Damn I wish any PM I had ever worked with had this attitude. Honestly I don’t recognize any of this ownership in the last few companies I’ve worked with. PMs are just people that don’t talk with customers, review a product backlog, and cover their eyes and point at the Feature du jour. I wish more PMs had your ownership approach.
To jump in front of a bullet that no one wants to be struck by? As a PM, I want my eng team to be courageous and stand by their decisions rather than respecting me only once I offer my self in a sacrificial ritual.
Are they technical decisions? Yeah, sure, that's on them.
But a LOT of decisions in reality are ones where there is no clear "organic" owner. In that scenario, assuming nobody else is putting their hand up to own it, that's the PM's responsibility.
Nobody will ever tell you this in interviews, it's never part of the job description, but it is one of the most important parts of being an effective PM.
I find this incredibly hard to believe with all of the research on neuroplasticity. Not to mention there’s a VERY famous case that proves this is not a hard and fast rule: Helen Keller.
Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old.
At this age, a child's brain has already locked in the sounds for their native language and lost the ability to learn non-native sounds (hell, research suggests that unborn infants can recognise the difference between their mothers native language and foreign languages before they even leave the womb). The typical child will have been using single word sentences for months and just starting to move onto two word sentences.
Keller might have regressed to zero language abilities after her illness, but she didn't need to start completely from scratch when she learned how to speak.
> Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old.
While this is in fact an important sample, this doesn't imply much about how humans develop after 19 months, much less how they develop before 19 months.
> At this age, a child's brain has already locked in the sounds for their native language and lost the ability to learn non-native sounds (hell, research suggests that unborn infants can recognise the difference between their mothers native language and foreign languages before they even leave the womb).
We have nearly zero clue how the child's brain recognizes their "native language". We know they react differently at different stages of their development to the same stimulus, which is occasionally linguistic. We have nearly zero clue what the mechanism is that corresponds input to measurable output. This is a very disingenuous characterization of the data.
It's also worth mentioning that the root of this question is trivially false—people obviously learn language after the age of five. Such haphazard presentation (at best) should not be taken seriously.
if only this site could manage something more complicated than the dialectic of "not retarded enough for y-combinator" and "too retarded for y-ycombinator"
one day, y-combinator will give a shit about disability. There is not enough money in the game for the powers to be to care yet.
I just can't imagine we have that much hard data on the topic. Unless there have been massive breakthroughs in hearing aid tech that I'm unaware of.
Cochlear implants are amazing but my understanding is they're not 100% restorative. To make a bad metaphorical comparison with blindness, they're like glasses that restore your vision but if the only shape produced were shutter shades.
As someone who is quite new to Ubuntu, and recently just ran an install. I've seen this "snap" word thrown around and for better or worse I consider the opinion of random HN users to be better than the average opinion elsewhere on the internet.
What do you dislike so much about snap? Also any tips on how one goes about purging it from their machine if they too also decide they don't like it?
Snaps are self contained packages of software. They are mounted as a separate isolated file system when they start.
The good: Snap packages run on almost any Linux distribution, so they're an easier target. Distribution specific packaging can be tedious, and often involves a distro having to maintain packages themselves by repackaging the "upstream" package or software. With software that updates frequently, snaps theoretically mean a lot less work for distro package maintainers, because one package works on every distro. Snap packages are also sandboxed and have less access to the host system.
The bad: In practice, they don't work very well. Snap programs are slow to start up. Because of their sandboxing and universal nature, their integration into the distribution can be lacking.
For example, when I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04, I was automatically moved to Firefox snap. It is painfully slow to start. Instead of the normal Ubuntu file browser when I went to upload or save a file, it uses a jarringly different file browser. I switched back to using the firefox PPA, and now this new package directly from firefox.
I also moved to the Slack snap, which also works terribly. I apparently can't upload and download files from it reliably, so I have to open it in my browser to do so. There appears to still be an official deb package, but they've hidden it on their site because they want you to use the snap.
Snap started as a method of packaging applications for servers, and that's still where they're most useful. Slow startup time and issues with desktop integration are not concerns for server side snap packages. For desktop graphical applications, Flatpak will likely be a much more useful universal package system.
Regarding the startup time, it has been massively improved since the initial Firefox snap release. It'll always have non-zero overhead for the reasons you mentioned, but it's already fast enough that it no longer bothers me.
The concept is fine, but implementation is quite obnoxious.
You'll have crap in your mounts list, process list, home folder, etc. As a reward for putting up with all that you'll have slower to start applications!
PPA, flatpack, and even "make install" are much more polite when you need a newer version of something, with good performance.
I recommend Mint these days. Easier than decluttering Ubuntu after every install.
TL;DR Solar chimneys aren’t nearly as promising as modern solar panels as far as energy generation goes. They require tons of money and space in order to operate efficiently.
The idea that somehow one of the worst game developers in the world is going to usher this new age in is extremely laughable. Sounds like Ubisoft needs to recognize what a joke their studio is.
Yeah that’s my biggest issue here. Whatever FAANG wants to decide is the “truth du jour” is set as an unassailable position. To even discuss (and I’m sure there’s both reasonable and unreasonable views here) in a manner that violates the Sacred Truth (du jour) is labeled as dangerous.
Considering half of the links in this article are linked to things like Yahoo News, I'll take it with a healthy dose of skepticism. Beyond that, sure things are bad but I'll point out that every single generation I've ever talked to has thought "theirs would be the last".
Maybe civilization will burn out. Maybe not. In the end, we're all going to die whether it's individually or corporately. Make use of your time to the best of your ability. Love the people are you well—especially those who are hardest to love. If no one cries at your funeral, you have only yourself to blame.
I wonder how many people like this (myself included) would fall under the “Type 8” in the enneagram system. (I view it as a personality system, not a spiritual system)
I find that my fear of losing control makes it very easy to do cold-turkey quitting. Something that seems harder for most other folks. It sounds like the author may resonate with that idea. It’s the main reason I quit things as well.
One of those online folks here. I tell people this all the time. College was largely a huge waste of my time. It got me interested in CS which has become my career, but I probably would’ve stumbled into it anyway. If you can manage to do it without debt, hell yeah—do it. Otherwise it’s just not worth the financial burden unless you’re doing something that only college people do like operating on brains or practicing law.
Otherwise there’s much better paths with less wasted time and less debt.
To be honest though I’m not sure college really changes the trajectory of people’s lives most of the time. If you get into a ton of debt, you’ll probably be alright in general. If you take the shortcut of not going to college, you’ll also probably be alright.
