DuncanIdaho

What I find gross is that the article somehow considers cubicles as a "private" solution.

This modern management cargo cult has reached really gross levels of absurdity.

If open plan is a cacophony of voices amidst which a person is to find focus and deep thinking, then cubicles are the same cacophony without the peripheral vision part.

I find teamwork, collaboration and such bullshit words just a mask for true motive. Cheapness. Cheapness in landlords, Cheapness in architects and Cheapness in companies who ultimately make up reasons for why they don't want to spend money and time on building truly productive environments.

Its sort of sour grapes situation.

Second system effect is a possibility. Not a mandatory trap for any team doing a second iteration of their product.

All it takes is for a single person on the team to be aware of the risk and to warn his colleagues.

I would also argue that Justin.tv has enough experienced engineers to avoid the SSE.

SSE is a kind of trap that preys on ignorant and inexperienced.

That would be hard to do and pretty pointless.

Do not forget that mining bitcoins becomes progressively harder with time.

Thus to get any sort of meaningful reviews, they would have to review whole field of graphic cards each time a new one comes out.

Not feasible.

Edit: Ok, so I don't know anything about Bitcoin mining, thanks for clarifications.

My partner does: UI/UX design, HTML and JavaScript and a dash of backend. I do: backend, architecture, algorithms, sysadmin work and HTML + JavaScript when necessary.

It works really well. We also continuously try to expand to the others territory.

But robotics hasn't really gotten its consumer spotlight yet.

If we ignore robotic vacuum cleaners and toys. But there are some incredibly cool robotics applications.

What needs to happen is a "killer application" of a robot in workplace that will be transferable to home. Off the bat I believe that robotic cars (or autopilots as they will be known) will be first major application of robots that can be transplanted from corporate world into home use.

And I can easily see that in 10 years a lot of new cars will be 1. electric and 2. will have an autopilot option.

What if most women want to take care of their own babies?

Hell I'm a guy and I'm dreaming about downshifting or even ending my career when kids start coming. I have seen consumerist/careerist families and I believe I can do better.

I actually WANT my kids to be raised in an atmosphere of (material) scarcity to the point that I could do without major wealth or if I acquired it I would "hide" it from them.

I must be batshit crazy huh?

It really feels like stone age.

There are 13 year old kids out there who can write a web and mail server, yet could get into trouble for using them.

As a guy I have read a different article.

The article I read was about talking the talk versus walking the walk. And being aware that sacrifices will have to be made. And that people have a mind of their own and most of the people take the route of less sacrifices.

Honestly, nowadays in western world anybody can do just about anything if they put their mind and effort towards it. And acting as if women don't do startups as per some kind of society's disapproval is weak.

I was raised by an emancipated woman, who was a truck driver 40 years ago. I see the same kind of women around me. They are few, but they command respect and admiration.

And there is this other kind, too busy writing and debating to even get anything done.

My point? The author shared her experience of walking the walk in contrast to others who in a Victorian fashion talk the proper talk.

That is exactly the right thing to do.

But completely honestly, why did you even develop this kind of culture in the first place? Don't you think you should have prevented the whole situation in the first place?

What about the Google commercial, where parents open a childs google account upon birth, fill it with images and commentary...

Only to have it all deleted when Google get around to it?

I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying - this project would be probably taking place in Finland?

However 20 years ago the ubiquity of state sponsored infrastructure is what enabled fast and competitive coverage of Europe with mobile telecommunications.

It's just an example of how what our US colleagues would call "socialsim" can provide better results than "free market".

There is a point I just realized. Whenever there is a state sponsored monopoly in Europe - it is forced to provide a service to all, even if it means loss in some cases. However whenever there is a state sponsored monopoly in US it just removes competition, while internally the organization still sticks to the "profit first" doctrine.

There has not been significant investment into mobile, there was regulation that forced carriers to cover even the areas that would otherwise prove unprofitable, if they wanted the frequencies that is.

And mobile network is also heavily dependant on landlines, which were built by government owned telcos.

Absolutely.

Stalin's and Communist Party's goal was to "free the world of capitalist oppression", had US not had built a Nuke, Russians would not have stopped at Berlin.

The Russians were hit hard in WW2 but still in 1945 they were in far better position than any other Eurasian state. They would have swept over Europe in a single campaign if they could. And even Americans would be hard pressed at stopping them, without the nuclear weapons since US would be heavily tied in pacific dealing with Japan. And it wouldn't take a strategic genius to fathom an alliance between Japan and USSR, Soviets take the Europe, Japanese take the Asia.

Don't forget that in 1945 Russians were already all over Germany, they took Vienna, Yugoslavia was under their direct influence. Without US and their display of might in Pacific, there would be nothing preventing them from taking the Europe, and Stalin knew it.

That's probably why Soviets kinda kept a low profile for until the 1949.

Arguably the nuclear weapons have prevented continuation of WW2, where USSR and US would duke it out in the 50's and 60's.

Just wanted to point out that world of geopolitics and strategy is way more nuanced than an average person believes.