This about pitching, not about building. What you can put in a vibe coded demo and a slide deck versus what functions in production a year later are very different. "Three Stanford kids in a trenchcoat" will always be able to get some kind of funding. That's less about technology and business principles and more about the legacy of P. T. Barnum.
Readit Newsogou commented on The 5 stages of SaaS Death arnon.dk/the-5-stages-of-... · Posted by u/arnon
Huh? Thats just not true. We have channels for gamers, pets, golf, home automation, “lounge”, “memes”, etc. I’ve been at this company 4 years and can only thing if 3 times I’ve seen a dispute, and even that was very civil. It’s really not hard to leave politics at home.
Must depend on the company/office. My team (200+ people) has a "offtopic/socialize" chat channel set up for this kind of rando chit chat, and it has never, not once in many years, even had a hint of divisiveness or politics. Yes, you do need to be working with grownups who can behave and leave that shit at home.
Basecamp is a well-known example. I saw it personally at 3 different companies, including one in Germany. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032627
After watching so many work chats disintegrate from politics, social commentary, or pedantic arguments I have totally avoided all unstructured channels. Since 2020 I saw two people get fired after discussions got out of hand. There were many more team meetings, code of conduct edicts, and all hands declarations about communication issues. It wasn't until the bans on politics in Slack arrived until things got better. Even now there are people I will screenshot any DMs that have even a hint of conflict. I doubt I will ever participate in any work chats in a social way again.
ogou commented on What went wrong for Yahoo dfarq.homeip.net/what-wen... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
An underreported part of the Yahoo story is its relationship to India. I worked there during the Verizon years and heard the history. Yahoo was a forerunner of the "offshoring" of technology jobs to India. It moved lots of core operations to a small army of engineers there. They figured out that their American counterparts made substantially more money than they did, especially the middle managers. Waves of Indian employees began moving to Santa Clara and getting market rate wages. Suddenly, Yahoo wasn't saving as much money as they used to. I don't think it was a major factor in its overall financial decline, but it had some effect I'm sure. On a side note, I heard a couple of Indian engineers say they were moving back to raise their kids because they didn't like the cultural influences in our schools. There were many interesting lunchtime conversations about things like that.
ogou commented on Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck ordep.dev/posts/writing-c... · Posted by u/phire
My last job had a team with about 50% temp and contract. When the LLMs got popular, I could tell right away. When I reviewed their code, it was completely different than their actual style. The seniors pushed back because it was costing us more time to review and we knew it was generated. Also, they couldn't talk about about what they did in meetings. They didn't know what it was really doing. Eventually the department manager got tired of our complaining and said "it's all inevitable." Then those mercenaries started to just rubber stamp each other's PRs. The led to some colossal fuckups in production. Some of them were fired quietly, and the new people promptly started doing the same thing. Why should they care, it's just a short term contract on the way to the big payday, right?
ogou commented on Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHer... · Posted by u/theandrewbailey
These are good recommendations from a usability and accessibility standpoint. But, marketing managers will bulldoze over all of it. These links are also Calls To Action in the marketing world. They will choose the most clicked version, which is usually the most simplistic and obvious. Many years of A/B/n testing has shown this to be true.
Most of the sources in the article are anonymous. Their descriptions of specific shootings are uncorroberated. I question the veracity of this article. It is clearly designed to elicit a pre-determined result and is conjecture and evocative narrative disguised as journalism. If these officers and soldiers are so morally outraged, let them say so on camera with their name underneath. If this is really happening and they are real soldiers who were actually there, then any concerns for their careers or safety should be secondary to revealing the truth in an open and verifiable way.
ogou commented on Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them cjr.org/analysis/small-to... · Posted by u/strict9
Another misleading post title. It's not that people don't want to run them, nobody wants to buy them. Every example in the post is about not being able to find a buyer, so they are closing.