The outgoing product is nevertheless fully determined by the incoming work being done. It would make more sense to group a set of tasks into a deliverable than a time period. You have to do that anyway to deliver…
Sprints to me seem completely contrived. In reality, there are only things that people are working on, and things that no one is working on. There's no need for a third category of "things that are in the sprint" as…
Moreover it might not just be developer time vs. latency that's being traded off. Maintaining a stateful websocket connection on the server side isn't cost-free, and that connection would be idle nearly 100% of the…
> There is no good way for a person to identify another person without first mutually agreeing on Brand identities. How is this absence not a good thing? If someone wants to be identified, they have to go through the…
> if they pump out people that don't have skills over time their "Prestige" doesn't amount to much I think you're underestimating the degree to which corrupt, inept institutions can maintain their influence over society.
Hippies are at least as greedy as anyone else.
Anything that is more advanced than necessary is too advanced to be comfortable with.
It's a great, succinct post. Deeply uncool. A programmer should be modest about their skills, skeptical about new-new things, eschew bullshit, and terrified of dependencies. I buy the whole thing. Moreover, I trust the…
While I agree that in many cases JSON parsing is not the largest consumer of resources, it really sucks when it is. At some point it seems like a general mindset shifted from making things efficient at every level to…
At risk of embarrassing my self statistically, what exactly happens when you do this? I.e., if you're controlling for country, that means you're bucketing by country, and looking at each subset, right? So if country is…
> However, if the top-level politicians, who remain technically inept, are the ones giving the orders, confusion will remain. The converse would also be true though; a technologically adept leadership that didn't…
If I recall correctly, one theory is that octopuses are such voracious cannibals that a swift demise after reproduction evolved to keep them from eating the next generation.
Wow... if dreaming evolved twice, I don't know what to think.
I found it incomprehensible from the start. EDIT: The first five sentences invoke Uber, the author's previous article, the Wall Street Journal, Gurley, Damodaran, and two different dubious valuations.
I really wish the author had sensed the limits of his argument, because I think the point he's trying to make is basically correct. He's just stretching it to the breaking point by invoking Amazon and the subprime…
If the VCs are being bankrolled by Saudi money (via Softbank) that has noplace else to go, because no one wants it, the money might not dry up. With this in mind, Khosrowshahi may be right about Uber's sustainability.
I like Chrome for Javascript development/debugging, but I don't use it for anything else.
At what point do these deranged estimates start damaging the credibility of the estimators?
Indeed; I should have been more specific in referring to people already working in the Bay Area technology scene, where salaries are quite high.
It's always surprising to me how many people in tech need to seek investment. Saving some scratch over a few years of paid employment, then bootstrapping, seems like a seldom-traveled route.
The question makes sense rhetorically, to establish that the machine is still only as good as its operator, just faster.
Even assuming outrage is selective, the question remains: was the outrage inappropriately withheld before, or is it inappropriately applied now? If indeed it was inappropriately withheld in the past, I don't see any…
If the previous administration's opponents had called more attention to the issue, maybe Chef would have acted at that time. Being late to recognize a problem is not a reason to ignore it.
> they're about preventing competing products. The purpose of a business is to make money. Crushing the competition helps.
> Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force. Technology might be morally neutral, but since amplification can bring things to an unrecoverable limit, it isn't neutral in the sense of producing balanced…
The outgoing product is nevertheless fully determined by the incoming work being done. It would make more sense to group a set of tasks into a deliverable than a time period. You have to do that anyway to deliver…
Sprints to me seem completely contrived. In reality, there are only things that people are working on, and things that no one is working on. There's no need for a third category of "things that are in the sprint" as…
Moreover it might not just be developer time vs. latency that's being traded off. Maintaining a stateful websocket connection on the server side isn't cost-free, and that connection would be idle nearly 100% of the…
> There is no good way for a person to identify another person without first mutually agreeing on Brand identities. How is this absence not a good thing? If someone wants to be identified, they have to go through the…
> if they pump out people that don't have skills over time their "Prestige" doesn't amount to much I think you're underestimating the degree to which corrupt, inept institutions can maintain their influence over society.
Hippies are at least as greedy as anyone else.
Anything that is more advanced than necessary is too advanced to be comfortable with.
It's a great, succinct post. Deeply uncool. A programmer should be modest about their skills, skeptical about new-new things, eschew bullshit, and terrified of dependencies. I buy the whole thing. Moreover, I trust the…
While I agree that in many cases JSON parsing is not the largest consumer of resources, it really sucks when it is. At some point it seems like a general mindset shifted from making things efficient at every level to…
At risk of embarrassing my self statistically, what exactly happens when you do this? I.e., if you're controlling for country, that means you're bucketing by country, and looking at each subset, right? So if country is…
> However, if the top-level politicians, who remain technically inept, are the ones giving the orders, confusion will remain. The converse would also be true though; a technologically adept leadership that didn't…
If I recall correctly, one theory is that octopuses are such voracious cannibals that a swift demise after reproduction evolved to keep them from eating the next generation.
Wow... if dreaming evolved twice, I don't know what to think.
I found it incomprehensible from the start. EDIT: The first five sentences invoke Uber, the author's previous article, the Wall Street Journal, Gurley, Damodaran, and two different dubious valuations.
I really wish the author had sensed the limits of his argument, because I think the point he's trying to make is basically correct. He's just stretching it to the breaking point by invoking Amazon and the subprime…
If the VCs are being bankrolled by Saudi money (via Softbank) that has noplace else to go, because no one wants it, the money might not dry up. With this in mind, Khosrowshahi may be right about Uber's sustainability.
I like Chrome for Javascript development/debugging, but I don't use it for anything else.
At what point do these deranged estimates start damaging the credibility of the estimators?
Indeed; I should have been more specific in referring to people already working in the Bay Area technology scene, where salaries are quite high.
It's always surprising to me how many people in tech need to seek investment. Saving some scratch over a few years of paid employment, then bootstrapping, seems like a seldom-traveled route.
The question makes sense rhetorically, to establish that the machine is still only as good as its operator, just faster.
Even assuming outrage is selective, the question remains: was the outrage inappropriately withheld before, or is it inappropriately applied now? If indeed it was inappropriately withheld in the past, I don't see any…
If the previous administration's opponents had called more attention to the issue, maybe Chef would have acted at that time. Being late to recognize a problem is not a reason to ignore it.
> they're about preventing competing products. The purpose of a business is to make money. Crushing the competition helps.
> Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force. Technology might be morally neutral, but since amplification can bring things to an unrecoverable limit, it isn't neutral in the sense of producing balanced…