> It doesn’t take much googling to find a vast number of developers griping about it on their blogs
It also doesn't take much googling to find a vast number of people convinced that vaccines are bad.
Scrum is the most popular development methodology because nothing is more popular. It's not like there's some development methodology out there that all engineers like and its just the bad managers stopping us from using it.
Scrum is liked by managers, not developers. It is a managerial approach, not a legitimate engineering approach. Kanban, for example, is less negative to developers than is Scrum.
That's not true. If you have a startup that actually could pay all its bills and turn a profit if it wanted to, it's default alive. Just because you're choosing instead to spend on growth, that doesn't make it default dead.
That really is the subset of startups we'd call VC backed - interested in hypergrowth and discussions of TAM instead of just making another profitable business.
From my understanding, if someone were to create a private fork of Triplit Server add some modifications and then launch a hosted service (i.e. serving the modified Triplit Server over the internet) they wouldn't be compelled to open-source their modifications under GPL but would under AGPL.
The excessive regulations are restrictive zoning. There's plenty of land to build in LA and San Francisco but too many nimbys who keep things from not changing.
It doesn't help that an unprecedented amount of immigrants, mostly illegal, have been let into the country to suppress wages. That puts upward pressure on house stock.
It has everything to do with restrictive zoning and building codes. NYC is a prime example, there are tons of empty commercial office buildings. But they will never house people because building codes require every room to have natural light. Rules also restrict share and boarding houses which used to provide affordable housing to many people.
No one said affordable housing needed to have windows in every room or home very room to have a bathroom. They're affordable for a reason and this is the norm in every other part of the world.
It's time to start thinking like every other country and culture.
What do you say about the reasons those regulations exist? It didn’t start that way; they were added after years and events.
Also, NYC has a lot of new residential buildings going up. I see them all over. But every time I look up what’s it’s for, it’s for the ultra-wealthy - $10s of millions per (huge) condo.
There is a lot of pent up demand. In a society where housing is provided by the market, those who can pay get served first. Stifling more construction doesn’t really lower prices; look at the Lower East Side and Soho where people pay out the nose to live in literal tenements.
It is hard to overstate how much housing would need to be built. To get housing affordable, Sweden committed to building 1M units over a decade in the 70s when the population of the country was 7M. In the 2010s, NYC had a population over 8M and built about 200k units.
No, in this example the person sold equity in order to get the 500K. They can't use the equity as collateral for the loan because they dont own it anymore
But then they’re paying interest and very few startups are going to have stock that a someone will lend against. I cannot imagine someone taking Series A stock as collateral for a loan.
If there's AI involved, everyone's panic level skyrockets.
No one retweets "Attacker gaining root access reveals all user information", but instead "Attacker gaining root access reveals all user information collected by AI program" will go viral for sure.
The headline sounds like it's stating a fact, but if you read the article it wasn't supported anywhere other than the author stating it. There is no data presented or study that was done. The author seems to believe that the salary jumps that accompany 2-year job changes can be sustained over time.
From my experience, I don't think this is the case. In your twenties it's definitely true, but when I look at the highest paid people (in their later career) it is not true that they did this.
I think the reason is that as you progress up a leadership structure, stability becomes increasingly important and candidates who have exhibited short tenures in roles are passed over because it is assumed this behavior will continue. It's highly damaging to have a VP leave an org leave after only 2 years in the role.
Even if there were observational data to this effect, the obvious confound is that more skilled people are more in demand -> more likely to hear from recruiters -> more likely to move
I completely agree that a marathon mindset is more powerful than a sprint mindset. In your 20s you have so much energy but you don't understand the world well yet or yourself.
Over the next two decades you will slowly lose your energy but what will replace it will be a much better understanding of the world and your self. Your time will become much more limited, but your understanding of how best to spend it will get much better.
And eventually you will find that ambition and happiness pull you in different directions. In your 20s its great to focus on ambition, but in your 40s its time to build a future focused on your happiness.
I'm not in my 60s yet, but I've struggled keeping a routine all of my life and I've discovered that I feel like my days are slipping away when I do well at it for a stretch.
Please elaborate on this idea of time moving so fast in your 60s. It is terrifying to me. I'm in my early 40s and I already feel like it is slipping away from me so quickly. I want to achieve my ambitions and I also want to enjoy life, and despite being at the peak of my competency, it just feels like there's never enough time for both.
If I "blinked" when I was 40 (in the sense of not paying much attention to what was happening over what felt like a not particularly long period of time), maybe a week would go by.
Now, it's months. Or maybe it's an effect closer to memory "time compression". When I was 40, 6 months of memories was quite a distinct cluster of different things. Now, 6 months of memories is closer to one memory. It's not precisely like that, and certainly not all the time, but that's a handwaving general description of how I perceive things these days.
Yeah, this is absolutely horrifying. I have seen this phenomenon discussed before, and I can perceive its impact in my own life. It implies that from the standpoint of perception my life may already be mostly over without me having realized it.
It also doesn't take much googling to find a vast number of people convinced that vaccines are bad.
Scrum is the most popular development methodology because nothing is more popular. It's not like there's some development methodology out there that all engineers like and its just the bad managers stopping us from using it.
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