"How Google perfected the web" is a pretty misleading title for this HN post. The article is about how websites make themselves worse in response to the imperatives of Google's search algorithms.
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It’s slightly less than the amount by which the NYC schools budget is being cut this year (the same year federal stimulus funding goes away), forcing schools to cut things like pre-k programs.
Mozilla Foundation's post on the announcement: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/slack-takes-an-import...
There are 850,000 people on my work Slack. I do not need to talk to all of them, much less read what all of them have to say.
> What's next, jumping off the daily standup call for a while when a colleague you have a problem with is speaking?
No that's not next, and I think the goalposts you're looking for are way back over here.
I don't disagree that Slack can be a vector for "culture" problems. I don't see why it follows that employees should be deprived very simple tools that allow them to fix the symptoms themselves if their employer disagrees or doesn't care.
Disagree. My employer's slack has about a million members. I don't collaborate with all of them. Speaking for myself, I would be glad of the opportunity to mute or block some of them.
HR's job is to protect the company, not the employee, so I would not expect them to help except in cases of extreme harassment. And even then, self-service tools that do not make you a target of further harassment are a foundation of public social networks. Why not private social networks too?
But in any case, why would knowing someone you interact with make you less likely to block them?
Because it's quite literally one of the things he's responsible for at Twitter, by his own choice and description of his role (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656748197308674048).
The initial and biggest waves of layoffs last year were of people who hadn’t yet had a chance to demonstrate whether they were or were not sycophants. They were essentially random.
With respect to DynamoDB specifically, Twitter has its own custom distributed key-value store: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-... that twitter.com itself runs on.
"Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week."
Laurie Voss, one of the focusses of the article, is not one of these people.
So can you give an example of one of the “many people” who did this?
If not then your post reduces to a claim that two people who have never met and may disagree in good faith are gaslighting a third person if they work in the same industry. Which seems like a stretch.
And FWIW, Loopt sold for $43m, but $10m of that went on employee retention. The investors made $3m on their $30m investment. That's an annualized return of 1.3%. It was worse than a zero risk savings account.
Sure, there are other ways of measuring success. Clearly from Altman's view, life has worked out pretty well, presumably in part because of experiences he had and people he met while spending seven years making his investors 1.3%. But doing worse than a savings account is not on it's own a sign that you are a great leader, and clearly Loopt was a failure for its investors.