rlabrecque

Yeahhh; I feel this. I'm in the office 4-5 days a week again; and the rare days where most of my day ends up being in-office only interactions are great. The quick catchups in the hallway; not either forced catchups that always happen at the wrong time for someone, or never catching up. Socializing while going out for lunch; not doing lunch alone, and then having to make time for socializing when I need to be working. Those days are waay better than zoom meeting hell days OR WFH on no-meeting days. Commuting is new to me since Covid and that sucks but those days remind me what work could be like so I put up with it. :/

I wish I had the time, because it would be fun. Back when I DID have time, I actually got that thug1 source code almost playable on Windows. That source code was only for the console versions, and the code assumed if it was compiling for windows (and not Xbox windows..) it was only for tools, so a lot of pieces worked completely differently.

I think the core problem you have is a lack of consistency. I'd try to trim down the number of different types of device/deployment methods/etc you have. It's too hard to scale wide as a single person or two, but you can go very deep in one stack and both know it very well and also get into a spot where it's kind of like either everything works or nothing works if it's all exactly the same, which means ultimately everything will have to work well.

This is so sad and well written. Lars is one of the best people I've ever met, no one should have to go through that, especially not him.

Similarly they offer very little support, almost no communication, and yeah, just kind of weird.

yes.

I don't work at Amazon, but my C-suite and leadership team is in the office and that really makes a HUGE difference in going back.

Both by them leading by example and getting to have the face to face time with them.

This is much nicer for other people coming into this. It's the same problem with spoken language and slang, slang is better if you know it, worse if you don't.

This is one of the bigger discussions I've been involved with lately; and I agree it really comes down to "bespokeness".

When you have a 'system' which is 500 LOC, and 10 usages of that system totaling 10 lines each; compared to 10 bespoke implementations of 50-100 LOC each... you get into a spot where the system is battlehardened because of all the users, while the bespoke implementation have issues all over. Then when someone goes to add the 11th use-case of this; they are going to learn from and copy/paste the other version, probably exposing some latent bug in the bespoke version.

I suspect there's probably a decent compromise to be made, like some kind of "reconcile" command, that explicitly tries to find orphan resources that reference resources it knows about, and tries to rebuild state.

Similarly I was 'online' much more during my teen years than I am today. I think two key things changed:

1. I started enjoying things outside of the internet more and more, partially due to how the internet has changed, partially due to how I've changed. 2. There's less FOMO due to as you mention, being able to be "online" anywhere. This creates an entirely different atmosphere, I won't miss something because I'm not at my computer. This actually leads me to being online much less, I can be out and about doing things and get ping by my friends on Discord. Very different than when I didn't want to go out because I couldn't talk to my friends.

Agreed, I'm curious as well. We load tested with real-clients faux-users, up to 1 million concurrent. And only stopped at 1 million because the test was becoming cost prohibitive.

Hey there, I'm a Canadian living in the US on an L1 right now, it was a good fit for me. What my company did was set up a Canadian Entity (subsidy) and started paying me through that for a year before I made the trip. It worked out well.

I feel personally attacked.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.