I have no more sympathy left for drug users after my wife was attacked in daylight in downtown Portland on the way to work. Enablement is not compassion.
Sucks for those who were affected but when Brex pivoted from small businesses to well funded startups and shut down 10s of thousands of accounts, I think the market lost all trust. Ramp & Mercury provide way more value now. Absolutely no reason to use Brex anymore.
Everybody is a fascist who doesn't want their kids to learn that it's OK to be born different or to learn foundational science that conflicts with their religious dogma. This is different from challenging me about my favorite color.
No, this is just parents who are afraid of their personal worldview being challenged by their own kids (oh the insolence!).
Nobody came to these parents to tell them "your kid should not be reading X". If parents don't trust/like the curriculum of their local school, AFAIK homeschooling is still an option in the US.
Ah yes, the slipper slope. Let's be honest, librarians and educators have a ton of power and no oversight in indoctrinating children into the views that they want. Now that parents are challenging them, all of sudden, PEN America believes that parents should have no say on the material their kids read.
It's not a slippery slope. That is literally what you are advocating. The same parents who don't want their children to know what Ruby Bridges went through or that gay people exist also don't want their children to learn about evolution.
A lot of tech is simple, basically a CRUD app. For instance, there is probably a billion dollar app that will come out in next 10 years that makes performance reviews slightly better (e.g. 15five) or maybe a slightly better chat application (Slack). None of these products relied on technical leaps, just execution and positioning.
Not sure if troll or not but as you might know, there are different levels to Christianity. I'm not the kind of person to say all paths leads to Rome but I do believe that there are variables to a Christian life and every single person's journey will be different.
A question that always comes up when I see these "Heroku-like" replacements on top of AWS/GCP/Azure is who is the target user?
A couple years ago, you would have platform teams helping developers launch their stuff. Since then, AWS has tried to make things easier through services like App Runner. Nowadays, if you don't want to manage the instances yourself, you just use a managed service. Platform teams are essentially dead.
It's not 2016 anymore and developers should know how their code runs. Trying to "protect" them from infrastructure only hinders their pace long term.
Thank you!! And fair point. To us it's in a sense a bet on a particular direction the industry is going to take. If we're right then infrastructure-as-code isn't going away, someone needs to write it, even for the managed services. Those still need to be connected with each other, there are VPCs, security groups, secrets - the "glue" connecting those services. We don't believe developers should care about that though. Specialisation tends to increase, not decrease with time. It's hard enough to make one's frontend or backend work in isolation. So our thinking is that the devops corner of the industry is very much a transitory state - post-problem but pre-product, somewhat like hardware was before the PC, or software development before operating systems. There are strong incentives to cleanly decouple devops from development by means of products - just like operating system engineering is decoupled from software engineering via layers upon layers of apis and tools that don't require any specialist intervention.
So we are trying to make progress in that direction - if managed cloud services were hardware, then we are building an operating system for developers to use that hardware with as little friction as possible.
when you say platform teams are dead, do you just mean the part of the team that mangages platform infrastructure?
My understanding with Platform teams is that its more than DevOps, its that a core set of engineers building a platform that the rest of engineering can safely (using that word in a relative sense here) build upon, e.g., I may as part of a platform team create core API services that are then exposed to product side teams to develop against, and we work with each other. This is essentially a productivity feature, because it allows for specialists to collaborate over their expertise, as opposed to having lots of full stack generalists managing their own slices of codebases, which results in shipping faster and higher quality product.
I was an early Clubhouse user. The initial conversations were very beneficial and very interesting. Over time, as more people got access, it started to turn into virtue signaling sessions on one end and super wack conversations about crypto on the other. It basically turned into an audio version of Twitter. After a couple of months, I ended up deleting the application.
My wife uses Marco Polo a lot with her family. It's a great way for them to maintain an async conversation. I think for group no larger than five people, it makes a lot of sense.
Is social audio dead? No. I do think that the market size is definitely a lot smaller.
> The initial conversations were very beneficial and very interesting. Over time, as more people got access, it started to turn into virtue signaling sessions on one end and super wack conversations about crypto on the other.
It's a great post with realities of war. Being focused on work is a great distraction as well. My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain?
It's one thing to ask for support for humanitarian aid purposes (such as fundraising to distribute food, helping someone's family get out, etc.), it's another to exploit the war to grow your business.
When the war started, I had numerous cold emails from Ukrainian businesses offering services (primarily outsourced marketing, design, software engineering) with the first paragraph containing emotionally charged, guilt-tripping statements. Those emails started to cause me to have some resentment and I marked them as junk. I will not be pushed to support a business that's trying to guilt trip me, regardless of what's happening.
War is bad, majority of world supports the Ukrainian side. I pray for the conflict to be over soon.
hi! Thank you for the reply and what a great point. I can relate and yes, a lot of business in Ukraine are urged to switch to other markets to survive. I assume their cold outreach attempts might look naive and exploiting. I still believe that begging for help and offering some services are different, and sorry that disturbed you, really.
I assume they still need to make payouts, keep workplaces and support the economy. From my perspective, begging for charity is not okay when you can bring value. Maybe I am just too optimistic about examples you mentioned.
Keep up the good work and thanks for providing a sense of normalcy to your employees in the midst of this crisis, I'm glad something like that is going on at this time.
this is not how the west works nowadays. we are anti-survival because we do not feel threatened(big mistake), we are all about appearances and passing judgments.
I understand why you might not like getting these emails, but is there any reason you think they're bad in some general sense (at least worse than any other email advertising). I'm sure there are some customers out there who would like to buy from Ukrainian companies given what's going on.
I strongly suspect many are not actually Ukrainian; I recently got Facebook ads for a "Ukrainian educational toy maker" selling puzzles I'd seen on AliExpress.
>>My issue is how do we respond to businesses who are clearly exploiting the crisis for monetary gain?
Yep, and not only that, what I see in those pictures are many young, military age healthy males that are hiding out in 'safe places' while other men and women are literally putting their lives at stake to save the country and the lives of the residents - while this group is pimping their business. Doesn't feel right to me.
Putting those young healthy males without significant training and enough effective military hardware right into the trenches being shelled/bombed would be a typical Russian approach which produces a lot of dead and wounded without any positive result. As it has become obvious over the last 3 months Ukraine had learnt to fight differently, smarter.
>while this group is pimping their business.
From the macro scale POV, the large wars are won by economies. USSR and USA won over Germany and Japan by running larger economies (USSR starting 1942/43).
One of the significant part of the war being waged by Russia is to decimate Ukrainian economy. These guys are successfully fighting it back. Them continuing to exist and even thrive and grow is one more piece of war lost by Russia. It is a long game/war. It is very possible that the conflict would go into ceasefire smoldering mode for years during which the survival of Ukraine as independent nation would be decided not by occasional artillery exchanges across ceasefire lines, it will be decided by whose economy would continue to develop successfully.
>hiding out in 'safe places'
They aren't hiding from the draft. Most of them could easily be reached and drafted by army when/if needed. Ukraine drafting offices are overwhelmed with people ready to sign up.
Perhaps you could arrange a conference with them and give give a master class on how to get out of the comfort zone and become the real men? You could share your experience, give a few useful tips on survival in warzones, teach them a lesson on managing emotions under pressure and have a Q&A session. I suggest to upload the recording to youtube, so we could learn too.
