vcarl
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Comment · 3 days ago
I worked at so many companies that operated this way, the tool is new but the approach is not. Those failed startups you hear about usually did a couple of these before hitting the ground
Comment · 10 months ago
It's definitely a defensive statement, proactively covering the situation as "normal". Normal it may be, but emphasizing that in the limited space of a tweet thread definitely indicates where their mind is on this, I'd think.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, you stand behind your comments so strongly you created an anonymous throwaway account just to share them.
Comment · 2 years ago
Phenomenal answer. No, you don't need it, but if you build something long enough you'll avoid a couple categories of common problems by starting with it (and choose a different set of common problems)
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not sure breadth of adoption and retention are the right metrics here — the use cases I've heard about are highly specialized, so I wouldn't expect it to be massively and quickly adopted, the same way it took a long time for robotic surgery tools or CAD to become widely used.
I've heard of it used in e.g. surgeries, for visualizing data like MRI scans, or building schematics for electrical/steam/wastewater/etc but don't know of specific instances where products are used.
This looks like a good overview of efforts in the medical space: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8455774/
And this looks like an okay high-level survey of use in manufacturing and construction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589631...
Comment · 3 years ago
> all this VR/AR hype has yet to deliver something... anything... anything at all
…in the consumer space. There have been some really incredible tools I've seen in industrial or medical spaces, and I think that's unlikely to change in the near term.
Comment · 6 years ago
I meant this as a commentary on the strike as a tactic for tech workers generally. SREs and Ops are the teams that seem most able to effectively use a strike to disrupt revenue, to be sure. Many services, though, would be able to operate for months or longer without intervention.
Comment · 6 years ago
Cheers for the correction, though I'm loathe to learn that's the state of labor law.
> Mackay Radio has been called "the worst contribution that the U.S. Supreme Court has made to the current shape of labor law in this country."
> Nearly every criticism of Mackay Radio is aimed at the Court's "duplicitous distinction" between firing and permanently replacing striking workers.
Interesting, too, that the decision apparently contracts the laws it was interpreting. This is a grim section to read[0]. Reading this, it seems like the case was approached with a predetermined result in mind, and apparently 2 of the justices declined to participate.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Mackay_Radio_%26_Tel...
Comment · 6 years ago
I know that the Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) has done some significant organizing against Amazon, in the form of protests/drawing media attention, and in deeper/less visible aspects that more directly work towards warehouse worker protections. Definitely a good group to reach out to if this is a cause that's important to you.
Comment · 6 years ago
One significant change since that era of unionization is that programmers can't actually shut down the business with a strike. If programmers stop working, that doesn't actually directly impact revenue—if a group of factory, warehouse, or service workers strike, then the business halts until the strike is resolved. SRE/Ops could take down revenue generation, but that starts to be something with legal liability. Laws prevent businesses from hiring new workers to break a strike, but if you sabotage the code, then my understanding is that there could be criminal charges against you.
That's not really relevant in the context of Amazon's _warehouse_ workers unionizing, but I think it's an interesting constraint for us as software developers.
Comment · 7 years ago
Well, you still can't do that—WASM doesn't have DOM bindings, you'd still have to ship out to JS. I believe that's a goal, so yes eventually that could be a benefit, but not at the moment.
I'm linking my keytrace.dev: did:plc:vj54op7mobr3edx24yn6uax4