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by iateanapple 6y ago
> how can they put the differences aside and unite against the government and political elites? I doubt we will see a revolution of the people vs the elites. More likely a group of elites at the state level will want their state to leave
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by iateanapple 6y ago
A US revolution is an almost certainty over the coming decades - the American identity has never been weaker. The peoples are so different region to region - and are often politically hostile to one another - what keeps everyone together? T
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by iateanapple 6y ago
To add to this one of the most soul crushing tasks I’ve had to do is to manage out good people who are under performing. If I could say “BeetleB, I’m pairing you with Joe for the next 6 months - I don’t care if your output halves but I need
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> See? Found your problem. The downside must be eliminated. How? I’ve been successfully able to push for devs to be rewarded better - but I’ve never been able to eliminate the downside of a poor idea/execution.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> what I see is that such people shift away from teaching/mentoring as it takes time/effort that their manager does not reward I don’t think it’s that simple. I work with tons of talented engineers who put a huge amount of effo
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Then consider this: a team with one person with a talent for teaching and leadership, and three new/less-than-productive folks In practice it is more complex - people with a talent for teaching and leadership and are experts are
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> In an unhealthy environment, not only are the novices doomed to failure/making things worse, but so are experienced folks. Is that true though? I can think of plenty of counter examples where lots of quality work has been done in
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Why specifically do you challenge far less than you would like to? Because if you push in another direction then you have to own the new direction. That is a lot of responsibility to take on - and in many organizations it comes with no
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Getting good feedback would become my priority for the week before It should be your primary job all the time in feedback based organizations.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> The best data point I can find is that Google spent 13B on datacenter and office construction in 2019 It’s hard to do a fair comparison like this between high growth companies and normal companies - for example what fraction of that co
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by iateanapple 6y ago
Because of network effects that turns out to be a lot weaker protection against much more powerful companies. Edit: Perhaps network effect is the wrong term - but it’s a bit like saying if you don’t like guns don’t buy a gun - that doesn’t
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You are right, the capital cost of millions of servers worldwide, with security guards, and buildings, and cooling is zero. Not even close to the capital costs and margins of an airline. Compare AWS margins and capital costs with Amazo
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> But I wonder if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them. If Google wasn’t a majority “blue” company they would have been trust busted under Obama.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
That’s exactly right - we have plenty of options for redress against an ISP abusing its power at the local, state, and federal levels.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> I mean, your choices for flying somewhere are what - Delta or United? Both delta and united are operating very high capital cost businesses on thin margins. What can we gain by trust busting them? > What about for internet service -
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by iateanapple 6y ago
Are any of those companies (except Amazon) even in the same league in terms of negative impact as big tech?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
I think it’s just turned from funny to depressing.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
Because the market thinks this is temporary. The market probably also thinks that a good chunk of the additional consumer use can be captured by google and fb post-covid. If you think the same for click bait media companies they would be a
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> It's not just framing. At least some of it originated on 4chan as deliberate harassment So why “learn to code” and why does it sting journalists so badly? They could have just said “Boo hoo get a new job”. > But this seems to b
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by iateanapple 6y ago
How long can companies like Google and Facebook run at 50% revenue? A lot longer than any media outlet.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> Do you really believe there are senior devs that are productive without even thinking about it All the time. I’ve done it myself plenty of times over my career. > That just strikes me as odd -- maybe they are working on stuff should
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> In my view you just need to deal with this reality and learn how to be productive in it. IMO, senior developers who are “productive in it” are getting by on pattern matching. Just like I can drive to my local mall without even thinking
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> The great man theory is overrated It is more complex than you are making out. Cultures that denigrate the great men don’t produce as much or innovate as much as those that revere them.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> If I'm pushing the ugly complexity outside of K with an FFI, I'll be stuck writing the ugly plumbing (a major part of the job) in some other language. It’s kind of the opposite - you get an easy to use escape hatch where it m
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> For a just-graduated person with minimal assets it's not that bad It is in fact bad. You can’t just declare bankruptcy and get a high paying job a year later and have no student debt.... When I looked into personal bankruptcy I wa
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> You certainly have a way of responding to things that weren't asserted in the first place. I thought we were having a discussion and not a point-counterpoint style debate. > I don't think shaming parents is producing resul
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> It's like picking how to allocate skill points in an RPG To stretch your analogy: And then we try to make up for the skill points gap by throwing money at the unlucky and tell them to just buy some better items to make up for it.
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> an extra $10k a year to families That’s my point - it isn’t an extra $10k/year - thats what we currently give families per kid. > Do you suggest we simply ignore them? Is there a reason they can’t simply keep going to school?
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> In general the idea <that a parent's ability to instill values on their kids is fairly correlated with wealth/privilege> doesn't feel like a stretch. Wealth is one way to avoid a toxic culture - if your public high
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by iateanapple 6y ago
> One enabled by having moderately wealthy parents. It is a cultural problem and not a wealth problem. My state spends >$10k per student per year on education. Excluding my mortgage my expenses for each of my kids (food, transport, cl

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