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Hope they're better than the SA Angels. Half of these angels orgs function like cabals.

Jobs was a bully who got the big picture right, but often got the details wrong; folklore.org has plenty of stories about people going round Jobs to get shit done.

Linus is abrasive, but he usually has a good explanation for why the target of his ire is a moron, e.g. everytime some coder without Linus’ experience suggests converting the kernel codebase to C++.

Let’s be honest, most developers are average at best, and knowledge is our status play. Scoring points against Linus’ decisions are one way to get you noticed, which makes him a target. If I had to deal with that shit everyday, I would do my best to discourage point scorers by putting them in their place as well.

None of us are dealt an equal hand in life. Having a genetic predisposition that advantages or disadvantages someone does not absolve them of the responsibility of their actions. If we were unchanging machines, that may not be the case, but it's much more complex than we give it credit for, and the debate is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

Indeed. Anecdotally, I can really FEEL the sun here compared to other places. I was on holiday on Hydra (one of the Greek islands), and outside for 8 hours on a clear sunny day, and got a light tan... I would've been sunburnt within an hour if I'd done the same at home.

80 hours to 160 days? Or do you mean 80 hours to 160 hours?

Handy to know. I didn't know if there was a subtle difference between the Magic Mouse 1 and 2 other than the charging port (which honestly is in a ridiculous position). I started using the original in 2010 and haven't looked back.

How does it compare to the original?

I think there's something to be said for biting the bullet and just doing a proper rewrite if the investment increases your market size. There's also something to be said for solving problems at the right layer.

How much time could have been saved if they'd picked a cross-platform language, e.g., Java or PHP, and done the rewrite once the market had been validated with what was essentially a prototype? Instead they tried to shoehorn it into what they'd already written by writing half-baked solutions at the wrong layer.

Don't get me wrong, it's impressive technical wizardry to get as much of it working as they did, but the work was always going to have a short shelf life. They've done well for themselves either way, but I wonder what might've happened if they'd rewritten it upfront.

Except that implies that someone who remembers how to invert a binary tree but doesn't have an open track record is a better hire than someone who couldn't remember but created, maintains and improves a popular open source project for YEARS.

Working software should be prioritised over rote memorisation of data structure theory.

Melbourne is liveable; Adelaide is a retirement village. The population has been stagnant for two decades, and the brain drain continues to worsen. I can count the number of people worth working with on both of my hands.

I'm in the US at the moment (Silicon Alley), and it's staggering the funds available compared to Australia. Fairfax County, where I'm currently based, has half the population of Australia. I've always been bullish about the US, but I don't think I can afford to ignore this market once I get started on my own adventures.

No, I wish. The closest you'll get is companies that might hire on transferrable skillsets (e.g., Ruby <-> Python). The best thing you can do is have a portfolio of work that shows your understanding. It's what we had to do when I was doing graphic design and illustration work.

There's also gulf a between what companies think they need, and what they actually need. Almost everyone hires on technologies and not the abstract skillsets required to learn said technologies.

I would agree with the "simplistic view" comment, except for the fact that I live here and have seen it happening for at least the last decade. Foreign investors are literally buying up streets of houses, without regard to the price; Chinese companies are buying up as much farmland as they can; Adani is trying to mine as much coal with no regard to the environment while getting billions in Government assistance; and don't get me started on all the Chinese buying up as much baby formula as they can and sending it back home to their relatives.

There's a difference between immigrating to a country because you want to live there, and immigrating to pump it for its resources until it runs dry.

I'm assuming this is a technical co-founder in the stricter sense, rather than an early-employee CTO. If the case were the latter, I'd most likely be inheriting a dumpster fire built by an agency or a jilted technical co-founder, neither of which is a good position to be in.

If that's the case, then the onus is on the founder as much as me to prove their worthiness. I've inherited too many dumpster fires in my career to implicitly trust the word of non-technical co-founders.

