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The difference is that Roblox has a thousand "attention stealers" which have enough gameplay and multiplayer fun to keep an eight year old entertained for a long time. Fortnite is …

" This group tended to agree with dark pronouncements, such as “I need chaos around me” and “When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking ‘just …

The article references a study which claims that university students have difficulty reading Dickens or Jane Austen. Here's an excerpt of the Dickens from the study: "LONDON. Micha…

Not advertising it is key. I'm also coming up on 50, and people constantly are surprised when they inevitably find out how old I am. Ageism can unconsciously creep in when you have…

Rails may indeed be good enough, but comparing a full-stack platform (Rails) to a frontend UX framework (React) is fundamentally unfair.

This. They're great for small/mid-sized developers, but they price themselves out once you're doing billions of messages a month. At that point companies start looking at aggregato…

Firing IC's at large corporations usually involves some sort of a individual coaching/PIP plan. This takes time for managers and HR to write and implement, takes N weeks of observa…

Sure, but Google at least presents itself as being a search engine, composed of potentially unreliable information scraped from the web. GPT looks/feels like an infallible oracle.

It's great, until people realize GPT-3 will generate answers that are demonstrably wrong. (And to make matters worse, can't show/link the source of the incorrect information!)

That would make more sense if 1) he had a coherent plan 2) he could motivate the good 20% to stick around 3) he had some way to differentiate high vs low performers. Instead, he no…

Lawyers and bankers a) don't fly on their own dime, b) have huge potential financial upside in getting those deals done.

A blockchain that can barely manage seven transactions per second is the "best monetary system we could have invented"?

These tools aren't interchangeable. Photoshop is for editing images. Illustrator is for editing vector graphics. Figma is a multiplayer layout tool, which can be used for web, prin…

My company gave managers Clifton Strengths tests, and it was fairly interesting (and tracked with my own self-introspection). Wasn't used for hiring or performance, but more as a t…

Not to mention the technical issues involved in having a truly cross-platform asset. What's the poly and texture count? How is scale represented? Collision volumes? How does it ren…

Extremely easy. You just have to navigate a maze of foreign visa requirements, have a large amount of money, no need to work, learn a foreign language, get your partner/dependents …

I'd disagree re: Figma and Notion. These are very sticky, best-in-class tools which have a lot of use outside of "VC-land". Figma is becoming the de-facto way to share designs acro…

Ableton does allow you to easily export sessions, and freeze tracks that have custom plugins. Their stock plugins are now good enough that they can rival commercial ones for many u…

I know this is a hobby project, but who is the target user for something like this? What's the benefit of doing this in a browser? Desktop DAW's have many benefits: - ASIO drivers …

The problem with JIRA is that yes, everyone uses it, but most people hate it. In my experience, the only people that advocate for it are PM/PMO/TPM type people who need very specif…

Same, lived there in the early 2000's, and coming back recently it's almost unrecognizable. The music scene is largely gone, tech bros everywhere, the traffic is even worse than it…

It's much easier to save money than it is to make it, and that's why revenue is valued more. You can hire any number of consulting firms or smart engineers that can tell you how to…

Mensa is catnip for narcissists who are great at pattern recognition.

Agreed. Finding product/market fit is the only thing that matters in a new company. If you think that's the "boring stuff", then you're not going to love the amount of iteration/th…

Side note, from a usability perspective: G major is arguably the easiest key to play on a guitar, which is used heavily by both popular music and songwriters. The I/IV/V maps to G,…