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Just to leave it here, here's John Oliver's take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI

ah yes, thanks for that.

Yeah I've been looking into the cobra effect in the current youtube adblocking thingy... It certainly got me to use primarily adnausium which fixes the problem since ads are served, just... you know... maliciously clicked on.

I would say blanketed bonuses are a bad idea, or I'd make some partnership deals with other engineers. However, this was a pretty clear cut "give this man a medal" situation, in a clearly toxic company. This is why my reaction is what it is.

There was an old thedailywtf post about how a company thought they'd incentivize fidning and fixing bugs. Suddenly every engineer had a QA buddy, and they'd make like 50 spelling errors, which QA will find, and enigneering will quickly resolve. They took down the bounty within a week.

wait wait wait, this actually happened?

... but can you make better uptime? :)

Lol, if I wasn't given a raise, I'd agree to everything, and at the start of my presentation say

"hi everyone, I wanted to walk you how we got to a half-a-million dollar savings, basically I spent a day looking at how terrible the original infrastructure was deployed and removed a code test feature that was causing the problems. This was just complete oversight from every aspect of the development, management, testing, and everything. Overall this code is as bad as it can possibly get, and we just launched it. And basically I was told not to say any of this because it makes everyone look bad, so I was to roll this out gradually to make it seem like managers were doing some sort of work."

Then drop the mic and walk off stage.

Honestly the amount of give-a-fucks I would have lost would have been a lot. And this is coming from someone who's done this for almost 2 decades and cares about his job because bills to pay, kids to feed.

I mean we are all cogs in a machine. And I found that a smart effective team who works in unison can develop novel things. Combined with a visionary who sits above the team pointing the brainpower into interesting directions you get quite interesting results.

I think the power of teams is not in individual contribution, but when the team is significantly greater than the sum of its parts.

Yes, and this is exactly when you have ineffective PMs, and senior leadership isn't paying attention.

With a good product and design team, I have been part of engineering teams that have 5 engineers than can do the work of 20, without working overtime, consistently deliver, and rarely, have to implement anything twice.

The difference between effective product and not is absolutely night and day. The best analogy is driving a modern car, vs driving a modern car without vehicle stability, anti-skid, power steering, automatic transmission, or AC. Sure you absolutely can drive it, but after a while you will need way more breaks than those who have all the nice features, and won't roll over in bad situations.

rofl, look at everything you commented on. You're basically making my point. Also it sounds like you never worked with a programmer before, because "that's literally the job of programmers, to figure out how to implement something" is by far vastly underestimating how good programmers are when you give them fuzzy information. Maybe by year 7 or 8 they can get fuzzy info and work that into a well functioning piece. Before then they either will complain "why can't someone just tell me what to build and I'll build it" or they never push back on "do we need to build this? And as such?" and by god try to get them to estimate. Oh wait and try to get those estimates to be less than 300% off.

Just saying, you are over trivializing everything which in my mind leads me to think you haven't lead an engineering team or maybe oversaw one or two junior or mid level engineers.

A good PM should _not_ be advocating for the engineers to do whatever. If they are doing this I would be the first in line to recommend either re-adjusting their priorities and having a senior pm oversee them, or kick them out. A good PM is what creates the space for engineers to do their job, and a bad one will not wrangle the chaos into an executable situation.

omg yes!!!! this too.

The thing about PMs. They fulfill a very specific need, and that need is hard to quantify, but I can tell you that without a good PM everything falls apart.

Here's a list of what they tend to do:

- gather information from users on what is/isn't working for them

- gather information from executives about what needs to be done to keep the company working

- gather information from industry leaders who may or may not be part of the company about where the industry is going

- work with design

- take all 4 previous points and distill them into what actually needs to be built for a needed feature

- work with engineering to figure out what is practical, vs not, for building, and how long approximately it will take

- work with engineers / higher ups to remove features that take time but don't add as much value.

- work with engineers to ensure estimation and team velocity is more or less predictable

I've probably already described a 1 and 1/2 jobs. Now if you take product away, each of the above gets distributed among the engineering team, and not everyone in that team is good at it. And even if they get to a good homeostasis, one person leaves and now there's a non-obvious gap that we're not interviewing for.

So what he's saying is a monitor that adjusts brightness to ambient light like a cellphone screen solves the problem?

I love the marketing:

Let's make the most uncomplicated to manufacture design possible, with basically a touch screen, and we can design the software forever, and call it "minimalism". Meanwhile it is not minimalistic or simple.

