job market was also really tough in late 2001, with the dotcom bust and 9/11 making it challenging to find good opportunities. If memory serves, some of the other options I was considering at the time were to write PowerBuilder for an old-school oil company and maintain Fortran for a small, decades-old engineering firm. Enron, in comparison, seemed like a godsend.
Enron was opulent. Enron paid well. The software people seemed genuinely interested in what they were doing. Everyone seemed smart and ambitious. We were shown one room that was an open workspace and each desk had a pair of flat panel monitors (this was three years before I bought the first flat panel for my home PC and years before I had two screens at home). Enron was as sexy to a software professional as any workplace in the world in its time.
I knew there was some drama surrounding the company, but I was generally oblivious to the details. I was overwhelmed with a 16-hour course load, a student job slinging C++ for a local consultancy, and a job search. While onsite, a few better-informed candidates asked some of the employees about the brewing scandals. The Enron folks shrugged it off. They believed in the company and believed in the work they were doing.
I had a great interview and left really excited. A week later I got a call from their recruiter and was told they liked me and an offer was incoming. I was stoked. Then, silence. Maybe the Thanksgiving holidays were the reason for the delay, I thought. In another week or two, the Enron collapse was headline news. Every single Enron employee I had interacted with was out of a job, and the prospect of thousands of Enron employees hitting the market simultaneously made my job search even tougher.
Enron provided me and my fellow interviewees some SWAG while we were there. I had a hat, a clear plastic mug, and a few other items. I sold them for a dollar at a garage sale a few years later.
They seem to largely be lemmings, calling plays out of the same playbook.