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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great until

  I think that’s the point. Don’t jump to the complex right away. Keep it simple and compose the capabilities you have readily available until you need to become more complex. When the task requires it, yeah, do the complex thing, but keep the simplicity mandate in mind and only add the new complexity that you need. You can get pretty far with the simple, and what about all of the situations where that future pivot or growth never happens?

  The philosophy strikes a cord with me - I’m often contending with teams that are building for the future complexities that they think might come up, and we realize later that we did get complexity in the problem later, but not the kind we had planned for, so all of that infrastructure and planning was wasted on an imaginary problem that no only didn’t help us but often actually make our task harder. The trick is to keep the solution set composable and flexible so that if complexity shows up later, we can reconfigure and build the new capabilities that we need rather than having to maneuver a large complicated system that we built on a white board before we really knew what the problem looked like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t matter if there are ways to side load or circumvent, though. 99.9% of users will not be willing to be bothered with such things and the US market would effectively die for the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either tiktok becomes an American company or leaves… Ah, the free market has spoken

  People keep saying this and I’m struggling to understand where this idea is coming from. The bill isn’t saying that they have to sell TikTok to a US company. They don’t have to sell it to the US government, or an owner in the US. Just divorce the company from explicit control by the Chinese government. Currently, the government can request any data they want from TikTok and they are obligated to provided it. Similarly, business laws in China mean that the government can also push changes down into the company, like a tweak to the algorithm to influence foreign perceptions of a topic for example.

  The requirements laid out in this bill are meant to break that obligation and influence. It doesn’t say who should own the company - only who shouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would we feel if say, China decided Microsoft/Google/AWS/Oracle had to sell to a Chinese company on the grounds of national security?

  But no one is saying that ByteDance has to sell TikTok to a US company. Just divest it to an owner that is not beholden to the Chinese government and obligated to share any and all data upon request. Compared to the legal requirements that China puts on US companies operating in China, this is a pretty tame ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humane AI Pin review: not even close⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a secondary interaction interface that’s novel - if you hold your hand at the right position, it projects data or controls into your palm which can then be navigated by tilting your hand and “clicking” with a finger tap gesture. This interface is also more private, and used for entering your pin to unlock the device, but can be used for other interactions like viewing long form responses to voice prompts where you can scroll through the data rather than trying to absorb everything as it’s spoken (or if you don’t want to have a spoken reply).

  It’s an interesting concept, but I tend to agree with the user you replied to in that this is a solution in search of a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Google Reader shutdown hit me hard also. They offered all of the features in a really great app and many of the competitors shut down in their wake, so when they exited the scene, it left a huge hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, there is rarely, if ever, a contract. Unless you can show that you were let go for a legally protected cause (your age, race, religion, gender, and some other things), employers can fire you without any reason at all.

  The only caveat here is the differentiation between for cause and without cause, as it impacts your ability to collect unemployment insurance payments. Employers pay those insurance premiums to the government and they are based on how often people let go from that company claim the insurance payments, so a company that lets go of a lot of employees is going to pay more than one that manages to find a way to fire them for cause or get them to quit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is very likely, though it’s also prolonging this whole exercise by avoiding the dramatic conclusion and spreading the pain out over a longer time.

  If every manager at Amazon woke up tomorrow and said “screw it, we’re enforcing this policy”, that would result in a mass firing event of quality talent, and Amazon would feel the pain of their policy decisions and either have to swallow that and try to move on or beat a hasty retreat and call this whole thing off. It would be a quick and decisive end to this whole debate, but instead we have month after month of employees stressed and angry while looking rebellious and unmanageable, managers stressed and frustrated while looking ineffective, and the senior leadership frustrated and looking impotent.

  Someone’s going to win this fight eventually, but everyone trying to find middle ground and skirt the policy just takes what would be one big fight and turns it into many months of slow unease and turmoil that’s bad for everyone. I want the remote people to win this, but sometimes the way to win is the lose on purpose. Let the dog catch the car so he can realize what an idiot he was being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The bit that kills me is that “make Google Chat not suck” doesn’t seem to be in the list of options for addressing this problem at all. I work for a company that uses GSuite and chat is universally loathed with a bunch of Slack instances running around the company, both sanctioned and unsanctioned. If they spent time working to improve chat, the momentum of being a GSuite company would carry the rest of the weight here. It doesn’t have to be better than Slack, just closer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  China coming in with the latest in new tech for people with too much money to accidentally kill themselves. The finest innovation in the field since the Cesna.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Bosses Sold Stock Ahead Of Scummy Dev Fees Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unity did a bad thing, but the stock sale here is a complete non-event.

  According to Guru Focus, Unity CEO John Riccitiello, one of the highest-paid bosses in gaming, sold 2,000 Unity shares on September 6, a week prior to its September 12 announcement. Guru Focus notes that this follows a trend, reporting that Riccitiello has sold a total of 50,610 shares this year, and purchased none.

  He receives and sells stock constantly, as do most execs of publicly traded companies. Their compensation is majority stock, which incentivizes them to maximize stock prices since a higher price means more money RIGHT NOW for them. Look up any publicly traded company and peek at their insider trading info. Microsoft as a random reference and here’s Unity so you can see everyone else and the long term trends.

  The piece cites Guru Focus as their source of this info as if they have some keen inside information or something, but it’s literally public data that anyone with an internet connection can look up as these sorts of notices are required for publicly traded companies. Riccitiello only sold about $83k worth of stock before the announcement for a total of about $1.1M worth of stock this year, vs about $33M last year, and close to $100M in 2021. The idea that he dumped $83k worth of stock to beat bad news Unity was dropping is just a hilariously bad take.