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So, cynically, (and I say this with no disrespect intended to the author directly): a screed about how to continue justifying your existence as a—ostensibly "good"—middle manager (using, as its basis, one of the most nausea-inducing jargon terms to ever claw its way out the semi-sentient Dunning–Kruger ooze that is corporate-speak.)

And, to be clear, I do actually think a good middle manager is beneficial, if most commonly in the way of any necessary evil, as a very effective grease for the oft poorly meshing cogs of business. Not unlike the fresh breeze of an actually effective project manager or personable AND productive engineer.

If only there was a way to find out the truth. But who has the appetite for that these days? Or the appetite for the effort required?

The irony of this comment can even be found in the post itself:

...the magazine’s fortunes soared by exploiting the public’s appetite for outrage. Articles frequently relied on exaggerated – and at times outright false – stories... Accuracy and integrity were secondary to the relentless churn of opinions. The formula worked.

What you're describing more often applies to retail and service workers whose pay provides little incentive to do more than the absolute minimum to maintain employment.

Whereas it seems this might be a situation where the situation is actually inverse: being paid enough to not care.

We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing.

That this is a foundational idea for anything is nauseating...

I dunno, the "complexity" seems mostly from:

10 Brute force medium into doing what it was not originally designed to do

20 Insist on native support for what was once a hack

30 goto 10

On the one hand you could say it's clever. On the other hand you might insist it's foolish to repeat this cycle. I'm not naïve, complaining, nor suggesting I have a better solution, but rather just making a personal observation.

(And regardless, I've been fortunate enough to make a living off this cycle for about 20+ years, having done it for fun for about 10+ years prior.)

The chances of being struck by lightning are exceedingly slim. But if you're venturing out on a mountain top in early summer your odds skyrocket. So shouldn't we widely inform people who are doing so of the dangers and what to be aware of?

https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html

*facepalm* You're correct. I misread it every time, including the first time I scanned your comment. (A truly strange experience since that is not a common occurrence for me. I simply never saw a "v" there.)

I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall throughout the various discussions as this idea made its way across the Apple org.

That this was the dominant topic during the keynote of their annual developer event doesn't seem to bode well for the state of the ecosystem. Especially combined with how cutting the sarcasm was for the new version numbering and new macOS name announcement(s).

millenials liking vaporwave

From context, I'm assuming this is a misnomer and not a jab. XD (Although, admittedly, I'm not sure what the reference is actually to...)

You complain about oversimplification, then in the same breath complain about "random political stuff" being included. How is that not hypocritical, at best? This medical breakthrough would literally have not been possible without "politics". Get your head out of the sand. No one should be able to escape learning how their politics affects them or the society they are a part of. And if you want to enjoy the benefits of that society, then you don't get to complain about being reminded of how those benefits were achieved.

Pandering to people's fragile political sensibilities is how the U.S. got to this point where millions of citizens voted against their own self-interest because they thought candidates running on anti-intellectual, anti-science platforms was worth the zero sum "win".

Enjoy your weekends, eight hour workdays, clean air, and clean water—whether you like that those were all political or not!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

I guess since we decided Idiocracy was aspirational, why not Wall-E as well.

/s (kinda but maybe not really...)

Yes, that's how it read to me.

I.e., interpretation...

katabasis: (Suggests sensible guardrails for children)

fritzo: THOUGHT-POLICE!!

That is entirely not how a healthy society works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Weird is a brand new thing, but: Think of it as if WordPress and Notion had a Linktree-shaped baby. That is to say, a WordPress-type website engine with the editing experience of Notion and the simplicity of Linktree.

How many people that understand that, need this?

One person's "disparagement" is another's valid criticism. You can see this come up constantly in lawsuits.

All I'm saying is it's a random site on the internet for a person who is a "Certified Bonafide Expert of Miscellanea"—no one is asking you to "trust the source material". If you think that aspects of the post bring into question the validity of the point being made, that's your right. I just think it's a weird expectation. The author even speaks to that: https://substack.com/@meghanboilard/note/c-102976235

Aside from what I called out in my sibling comment these two are pretty snide to me

- "Snide" is subjective. - It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report. - The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.

This reminds me of the time a few years ago when mind mapping sites and apps exploded into popularity among the... "technorati" and sort of slightly seep into the wider online awareness but then seemingly, just as quickly, disappear into the background noise of the internet (I'm terminally online to a degree, especially when it comes to tech news—and have a pretty decent general awareness of pop culture trends—and can't recall having seen the topic referenced since the trend faded. But perhaps I'm just not in the right circles?)

The design of the page is really poor and I find it highly distracting, approaching anxiety-inducing. Even in reader mode the structure is not good.

trusting Donald Trumps judgement

Ha! Well there's your first problem.

And remove any suggestion that there was forethought. It's pure, unfettered trolling. He's desperate for attention from anyone.

Fascinating—if unfortunate—to see the world's 2 most powerful men basically functioning as walking test cases for classic outcomes when a child is not given appropriate attention/affection and also zero boundaries for socially-appropriate behavior.

https://s8-hzde.freeconvert.com/task/67af828674bf6ba8db63d11...

I completely understand the frustration and the conclusion you arrived at. The problem is echo chambers existed before the advent of online social media. Safe to say they have existed since nearly the dawn of human consciousness.

The difference is that once algorithms could be optimized for "engagement", a company simply can't resist amping up the dopamine hits. Because the ultimate goal of those networks is persistent, unrelenting attention. They are for-profit businesses whose primary income is ads (upwards of 98% of Facebook/Meta revenue.)

So the more attention you can drum up, and the longer you can maintain it, the faster the money printer can go brrrr.

The fact that you see corporate layoffs and what Elon Musk is doing in the U.S. government as in any way remotely comparable is... troubling.

It can also serve as a helpful reference point for "what am I (still) doing here?" so that you can judge when you perhaps should not be.

The full comment does provide context clues to the author's intent, but it was somewhat poorly worded (i.e., "vast majority of apartments" is easily taken to mean individual units/their tenants, and not the property in the aggregate.)

While I completely understand OP's sentiment, after literal decades of web/front-end development, I never quite grasped the depth of disdain for Javascript or CSS until being on a team where more than the same 2 or 3 people were actively coding in them.

That's your right and I can understand why you might feel that way, but you should probably understand the compromises that are being made in doing so.

The #1 rule in my home is "Be kind" (not to be confused with "be nice".)

The #1 rule I try to abide by when coding is "Be empathetic" (to others and my future self.)

In practice, this means things like valuing clarity over cleverness (unless I can manage to be both!) and documenting unless I can really justify not (i.e., is it realistically "self-documenting"), but of course also extends to empathy for the user—I'm a front-end dev so much of my work is UI.

You may read this and think "duh" but trust me when I say that in the 20+ years of doing this professionally, those are very clearly not obvious guidelines (even for myself.)

A lot of people who have no fucking idea what's it's like to have debilitating mental illness apparently.