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No raindrop feels responsible for the flood

I work in an organization that asks for innovation, but doesn't allocate any budget for R&D or investigative projects. The company also doesn't have any culture of being ok with ta…

Garbage removal. If your trash man stops coming to haul away your waste, you've got a problem. You will then ask, "how much do I need to pay to get this service back?" Same with mo…

Craigslist is _the_ case study on how an ugly UI can survive over a long timeline. There are many techies and UI designers that are just disgusted at the UI of craigslist. For some…

Yeah, it's bad luck to be superstitious

Does that kind of stuff lock you in to a specific cloud platform? I've been curious to learn some of this stuff.

Just curious, can you go into further detail about this bit? "we are all developing on top of either AWS or Azure and are actually using the technologies they provide and not just …

People talk shit about each other over Slack, and hope it never comes back to bite them.

Yeah, I never understood who those ads were aimed at. Buying a superbowl ad for a bunch of money to hit millions of consumers in hopes of a single CEO with buy authority watching t…

Someone mentioned in an above comment that managers look out for their own interests, just like employees. There are very few people in a company who are really acting in the best …

Some cities are dominated by insurance/banking/healthcare companies. Their IT needs are quite different than the consumer software space. It's more like a salesguy just landed a bi…

My company bought each team member dual monitors and told us to work from home 3 days a week. It was awesome, everyone loved it. The team is pretty mature and high functioning. Our…