exmicrosoldier

Domain expertise is neccessary but not sufficient.

It takes a LOT of time to validate every path, possibly an infinite amount of time, depending on the complexity of the domain.

Github? Windows? Ibm? Intel? Boeing?

Lidar is much less accurate in the rain.

Change the legal definition of corporations? Corporations exist to provide liablity protections to sharholders, which means they are mainly incentivized to externalize costs and avoid liability to maximize profit, or even to make profit in businesses that would not be profitable if they could be held liable for externalized costs (deep sea oil well drilling). Limit the ability of corporations to shield themselves from view through multiple levels of shell corporations and Special Purpose vehicles. These are probably controversial stances on a board about startup culture and breaking the rules to get rich.

Stop voting for people and judges that believe in the Friedman doctrine?

Every decision has tradeoffs. Western society has largely decided to prioritze capital owners over everything else.

Prompt engineering is the new Search Engine Optimization.

Not sure if we called it engineering ten years ago.

The distributed system can only handle one point of failure, and two have failed.

The leader is net split and doesn't care about most of the cluster and the "zookeeper" is happy with the leader.

If the zookeeper doesn't select a new leader the cluster is going to stay in this state.

This is the same problem as outsourcing to third party programmers in another country, but worse.

I am sure the governments can work it out the same way billionaires with bankers do.

Take possession of parts of their stock in a blind trust and just get dividends or take out loans against the stock and use that cash.

The plan is everybody but Trump loses.

In capitalism, society gets what it rewards. If it wants more children it must pay the market price, just like everything else.

If it wants educated, productive children, it must also pay the market price and that price is exorbitant.

At some point, US tech companies will (maybe have already outspent) the US education system k-12 and at some point surpassing all the ivy colleges just for training some ai models.

I disagree with Dan due to my experience as an low level employee under Ballmer. He encouraged political infighting and backstabbing and dog eat dog internal competition, while praising and desiring tight integration between teams.

He wanted "cloud first, moblie first" - two firsts! The culture at the time was built around RAID - the internal bug datadbase and that there should be clear prioritization for everything.

The inability to decide between enterprise cloud and consumer client devices held Microsoft back.

Ballmer had customers asking for enterprise cloud in 2000 but he kept listening to people talking about lifting windows sales by 10 percent with search integrated to the desktop.

And then they chose the bloated SQL server for that and wondered why that couldn't run on normal consumer hardware in Longhorn.

The fundamental tradeoffs between something that sacrifices generalization for specialization and efficiency meant that what is good for running server rack NASDAQ didn't work for low powered laptops.

From a low level employee perspective Ballmer was the ruthless guy that wanted people to hate each other at work as they fought for survival lord of the flies style but was pikachu surprised that we could never deliver integrated experiences that worked together.

Satya's two key abilites to me were the ability to actually prioritize in a coherent way and the decision to bring the rank and file infighting down because integrated experiences are hard to build when you want your brother and sister departments to fail so yours gets more budget because thats how Ballmer worked.

There used to be a seperate job for this and they dumped it on startup engineers (otherwise failing businesses) and now they dump it on all engineers.

Yes it was QuakeWorld Team Fortess. Funny story of my own. I had just started at Microsoft and met Robin Walker at a lan party with a bunch of other QuakeWorld TeamFortress fans.

As soon as they hired Robin and John i knew they (valve) were going to be a giant hit. As a former windows PM, it seems that Gabe knew how valuable mod authors as first time game designers were. Valve may not have been the first to make their game engine a platform, but they were the most dedicated to it in that era.

I didn't know their contract with Sierra was so much like a music industry contract and that they didn't own their Half life IP. It makes so much more sense why they recruited the founder of counterstrike, which is an even bigger hit than TF2.

If they had been public i would have bought into valve before 2005. I missed the boat on apple, amazon, and so many others, but that one had a competitive advantage of understanding the industry that I understood.

300M in annual revenue is a key number for me.

Right now you're making 1 million dollars a year per employee or a 10x or 20x revenue to average employee cost.

The reason your software providers probably suck is that I'm not hearing how permanent or consultant employees can provide the kind of ROI that it will cost to build even basic software.

