> Of concern with the term “folks,” for example, is that its translation in some languages is gendered, such as “la gente” in Spanish, which is gendered feminine (see also, phallogocentrism, Derrdiean, and deconstruction).
You may be joking, but this is already how my team has been operating for the past 6 months. Theoretically it sounds great, because you can scale up or down your engineering needs just like you scale anything on the cloud. Have 100 Github issues to fix this week? Scale up to 20 freelance devs for a week and get it done.
Practically, it doesn't work. We're going to go back to hiring full-time engineers again.
> I love being able to switch between my iPhone and my Mac on my AirPods.
Is there some secret feature of Airpods that I don’t know about? I use Airpods everyday, but I still need to go to Settings > Bluetooth > Connect every time to change devices.
I live in downtown SF: streets are filthy, homeless situation is worse than ever before, everything that I would want to do outside is closed, there’s no reason to live “close to work” anymore, I only go outside for groceries and laundry. I’m moving to LA in 3 weeks.
I’ve heard this complaint before (and it’s usually from junior engineers who don’t have much experience).
Here’s my take: I worked on a project that arguably had the worst code I’ve ever worked on but still made $100 million dollars in annual revenue. And then I worked on an app with terrible UX that became a billion dollar company. In both cases we had terrible reviews and a huge customer support team to process thousands of complaints, but it worked for the majority of the millions of users.
And then I realized that terrible design and bugs don’t really matter if you have true product market fit. And vice versa you can have the best design and flawless error logs but still fail if you’re not creating something that people want, especially if it takes you extra time and resources to create that “perfect product” while your competitors bypass you with a shittier product, but with faster iterations.
(Spoiler alert: it's not)