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I said concurrent execution . When being pedantic it is important to read carefully. Being super careful about 'parallel' and 'concurrent' is super, super pedantic and pointless. T…

I think most CPython folks are quite annoyed by the lack of concurrent execution! The GIL sucks. If you ever ask Racket-lang folks about threads they will lecture you about concurr…

A distinction isn't necessarily useful.

Only took a quick peek at this, but it seems to resemble Feynman's Absorber Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...

You have been in the industry for around 40 years and you have no personal network you can call on for referrals? You are obviously leaving out critical parts of your story.

What is the negative consequence of breaking the site for an hour? Is it "some people are a little annoyed", "nobody notices", or "customers start calling and are very upset" or ev…

I guess it depends on your base, but if their revenue is about $100MM/yr (which I highly doubt, companies love to outright lie, but lets be optimistic) then it's still only about $…

So Evernote spent that much and they didn't even make any furniture, so their wood costs were very very low. Zero even. They still spent that much money?

> This is something that can't realistically happen for a furniture plant. You can't pile up furniture up to the sky without paying your wood suppliers. Have you ever seen $300MM w…

> I MEAN IF NO ONE IS MANAGING THE DEVELOPERS, NOTHING WILL GET DONE. What they don't realize is that if you put nontechnical people in charge of programmers, nothing will get done…

I guess you have never heard of a sales team before? Every sales team in the country works mainly on commission, and most executives have most of their compensation based on meetin…

This! Burn the furniture pile (or move it into a warehouse or build a fence around it or something). Hire a new COO who is the head salesman, and compensated purely by how much fur…

> They are needed but ... I really don't agree. The person in charge needs to have enough technical insight to have a good sense of the overall health of the team and whether reaso…

Let me tell a story: Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company. The owner says he knows it's good furniture but even despite huge investments they can't …

Evernote has almost 500 employees? How is that even possible? There must be at least 350 product managers. (Ok, that was a joke, but if you look at all their employees on linkedin …

I don't think it is a problem with the VC model at all. Evernote has taken more than $300MM in funding. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them take that money. The people who…

> The rest of your post fails to substantiate this claim. Re-reading what you posted I have to agree with this. >Unsurprisingly, this is not a big problem for economic systems that…

So this is basically OSX but take away 30 years of human-computer interaction learnings and UI improvements.

"Capitalism" is totally orthogonal to this, any alternative to capitalism requires the use of force to confiscate carrots from one person to give carrots to someone else, by defini…

"there is no value in media" So much this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message What is reported is decided based entirely on what will hold the most attention f…

"Entry Level" is a euphemism. It doesn't mean "No experience" it means "Not very good so has to work cheap, but can do basic tasks with lots of supervision."

With this contraption you'll be nearly as efficient as out of the box Emacs!

>>GG Flip is a Golang library which generates the Javascript sign flip library. I preferred Go because lack of generics seemed like a good design choice. God help us if this isn't …

I certainly never said either of those things, but this is a great example of why I removed the comments. If some wondering about a hypothetical future dystopia offend you this muc…