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Lolol. Would delete my comment if I could. Ah, well, I still wish them well. :D

Wow, looks like I am not doing that. oxide.host is an entirely different company.

Uh no I just rent a box from them.

I must admit that I am much more unsophisticated than this, and yet I "invested" in Oxide (by running my own projects off Oxide servers), and it is gratifying to see them continue to grow. My (naive) assessment: (a) agreed with Cantrill's opinions on software, (b) liked his willingness to put himself out there, and (c) felt the eng blogs showed a high level of (socio-)technical ability.

I think for the internet to break out of walled gardens, high-quality independent datacenters need to exist -- nobody wants to manage their own datacenters, and nobody wants to rely on Google/Amazon/Microsoft's platforms or (even worse) business products. I hope this continues.

Thankfully they can still work from home the other two days.

How much does developer happiness really play a role?

Probably significant in terms of speed of development, time spent maintenance projects, etc

> which $0.35 gasket to replace

I’m sorry, but can it actually do that??

There’s a place for DRM and similar protections, I don’t think they’re going anywhere.

But I’m still hopeful that phone, email, web, voip, videochat, photo and video editing, location, maps, document sync, etc, will one day work seamlessly on FOSS devices.

I do think that the apps will have to be recreated as FOSS, existing apps will always be antagonistic because they get a lot of revenue from being able to control how/when/where the software is run.

Morbidly curious what would actually happen in this scenario.

What are they going to do, talk at us?

How are the computers so bad?? I don't know why, but it's personally embarrassing to me as a developer.

Many parts of the elephant: no motivation to work on hard things without friends, professors, campus, well-paying jobs, and high-status contacts.

Would be interesting to see MOOCs on daily stuff: cooking, gardening, cleaning & organizing, style, hospitality.

Or MOOCs around hobbies: amateur radio, photography, sketching, watercolor, dance, music. Here there’s potential for the tech to meet users halfway.

A good post, I like the direction and will follow bottoms-up ranking design with interest. :)

Similarly feelings with the ML-based code writing tools. Where's the help with debugging??

But you’ll stop being able to afford them a lot sooner

Different strategies to bring the same core tech to market. Absolutely comparable.

Hotz’s product should be compared to what Waymo can do right now, not what it’s trying to do.

Well, the grid still works, though eventually there will be brownouts and power cuts. That's when you get to charge your batteries.

Hydrogen via electrolysis is an alternative, I think? Less efficient, but stays for longer and can be used either in a fuel cell or an ICE engine.

Hydrogen...? Gonna have to live real energy-cheap though. Not much heating/cooling, good insulation, less bathwater, less appliance use, as little driving as possible. Honestly relieved that computer and internet use is lower on the list, but eventually that too.

Are you really 100% for wind turbines then?? Is there a way to make them less harmful to birds? Maybe keeping the speed lower? Maybe putting up some more static installations that keep birds away? (Like, say, bright trailers on the fan blades? Is that a real idea?)

Find some way to give back. Cut back on job hours, volunteer somewhere, help people learn software, whatever.

Spend time with your spouse, see if you can given them something they’ve wanted for a long time.

Think about adoption.

How do you distinguish 'funnel leaks' (people who could have been converted by hiring a better sales director) from 'bad leads' (people who would never have been converted because they mistakenly clicked on a deceptive ad).

The argument is along the lines of John Rawl's theory of justice: I would prefer to work at a company where the culture is such that I feel comfortable joining it regardless of my place in the org structure. (Or at least -- the company where I would feel least uncomfortable doing so.)

A democracy would certainly give a company a huge advantage. I would take a significant pay cut for that. But it does have to produce tasty soup as well, and in order to exist at all, pay salaries.

I'll be candid in saying that I haven't found a company that meets my high expectations. :)

Interesting what he says about funnels. If a lens is so pervasive I must assume it's ticking some boxe/scratching some itch -- but it's not clear to me what that is.

I can see that it has strong predictive power on company revenue, which the board must be very interested in, but is it really stronger than just a time-series? Perhaps it affords a set of knobs that can be twiddled to try to improve the outcome, but how much of that control is illusory? (After all, most startups fail, even -- especially? -- VC-backed ones.)

Outside of that discussion, going a bit more meta, it feels like the experience left a fairly bitter taste in OP's mouth. I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at.

All good as far as it goes, but not very common in the industry. Poor management and no mentorship, and this is what you'll get.

Now what are everyone's expectations of Mike Acton? If someone sends me an email like this before I'm about to start on a job -- I just know he must be feeling some pressure.

Ahaha, this is a tangent, but this stupid situation is why I'm doing my current web project as God intended: in a single .html file, shared with collaborators on Dropbox, editing in any dumb text editor.

There are no dependencies.

PWAs _can_ get better and more platform-friendly though. It's two bad choices right now.

Unsurprising because it never got past bro culture in the first place.

All the diversity stuff was always “box ticking”, in David Graeber’s taxonomy of bullshit jobs.

Though I don’t really blame the industry, the bureaucracy of diversity initiatives rarely leave room for actual progress.

The people who choose to build things (it's not a binary quality, everyone can build, some are better) are not taking moral responsibility for the things they are building.

It is hurting society. What is to be done? That is the issue at the heart of this headline.

It seems that you could also see the responsible innovation team in the same light -- 'the product that ships should be innovating in a responsible way'.

Also IME none of these things are binaries -- a product could be more or less secure, privacy-respecting, and accessible, just as it could be seeking to innovate more or less responsibly. Different aspects of security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible innovation will be important at different times, depending on what's happening in the world.

The jobs are never as well-defined as you'd imagine.