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by granshaw 7y ago
For the millennial generation, dogs are actually the new kids in advertising - but you can't strap a VR headset onto a dog
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by granshaw 7y ago
> A hard-to-capture cost factor is keeping highly used services operational or replaced while doing work on it. Anyone who does any kindof "building" (whether it be software engineers making schema changes, or a general contrac
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by granshaw 7y ago
How many weeks did you end up using Capsule for?
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by granshaw 7y ago
This is completely spot-on (well, disagree some about the coding standards and best practices part) and just calling it an old fart rant is way underselling yourself :) The irony is that the current/next generations who have never seen
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by granshaw 7y ago
It cuts both ways. SF PCness and SJWness can be downright stifling
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by granshaw 7y ago
Used to have an Italian neighbor and we talked about exactly this - about how in Italy you'd just invite folks you encounter in for dinner regardless of whatever one-dish thing your family was having at that time, whereas here in Ameri
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by granshaw 7y ago
> We have this weird aversion to people being content. As an immigrant I feel this is quite an American thing - there's always talk of your _career_, your _pursuits_, your _goals_, interesting things you did over the weekend...
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by granshaw 7y ago
And the cycle keeps going back and forth, on and on...
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by granshaw 7y ago
Perhaps if air travel became cost-prohibitive more corporations would invest in remote workflows and cultures?
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by granshaw 7y ago
It’s a different era, when not literally everything was being done online yet. We’re now (possibly) shifting into an era where the most profitable modus operandi will need to be different, doesn’t mean it was a bad choice at the time
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by granshaw 7y ago
The US is the most megacorp friendly market in the world. Competition and the number of publicly traded companies are at an al time low, while profitability is at an all time high (effect of tax breaks notwithstanding) Thus it might not be
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by granshaw 7y ago
Great great point, especially with the current computing/internet-native generation. UX can be important in a crowded or competitive field, but otherwise, mehhh
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by granshaw 7y ago
Wow, how did that go down in the UK? I can imagine the public being furious if Amazon pulled that same stunt here.
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by granshaw 7y ago
There is next to none long term thinking by the American govt or corporations, period. That’s expected from publicly traded companies, and when those companies run the country too, well...
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by granshaw 7y ago
Ummm, did you actually observe him struggling and clicking around for that whole day, or was he just slacking off?
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by granshaw 7y ago
Who _were_ they talking about?
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by granshaw 7y ago
Wanted to post exactly this. Ageism is far less of an issue in other Engineering disciplines, and my hope is that as ours matures, it becomes less of an issue too. We’re already starting to see maturation in recent years with things like le
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by granshaw 7y ago
Try to get the average office worker to use IRC today and see how far that gets you. It really behooves Engineers to put themselves in the shoes of actual users once in a while
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by granshaw 7y ago
There’s no money to be made in creating and building on open protocols. Without money to be made there’s no funding. Without funding there’s no way to create great experiences. Without great experiences nobody will use the thing. Pretty str
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by granshaw 7y ago
Seems like I’m in the tiny minority here, but since adopting Slack at work my emails have basically been reduced to just automated github notifications and the such, or the very rare capital-S-Serious topic threads. Starring channels I care
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by granshaw 7y ago
The thing that really struck me about Slack was its level of polish, esp compared to other software around the time of its release. The overall level of polish on similar apps has risen since then so that’s less of a differentiator, but I s
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by granshaw 7y ago
Talk to any non programmer or mathematician on the street (aka your users) and they’ll expect the answer to be Nov 30.
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by granshaw 7y ago
Yes. That kind of stress would be like trying to fix an issue causing the company to hemorrhage money within 30 mins without being able to google anything and with others looking over your shoulder and wanting you to explain your thoughts.
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by granshaw 7y ago
Don’t forget earning the financial freedom so the founders themselves can leisure at will
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by granshaw 7y ago
I think both the ability to write, and (read+understand+effectively explain and give an opinion on existing code) are important, and the latter is severely under-appreciated in interviews
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by granshaw 7y ago
I went through a similar interview once - bring your own laptop, and code-up a bowling scorer which spanned two sets of interviewees. Was not the worst interview experience I've had.
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by granshaw 7y ago
Doing well in a small niche is fine for a lifestyle company - for a public company like Dropbox expected to keep growing? Not so much.
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by granshaw 7y ago
That’s the same problem inches and feet suffer from now and it’s horrible
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by granshaw 7y ago
I hope AMP is the straw that breaks the camels back in googles antitrust suit - its the most blatant and shameless abuse of their position, IMO
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by granshaw 7y ago
To be fair, lots of things on the internet don’t work in the most populous country in the world.

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