All these fuckers are our neighbors and for many of us former employers.
We know exactly how they think, and what they think of us.
Andreesen is the tip of the iceberg.
All these fuckers are our neighbors and for many of us former employers.
We know exactly how they think, and what they think of us.
Andreesen is the tip of the iceberg.
I found that keeping up with people over video works better when you’re in the same time zone. When I was managing teams at +8 hours and -12.5 relative hours, communication and trust just weakened steadily over time and creative collaboration stalled. Spending a week there in person usually got things unstuck.
I know people on split engineering teams between LA and Seattle who prefer all virtual and it’s worked long term. LA to NY I think would be a heavier lift.
And, of course, this whole discussion is always dominated by software engineers; there are lots of jobs that involve actual manipulation of matter where in person collaboration is essential to communicate skills.
A lot of them (Alphabet in particular) overinvested in commercial real estate and are now sitting on a huge sunk cost.
Well, I installed Firefox on all of my devices after finding out about the DRM plans, mostly through lemmy.
So you got one person.
I use emacs as my lemmy client
Using the right tool for the right task is a big part of being a good engineer.
Oddly, although I can use chopsticks to eat, I can not visualize what my grip is from these pictures. It’s delegated entirely to my hand at this point and I don’t think about it any more.