I had no idea Roku was born from Netflix, they did a good job at distancing themselves. I think this origin story also speaks to Reid fully understanding what he set out to do with Netflix, which is to stream entertainment over the internet. From the name to this move it seems very clear that's has taken that mission VERY seriously. It is really hard to invest in something so much and when you realize it is wrong viciously distance yourself from it. very few companies rarely pivot from their original mission. The only thing I would have done differently would be to open-source the hardware and Software of the Roku, basically creating a ton of competitors but at the same time pushing the mission of streaming movies further and getting Netflix to more screens. It still worked out regardless
The funniest thing to me is that the twitter account complaining is a Microsoft employee and Github is owned by Microsoft but the only way he could complain and be heard is via twitter? Amazing!
Is it me or is this really unclear? I get it is supposed to simplify the back-end for developers but for what exactly? Scheduling tasks? looking at metrics? I get I can install plugins but what plugins? Maybe this isn't for me, but it is unclear to me precisely what scenario this is solving for?
What I find fascinating is that the person pushing Jimmy to use crypto for Wikipedia does not seem to fully grasp the technology they are pitching.
1. He pitches it is great to track people posting illicit content on Wikipedia, then argues that crypto is pseudonymous, So why would you use that when web trackers we have today already know what I had for breakfast
2. Why would anyone want people to post illegal material on a blockchain when it is immutable? Let's assume the culprit goes to jail, but then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain
I think it is easier, but I don't think that is important or the right question. We live in a world that evolves and problems (Jobs) change all the time. It is to everyone's best interest to teach themselves new tools both to stay relevant and also to find interesting new problems to solve. So yes we need to change from the mindset of religious worship of a certain tool by only searching problems that tool can solve to researching the best tool for the problem we need to solve and learning it if necessary.
The police should investigate if the car system has been modified. That car was going to have a collision with the car in front of it, even if the boy was not there so something is very wrong here. I am no lawyer and we have not heard the other angles of the story but it seems plausible that someone is liable for this car behaving strangely
I think this is a great post to remember her by. It is funny, it is sad and also contains pain. It is very human and it shows how one thing in life can be multi-dimensional at the same time. I think this showcases the complexity of the human condition and how life ends up being the way we decide to look at it. My condolences to her friends and family and may she rest in peace
Something I think about is why is the American Justice system designed the way it is. Like a commenter said below it is a legal game. Why?
These are peoples lives, why is this system gamified? Why is it not a truth-seeking system? I am probably naive and don't see the full picture of all of this but it is confusing to me. The United States is known to be the country with the highest number of its citizens in prison. With a burdened legal system and little funding, why does this continue to be so? I find the barrier of entry to prison in the US very low compared to other countries I have lived in and visited. What are the advantages of this? I find this all very absurd.
Hi great story! I have been watching Buy Ma Coffee for a couple of years now and I had no idea it was a side project. How do you monetize Buy Me a Coffee? Do you just take a cut from the contributions made? or do you have a different model?
I cannot stress this enough. Communication is key!
Similarly to what others have said. Set up a meeting with the founders and also have your team lead involved. The fact that you are considering quitting means you have gotten to a stage where the answer to what you should do next is VERY important. So you need to communicate this so the company also has a fair chance of solving your issues to keep you around because they might be unaware of where you are psychologically.
Something to keep in mind your with your team lead. He/She might not be aware of their negative impact. Managers see multiple sides of an organization and it is not to the benefit of the organization for all sides to have access to all the information about other sides of the organization. To deal with this, managers play politics. Not because they are stupid and evil, but in their minds to keep the peace for the greater good but sometimes it impacts people like you and demoralizes them. Knowing this, you should not go into your meeting pointing fingers, read everyone's actions up to that point as well-intended as possible and use the meeting as a discovery session where you acknowledge what they are trying to do, but these are the negatives of their actions and outline how this can be made better, so you can work better. The way they handle this meeting should be all the answer you need to know if you should stay or not.
I always find stories like this fascinating. It always reminds me of how fragile our futures are. If Google was acquired the internet will be a VERY different place today. I find it humourous because this kinda brings to mind Skynet from the Terminator. In the movies, they spend a lot of time sending killing machines to the past to take out people who would invent the future and it causes a great deal of chaos, while all they might need to do is add a clause in a merger or acquisition that botches a deal that prevents Skynet from existing and the mission is accomplished. LOL
Why criminal terms? He did nothing wrong, he decided to serve a market the abandoned and it is not a crime for him charging more than Krispy Kreme does due to his value add (Transportation).
yes but his use of social media, forced Krispy Kreme to react publicly
I find this post quite disappointing. I don't mean to come off harsh but it is quite naive and utopian and I cannot take the call to arms seriously. Saying the internet went wrong is like saying the invention of cars went wrong cause we still have car accidents. For every powerful force in the world, it will be a source of good and bad things. The internet has changed the world, increased communication, allowed people in New York to learn and communicate with people in Egypt. Share stories, cultures, solve problems. A person in Nigeria can teach themselves Hindu, just from pure curiosity and no budget. No publisher needs to approve a book to be published or where it will be sold. We can make phone calls for free at any point in the day. We have Wikipedia, which for free provides more information than any human can process in their lifetime. For everyone who has access to the internet, the bulk of the world knowledge has been democratized and made accessible and something went wrong? Do terrorists use the internet? sure! Has consumerism hijacked parts of the internet? Sure! but these things are only symptoms of how powerful this tool is. Should we try to control and fix these problems of course! But for someone who created something so powerful, I am a bit disappointed at the negative tone of this post on the 50th anniversary of the first message.
