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I was under the impression that the surprise is that their authoritarian political system doesn't stifle the conditions required for this level of innovation.

My observations suggest that this applies far more to lower performing employees than higher performing ones since the barrier to change jobs is lower for top tier talent.

In effect this means that while companies that give paltry pay bumps that don't keep up with the market may successfully hold on to lower performing employees, they'll be continually churning through top performers.

The gist of this blog post seems to simply be that C++ has a lot of momentum.

I assume the board needs to approve this. What is their motivation for doing so?

On the surface this seems like a terrific idea for the reasons listed in the article, but my experience has been that SSM is not as nearly reliable as SSH.

A full disk is enough to prevent SSM access, whereas SSH will still let you in.

Being a renter has afforded me many memorably terrible experiences. For example, having no heat for multiple days in the middle of winter with sub-zero temperatures because the management company didn't have their act together. I'll be damned if I ever rent again regardless of financial incentives.

What about the quality of practice? I'm using quality very broadly here to include things like: the content of the practice, good spaced repetition, focus, etc. Perhaps 10k hours of mediocre practice doesn't get you far, but 5k hours of high quality practice does?

If ROI is more interesting then why not a comparison with what the ROI of other individuals might have been had they had a starting investment?

Also, why should ROI be most interesting? Is money all we care about? Why is it that we have money?

"Nothing could be done about the muted sound. It’s like hearing a drum roll — the ball charging down the lane — with no crashing cymbal at the end. That crescendo and climax, Mills insists, is a visceral part “of the experience of smashing pins with a heavy ball.”

I haven't tried the strings yet, but the sounds of bowling are a big deal to me. Just walking into a bowling alley and hearing the sounds of pins being hit makes me feel good, and puts my in the right frame of mind. Without the crash, I feel like bowling would feel empty to me.

I could do without a significant amount of what constitutes "innovation" in the US.

From the article: "software is still pretty dumb". I would prefer my software remain dumb. Every time technology is made to be "smart", it seems to get much worse.

I agree, and I wonder if we all "wasted" more time, if we would be healthier and happier. Perhaps that would make us more productive during the time we weren't "wasting". Paradoxically, it might even be a net gain in aggregate productivity.

There's some truth here, but this is a one-sided view. Let's turn the tables on this:

Engineers see CEOs as entitled, mediocre performers.

Furthermore, the "solution" these mediocre CEOs are espousing seems to simply be a version "the beatings will continue until morale improves."