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I am just flattered that at 53, I am still early career!

This. Working at EA punching out the next version of Madden, featuring roster updates, UI changes, and tinkering with a few settings isn't exactly work designing the new Unreal eng…

Sometimes layoffs are designed to give air cover for execs that want to get rid of "networks of detractors" who are causing problems, like how in a game company there might be a ne…

"software development is a team sport" I have heard people state this like it is obviously true. Not so sure.

I tried my best to make a startup that was a "fuck you" to Workday (orgspace.io, RIP). Unfortunately, HR execs said "fuck you" back in no uncertain terms.

You either do it, or someone wraps you with one using browser_use or similar.

Have you seen the movie "mean girls"? People of all genders do this all the time, group up and rat-fuck the reputation of someone they don't like for all sorts of reasons, not all …

100%. When I play video games, I am Marl. Not going into menus or whatever to set things up, just using it to specifically not use my brain.

When I see VCs make this argument, all I hear is "oh shit, we're late to the party" and doing something like this as a desperate attempt to bring valuations down.

You know what is more controversial than letting robot cars drive around? Trying to make a new train line literally anywhere in the US. You are better off buying a bunch of robot c…

Charlottesville might have thoughts on this

By this logic, we should go back to manual deploys since CD lets... aghast... computers deploy our most important software to prod

The guy seems pretty earnest about this, seems like it is literally his first blog post. It would not shock me in the least if people work in an org where they say they are "going …

This. I like a lot of the game, but something feels off with movement.

Question: unless you are an anti-AI advocate, why does this matter? Why are we raising pitchforks over this? We routinely sign terms that allow product managers to analyze how we u…

This. 99/100 calls I get are someone trying to sell me something worthless.

Biggest problem with the pricing is that you are selling an expensive tool to cheap bastards that tend to be in your ICP. Idea: sell this with a course to idiots and call it "how t…

More of an experiment, but thinking as the AI gets better, and assuming Open AI isn't reading things from the API itself, could be used to vet for security or give other kinds of s…

I'd pay for stackoverflow if it wasn't for the "but aktually, instead of $thingINeed, you should use my $shittyOpenSourceProjectWith5Downloads" low quality crap. I pay for content …

1.) Adderall. 2.) See 1.

Professional services isn't a complex business model. The likely outcome now is what it has always been: - Do you bill? Cool. You're good - Do you sell? Cool. You're good If you do…

Now if we could simultaneously make him governor of Illinois and do the same thing. Over here we are about to donate 2% of everyone's pay to one of the most corrupt state governmen…