Please don’t force me to attend your concert by performing in the subway car. I don’t want to be your captive audience. Even more so for people who don’t use headphones.

I don't know what portion of users we are though, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one!

A galaxy has enough resources to be self-reliant, there’s no need for a species to escape one that is getting too far away from another one.

Cultivating food the 'old fashioned way' is incredibly labor intensive. We now have machines that allow us to cultivate far more food with far less labor.

For example, in 1900 corn took 38 hours/acre to plant/cultivate/harvest. In 2000 it took about an hour. The yeild per acre has also improved 3x-5x in that span, so the time per bushel has decreased to less than 1% of what it once was.

Of course the person spending 100+x the effort to grow corn will not be economically competitive - why would we want anything different?

https://www.lhf.org/learning-fields/crops/corn/

It will confidently explain version A is broken because it isn't version B, and version B is broken because it isn't version A. There's no "awareness" that this is cycle is happening and it could go on indefinitely.

Is it fair to charge people with different sized families different prices (per unit) for toilet paper?

vs.

Is it fair to charge people different prices (per unit) for different sized packages of toilet paper?

The former makes it seem nefarious but the latter is commonly accepted as fair. Same for airline tickets - if there's a discount for buying in bulk that's just as fair as a discount for buying toilet paper in bulk.

Obviously this doesn’t increase work but companies get to say they are “agile” and the management team gets to keep doing all the counterproductive management they were doing before. No hard conversations about changing how management operates or unpredictable things like giving engineers autonomy.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/486809/jewish...

It only roughly approximates though because the first few groups are usually not outside-in (eg. first class, premium/rewards customers, veterans, families with small children).

For example maybe the feature flag just shows/hides a new button on the UI. The rest of the code like the new backend endpoint and the new database column are "live" (not behind any flags) and just invisible to a regular user since they will never hit that code without the button.

As far as "remembering" to clean up the feature flag, teams I've been on have added a ticket for cleaning up the feature flag(s) as part of the project, so this work doesn't get lost in the shuffle. (And also to make visible to Product and other teams that there is some work there to clean up)

To travel from NYC to Chicago on Aug. 21st:

Flight: $124 nonstop (2hr 40 min) or $85 with layover (7 hours)

Greyhound (bus): $170 (23.5 hours)

Amtrak: $144 (19.5 hours)

If you value your time and/or your money the flights usually win

It gives the insurance company a way to identify a lower risk group of drivers so they can charge that group lower prices.

Apple giving away Safari for free at a time when all major web browsers are free is different. Sure, Apple might benefit from being the default but Spotify and Pandora, which compete with Apple Music, are both still in Apple's app store.

When I suggested using a more appropriate mix of drop-downs, checkboxes and radio buttons they readily accepted.

It turns out they thought radio buttons would be easier for me to implement. They aren’t stupid people, they just don’t have any idea of how things work outside their domain.