> “I’m not worried so much about my portfolio companies not working as hard as the Chinese companies,” said Mr. Chan, now a partner at Felicis Ventures. “I’ll worry when they’re less creative and less efficient.”
This seems to be a hollow fear. Working that much seems like it would do more harm than good.
Interesting article. I feel like I had a problem with gaming, but I didn't necessarily have an addiction. When I got an Xbox 360 (and by extension Xbox live), I was able to hangout with my friends without going to their house. Even when they weren't playing, it was because I made friends and connections to people all over. Towards the end of my Xbox Live days, I mostly played without my "IRL" friends.
Now, I rarely game alone, but I play games with my friends in person (Fortnite, Mario Party, Mario Kart, Smash etc.). I think for me, gaming was a substitute for social interaction. Most of my interaction is in person now, so gaming has fallen by the wayside.
I know. I wish they had been able to go legit. As someone who went to UF (for CS) soon after they closed, I missed having a company like that in the area.
I have a Fitbit Versa that reminds me to walk 250 steps every hour. So, I usually take at work when it sends me a reminder so I can step away from the computer and relax. I've noticed that work has become more enjoyable, and I've been more successful.
If only my workplace used Azure for some stuff. We're moving to serverless architecture for a lot of our apps, but it's all on AWS so no F# :(. The other .NET guy at my company (wpf) and I have been singing the praises of Azure and using .NET core for future developments. I think that they'll eventually throw us a bone since they don't want to be dependent on a single cloud provider.
However, I have messed around with data manipulation in F# for sports betting, and it's been exceptionally pleasant.
Exactly. We're doing the same thing with my C# project at work. It's becoming more "functional" as we refactor and fix bugs. The project has been much easier to work with.
I don't know about general F# adoption, but I've used it for personal projects and I quite like it. I'm trying to convince work to let us use it in production.