Wow... this transported me to the 90s... This letter is part of my origin story in becoming a Software Engineer today. I can still hear Britney's "Baby one more time" and "Real Slim Shady" in the far distance as I code some of my very first websites and learn to vandalize my highschool's email servers
I think the source of this issue is as recent as the industrial age. People grow up wanting to be "Managers". We grew up watching our parents have a skill and working at a corporation, but then looking for that promotion to become a Manager. Somewhere along the line people are like, why don't I skip the whole working my ass off part and just hack resources together and manage it (Especially with the rise of the startup life). We lost the notion that there is a value to hard work, that there is a value to failing and picking yourself up. This is further compounded by the corruption we see in our governments, societies and money markets where people move around shares and numbers on excel sheets and become millionaires. It feeds further into the idea that people who work hard or develop a skill are losers
This is a fantastic story! A couple of takeaways here. The team took rejection VERY well. This is not as easy as you may think. This to me shows the founders believe in what they are doing and have a deeper goal than just making money. The ability to take the feedback and double down in just a few days is motivational.
Second, The power of positive response to negative situations. Lord knows how long it would have taken them to work on MRR if not for the rejection and they could easily have wasted time fiddling with copy and graphics, but the pressure for YC to re-evaluate them made them release ASAP and now they are already making revenue. At the end of the day, YC rejection allowed them to start generating proper revenue before they would have initially, to me that's a win, and they still get to keep the shares YC would have taken and now they have a higher valuation for whomever they apply to next for funding.
This is a great framing of a story that could easily be a sob story blog post. Keep it up, guys. You are bound for success.
Wouldn't this approach fail if there becomes a mainstream cryptocurrency, let's say Libra for lack of a better example. Where you can keep converting and switching wallets (laundering) or just buy something that has no ties to you and it would be hard to track?
Like you rightly pointed out, the govt control over fiat, but that control is continually being threatened every day
This article is very interesting. For some reason, somewhere down the line humans evolved to use smell as a way to decide if something is worth engaging with or not (Food, people etc) or to detect danger (smoke from a fire) but like the author said. There is a whole world of smells that are just interesting in themselves but humans never explore. I have never entertained the intricacies of a smell I stop at if it is good or bad.
I really loved the site, great work. My only feedback is to make the pagination more apparent...I at first thought it was a work in progress and you only had the first 20 until I searched around and noticed the pagination boxes... I think clearer pagination or pagination that beckons you to click will reduce your bounce rate
Well if those are the two measures then this paper would be wrong. 5 out of the top 10 most entrepreneurial countries according to this paper is in Sub Saharan Africa where government corruption is very high and there the inclusive policies are hit or miss...mostly miss while the US is number 46 on the list. As someone that has worked in both regions, the USA is waaaay easier to do business than Sub Saharan Africa but I have seen first hand that there is more entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa than the US. I feel the people just do not expect the government to provide anything, so they just do it themselves. Most people have two jobs. One for the Govt or a Cooperation and they have their own on the side
I love this project because ir brings up a big issue. There is a treasure trove of information buried in git that isn't easily accessible or useable, even for developers it is hard to make use of this data easily.... That's why I and friend came up with Ship Scoop[0] which is in beta testing now. For anyone interested in testing it out and a forever free account hit me up. The idea is to leverage information that is already being created to do more for you.
[0] https://www.shipscoop.com/
To be honest it really disturbs why people hate Tesla so much. Citing your reason for them being over-optimistic or over-promising, how else do people change the world? I don't mean this message as an attack but something to think about. These guys are working on something No one has EVER done in the history of mankind and we require them to stick to timetables and if they don't the punishment is we wish them failure and celebrate it? If Tesla is to succeed all our lives will be better for it, why are their mistakes and obstacles celebrated? Why do we care if the company is overvalued? This is the same sentiment towards Apple when the iPhone first came out till it no longer could be ignored. Tesla is far from a perfect company, but their mission is true and the real question we should be asking ourselves rather than if we like Elon, or if the company is overvalued or if they over promise and under deliver. the real question is, Is this company really trying to fulfill its mission statement, If yes, would we want such a mission to succeed?
I think the author raises a very good point. Developer productivity does not lie in a vacuum, this is overlooked a lot mostly because for small teams most developers manage their environment and toolings and for big teams there usually are standards to follow but there is a huge gap in the middle where if a developer is not vocal enough or has sway in a toxic team a good developer could spiral downwards in productivity.
As to a solution to what the author asked: "What could have been done". I think the way to handle that situation is to approach the manager with a solution. Tell them, if you give me A, B and C I will be productive, I do not have these now and they are causing me pain. To do this one has to have self-awareness and experience in what they need for a productive environment. one also has to be vocal and willing to fight for it.
From being in a similar situation here is what I learned recently. You have Finite time and you have finite energy, usually people want to do more things than they have available resources for. You have to internalize and accept this. You cannot accomplish all the tasks you want to do sustainably.
Fully internalizing this allows you to find what it is you really care about. For example you want to write a personal journal not for journaling sake but there is a goal you are trying to achieve that you think journaling is the way to reach it, same with meditation, work and everything on your list. They are tasks that lead to a goal. Accepting you have limited time allows you to prioritize your goals. When you do this you will be able to focus on what is truly important to you. Not everything on your list will move the needle to your real goals, slash them. Working hard and pushing yourself does not gaurantee success... remeber to live the life you want not the one you think you have to live to get the life you want.
This is a beautiful example of the importance of diversity on a team. I have no idea how diverse the team is and I am not speaking of racial or sex diversity... this is the core of the discussion, having people with varying life experiences prevent obvious bugs like this or innovative ideas that no one person could think about. This is a fun bug