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by dasil003 4y ago
That's not subscriber data, that's JustWatch "measured interest in SVOD services" data—in other words, people that use JustWatch tend to use more Netflix. Well, no shit, because people go to HBO and Disney+ for memorabl
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by dasil003 4y ago
Although there's a paywall towards the bottom (is it 25%, 60%, 90% through the article, who can tell?), the above-the-fold resonates and is a reasonable narrative about HashiCorp's success. Certainly HashiCorp shines in the UX de
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by dasil003 4y ago
It's not necessarily about anything shady though, it can just as easily be legitimate differences of opinion, too many cooks in the kitchen, bikeshedding, or landgrab concerns.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I, too, have fond memories of the old one-time purchase modality of software vending, but I have to admit such an arrangement is largely untenable for any software company which wishes to maintain a high quality product across multiple plat
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Let’s take things offline could mean: [...] “If I have to talk about this with you for one more minute I’m gonna go apeshit in front of all these people.” Couldn't help but be reminded of https://www.youtube.com/
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by dasil003 4y ago
The calm before the storm of the web taking over everything. Interesting to remember how big MUDs were, or gopher, usenet, FTP, etc.
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is a middlebrow dismissal. From what I can see this article played out exactly as predicted, and the idea that NeXTSEP rans on multiple architectures in the 90s is just half-assed retconning. In 2014 the conventional wisdom was that
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by dasil003 4y ago
What tools did they shut down that gave more control? I am subscribed to over 200 channels at my company as well as 4-5 other community Slacks. The controls they provide are fully adequate to tune to my preferences (which involves minimal
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is fantastic description of incentives and why technology is neither good nor bad, but provides leverage that can be used in dystopian ways when different forms of power grow unchecked.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Who is "they"?
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by dasil003 4y ago
This kind of sarcasm falls flat since slack has very fine grained notification preferences. You can make it as loud or quiet as you want. Of course if your workplace culture doesn’t support IC focus, then you have much bigger problems.
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by dasil003 4y ago
My company switched to Slack pretty early (mid 2014). IMHO the secret sauce was the volume and quality of integrations so you could pretty quickly turn it into a real-time feed/joint timeline of, well, everything.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Always be listening. But when seeking people out and prioritizing who to spend time with, consider their track record.
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by dasil003 4y ago
No Excalidraw?
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by dasil003 4y ago
> The "mind games" is specifically about getting me to say something I can't stand behind. Cool, that's a great clarification. I agree with that characterization of "mind games", and its obviously 100% le
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wow, I am floored at so many comments painting an egocentric view of the author. I find it highly ironic that supposedly high EQ neurotypicals would not be able to take one small step back and evaluate what is written with a modicum of ass
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by dasil003 4y ago
If you were early at Google it means more as going through that hypergrowth was very difficult and there was less dead weight. But for the last 10 years Google means essentially two things from a hiring manager's perspective: 1) you h
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by dasil003 4y ago
Agree with you 100% and I love the way you phrased that. Maybe it is more straightforward, and I respect everyone's beliefs here. The hard part is proving it one way or the other.
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by dasil003 4y ago
But on the other hand they don't add new features or push product forward in any way. Maybe this is okay for a late stage company that is in the value extraction mode. In that case the private equity playbook is to lay off the app dev
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by dasil003 4y ago
> For most of history, the question remained beyond the possibility of being answered. But we live in a most-exciting point in time: one where this question has fallen to the progress of human knowledge. > [...] > We now have
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by dasil003 4y ago
Happiness has to do with brain chemistry and disposition. It has nothing to do with intelligence or problem solving. Achieving goals and rewards gives a dopamine hit but it doesn’t produce happiness in any lasting sense.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Do you sleep at the office for your oncall shift?
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by dasil003 4y ago
For actual work, not for being on call with the expectation that most of the time nothing will go wrong
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by dasil003 4y ago
The reason is to scale teams. It’s not the only way to do it—you can also have vertical teams—but it’s a common one because frontend and backend have different technical considerations. The downside is the product can lose cohesion as dev
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by dasil003 4y ago
The irony of an article expounding on the inevitability of financial and societal collapse having ads inserted every other paragraph.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Fair point. I was including Slashdot in the Digg lineage, but it does not have social voting/ranking so I probably should have left it off.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Statistical studies of happiness are interesting, but I feel they are borderline useless for practical application. There's just too much subjectivity lost in the quantification of happiness. Individuals are not populations. On a per
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by dasil003 4y ago
Middle three don't feel a major dependency. I would say: - Twitter without iTunes Podcast Directory (because it killed Odeo, the parent business) - Facebook without MySpace / Friendster - Reddit without Digg / Slashdot
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by dasil003 4y ago
Like any good idea that sees wide adoption, being "data-driven" has jumped the shark to cargo-cult methodology in most places. The truth is that data is only powerful if applied judiciously with solid knowledge of statistical fund
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Good judgement requires data. I would say good judgement requires experience. Data may or may not be available and applicable, but its absence doesn't mean one can't exhibit good judgement.

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