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Thought same: with covid depressed co’s the leveraged buyouts / peg activities driven by politically connected free cash is coming big time .. talent will get suckered into debt so these players take it

Unfortunately this discussion is full of pot cliche and neo liberal bias that only leads to “sobriety” and fear of taint on your “career” .. marijuana is just like coffee and really you can vilify that but honestly the sidewalk leads to other things like more/less vice its up to you and you’re self knowing. mj can be had by the smartest/dumbest but its not a thing in itself that has a direct correlation to you’re “success” so lets all pull our pants up.

clearly a bad sign from management as the co is looking for growth: $22b can’t afford it and if you’re left, you’re next ..

on a same note: why does instagram hate on non-mobile UI?

on desktop the constant ping to install an ios app, but you're on x86 man. that constant prompt of the camera button when I'm on a x86. it may have worked when mobile was your roots, but you have to grow beyond mobile-only to at least allow other views.

granted somebody like Benedict Evans would say x86 is dead, but why kill the views, its cheap to produce ?

thankfully they did not, would've killed slack imo

its fake employment!

clearly this was not a literal statement ..] but the elbow grease of the powerful will go a long way for the corp.

liked kara swisher's point on cnbc, that so much wealth + influence has bought into uber that it is truly too big to fail. too many wealthy investors and deep SV network will ensure that it not melt down (unlike ?).

I'm not against text underneath, just the sense logic needs to get much better with dev tools. it's like we're ignoring our own needs :] intellij + eclipse (worse), and that old model of an IDE requires too much elbow wringing and imo never sense's the right stuff to really groove with my work. there's more that could come with ai/ml for tooling, and hopefully soon.

Pontificating but for ide + editor replacement: someday we'll see ai/ml features that aide in opening files and keeping the right blobs of code nearby, maybe pre fetch good goog links that can drop down on a whim panel.

Even some kind of auto model visualizer that helps every so often like a replacement for the ignoble package mmanager side panel view.

We're still so stuck on text editing.

Yeh, I imagine another Bezos directive is coming soon. "automate it all or close down!" like he did with service api's so where's his smarts on this?

the conspirator in me thinks maybe he figured out its better to hire lots and fire lots churn/burn em out. amazon is always having those hire-events where you go like cattle to get filtered for a likely bad job b/c you won't appear all that selective to them.

surfers are actually more uptight than soccer moms (contrary to popular opinion)

i'll say it again, there's a really cool Don DeLillo book in this Theranos burn out ..

"Through it, we see a world in which no one ever has to say ‘goodbye’ too soon, and people are able to leverage engagement with their health to live their best lives." -- bunch of BS :]

always wondered why an open source service hasn't risen up and become partly useful like twitter.

there was talk back in the app.net days with lots of wonder for what developers would do with an open twitter-like system, with open clients, open data etc.

imo it would be quite cool to have an open source content system like twitter that actually maintains a live service, where the git project auto-magic manages the production pipeline to live.

but imagine a fully open system providing tweet streams with little direct corporate involvement.

(who knows how to fund the bandwidth etc)

in WAZE they went ahead and dropped the "while using the app" option for gps privacy. it has become rude actually, so now i turn off location services instead of micro-managing the unmanageable.