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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not convinced it's materially different. At scale it looks similar to large agile organizations of today.
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by madrox 5y ago
I’ve advocated DX across my leadership career. However, I believe current development methodologies are at odds with significant DX improvement. Engineers didn’t start out making micro service architecture. It emerged as a consequence of la
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't believe Apple or secrecy is the story here. I think the real story is how the pandemic + slack has changed corporate politics. It used to be that most corporate concerns were raised through HR or the management chain, and power
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by madrox 5y ago
Mostly tongue-in-cheek. Twitch donations get text read aloud on streams at times: https://www.twitch.tv/a_seagull/clip/BlightedPreciousEchidna...
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by madrox 5y ago
Maybe not phishing attacks, but certainly text-to-speech attacks
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by madrox 5y ago
Tell that to everyone who saw the George Floyd video. I watched an excellent interview with Khary Payton where my ideas on surveillance really changed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZ1HCRqdB4 I think socially there’s a di
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by madrox 5y ago
It’s a bit of a digression, but I just learned from this article that the Facebook laughing face gets criticism. This article seems to insinuate that’s why Microsoft replaced it on their service. It seems fairer to say that if you know you’
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by madrox 5y ago
I’ll never forget the time I wore google glass to a bar in Palo Alto and a very annoyed bartender told me to take them off. I wasn’t even using them for video or picture taking, which I wanted to explain but he had no patience for. Maybe at
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by madrox 5y ago
If you're saying the point is moot because it's hypothetical, I don't find that terribly convincing. We conduct thought experiments all the time. If you're saying immortality shouldn't be allowed because it could le
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by madrox 5y ago
I completely agree with this article. However, in a more generous sense, bullshitters are not that different from sixth grade science teachers. I don't think my first biology teacher ever did deep work in his field. However, that didn&
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by madrox 5y ago
I have a hard time with these arguments...mainly because if we already lived in a world with immortality, and someone came along talking about all the great benefits to society that would happen if we instituted a global end of life program
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by madrox 5y ago
I have a hard time believing that assertion given how this article was written. It's full of ad hominem attacks and naturalistic fallacies. This is not mere punditry.
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by madrox 5y ago
That's essentially the point of that essay. That, and most of those boxes you want ticked are artificial means of whittling down candidates and not hard criteria for whether someone can do a job.
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by madrox 5y ago
The most influential essay I've ever read on hiring was titled I Don't Hire Unlucky People[1]. At the time, I was struggling to build a mobile dev team, and I could always find reasons to not hire anyone in the pipeline. However,
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by madrox 5y ago
In my experience, productivity apps have more in common with lifestyle brands than, say, email. In that way, there's no winning any more than one brand can effectively own a space. If I were CEO of one of these products, I'd quick
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by madrox 5y ago
The author's bio reads "A fellow primate who wonders why we ever came down from the trees." I get the impression he unironically is asking that like a Douglas Adams character. "Many were increasingly of the opinion that
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by madrox 5y ago
This article definitely made me feel like my lifespan was shortened. This author does not, in fact, say why we shouldn't. There is merely a hand-wavy comparison that in countries where life expectancy has increased also have more years
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by madrox 5y ago
I intentionally took a down-level, going from director of a 40+ team to an 8 person team. It was an opportunity to work on a product that I was excited about, and I didn't believe my ego was wrapped up in team size. It seemed like less
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by madrox 5y ago
And the price. AOL charged by the minute and were slow to switch to unlimited...much like Blockbuster was reluctant to kill late fees and ended up losing to Netflix's DVD distribution (even before they got into streaming).
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by madrox 5y ago
To play devil's advocate for a moment, is this different from age-gating we do anywhere else on the internet? We require you to be 18 or over to look at adult sites or view particularly edgy stuff on youtube. Is the difference just tha
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by madrox 5y ago
I believe this highlights the difference between products and services...two words we tend to use interchangeably. Services benefit from turning things off, because operating them costs time and money. It doesn't matter if you lose a s
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by madrox 5y ago
> I don't buy in to the whole "if only those evil MBA manager types would allocate more budget to security and take security more seriously, they wouldn't get hacked". This is a corollary to "nine women can'
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by madrox 5y ago
Any time you get compromised, you're doing it wrong. What's discussed here is what should the consequences be for doing it wrong. In legal terms, the question is whether this was ordinary negligence or gross negligence. Gross negl
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by madrox 5y ago
Perhaps this is correct, but it’s correct in the way painting will never be automated. Instead, we invented the camera. I do expect that our abstractions will be sufficient enough that end users can express what they want in a way that does
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by madrox 5y ago
It’s remarkable how many real problems can be solved with a good story. Storytelling is how people who don’t do things themselves can direct larger numbers of people to do what you need.
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by madrox 5y ago
I spent a year looking into how to build esports business and related technology. The real problem with apps like this is that your business is at the whim of another business to decide if you're within terms of service. This is what h
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by madrox 5y ago
Desktop as a Service seems to be taking off in a lot of areas. I suspect the cost of cloud vs giving employees laptops is the cause. It isn't that devs don't have access, it's that companies find footing the bill an increasin
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by madrox 5y ago
Something I think about is how computer voice interfaces are changing how we speak[1]. I would not be surprised if the way we talk to each other co-evolves in a way that makes us more easily understood by computers. In other words, it may b
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by madrox 5y ago
The short answer is that this is how it is in a growth industry with high talent demand. If you were, say, a grocery bagger, you wouldn’t see that kind of salary jump. The moment coding is no longer an in demand talent, this won’t happen an

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