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> £4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there! For the average person in the UK, it definitely is.

In the north of the UK, dinner=lunch and tea=dinner.

> However, tools, you can make a killing selling simple tools with sexy UX on Mac. I've been thinking about doing something like this recently but I'm not a heavy mac user these da…

Somewhat relevant: Chet Faliszek (ex-Valve) is currently posting videos about how the flat hierarchy works: https://www.tiktok.com/@chetfaliszek/video/72814172402960335... https://…

These missing TotW's are usually about internal tools that aren't open source.

And having execs who design the organizational structure around those goals is part of what makes good engineering :)

Crab bucket mentality. Those salaries are fine, what went wrong is Meta overhired. FAANG companies don't have enough work to go around as it is.

> 1) How can you write this whole article without saying "Kythe"? Well, it does discuss Grok (the closed source predecessor) extensively.

@dang doesn't work, you're best off emailing hn@ycombinator.com

Just personal opinion, but if this product is as valuable as you're suggesting, then definitely try selling at a higher price point! - Your target market can afford it.

Valve is also a games developer, and they never pulled any of their old or failed games. You can still play Artifact or Ricochet multiplayer (if you really want).

Those are 'third places'. The workplace was always the second place.

Sibling comment has a good point, this number includes everyone from software engineers to kitchen staff. Very few of my direct peers have left and the Google is growing still.

I joined Google ~6 months before COVID. More than 60% the company was hired after my start date, so that 1/3 stat is probably higher.

A more generalised approach: structure emails in importance order, top down. So, actionable stuff at top, rationales further down, in descending importance etc... This becomes more…

Shackling accountability is no way to run a team. That being said, there's value in ICs contributing to a roadmap, if they're trusted. Being a 'leaf node' and closer to customers c…

A lot of online software industry content is focused on junior engineers: algorithms and data structures, usage of SQL, etc... But I don't think we often discuss what really sets m…

I think it's a generational thing. As a young person, work is basically the default way to meet people after moving to a large city. I have real friends outside work now but they a…

Unfortunately that problem space is so large (every new line of fibre has how many stakeholders?) that a single individual or organisation might not be able to have any impact here…

Even with high ping, application layer is probably the wrong place to solve this problem. We'll likely get email working as one of the first problems and be back to correspondence …

> It's gonna simultaneously trigger and require the economic destruction of a huge amount of office real estate investments to enable the change to remote work to become the majori…

I believe it's part of (or at least funded by) Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)

Wow, I was just thinking about this scene as well! It really is timeless. Especially the bit about measuring success by activity and not results.

Software engineering is one of the few middle class jobs available these days. Understandably it's now packed with people desperately trying to live a specific lifestyle, buy a hou…