Implementing that feedback depends on how well-designed your UI code is, and focusing on good component design instead of wireframe/visual designs is time well spent. A productâs capacity to implement UI customer feedback is more important than a productâs initial UI, yet we tend to focus far too much on the latter with heavy design up front. Small... See more
If youâve read this far, then Iâll tell you the honest truth: we donât actually know what weâre doing. Artificial intelligence is a vast and complex topic, and Iâm very skeptical of anyone that claims theyâve got it all figured out. Indeed, Faraday felt the same way about electricityâhe wasnât even sure it was going to be of any import:
OK fine, but arenât calls to ban Nazis a slippery slope? If Substack caves in here, there will be no end to what people like you call for them to remove.
The slippery-slope argument here is based on the fantasy that if you simply draw the right line, you will never have to revisit it. The fact is that we are constantly renegotiating the boundaries... See more
I don't have any data to back this up, but I suspect that most companies don't need more than 20 developers, with some needing 20 to 50 developers, and only a handful needing between 50 and 100 developers. Once you cross the 100 developer mark, I think you need to start thinking about whether the scope of your product(s) isn't getting out of hand... See more
From 2012, to 2016, to 2020, google bled an incredible amount of key talent
I think that was kinda known in the valley, but not sure any media really covered it
Honestly a lot of the blame goes to Larry Page for turning the company toward G+, pushing top people toward Gundotra, the product failing quite badly, and Larry stepping back as CEO
Part of Google's perceived aura (IMHO) when they started was that they seemed to be like the nebulous group of pre-Web Internet-savvy techies. Which were a smart group, tending towards altruistic and egalitarian, and wanting to bring Internet goodness to people, and onboard people into Internet culture. What seemed like one sign of this was times... See more