Honestly, even that's a crapshoot. In fact this article presumes that it should be an interview, when it should really be a conversation.

If a non-technical founder wanted to "interview" me, I'd tell them to shove it. If they wanted to have a conversation about how we could bring our complementary skills together to solve a problem, then I'd certainly be much more interested.

I'm sorry to hear, I thought this was a good idea.

That seems strange, and the example you give is less applicable than one might first think.

A letter is private correspondence; the date it is written is essentially the date it is published. A manifesto, on the other hand, could be considered a public document, and so its date of publishing may not necessarily be the date it was written.

I get that it was written a while ago and only made available for public consumption recently. However, appending a date to the article name signals to most users that the article is an older article that may have been previously posted. This is the part that's confusing, and I think masks what is essentially a new document in the eyes of the public.

There are plenty of counter-examples to this. Just look at Google's messaging efforts (Gmail chat, Hangouts, Duo, Allo, etc.) as a great example of fragmentation without any obvious benefit.

Agreed. While I'm not a fan of the writing style either, the premise was enough to keep me interested until the end. It wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't too far off the mark for the next 50 or so years.

Solitude and leadership https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

The beneficial aspects of organised religion are overshadowed by the abuses they enable. It continues to segregate based on race, sex, culture, sexual orientation, not to forget other religions. It restricted knowledge to those deemed acceptable, until inventions like the printing press enabled dissemination of knowledge far and wide.

If you want to see a modern example of the effects of organised religion (more to the point, theocracy), you don't have to look any further than the Iranian Revolution in the 1970s. Iran went from a secular, pro-science society to one ruled purely through fear induced by the dominant religion.

I have always tried to maintain a dialogue with people, no matter their way of thinking. However, in recent times I've come to realise that unless you subscribe to a person's religion, any respect they give you is false. They think, by definition, that you are going to a different place to them in an afterlife that nobody truly knows exists. It doesn't become apparent until you come into conflict with the tenets of their belief (sexual orientation being a current one) - then watch them try to politely tell you wrong.

The truth is organised religion is more a burden than a boon, and the quicker we move past it as a species, the quicker we can move on to things that actually matter.

Sure, but when we say the backyard, we're probably talking further inland than the capital city.

Honestly I would love a spaceport in my backyard, seeing as we just hosted the International Astronautical Congress too.

Neither did I, and I'm Australian!

Curious how you came up with the name... Wallaroo is a town in my state, and it's originally an Aboriginal word (though I don't recall the meaning).

It's not getting the problem in your head, so much as where you are at a certain point in time while attempting to solve the problem. If you get knocked out of flow by interruptions after 20 minutes, it can take quite an amount of time to get back to where you were.

> Do not label the cats. They do not like it.

I feel this is the "take out all the brown M&Ms" moment in your reply. I did laugh a lot though - the timing was unexpected.

As I said in another comment, it could be anything, I was just using my experience as an example that sometimes it's not necessarily burnout, but an actual physical issue. Burnout is such a common problem with programmers that we just naturally assume that's the issue without regard for other medical factors.

It wasn't the fatigue. I had rectal cancer, was bleeding out of my rectum after drinking too much (first 8 months of last year I stopped drinking because I thought that might've been the issue). I didn't think much of it until the end of the year after a bender and bleeding profusely for 3/4 of the day. Went in and had a colonoscopy a month later, and was then diagnosed.

However, I didn't have those symptoms until the cancer was Stage 3, and I was lucky it was rectal. If it was up further in my bowel, obvious symptoms may have appeared too late (and I'm 36, so too young to be considered for regular colonoscopies).

However, it should be noted that fatigue is a common side effect of many cancers, and shouldn't be ignored if you've been fatigued for a while.

Exactly, it could be so many things. Even if results come back inconclusive, it doesn't mean something's not going on.

On that note, I could be totally off and the OP might just be regular old stressed, but there's no way anybody can really tell from this post. Everyone will project their worst experiences onto it.