Mikushi

Your "sane" language looks quite insane to me, unreadable mess at a glance.

Just slinging, Chomsky only supported freedom of speech.

> Where WFH falls short is building alignment on larger initiatives, and that's what we're seeing.

Where are we seeing this? I'm a manager at a mostly WFH company and we don't fall short on this.

Big thing is this was never an office based company, WFH is in the DNA from the co-founders and while we regroup occasionally, remoteness has not affected our ability to grow and build meaningful things. One could argue that we might do better if we were an office based company but as far as I know there's no data out there showing that this would be the case.

> Also Unity games were mod unfriendly

That's got nothing to do with Unity. A game being mod friendly is 100% a dev decision.

For an example look at Cities: Skyline, lots of big mods and it's a Unity game.

Eons ago now (circa 2009/2010 I think), when working on Pornhub we switched from memcached to Redis for a few reasons:

- memcache had little to no observability, it made debugging cache issues a nightmare. Redis on the other hand is a dream to work with on that front, from the cli that is well thought out to the fact you can copy the db file to your machine and go at it, it's just a much better developer experience.

- Data structures, Redis' lists, hashes and sets meant we could represent a lot of a stuff as is in cache with no need for costly serializing. It also meant the data layer code was simpler than the memcached equivalent.

- Built in pub/sub, we used it for tons of stuff and the fact it came built in was big as prior to that we had to provision specific stacks to get the same functionality (and it wasn't has nice to use.

memcache has its use but for the little advantages it gave (perf wise) Redis just buried it in developer experience.

> the same creative explosion

What creative explosion? Trash news sites, social media? The world would be a better place without any of these.

The author is French, the usage of quitted is more likely a mistake outright. As for the quoted version it's explained next to it, he's quitting professionally but likely will continue as a hobby, in French you'd use quotes to highlight the fact it's not to be taken literally.

Out of curiosity what engine are you using that leverages .NET (core) ? Stride?

If they have data, share it, in the absence of said data we can only assume it's poppycock. Exec teams do that all the time, work on feel, why should we believe it's any different here?

> The CEO of Amazon doesn't make a decision of this magnitude based on a whim. They'll have mountains of productivity data on remote work by now and it even says so in the post.

If it says so it must be true. There's no data in that post, just platitudes management like to use about collaboration and creativity that is absolute BS.

Shame I left the company I was at during the pandemic because I could dig the data but there was a very clear 20% sustained benefit in terms of productivity when WFH: faster to close tickets, bigger releases, less bugs. Did culture suffer? Yes. Did it matter, no, because culture is some vague notion only HR and senior management cares about, or at least pretends to. They still mandated RTO in the end, which cost them half of their more senior engineers, positions they still have not managed to fill, what a surprise when you want to force people through unproductive hoops.

I now work in a remote first company and in 16 years of career it's the most productive team I've been part of, shit gets done at all levels more so than in any other company I've been part of.

> It's not beautifully well thought-out the way Python is

Slagging PHP and then saying this just means you are trolling which is not exactly welcomed on HN.

I can attest that France still uses checks a lot. Just over this summer I wrote something like 5 checks.

Mostly for work to be done on a house, and otherwise to get around the absurdly low limit on bank cards.

I'm not related to IronSource but this is some serious mischaracterisation of them...

They made an SDK to create installers for Windows that was used by 3rd parties with nefarious means. Said SDK/toolkit has been discontinued for years as well.

Hardly makes them a malware/adware company...

> Not to mention that no product can survive without love and support from its devs.

If the business wants a stable and well working application, prioritise it as part of regular dev work. As a dev this is certainly not my problem.