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Doesn't help when people send to non-ML or individual emails, but it works wonders for ML and distribution lists.
It's about shelf life. Both group chats and emails have a shelf life. Emails have a longer shelf life (probably up to 48 hours in responding and staying relevant in many cases) whereas group chat's have shelf lives measured in minutes. Chat is great for quick one off's, maybe even a few key people on hand, but not for extended groups. In fact, it's rather terrible.
Nothing beats meetings with all the right folks, though. Meetings are much better than both group chat or email for spreading awareness. Actually, now that I write this, this might be a use of chat; a virtual meeting via chat. Though, I argue the utility is in having all the parties present and not the protocol.
The thing is, as I've seen in this, group chat has a "cuteness" to it. Just like IRC back in the day (or today depending on if you still use it), people are much less formal in group chat and there seems to be less expectation of formality. There is cat pictures and funny emoticons. This isn't a tool challenge; both email and group chat can be equally informal and cute. I contend that email /still/ is a better mechanism given the non-realtime nature of it.
But then again, the realtime nature of group chat is what some like. It's precisely what I don't like. I like 1-1 chat quite a bit, though I very quickly default to video in these cases as well (higher fidelity, quicker, less prone to written miscommunication).
Hipchat/Slack/IRC are great for some use cases that require the type of communication (specifically I think of operations, incidents or things along those lines). I feel other general team communication in these mechanisms is, well, overblown. My gut tells me PRs are better for much of what group chat serves, and if not PRs, email/ML are still great. And don't forget getting everyone into a room or video hangout.
I don't particularly like email, but I don't hate it either. I do, however, very much dislike group chat.
You basically 'well actually'ed the quote. Further, it was to point out something rather obvious, trivial and trite. Lastly, you killed the joke.
When someone 'well actuallys' or 'technically it's ...' Something it tends to end poorly for the person using those terms. Why? Because it has a way of coming across incredibly poorly to the receiving party or parties. There are better ways to engage.
fwiw, i suspect a very common reaction to people reading your post would be something along the lines of 'well, yeah. Of course.' Meaning everyone already understands this, the joke is simply phrased that way to land with people. So, you likely aren't pointing anything out to people they don't already know, you just come across in any number of unflattering ways.
8 year boy on the spectrum. I'm tech. Wife is doctor. In a traditional school, boy has challenges (also is diagnosed with ADHD). Had him test, very high IQ. Super into science (outer space, oceans, physics etc) and has almost encyclopedic knowledge of those topics. In a STEAM based school, is super engaged.
We both suspect that wife's father is on the spectrum. Both wife and I exhibit traits but probably wouldn't qualify as being ASD.
Wife and I met in high school. Ethnically we are nothing alike (I'm northern European, she's a mix of African and eastern European).
We have two younger kids who appear NT at this point.
That basically is called hierarchy by a different term. And I suspect, as most with quite a bit of experience would, that as olark grows, more layers (aka, hierarchy) would be introduced. It's natural and it's fine.
It's fine! I know it's a dirty word, but hierarchy is fine. It really is.
I contend it's NOT the problem that people want to solve, rather they want to solve a different one. It's the classic case of treating the symptoms and not the disease. I highly suspect that in most flat companies, the real thing people are after is some subset of [trust, autonomy, mission, vision, ownership, accountability, flexibility, empowerment] etc. But, instead of focusing on those, the focus shifts to the structure. If in solving for the subset it is found that structure is at fault, by all means give it a go. That is not how I've seen it done, though. Rather, people /assume/ flat is better with no mindfully explicit reasons why they would adopt it.
My wife is a GP and she deals with obesity and T2D all the time. She says 3 things for T2D.
1. Lose weight 2. Reduce your carbs, go low carb as soon as possible. 3. Exercise, preferably with weights and walking/swimming.
She personally has never had a patient that actually did the above and wasn't "cured" from T2D. However, she has had folks who think losing 5 pounds or that low carb means not drinking the 5th coke of the day and don't understand why it doesn't work in 2 weeks. She has found herself to be an educator most of all. People just generally have zero clue on how all these systems work and she has to tell folks things like "yes, rice is in fact a carb. So is an apple and those waffles. Yup, the biscuit as well. Oh, you're drinking fruit juice for breakfast thinking you are being good? That's 45g of sugar right there. That low fat yogurt is in fact awful for you as a T2D".
I don't like to recommend nutrition advise over the internet, but if you haven't looked into ketogenic diet for T2D management, I would give it a look.
Obesity is a huge problem socially, financially and systematically (look at the cost of obesity on any social healthcare system. It's staggering). Type II diabetes has a near fool proof known cure: Lose weight.
The challenge is that's hard for a huge swath of people, likely due to many factors, some self inflicted, some societal. But the bottom line is we know how to fix T2D, it's just not available in pill form.
