Thought same: with covid depressed co’s the leveraged buyouts / peg activities driven by politically connected free cash is coming big time .. talent will get suckered into debt so these players take it
Unfortunately this discussion is full of pot cliche and neo liberal bias that only leads to “sobriety” and fear of taint on your “career” .. marijuana is just like coffee and really you can vilify that but honestly the sidewalk leads to other things like more/less vice its up to you and you’re self knowing. mj can be had by the smartest/dumbest but its not a thing in itself that has a direct correlation to you’re “success” so lets all pull our pants up.
on a same note: why does instagram hate on non-mobile UI?
on desktop the constant ping to install an ios app, but you're on x86 man. that constant prompt of the camera button when I'm on a x86. it may have worked when mobile was your roots, but you have to grow beyond mobile-only to at least allow other views.
granted somebody like Benedict Evans would say x86 is dead, but why kill the views, its cheap to produce ?
liked kara swisher's point on cnbc, that so much wealth + influence has bought into uber that it is truly too big to fail. too many wealthy investors and deep SV network will ensure that it not melt down (unlike ?).
I'm not against text underneath, just the sense logic needs to get much better with dev tools. it's like we're ignoring our own needs :] intellij + eclipse (worse), and that old model of an IDE requires too much elbow wringing and imo never sense's the right stuff to really groove with my work. there's more that could come with ai/ml for tooling, and hopefully soon.
Pontificating but for ide + editor replacement: someday we'll see ai/ml features that aide in opening files and keeping the right blobs of code nearby, maybe pre fetch good goog links that can drop down on a whim panel.
Even some kind of auto model visualizer that helps every so often like a replacement for the ignoble package mmanager side panel view.
Yeh, I imagine another Bezos directive is coming soon. "automate it all or close down!" like he did with service api's so where's his smarts on this?
the conspirator in me thinks maybe he figured out its better to hire lots and fire lots churn/burn em out. amazon is always having those hire-events where you go like cattle to get filtered for a likely bad job b/c you won't appear all that selective to them.
i'll say it again, there's a really cool Don DeLillo book in this Theranos burn out ..
"Through it, we see a world in which no one ever has to say ‘goodbye’ too soon, and people are able to leverage engagement with their health to live their best lives."
-- bunch of BS :]
always wondered why an open source service hasn't risen up and become partly useful like twitter.
there was talk back in the app.net days with lots of wonder for what developers would do with an open twitter-like system, with open clients, open data etc.
imo it would be quite cool to have an open source content system like twitter that actually maintains a live service, where the git project auto-magic manages the production pipeline to live.
but imagine a fully open system providing tweet streams with little direct corporate involvement.
in WAZE they went ahead and dropped the "while using the app" option for gps privacy. it has become rude actually, so now i turn off location services instead of micro-managing the unmanageable.
o u said steve jobs: really his announcement of the ipod was an incredible speech .. it ties together tech+art+music+apple and his vision appears pretty fresh.
yeh never understand why they cannot link desktop and mobile, not a mention of the bridge pattern? is it hard or do you not like the desktop people? not a mention of why is really daft. totally weird of them that ios has completely different data it seems.
It also seems like there's no push from the buy side, in CA we're all sheep. likely b/c there is no community so the rent-taking can wratchet up all day long.
I think if people en masse began to reject extortion rent we could have a situation. This never seems to happen but it would be a spectacle: thousands of 160k/yr workers decide to camp in tents until rents subside, all camped out in the streets in a section of Sf.