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You should have been straightforward and told them to go fuck themselves. Laying people off by a brief call is for cowards.

Putnam's "Bowling Alone" (2000) is about this, and it is something that has been in decline since the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone .

"With most of them being VC or high-count angel investors, they can combined push whatever product is being built here into 200+ companies independent of whether it is good or not"…

Same - I wrote on the web for 25 years (2000 to 2025). I can attribute hundreds of thousands of dollars of income to it. I no longer have any websites, as nothing came out of it fo…

You will find your answer in DJ Shadow's "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf40CLF9MU

It's so cheap that normal people could band together and re-buy democracy. It's the banding together part that is hard.

I see why someone hired you (prestige), I see why someone fired you (terrible communicator, egoistical, lack of professionalism/tactless). The tactlessness is just awful. I would c…

What value does the 'keywords' meta tag even have these days? 77+ KB of crap added to the page weight. Web development is full of idiots.

With a race to win a multi-trillion dollar market, there could be, maybe perhaps, a little propaganda happening.

They are highly seasonal. We have not "thoroughly engineered the seasonality out of them".

If only there was some way to get anomaly detection services [1] inside of AWS... 1: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/anomaly-detection/

No tests? Just mess up some mundane detail [1] and voila! Wake-up calls and heart attacks for 100,000s of administrators? 1: "Oh, well, this is not a mundane detail, Michael!" http…

Yes, I am taking legal action, no doubt.

"Homer was not great literature at the time he his works were written". They were not written at all. No written literature existed in the time of Homer.

If 90% of tech startups failed in the past, AI pushes that that rate to over 99%. Cloud was like this too. You spent all this money as a startup with AWS regardless of whether you …

No drone has ever followed me when I am on the way to go play hockey.

"they should be fighting for independent development and universal access". Well stated.

"Ride the wave." Or don't. Most LLMs people are using to code are paywalled, and controlled by private, for-profit entities. This is fundamentally different than the past, and diam…

The web stuff is well done. Now, with this newly created momentum, you should re-record the songs now, without AI. Hell, you could probably afford an awesome studio and equipment t…

So Pelé is just a handle then, eh?

People at Apple are not left-handed, they don't drive, they don't work out, and they don't seem to go out in the cold very much. Oh, and they definitely don't play video games.

"Any company that does this kind of stuff as a routine will not continue the routine of employing people for long." "On contracts" is explicitly mentioned. While bouncing your W-2 …

Been doing this since my early 30's, and doing it currently. I guess all the "rock stars" are dead at 27 so the point stands.

I stopped caring about the (ab)use of the word Zen in "tech" when that scummy startup Zenefits got in trouble.