> Where WFH falls short is building alignment on larger initiatives, and that's what we're seeing.
Where are we seeing this? I'm a manager at a mostly WFH company and we don't fall short on this.
Big thing is this was never an office based company, WFH is in the DNA from the co-founders and while we regroup occasionally, remoteness has not affected our ability to grow and build meaningful things. One could argue that we might do better if we were an office based company but as far as I know there's no data out there showing that this would be the case.
Eons ago now (circa 2009/2010 I think), when working on Pornhub we switched from memcached to Redis for a few reasons:
- memcache had little to no observability, it made debugging cache issues a nightmare. Redis on the other hand is a dream to work with on that front, from the cli that is well thought out to the fact you can copy the db file to your machine and go at it, it's just a much better developer experience.
- Data structures, Redis' lists, hashes and sets meant we could represent a lot of a stuff as is in cache with no need for costly serializing. It also meant the data layer code was simpler than the memcached equivalent.
- Built in pub/sub, we used it for tons of stuff and the fact it came built in was big as prior to that we had to provision specific stacks to get the same functionality (and it wasn't has nice to use.
memcache has its use but for the little advantages it gave (perf wise) Redis just buried it in developer experience.
The author is French, the usage of quitted is more likely a mistake outright. As for the quoted version it's explained next to it, he's quitting professionally but likely will continue as a hobby, in French you'd use quotes to highlight the fact it's not to be taken literally.
If they have data, share it, in the absence of said data we can only assume it's poppycock. Exec teams do that all the time, work on feel, why should we believe it's any different here?
> The CEO of Amazon doesn't make a decision of this magnitude based on a whim. They'll have mountains of productivity data on remote work by now and it even says so in the post.
If it says so it must be true. There's no data in that post, just platitudes management like to use about collaboration and creativity that is absolute BS.
Shame I left the company I was at during the pandemic because I could dig the data but there was a very clear 20% sustained benefit in terms of productivity when WFH: faster to close tickets, bigger releases, less bugs. Did culture suffer? Yes. Did it matter, no, because culture is some vague notion only HR and senior management cares about, or at least pretends to.
They still mandated RTO in the end, which cost them half of their more senior engineers, positions they still have not managed to fill, what a surprise when you want to force people through unproductive hoops.
I now work in a remote first company and in 16 years of career it's the most productive team I've been part of, shit gets done at all levels more so than in any other company I've been part of.
I'm not related to IronSource but this is some serious mischaracterisation of them...
They made an SDK to create installers for Windows that was used by 3rd parties with nefarious means. Said SDK/toolkit has been discontinued for years as well.
Don't think alternative words quite convey the same meaning/weight.
Something like pénible for example doesn't feel quite equal, more something I'd use to describe someone. Bassinant would not quite feel as heavy as well.
Barber/barbe may be.
Overall chiant/faire chier is just much more common and conveys the meaning quite well and accurately when it comes to work.
Having worked on video delivery, first play is not paid much attention. In most VPAID supported ads -one of the standards for video ad delivery- you have events fired at set intervals which are what is actually looked at when evaluating a placement value.
A placement that has high first play rate but a terrible 5sec event firing will just be worth nothing. In a programmatic world it means you'll get little to no bids for it or a default placement with payment in the fraction of cents per thousands.
Reading stuff like that makes me happy I've left web development behind me, and things like that were a big factor, the inflation in complexity has been insane over the last decade and is absolutely not justified.
CV padding developers, big names shilling for their stack, companies pushing their tech, ... The industry is a mess and it's very hard to find a job that doesn't involve dealing with it.