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Root cause: too many people and a rapidly expanding middle class.
Fix? Lower population, lower quality of life, or massively accelerate the rising country overall to Norway like social economic level.
I'm open for suggestions.
I can spin up a simple web app or a simple cloud function and get it globally distributed in minutes, for free. That's amazing
I'm sure it made impact but at most it saved <10 people a couple of hours a day.
I'd compare this phenomenon as if drug companies spend millions of dollars to cure an obscure disease a handful of rich people have.
I've always been dismissive of the myer-briggs test. Since the tests are "not reproducable", must mean it's at best a pseudo-science.
But then I realized, who am I to dismiss the idea? I'm not an expert. Much smarter people than I (Dalio) believe in it. At the end of the day, does it help us move closer to understanding the differences between our minds?
I'd say yes it does. It may not be a "perfect" 100% correct model, but at least it's a step towards a direction.
Imho kinda crazy the zoom slack integration works better than slacks own native calling function.
Reviewing other people’s PR is a collaborative task, fixing bugs "reported by others" is a collaborative work, updating docs and release notes for "other" stakeholder's consumption is collaborative work.
Unless you're building a house deep in the woods for you by you, you're collaborating with other people on different levels.
Let's be honest, introversion is a gradient scale, maybe we've shifted a bit more towards cutting out the office Watercooler talks but everything we do as a species is still highly collaborative.
The US cotton industry in turn drives the global fast fashion industry. It's a complete ease to the bottom/ecological destruction.
also micro-lending will be as big in west as it's in China in the next decade. borrowing 10k to margin trade the stock market is inherently more risky than borrowing 10M for a mortgage.
I feel like this is a huge security risk if you're doing any kind of IP development.
It highlights that the author wasn't a good fit as engineer #2. However, instead of introspection, the author just blamed it all on bad org, bad manager etc.
Conclusion, I wouldnt hire op as engineer #2 at early stage startups.
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Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/
- We're a team of 3 full-stack developers.
- 10+ years of experience each.
- proficient in all aspects of web app dev, infrastructure and data warehousing.
Who you are:
- US based small/medium sized company with a big idea.
- Business who needs a specialized team to bring your product to life
Why us:
- we're entrepreneurs first, crossing the finish line is #1.
- we're fast and flexible.
- we've got AAA experience, built multiple web startups from zero.
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We still treat software like a traditional job, where time-in-field determines bulk of who gets sorted into what role.
Software comes with both soft and hard skills. Maybe you feel you're lacking in the hard skills (the actual coding) but do not dismiss the soft skills you've accumulated in the last 10yrs.
Leadership's job is to help employees do the best work that aligns with the company goal. If devs don't understand what long term goal they should set to help a company grow, that's a huge red flag.
Even on the smallest scale of sample size, I thrived during the work from home year, yet my SO can't wait to get back to office work where they can socialize with coworkers face to face.
Any call for either OR are dramatically overweightted.
some people call not having native string/int/whatever sorting methods is "hard to write".
some people think the verbose `if err != nil` every other line is also "hard to write"
again, there is an upstart cost, which is to integrate yourself into the language community.
Videos should be cryptographically signed, and verified once online. You can spoof certs but you can't really fake the cert authority
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Why us:
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- we're fast and flexible.
- we've got experience, built multiple web startups from zero.
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Why not break out of that and think digitally.
Digital ownership is like putting your name on a building, like a museum. Completely meaningless to most but a few. And that is worth it enough for some folks to send millions to do it.
NFT ownership is exactly the same thing. The article says that creators just need a few thousand of devote followers to make a living. A NFT doesn't have to mean or worth anything to millions of people, just to a few thousand will do. It's enough to create a vibrant marketplace centered around some creator.
Maybe think of NFT as a pointer to the head of a link list, the start of the data distribution chain. And we assign some arbitrary monetary value to that pointer, because, well, there's only 1 head of a link list.
The entire premise of outside consulting is for management to cover their own ass so they can just throw money at the thing. Most of the time they don't even understand or can define the problem they're trying to solve, just a business metric they're trying to satisfy.
At some point we got so obsessed with extending the human existence we forgot how to live with the little time we've got.
60s is the new 40 sounds nice but really it's a sad state.