natbobc

I worked at a startup that locked all the architects cronies in a room for a number of months to build every white paper he was interested in. Told rest of company to adopt this new world order… within a year of the rewrite they laid off 2/3 of engineering and sold the company off shortly thereafter. Architect accepted a role at FAANG for experience gathered. I remember a lunch with him where he joked “I usually leave companies worse off than when they started.” Self-indulgent psychopath.

Yes and that he used it in his opening anecdote as an appeal to authority. Clearly demonstrates some bias. I don’t disagree with his statement that many factors are at play however it is a biased article rather than one I would expect from a PhD in the way it’s written.

How can a research fellow so blatantly use anecdotal evidence?!?!

It’s typically called notarization but in North America it is often supplemented by a witness depending on the class of document. Many documents don’t even require that.

Had an acquaintance that worked in strategy have to explain something similar for the Netherlands. They thought they could just cut everyone and be off the books no repercussions.

I’m not justifying it but I don’t think it was a problem on American soil yet… and just more “not my problem”. Totally shortsighted.

DOGE probably didn’t help matters but the problem started to rise in 2023. My gut reaction was “damn that DOGE!” too but they didn’t start with cuts until 2025. So it likely just exasperated an already growing concern. This is the same kind of stuff anti-vaxers don’t get. We left South America out of the equation so when the circumstances of migration and feeding changed so did the status quo of a “screwworm free” line in the sand. Other peoples problems can quickly become everyone’s problem if left unchecked.

And that is what pixel tracking is for. :)

Is entirely context dependent. I can agree in some scenarios but when it’s a utility or gov site that I can’t really avoid it’s less straightforward.

If this has a wifi antenna port would be very useful for marina wifi if you’re sailing around.

The article is comparing 2 scenarios that have other explanations: a fire sale of a large fleet and Tesla which has an image problem because of its leadership.

I’m not saying the article is wrong I’d just like to see broader representation (Chevy bolt, lucid air, etc).

A vocal minority are freedom loving. A significant number are hooked on consumer debt. I feel like any sweeping generalization is going to be wrong… especially when referencing the USA which is basically 50 countries and has a population exceeding all of Western Europe.

> I am a backend developer using Spring Boot and Java.

If your goal is speed to market use what you know which is Spring Boot and Java.

If your aim is to learn something new then go with Django or sprinkle in some Kotlin incrementally (eg tests). I don’t think it’ll matter in the long run which you choose.

Conflating I want to learn something new with I want to deliver quickly will give you a suboptimal outcome for both.

Feels like a bad point in the curve to try and sell them. “Oh our internal hypecycle is done… we’ll put them in the market now that they’re all worn out.