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Rich people start hyping these places

Eager eyed entrepreneurs follow

And the sharks are just waiting

Anybody else nodding along like...

"mhm mhm Austin...makes sense..."

"I wonder when the Florida scams are gonna start hitting?"

Oversimplification but often I think it's:

Elderly wisdom <=> Middle-aged evaluation <=> Youthful application

The problem occurs when this doesn't line up with management structures and you get

Elderly dictation => Middle-aged helplessness => Youthful disillusionment

This is how it should be to be honest, and in tech everything gets compressed because of how fast it moves.

- Energy of the young -- doers

- Leadership of the middle aged -- management

- Wisdom of the elderly -- advisors

It feels like so often we put the elderly in this executive roles, when really they should have a seat at the table, but not be the preeminent decision makers.

It feels like Microsoft had to prematurely play their hand here, and it will cost them in the long term. The whole situation is blatantly corrupt.

FanDuel was really a lose-lose-lose

- Investors got a meager return

- Company and employees got nothing from the sale

- Consumers got a gambling addiction

We live in a decentralized free-for-all era, and I think the result is better music, but they're nostalgic for that "collective experience".

Like so many things it got so centralized that it eventually crumbled under its own weight. As soon as they said the words "Producer Manager" I was like "where have I heard that acronym before"?

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”

― George Carlin

The current CEO, Chris Cocks, was the President of WOTC from 2016 to 2022.

How is Arena toxic? There's basically no opportunity for the players to converse besides bland preset options which rarely even gets used outside of a greeting at the start of the game.

- Update code in iOS, Android, React

- Most of that work is just maintaining fidelity between the platforms

- Forever

- Likely unpaid

- The primary beneficiaries of your work are two of the biggest companies in the world

- Not be appreciated anyways

Takes a very specific kind of person to do it.

It's sort of like if they didn't have a change control process, deployed on a Friday, realized the deployment was broken, and are now hurriedly trying to roll it back before business hours Monday.

Not really a good look from a company that's leading the charge on such a pivotal technology.

I can't remember the source for it (help me out if you know it), but people only like to play games when they're in the band of 30-70% winrate. Win too much or too little, and they'll stop enjoying playing the game.

In my experience they are very limited by their lack of familiarity with the code. They might be a generalist at everything else, but that's a pretty hard ceiling.

Gets to Mt Moon and it gets stuck in a long hallway when the AI doesn't understand that it's still "exploring" by walking down it, even as it moves, because the screenshots look the same.

Plenty of ways to tweak the reward system to get it to continue.

It feels like marketing sleight-of-hand. Like "you own the house, but you have to rent the walls from us".

This has been my experience as well (as a dev). Curious if there's others in the same sort of situation, and I'd love to hear more thoughts. My general tips are:

- Use as much as you can of what they already have.

- Talk to them, but don't waste their time.

- Follow their patterns.

- Understand at the end of the day its their domain.

- Choose your advice carefully.

- Try to throw a little extra gratitude their way. Organizational visibility, code reviews, documentation, mentorship, whatever feels appropriate and not over-stepping.

- Put extra effort into handoff documentation.

This would basically necessitate moving every shared fence in the world.

And per user it's about $25 a year

$12,000 per 50 million requests according to a post the dev made on Reddit, which he claims translates to $20 million a year.

Just a general trend of humanizing things that aren't human: governments, corporations, AI.

I'm a big fan of the quote “Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems” and I just don't like to blur the line between the two.

Even that is weird. Anthropomorphizing the government.

It's very strange to see the sentence "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" coming from the Chief Justice. I don't like seeing a person and an entity like the government used interchangeably like that. Leaves that Citizens United bad taste in my mouth.

I think it's that he doesn't feel enough power over remote workers.

Also Elon Musk accusing anyone of being in "La La Land" is hilarious.

I've always suspected that the primary education system purposefully avoids financial education because of fears that too many people attempting to join the ownership class would cause civil unrest.

"Things Growing Again After Forest Fire"

They basically should have built the tech then gone down to a skeleton crew of engineers to maintain it.

In my experience the real killer is doing difficult, but low value work.

It's particularly hard at startups, because every "pivot" is just that: a lot of hard work being discarded. You can try to rationalize it like "we learned something" or "at least we're not on that path anymore", but there's still a very real mental cost.

Interesting how the lack of trading in Arena really keeps this bug (and most bugs) from being truly catastrophic.

If you did the same thing in MTGO, where you can actually trade those cards for event tickets, then sell those event tickets to a 3rd party for real money...well, then a bug like this has the potential to mess up that whole economy.