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It was hard to tell if he means he doesn’t do meetings at all, though it’s kind of implied. There are lots of high leverage activities around advocating for engineering’s perspecti…

Google has already given Chrome an unfair advantage by leveraging their other services. I suspect the browser market is an unstable system where absent outside intervention Chrome’…

If it goes through, your customers can switch, once, to Chrome. After that, Google leverages its other service monopolies, Chrome goes to 95%+ market share, standards fall by the w…

Boot camps take the “seems to be passionate about coding in their free time” signals and help their students try to fit those signals by encouraging them to build personal projects…

The most plausible theory to me: this is all FCC licensing related, where the owner is operating an FM station that is licensed as an AM station + repeater, but _nobody_ listens to…

If you were doing it today it’d probably be much easier from the enterprise procurement side. They often give out single-use virtual card numbers per service now.

In the mid naughts ruby/rails was catching on and rubyconf was getting bigger, but the events were on the _weekends_ because most of these were people doing it for fun and not able…

Totally agree. AI empowers people with existing software expertise, and empowers people with domain knowledge. Both of which have historically been bottlenecked by things AI is now…

This sounds in line with Google creating go: restrict the language features so you can hire mass quantities of programmers and be reasonably sure they won’t go off the rails. It’s …

Has anyone verified this (the Mail.app) part themselves, or is the blog post just going off of Apple's press release? The press release: > Link Tracking Protection in Messages, Mai…

It seems like the $200/mo plan and below are subsidized by their marketing budget, and the various ToS terms are there to give them discretion over whether those users are worth it…

Assuming that whether or not the lawyer is working on their case is the deciding factor, the venue (actually the conglomerate that owns them) are the ones who chose to come up with…

What she's alleging seems to be: the MSG conglomerate is using their large footprint to punish law firm employees unrelated to their dispute using venues also unrelated to their di…

They might also be banking on this giving Microsoft cover to not take it down. With the original takedown, Microsoft would be worried that the relative nobodies disappear with Micr…

It seems like lots of companies start in the cloud due to low commitments, and then later when they have more stability and demand and want to save costs, making bigger cloud commi…

Is there some nuance as to how this is set up? The company buying back the stock when you leave seems particularly interesting: if the valuation has changed in between when you sta…

I'd be most interested to hear about situations one step up from there, where Hetzner's per-TB-per-month pricing doesn't work out favorably and you want to serve content reasonably…

$0.035/GB sounds about an order of magnitude too high once you get to a large scale, were these clients doing small amounts of bandwidth? On the other hand, $0.0021/GB is far on th…

I wonder how analogous this is to “don’t talk to VC associates” advice. Corp dev is interested in buying a company, any company, at a low price but even once corp dev is sold they’…

Can you explain what turned you off about his negotiation, if he wasn't being a jerk? Just the fact that someone would have the audacity to do it, when you didn't feel he had the n…

If you work with data security departments at large companies, you get these types of questionnaires all the time already. And every single question has been answered a dozen times…

One interesting part about this is that it's a letter, and the author never explicitly mentions that it was sent in an email. Assuming this letter arrives in the post one day, what…

How about we create client-side plugins for each of the major platforms that people can use to detect the AMP mime-type and automatically mark as spam? Email reputation is a huge c…

You can do that, and often times debt providers will attach those sorts of provisions: "we'll lend you X and you can keep it as long as you achieve Y or maintain Z". One of the cha…

I'm not a lawyer, but don't contracts require consideration for both parties? Usually when employers require an employee to sign something, there is an implicit consideration "and …