iamcasen

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by iamcasen 3y ago
I believe that is a special deal that apple made them which does not apply across the board.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I feel this, but likely because I am a software engineer and PC tinkerer from the '90's. Everything that get's created, gets commercialized and swallowed up by whatever product roadmap that commercial entity has. The soul of
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Very impressive from a technical perspective. I should know, since I worked on a startup for 3 years who attempted to productize a similar system. If this can scale, I think you have a very valuable foundation. Did you build Nino Meets usin
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Honestly, it's so offbeat compared to the sensationalist headlines that have been optimized over the last 20 years that it feels refreshing. I would probably read it just for that fact alone!
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Well that's the rub ain't it? Punishment, at its root, is just a method for control. The more brutal the punishment, the more fear is created, and fearful people will then obey commands (laws). It's such an infantile mindset,
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Boy, this sure sounds familiar. Every seed stage company ever.... Somehow the lack of sales are the product teams fault? Let's start messing with the product to figure out why sales aren't happening. Haha, it's so sad it&#x27
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Just curious if you'd include alcohol in that list? What about prescription pain-killers? Just curious where you draw the line on what's criminal, and what's not. Personally, I'd rather criminalize the negative behavior,
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I've been waiting for this. Seems like it is a self-contained cellular device requiring a subscription, which makes sense. I guess I am curious how I can be in communication with it. Will my contacts be texted from a new phone number?
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I disagree. My best ideas come in the presence of others. Something about the collective energy evokes new perspectives I did not have alone. I think its a waste to get 10 engineers in the room to decide how to build a single module. That w
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Collaboration is absolutely required when the product is undefined. You as an engineer would not be able to do your job correctly unless you could communicate with a designer, a UX-researcher, a product manager, etc (unless of course you ar
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by iamcasen 3y ago
"A study conducted by Fisher found humour-orientated individuals likely to identify their mothers as demanding, unsympathetic and distant. They were seen as avoiding the nurturant role, commonly falling on the father to fulfil this rol
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I still find it hard to believe that fully-async working style is more productive in the long run. My experience with it was that the pace of synchronous collaboration and decision making is about 5X faster than async. A group of engineers
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by iamcasen 3y ago
You've outlined it so well! "you're stuck between... and you're just doing your best to make it all work." Couple that with the fact that the whole front-end world has gone completely bonkers, reinventing the wheel
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I remember the same. I visited Alcatraz as a kid in the early '90's, and then later returned in 2010 for my tech career. 2010 was pretty great honestly, but by 2014 I realized I was just one of the hollowed out tech workers too bu
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by iamcasen 3y ago
How is this not a complete and obvious no-brainer? As advanced as our culture is in some ways, it is clearly quite idiotic in many other ways.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Agreed! What can we do about this? I'm an advocate for web over app, but that has it's own downsides
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Agreed. I think NX is a big powerhouse of a tool that should only be used in mature engineering orgs with complex codebases and deployments. A seed-stage company is not the right fit.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Thanks! Yes, pnpm workspaces and turborepo are both far superior to NX IMO. They hit that sweet spot of providing the nice aspects of a monorepo without all the nightmarish configurations and complexities. Next.js has saddened me since the
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by iamcasen 3y ago
NX with a Nest.js backend, and Next.js front-end. These tools just aren't very nice to jam together into a fullstack app. I'm really not a fan of NX itself. Lots of people love it, but I think it's way too much for most use-c
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Yes absolutely. I've been very impressed that Rails has managed to stay relevant all these years later. I hope the NodeJS world can turnout something as turnkey and well-supported as Rails, but I haven't really seen it yet. The ch
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by iamcasen 3y ago
This article isn't the best, but I'm glad it is attempting to foster a conversation about the future of JAMstack. I've been developing with React for 10ish years now. My most recent startups have been a mixture of React front
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by iamcasen 3y ago
This is true, bug again, how is the company culture formed in the first place? Was there ever a company culture that formed from fully remote individuals who never ever met in person even once? I can't think of an example to be honest.
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I think the fidelity of unspoken information is so much higher in person. Over zoom and most certainly via text-based comms like slack, it's hard to tell if you are being understood, and if you are understanding. Beyond just the techni
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by iamcasen 3y ago
I think in this case, an established company with an established product and a mature org would do just fine in a remote setting. I'm talking more about seed-stage startups and starting 100% remote companies from scratch. It's a w
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by iamcasen 3y ago
After iterating on this process for years now we just haven't found a solution that works. Some orgs can do this through meticulous documentation (Amazon comes to mind), but that hasn't worked here. People have a hard time digesti
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Indeed, it is on the company. My point is that it is hard to do this well at a fully remote and async company. Especially when collaboration needs to be tight and delivery needs to be quick. Naturally, when in person, you sit with your tea
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by iamcasen 3y ago
As a founding engineer for a pandemic-era company, I can see both sides of this argument. We've had a very challenging time hiring and maintaining teams across the company. People fall through the cracks in a remote company very easily
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by iamcasen 3y ago
It's possible for sure, I just wouldn't call that super intelligent. There are other ways to get what you want besides ruthless domination. One could argue that ruthless domination is a last resort, and that only really primal int
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by iamcasen 3y ago
Fair enough. I just don't see evil as particularly intelligent, or evolutionary in anything but the very short term. Nature seems to follow a balance of give and take. Too much take, and all your food runs out and there is a famine. I
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by iamcasen 3y ago
My step-son insisted on an Xbox S because he plays only Gamepass games. He is 11, and all his friends have Xbox's as well. Being a die-hard Playstation guy (in a former life) I was confused, since Playstation seems so much better. I do

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