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by dbish 5y ago
I always consider myself a techno-optimist for this reason and wish there were more folks who look at the possibilities of tech that way. I’m very happy to see this new solarpunk idea that has aspects of techno-optimism taking ‘root’
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by dbish 5y ago
I do think we need groups willing to be optimistic about technology. Some of this falls under what I always called techno-optimism, and what I hope to follow in my own vision for the future. Love to see it
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by dbish 5y ago
I have to assume their shared love of Japan is one of the reasons Jobs and Larry Ellison were so close.
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by dbish 5y ago
The feature that looks interesting and could be useful depending on implementation is collections if they are easier to share and link to as well as organize. Tweets are hard to sort through and organize today, would be cool if they offer a
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by dbish 5y ago
I really don't see anyone but the power users being willing to pay. What's that TAM then? There are only around 250k verified users, you can probably use them as a proxy for power users, your pro customers. That doesn't seem
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by dbish 5y ago
Yeah, generally gaming hardware is a loss leader
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by dbish 5y ago
Well, I think in that case everyone was low skilled, probably not what we want to emulate
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by dbish 5y ago
In some ways I don’t care what people do as long as it doesn’t hurt others. I’m just sad to see money that can be used to push tech forward and given to a real project, being given to something so fake. As an aside, since you mentioned it,
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by dbish 5y ago
Thoroughly disappointed to see VC money going towards this way of fleecing people out of their money recently
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by dbish 5y ago
What makes you think it’s PMs making architecture decisions? That’s usually the engineers and engineering leaders (as it should be).
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by dbish 5y ago
Love it. Always looking for new weird side projects. Can’t be too productive on your hobby software
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by dbish 5y ago
If you’re catering to Americans and might want to move beyond just short term stays, Puerto Rico might be a great option for tax reasons and that you don’t need a visa. There are infrastructure and other problems there, so choosing the righ
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by dbish 5y ago
Yes, but I think of Roblox like a FAANG in terms of success and money. If you moved to a FAANG with that experience you would likely make a good chunk more
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by dbish 5y ago
15 years in software could get you a lot more outside game dev
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by dbish 5y ago
Used to love the original Uber. It reduced the complexity of having a car service or to call a proper towncar and still kept good quality and good drivers. UberX is almost as bad quality as normal taxis, just slightly better etiquette in mo
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by dbish 5y ago
The concept makes sense, but the specifics written here seem oversimplified and are going to mislead people. Realistically, it's not easy to turn a single vending machine or a purchased content website into a largely passive source of
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by dbish 5y ago
That's the single threaded part, but it is also meant to be the proper "owner" in order to move quickly, but the bigger organizations get, the less that part ever actually happens and instead you get decision by committee whi
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by dbish 5y ago
As someone who has been at amazon for a bit and has been a single threaded owner (STO) for a few different things, autonomy and authority part is largely overstated in many orgs. In reality, most groups still have cross-functional overhead
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by dbish 5y ago
You can’t call a top 1% person in income upper middle class imho and I think the definition of millionaire is tied to having more then a million net worth not whether you can lose it, but that’s where indepdently wealthy or similar definiti
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by dbish 5y ago
I think of that as independently wealthy, since I personally have a hard time telling someone that if you’re an engineering exec making > $1mm/yr, that you’re middle class because you get paid for your time. That seems pretty upper
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by dbish 6y ago
Evergreen is the company, they probably just want to show that more then the ship name
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by dbish 6y ago
Same. In college I would show it off while working at the IT desk by sshing into the computer lab machines and checking on running programs/homework/etc. Used a bluetooth keyboard for the full "hacker-on-the-go" experien
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by dbish 6y ago
I agree, however if the interviewer is late to the interview, they have started on the wrong foot for planning and getting the data they need
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by dbish 6y ago
I've seen it occasionally as well, but I've also seen many cases where I had to probe folks interviewing (when i was the hiring manager) if they gave the candidate time to answer the question and gather data when it looked like th
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by dbish 6y ago
My biggest annoyance is late interviewers who then try to rush you through a question. I’ve had multiple interviews in the past where they are around 10 min late when you’ve taken time from your day and they barely acknowledge it, then clea
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by dbish 6y ago
Take a look at Seattle too. Lots of tech jobs, reasonably high pay that is slightly lower then the Bay Area but cost of living is lower and we don't have the state taxes of California. I've found it to be the best tradeoff. Only i
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by dbish 6y ago
All the big tech companies in the area pay significantly less in London from knowing engineers there and talking to recruiters in the past. I doubt they are going to start changing that any time soon when they can get good engineers without
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by dbish 6y ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS - Game Technologies group)| Various roles | Seattle (though currently WFH) | Full-time, Onsite | https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/ I am the senior manager (skip-level manager) for these roles so
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by dbish 6y ago
I think there's a game type somewhere between today's MMORPGs and MUDs that can bring some of these features and text based interactions to an MMO. For example, I started prototyping a game a last year that was old school cyberpun
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by dbish 6y ago
I’ve gotten far more into twitch during this time too. Just the chit chat of someone else has been nice

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