kylestlb's comments

On: Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of Ame...

[kylestlb]

I'm from here and still live in the mountains. The 60s spirit has waned. I wouldn't say SC has hippy vibes anymore. Just take a walk down pacific avenue and look around, compared to 20 years ago.

[BashiBazouk → kylestlb]

Having grown up in Santa Cruz, the place kind of died for me after the Loma Prieta Earthquake. The Santa Cruz downtown merchants/city council really screwed up with the rebuild. Took the beautiful Roy Rydell botanical mall and turned it in to little San Jose...

On: GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview

[kylestlb]

or getting engineers to communicate properly with each other :)

On: Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democrac...

[kylestlb]

i see plenty of patagonia uniforms in SF :)

On: FTC announces rule banning noncompetes

[kylestlb]

whoa, that existed? sheesh

[Bluecobra → kylestlb]

Yes, Jimmy John’s did this and got in trouble:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN13W2J9/

[bagels → kylestlb]

Yes. It's totally repulsive, and has no reasonable justification to exist.

On: How to embrace asynchronous communication for remo...

[kylestlb]

"Major open source projects, particularly the Linux kernel, are done entirely over email to great success."

This is a good model of how to collaborate, but it's also a bit self selecting don't you think? Unfortunately the reality at most day jobs is that a lot of people you work with are simply trying to get by.

On: Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, ...

[kylestlb]

doesn't every HRIS have this? workday, et al... all have some sort of "Leave Reason" field which can be reported on & aggregated

On: LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

[kylestlb]

always has been :)

On: MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O ...

[kylestlb]

may help to read the article, redis is mentioned

On: Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking indivi...

[kylestlb]

but they aren't tracking when an employee leaves the office. go in, make yourself visible for 15 minutes, then head back home. easy peazy!

On: What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k pe...

[kylestlb]

If I was born yesterday I might believe this.

Offshoring labor has been around for a long time, and the problems associated with it haven't magically disappeared because people know how to use Zoom.