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37signals (and others) proved that a different approach is possible.

See https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/040f1459849ab05b04f6bb...

Sure, but is constant "direct attention" the best way to empower engineers? I would argue that systemic improvements (e.g. onboarding process, good documentation, team communicatio…

Their handling of the Aaron Swartz case (rightfully) caused a massive hit to their reputation.

> Everything else about my job is basically just filler for whenever you don’t need my direct attention That might be taking it a bit too far?

Then your system is likely wide open to all kinds of known security vulnerabilities.

So that Gerhard Schröder could get a job at Gazprom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relation...

Not the best example since she wasn't replaced.

Sure, what I meant is that founder CEOs are not as irreplaceable as it might seem.

Would you say the same about Travis Kalanick or Adam Neumann?

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875/ "The data controller responsible for your information is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which you can contact online or by writing to: …

You don't need a lawyer to send a standard "right to erasure" GDPR request and they are required to respond within 30 days: https://gdpr.eu/right-to-erasure-request-form/

> No other smart watch had that feature, and (almost) no other smart watch has it today in 2022. That's not really true, unless your definition of a smartwatch is limited to Apple/…

I know this is just an anecdote, but a good developer wouldn't ask the manager to approve every small refactoring or expect them to understand the importance of "one method in Supe…

Instapaper after multiple acquisitions feels even more abandoned than Pocket.

I'm not sure this is a good metaphor since weapons are designed for violence, regardless of whether that violence is legally justified or not. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to m…

Take a look at prompt_toolkit which is a Python library used by IPython among others: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

Not everywhere, BBC would be a good counterexample.

Mathematics is "just" set theory and everything else, including arithmetic, can be built on top of that.

Just out of curiosity, what is your other repository?