Let's say you're based in Detroit, MI - somewhere dirt cheap - 3 engineers for 1 year is 350K in salary, another ~300k in benefits and then you'll take 2 to 3 people normally earning money off their real work to be the domain experts.

Let's say 1 million in developers and 2 people providing 10x the value of their 100k salaries as well, and that's 3 million dollars of cost + lost revenue from productive employees.

If your company has a 15% profit margin on revenue and 250M in revenue - you're making 37.5 mil in profit, and you'll be giving up roughly ~10% of the company profits on this venture.

So the question is, do you think you have greater than 70% chance of getting a 3x return on their cost? Maybe 9 million dollars more worth of revenue?

If not, the project will fail just from the ROI expectations of the bean counters.

You could try to outsource stuff to somewhere with cheaper programmers but that just means the 2 million in lost revenue from productive employees becomes 20 million in lost revenue as the outsourced engineers need 10x the handholding because they aren't onsite, watching the people that do the work and interacting with them with a tight feedback loop.

They do this on my work laptop. Zscaler

Regular power issues are also state government incompetence.

In the competitive ladders some of the best used rotation to "steer" in curved paths when trichording.

It made people really difficult to hit when you were behind them.

I played against some ladder players and was amazed at their other order of magnitude skill.

Part of the reason those og games were so compelling to me is because they didn't really have a skill cap.

It would have been amazing to watch some of those matches in a streaming platform.

Mine was shareware.

What is your Kali handle?

As someone alive 30 years ago, it isn't as clear cut as the biased graph.

Gasoline was roughly 1/3rd the price, but 4 years of state college was 20k, not 100k.

A house I grew up in, while 30 years newer, cost 80k compared to 300k now, even though it needs a lot more work.

Minimum wage there went from 4.25 an hour 30 years ago to 7.5.

Health care costs have gone up way more than double.

So maybe people make twice as much cash, but their costs for the things they actually need, without bullshit fake adjustments, cost 3 to 4 times more than they used to.

One could argue for better, lik how react is "better" than html forms. But it isn't really worth the cost to me.

Excite was about as good at getting me search results for what I am looking for as google has enshittified itself to now.

It is a Ford. Either an f150 lightning or a mustang mach e.

"Stock options are a joke. Developers should just get a flat fee."

There are people worth their commission and there are people who are not worth it.

The bigger reason house prices are so high isnt the real estate agent cartel, it is the banking cartel and the capital chasing homes to rent them out.

His real estate companies are not in good health.

There is only one more thing I am afraid of more than duplicate code. Shared code that someone changes to make their code work better that breaks yours.

They are all about cutting those wages to 0. Less employment.

My Sony smart tv was great for 3 years because I never connected it to the internet, but ever since I did, it hangs, takes 2 minutes to allow switching inputs, and in general just sucks.

I will not make the mistake of ever connecting one of these to the internet again, and if I have to buy a Giant monitor for 2k, so be it.

I'm 90% sure that the flash drive on the TV wore out and they want me to replace what is otherwise great working hardware for features I don't even want anymore.

from wikipedia: Territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[2] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state

I would guess that there's oil or shipping lanes or aircraft bases that they would want.

They had other choices - they could have lowered the interest rate they return to account holders as more and more deposits came in. They could have lowered their profit guidance to shareholders instead of taking actions that wiped them out.

As I understand it, the reason they failed is because they gambled on interest rates staying low and chased returns to maximize profits to shareholders.

Shareholders deserve to lose money when they are pushing - or even remaining silent on - increasingly risky corporate behaviors as absentee owners.

The current macroeconomic environment is tough

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Interest rates are high and I am worried about getting my next round of funding or meeting minimum payments on corporate debt.

Because an overwhelming number of corporations take advantage of tax laws that make interest debt deductible, every interest rate hike leads to firing people and decreasing business investment, just to stay profit margin neutral.

If you want to change this, it would really help to change the tax laws. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/en...

it's easier to have less total derailments, but higher numbers of cars derailed.

Put every train car in the country on one train and derail it. Now 100% of the capacity was derailed, but it's an incredible success, because the number of train derailments shrank from 1056 to 1!

So much safety!