My sympathies to any workers displaced by these events, but I'm happy. Parse is a bad product: it has weird quirks in normal usage but most importantly scales abysmally. I'm thrilled to have ammunition to justify moving away from it.
Love love love the open source angle however, and wish more sunsetting products go this route.
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My issue with masonry is that it's a paper thin abstraction over auto layout. There's some nice syntactic sugar, like chained calls to layout rules.
Ultimately I think there's room for some containers that give up flexibility in exchange for simplicity in code and mental model
There is a difference between "shit talk" and rooting out personal contact information to then send death or rape threats.
I don't think anyone expects an experience akin to high tea with the Queen, but no one deserves to be threatened. Everyone, consciously or not, wants respect.
It's simple in theory but hard in practice. It likely has to come from guidance. As a parent, I expect I will have to teach her how to engage with people both on and offline.
There's a reason we force kids to line up and shake the opposing team's hands after a soccer game.
Are there places where "birds of a feather" congregate? Forums, lists, etc? I'm excited to tap the wisdom of others as I get my business off the ground.
For the same reason dating couples breakup: because something changes, externally or internally, that makes staying together less desirable than splitting up.
I've been married for 3+ years, and been with my spouse for almost 10. We have a child. There is, to put it lightly, momentum that keeps us together along with societal pressures (a dad married to the mom is superior to the dad divorced from the mom, all other things equal.)
I'm not posting to comment on whether this pressure is good or bad, but merely to point out it exists. We live in a culture that celebrates weddings and proposals and scandalizes divorce (look at any tabloid for copious examples), but has little to say about the tenure between.
The trend of dating long term, co-habitation, and finally "tying the knot" late in the relationship is an interestingly recent development in America. I'm curious to see how the data on US divorce evolves as this trend matures. Most of my peers (I'm late Gen X) and Millenials I know are following this pattern.
I suspect it is a direct reaction to generations raised in divorced households, but I have no proof of this.
I won't be surprised if we get to the point where OS updates can be done seamlessly in the background without user prompting. I also won't be surprised if Apple will be the first vendor to sell us on it.
Not saying he is wrong, but almost any pattern can be traced if the lower and upper bounds are picked carefully. For those interested in trading with technicals: how can you know where in the cycle the equity stands?
A reason this disparity sprigs to mind has to do with age. I'm reminded that the translation of sophomore from the Greek is "wise fool": it's possible high school students at the ages of 15-18 are more willing to plow ahead with ideas that others think through and then dismiss.
Of course, there are famous contrarian ideas that flourished and have changed the world, and most of us know that execution of an idea, along with pivoting, is a road to success. But I would never form nor invest in a company that hands out umbrellas when it rains for the same reason I don't sell Gatorade at little league baseball games: limited, fixed market, no barrier of entry, etc.
Isn't it more likely an MBA considers ideas akin to this, thinks through the angles, and then discards them many times over, such that it appears to the outside observer they are timorous?