The whole email was just so off - I know they build up to these things, but am sure the announcement of the re-org could have waited, and could have led with the most pressing news, especially since it came in the middle of day and people had already been let go by that point.
Seems like an apt analogy - adding in friction for the small minority of instances where someone would undertake an action you don't want them to. Not literally "if I don't make someone choose 5 firetrucks out of 9 pictures they're going to steal my stuff".
What use-case of YouTube would you want a competitor to though? Personal video hosting? Independent creator video distribution? Social network for video? Music video streaming?
One of the greatest achievements of YouTube is basically serving countless audiences and numerous use-cases under the guise of a single service.
You'd need to roll-up WhatsApp video sharing, Vimeo, Facebook Watch/Tik Tok/IG Reels, MTV, and then throw the aspirational element of creator payments over the top of it. I'd question whether anyone would actually want to do all of that.
It depends on the context - but each time I've interviewed someone, the "we" is important, but the "I" is important-er. It's almost implicit that everyone works in a team to achieve big goals, but the reason I'm talking to that candidate is to hear what they did as part of that team as that's what makes a difference to the hiring.
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
Even in the mid-2000s, photography classes were still teaching through B+W - as you mention, developing is easier (and therefore faster). The film and photo paper were also cheaper.
It's akin to post-purchase rationalization and sunk cost bias rolled into one - likewise I think it's a specific bias in its own right, but a search hasn't turned up anything yet!
Depends where you draw the line on "platform". There's still the old-school cPanel shared hosting types out there where you can drag and drop through a file manager. But then you usually have to pay a gatekeeper to get one, and that could be considered a platform?
Highly not recommended, but get a static IP address and open a port on your home network to the internet that points to a folder you drag to would be the most open?
And getting in front of it means they get to dictate the pricing structure - you can bet your spare parts will be beautifully packaged and sold at a decent markup.
Also used to do it too - amazing how far you can get with a £15 coffee grinder and a bag of beans. Like anything that goes through multiple step processing (same when I roasted coffee), it's the small percentage improvements at every stage that make the difference between home and manufactured.
It's very difficult as you need a lot of pressure in order to squeeze the fats out from the mass - there were some small batch machines for doing so, but a homebrew approach would be marvelous to see.
> most men take only a fraction of the allowed time
I truly don't understand this, and each time I see the stats on it sit in even greater disbelief. Why would anyone turn down the opportunity to spend, for an awful lot of companies, fully paid time off work to spend time with their new family?
Guessing I'm much less "career-minded" than of lot of these guys, but it makes zero sense to me that you wouldn't stretch this benefit as far as you can do.
Edit: appreciate all the comments! Main themes are to reiterate it's not an easy task by any stretch, and fears (both real and assumed) over retaliation for time out. I'm not yet lucky enough to be father, but I still can't square either of those between work and family time.
> the best thing I could have done with my money would have been to buy the most expensive house in the best neighborhood I could possibly manage
Usually the best thing to do is to buy the worst house in the best neighbourhood. That way you are in for less cash, but are anchored to the higher prices around you.
I edited the hosts file on my Mac to send all these sites to 127.0.0.1... doing something means you're quite likely to know how to reverse it too though, hence why I'm writing this comment during the working day.
Also keep in mind the flip-side of this is that if you leave before 6 months, some hiring managers will see it that you "failed" your probation and the previous employer took the easy way out to let you go for sub-par performance.
Obviously it depends on the politics of a situation, but be wary of those questions that might arise, and still leave on good terms if the new place wants to confirm you weren't let go.
As a developer I want the option of App Stores taking their cut - them being the Merchant of Record takes out a monumental admin overhead from selling apps globally for a small developer.
I also work for a global tech company whereby that approach isn't needed as we have our own payment processing to handle that, but as a part-time indie, I want the option of deferring to the stores for payments.
Was coming here to say exactly this - you're not really being paid for the work itself, but to have access to you for a certain amount of time. Sometimes there's as much value to the company in your 2 minute Slack response to a query at 17:58 on a Friday evening as there is for a 6 hour coding block.
Not saying it's valuable in a world sense, but for the objectives of the machine you're working in, it often is.