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I believe that is a special deal that apple made them which does not apply across the board.

I feel this, but likely because I am a software engineer and PC tinkerer from the '90's. Everything that get's created, gets commercialized and swallowed up by whatever product roa…

Very impressive from a technical perspective. I should know, since I worked on a startup for 3 years who attempted to productize a similar system. If this can scale, I think you ha…

Honestly, it's so offbeat compared to the sensationalist headlines that have been optimized over the last 20 years that it feels refreshing. I would probably read it just for that …

Well that's the rub ain't it? Punishment, at its root, is just a method for control. The more brutal the punishment, the more fear is created, and fearful people will then obey com…

Boy, this sure sounds familiar. Every seed stage company ever.... Somehow the lack of sales are the product teams fault? Let's start messing with the product to figure out why sale…

Just curious if you'd include alcohol in that list? What about prescription pain-killers? Just curious where you draw the line on what's criminal, and what's not. Personally, I'd r…

I've been waiting for this. Seems like it is a self-contained cellular device requiring a subscription, which makes sense. I guess I am curious how I can be in communication with i…

I disagree. My best ideas come in the presence of others. Something about the collective energy evokes new perspectives I did not have alone. I think its a waste to get 10 engineer…

Collaboration is absolutely required when the product is undefined. You as an engineer would not be able to do your job correctly unless you could communicate with a designer, a UX…

"A study conducted by Fisher found humour-orientated individuals likely to identify their mothers as demanding, unsympathetic and distant. They were seen as avoiding the nurturant …

I still find it hard to believe that fully-async working style is more productive in the long run. My experience with it was that the pace of synchronous collaboration and decision…

You've outlined it so well! "you're stuck between... and you're just doing your best to make it all work." Couple that with the fact that the whole front-end world has gone complet…

I remember the same. I visited Alcatraz as a kid in the early '90's, and then later returned in 2010 for my tech career. 2010 was pretty great honestly, but by 2014 I realized I wa…

How is this not a complete and obvious no-brainer? As advanced as our culture is in some ways, it is clearly quite idiotic in many other ways.

Agreed! What can we do about this? I'm an advocate for web over app, but that has it's own downsides

Agreed. I think NX is a big powerhouse of a tool that should only be used in mature engineering orgs with complex codebases and deployments. A seed-stage company is not the right f…

Thanks! Yes, pnpm workspaces and turborepo are both far superior to NX IMO. They hit that sweet spot of providing the nice aspects of a monorepo without all the nightmarish configu…

NX with a Nest.js backend, and Next.js front-end. These tools just aren't very nice to jam together into a fullstack app. I'm really not a fan of NX itself. Lots of people love it,…

Yes absolutely. I've been very impressed that Rails has managed to stay relevant all these years later. I hope the NodeJS world can turnout something as turnkey and well-supported …

This article isn't the best, but I'm glad it is attempting to foster a conversation about the future of JAMstack. I've been developing with React for 10ish years now. My most recen…

This is true, bug again, how is the company culture formed in the first place? Was there ever a company culture that formed from fully remote individuals who never ever met in pers…

I think the fidelity of unspoken information is so much higher in person. Over zoom and most certainly via text-based comms like slack, it's hard to tell if you are being understoo…

I think in this case, an established company with an established product and a mature org would do just fine in a remote setting. I'm talking more about seed-stage startups and sta…

After iterating on this process for years now we just haven't found a solution that works. Some orgs can do this through meticulous documentation (Amazon comes to mind), but that h…