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yeah, surely if 60 Minutes or someone does a large scale report on this it would cave a16z into taking care of the mess they helped cause


Every project has a role of Release Manager. Some teams are small enough that this role is filled by a team lead, project manager, architect, etc. some teams rotate this role to spread the pain and knowledge. Large teams have a defined employed role with title of Release Manager that could even include a team (think shipping large DoD contractual projects)

There’s whole books on this subject. I think this blogpost does a great job of summarizing the goals for large tech company shipping — well written — nicely done


Thank you indeed! While I have fond memories of working holiday pager support early in my career, especially before marriage and kids to cover for those with families, I’m very grateful for those able to cover for all of us now! Cheers to you all


The side project of a comp sci degree worked out pretty well TBH


GoldenEye on Nintendo 64 was peak “play video games with a group of friends”. Now, it seems like every game is single player per console. So if my son has buddies over, they all haul their own Xbox’s and monitors (or scrounge my old ones from the basement closet). It’s considerably more difficult. Even though the TV screens now are so much larger! Craziness. I solidly agree.


For me playing at home with a group of friends peaked with Halo on Xbox and Smash on GameCube. Halo let you get 8 friends together on 2 tvs and 2 Xboxes with just an Ethernet cable, you could double those numbers with with a switch.

Games still loaded relatively fast, and you didn’t have to spend hours waiting for downloads.


There's something that sitting side-by-side with your teammate or opponent that modern online gaming completely misses. It's way more fun, and way more social.


Echo makes for a simple family “phone” for kids before they’re old enough for their own mobile.

I also created a free skill for kids to hear the daily school lunch menu. Such a morning time saver! https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu

But yeah it’s still mostly a hardware solution looking for a problem


That depends on where you live. In the Midwest, most (if not all) parochial private schools pay teachers substantially less than the public schools pay teachers. And it isn’t like the public school teachers are making enough either. But to say private school teachers get paid well is very incorrect for the large midwestern cities


Great opinion piece. Much agree. My wife works as a middle and high school substitute teacher across 6 districts in a large metro. All schools need subs so badly. But only 1 even raised their sub pay rate this year. Some try to offer higher rates for working more days in their district. But when one district pays $25 more a day than the others, they still don’t increase it. Teachers deserve more money. Also boggles my mind that the teachers unions are supposedly so powerful in this country, but if so then why are they paid so poorly?


Agreed. I love my 12 Mini, and my SE's before that. I'm also anti-case so the phone looks extra small compared to most. Fun to have someone take our photo with the phone, cause they always ask how ancient it is and are shocked to hear it is newer than the phone they have! Non-existent marketing doesn't help


Reminds me of how we bought a Chromebook in 2016, and specifically got a version that was "planned" to be allowed to run Android apps (which was a new thing at the time).

Fast forward to 2022, and the ASUS C201 support for Android is still "planned" and unsupported. https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...

Feels like a big con just to get people to buy chromebooks in 2016 at this point.

Also, a reminder to not trust Google if they "plan" something like the upcoming Chrome "Lacros" decoupling


my acer chromebook from 2015 got support.

i dont think the fault is entirely with google here, asus shouldn't have marketed it as that, considering your chromebook had an arm processor - great for battery life, but google really only implemented the docker/shell and android support for intel cpus.

really unfortunate though


Ironically, most Android apps are built for arm processors.


I think the Chromebooks Android support is more like the virtual devices that Android studio creates then actual native installs.

It's been quiet long since I've last I checked it out, but at least at that time the locale was different inside the android apps vs chromeos (including keyboard layout etc) and there was a separate settings app like on any Android devices with dummy values in hardware etc.

It was funny because it let me install Firefox on the Chromebook but it felt more like gimmick then an actually useful feature as a lot of apps just outright didn't work


Most android apps are java. They should be built for jvms. The fact that we have java jars that fail because of hardware architecture invalidates java as an idea to me.


I don't think Android uses a JVM. Android apps are AOT compiled from DEX bytecode.


I have very little faith in their big picture.


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