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This is great news! Kodak Tri-X is one of my favorite films. Hope the price does come down though.

I have discovered and enjoyed so many books by reading the book jackets, which I would not have, if I only followed recommendations. I feel like doing this actually lets me make my own judgements about a book instead of restricting myself to lists or recommendations of "good" books.

I wanted to add that I know of TEALs volunteers who went on to become full-time high school computer science teachers without PhDs, etc.

Out of curiosity, what other non-open source platforms do people use?

It's definitely tough to juggle these roles. A few things that helped me and my partner -

* find local help for parents to do chores like groceries,meal prep, help with personal care if they need it, etc.

* make sure there's a way to pay their bills, manage their finances. You may have to do some of this for them by making sure they have access to their money, pay their bills, etc.

* if you are able to connect with their doctor, this would be great to keep a pulse on their medical needs. If you aren't able to drive them to doctor appointments, etc, funding help to do so would also be good.

* be prepared to drop everything and help them for emergencies. This meant letting managers know a bit about our situation.

If you have siblings, see if you can share responsibility for these things.

There is no single correct way to handle these situations so do what works for you and your family. Remember to take care of yourself and your family in the midst of this! Talk to a therapist if it helps.

I also suggest reading the book _Being Mortal_ by Atul Gawande that goes into some ageing related issues, which I found helpful.

Good luck and take care!

I think one thing posts like this miss out is teams are made up of humans It may be a fun thought exercise to compare teams to parallel computing but one key thing is team members are not necessarily interchangeable or have the same expertise. They also don't produce at the same rate everyday. I would be very skeptical of applying these principles to teams in real life.

> age correlates with inflated expectations: salary, paid vacation, benefits, etc. This alone has been our hurdle to hiring people 40+.

I am curious why you wouldn't offer market-rate salary with paid vacation and benefits to all employees. What does age have to do with it?

This, exactly. It takes a lot of hard work to raise children and have a good relationship with your partner. I consider taking vacations to lay on the beach with my partner or children a part of that hard work. The definitions in the essay seem a bit short-sighted to me.

I wasn't questioning the writing process - written design documents are very necessary. My experience with the Amazon-style design review meeting is that there wasn't sufficient time to read the document, process it and come to a decision. If you're reading the document ahead of time, then that isn't really following Amazon style :)

I am curious if Amazon follows this process for engineering design documents. I worked there a very long time ago and don't recall this. At another company I worked for, folks from Amazon introduced this for eng reviews. I found it very difficult to get or do a thorough review after reading a document for the first time at the meeting. Some things are nuanced and need time to process - I thought this style just didn't work for these cases.