My wife is a GP and worked at the single best hospital system in the US and we couldn't get anywhere near the support we could up here in BC. That number you quoted ($80k/year) is almost exactly the number it would have cost us to get just therapy in the US, let alone an in class-room aid and in-home tutor.
That said, getting the official diagnosis did take some time but we were able to around that by paying out of pocket (around $1500 CAD) to get the official tests and what not. Also, once you have the diagnosis, there was no waiting for therapy. We could get it right away. Our son now has an aid 50% of the time he is in school. We have in-home therapy a few days a week (we pay for most of this; only some of it is covered), and we have access to parent training and special child social training courses.
There is a very good reason we live here and it is b/c BC has a great support system for autistic children. Like any bureaucracy the Canadian medical system can be very hard to navigate and I've heard stories of people giving up b/c they can't figure out the next steps, which is terrible. But the bottom line is BC was far and away better than anything we could have gotten in the US.
What you said about those cross-cutting problems and all that is spot on and that is basically what I see sr. engineers and architects. However, how do we or should we even further delineate career progression and responsibilities? And what does that look like? What is beyond those things?
Thank you!
If you have any reaction other than "oh, ok, hope everyone is healthy", you are probably a terrible human being.
Look, Musk /is/ out to change the world. His employees might not be, at least to the degree and level as he is. And, if they are, they'll likely not be remembered along with Musk. There is often only one, maybe two names attached to great achievements. If I'm an employee at a company like that (and I have been, and I have killed myself with long hours making someone else rich when I was young and dumb, before I realized what it was all about), I would do my job very, very well and make sure I have the balance in life /I/ want.
You don't want me to see the birth of my child? Sorry, fuck off. It's my time, my life, my family, my kid. And we aren't talking about a tee-ball game. This is the BIRTH. We aren't talking about kindergarten parent-teacher conferences. This is the birth, where you support your wife and see your child for the first time.
And, sadly, Musk probably doesn't realize because he is so wrapped up in his own world, but having a child IS changing the world for a few folks. But, ya know, sociopaths don't care about other people, just themselves.
I'm continually saddened that we put people on pedestals who so clearly aren't deserving of it. Musk is just another example of someone who /really/ is out for theirs and want to get it any way possible. I think we all thought, or maybe hoped, he was different. I don't know that he is.
Put it another way, Django and Rails would never have gotten as popular were it not for their 'batteries included' approach. Sure, Sinatra and Flask came, but they came after.
IMV, Go needs a Django/Rails if it is going to be a webframework. If not, if Go is destined for the API layer, it is probably fine with what it has now.
Love the new json/jsonb datatypes and this would be a great way to use those.
I'd personally prefer pg to mongo and even without the HTTP API I could see myself using it in the future, though with an HTTP API there would seem no reason not to use pg.
The winters in Phoenix were great, but the summers were brutal. Average them out and you get an ok year. Also, the landscape in Victoria is so much nicer that even during the rainy season (it never gets really "cold" in victoria, particularly by Canada standards), I can put up with more than I ever could the heat in Phx.
However, there are some major annoyances in both places as well. We Americans have come to expect things to be A. cheap B. quick and C. easy. See amazon.com. Those either don't exist or are 1/100 as useful outside of the US.
Other things are different as well, but nothing that is insurmountable and some are enjoyable as well.
BTW, I just got my perm residency in Canada and plan on staying here forever. The schools are better than where we came from (Phoenix), the people are nicer and the weather is much, much better (We live in Victoria; wife, 3 kids). Kids go to a francophone (not immersion, though there are those as well) school, ride their bikes everywhere and have parks around every corner. People still don't lock their doors sometimes.
That said, I probably would never live anywhere else in Canada other than Victoria....maybe Vancouver (though that is kinda pricey and doesn't offer the kind of lifestyle we are after). Rest of Canada has mostly miserable weather as far as I'm concerned.
Ubuntu 12.04, which has a version of Gnome classic, is still supported until 2017 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases). If someone is running hardware past this date, well, they are going to be on their own. That's life. That's software.
It's called progress. Gnome2 was a dying project when Unity was announced. Gnome3 was "coming soon", but flailing around. Unity is different, sure, but so was OSX to a degree when it came out. People need to move on. Unity is the present and future of Ubuntu. We've been talking about it for, what, 3 years now? Move on, one way or another.
A third option also exists...Investor total share goes down. I personally believe we will see this more in the future.
I notice that only two are considered "variable" in this article: founder and employee.
The fact is, VCs/Investors are becoming less needed than they were 10-20 years ago. Why wouldn't it be logical for their stake to take a hit for the money they put in?
Even if you hold the position you stated and wanted that change, we can't deny someone rights in the current system for some future better situation. There is an immediate and real world problem that needs to be addressed while you strive to implement your preferred system.