As it has been said in many contexts before "make things as simple as possible, but no simpler"

I chose a Mazda as my car because of the physical knobs they put in to control the infotainment, I absolutely swear by it, and I love it. It is far less distracting then trying to tap a spot on a screen while my hand is shaking due to small bumps on the road while I'm desperately trying to not look away from the road itself.

The worst part is that if you were in a dedicated flight sim, set up your sticks, and enjoy.

In SC, you gotta set up your sticks, you gotta then use mouse + keyboard to get to your ship. Then you can enjoy. But then like 50+% of the game is outside the cockpit, so now you're having to fiddle with trying to find a comfortable place to put that damn keyboard/mouse.

This game presents its own unique physical challenges, not to mention a need for like a GTX3070 at a minimum to get decent framerate (just 60 without every cool looking thing turned off)

my favorite was a few years ago when someone went on fox and said "okay, you're arguing we should all have guns, lets go into the black neighborhoods and make sure they all have guns because we'll all be safer then, right?"

Immediately "woah! Let's not go too far", right after they basically stated that they should arm every child in a school.

God I love irony.

Light on details. But the th;dr is that women and marginalized groups are living in fear and buy guns to feel safer.

Lots of it is also because of demand. I see people generating d&d characters and yeah they don't want to see an ugly fella. It reinforces itself.

And if it is good, great. Otherwise, it is what it is.

Edit: I have heard "we're almost done" before. So I'll believe it when it installs and runs.

I doubt Starfield will ever be emulatable on current gen hardware.

HOWEVER MS does have an ace -- they can make the next xbox an ARM machine. This will guarantee that all game devs either migrate to ARM or face being on an emulator with reduced capabilities. That will create the needed tech. But it will also help Apple... so MS is likely to try to avoid it.

Also Rosetta isn't perfect. Apple doesn't have gaming. Windows does. Even if ms was to release Rosetta one of their core market uses will be crippled.

The reality is that fo 3/4 reached more people than 1/2 ever did. Hence the popularity.

In any case... People need to write stories vs just rehashing all the ones we already got. I mean how many resident evil movies and shows are there? Far more than there should have been.

I would love to give props to this person but it seems he's rich enough to afford to live.

I have friends who can barely make ends meat. They can't afford to move to a nice place, or spend time with their kids, or spend time at the gym. They do what it takes to survive.

Yes, quitting a mind numbing job with a heft savings and a spouse who has enough income to help support you while you work on entrepreneurial projects is amazing for those who can. But few can.

Any info on the approximate size of the Russian heli fleet? Sounds like 21 is a big number for them.

Written like an old man shaking his fist at a cloud.

I don't see analysis and studies backing anything he says up. I don't see reporting of practical complaints that happen from regular riders.

Hell I remember how much wheel alignment I needed to keep my rim breaks working vs a disk.

In any case... Few facts, mostly a rant.

ego. he didn't like being criticized. He didn't like being limited. He wanted the musk network, and he didn't care. He believed his own bullshit about being a super genius when in reality he's just a rick asshole who was amazingly good at finding people to make him rich.

That's his skill. Finding specific kinds of people. That's it. And for Twitter he thought that his personality was gonna be enough. It wasn't.

He tried to buy a controlling board chair. He wanted to do this on the "cheap" but in the end he ended up letting his mouth do the thinking.

He basically sees that advertising on Twitter is dead.

He needs to create enough paid clients to male up for it.

So thus his conundrum. He's desperate for a workable plan.

Um every big company RTO hard announcement was followed by mass layoffs. Their hope was to get a chunk out before the announcement to lower the severance numbers.

In any case, I personally like being at the office with lots of WFH flexibility.

yeah i haven't seen an ad or sponsor message on youtube in years, and I can't fathom using it with ads. I rather be bored and stare at a wall.

as stated by many creators, most revenue for content creators is merchandising. The ad revenue is a nice extra bit.

The big thing is, ever if they got $0 from revenue, their lion's share still comes from other sources. And blocking views hurts them significantly more than loss of revenue from ads due to lack of the big money movers which are based on views not ads.

Dude, the video of the guy explaining how he invented the klingon and vulcan language for the star trek movies was extremely entertaining. the fact that in star trek 2 they already shot some scenes, and they wanted to dub a language that could be said with the already existing lip movements, but wasn't a current human language. In any case, wild stuff. Some people just created some amazingly cool things.