System s/w dev (3D gfx) at NVIDIA, father/programmer/nerd, in Ottawa, Canada. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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La Vie en Rose
The Pink Airplane
I've told that one before, right?
The industry purpose of people like Jack Dorsey is to serve as a sort of ignorance canary, providing worked examples of the dumbest possible approach that could still work. He fails, but then the worst people in the world calibrate their businesses for Dorsey-minus-10% and are confident of success.
He’s not getting interviews because he’s succeeding. He’s in the news because he’s at the extreme bleeding edge of dumb shit, and right or wrong, extreme bleeding edge gets the clicks.
My most murderously unpopular industry opinion is that we do not understand the roles of fools and jesters like Dorsey and Musk, and consequently we do not understand why the market seems to value them so irrationally highly. It leaves us nerds out of step.
(hat tip to @skinnylatte whose recent posts have helped me to understand this much more clearly.)
In Lower House elections, Japanese voters vote for both candidates & a party, which gets proportional seats that it fills from a roster filed pre-election. The LDP won the proportional vote so hard that it ran out of candidates and had to forfeit 13 seats.
Finished The Roottrees Are Dead yesterday and started into Roottreemania. Lots of fun. The shorthand of providing the outline of the family tree and their relationships and then making you fill in the blanks doesn't fit perfectly with the narrative of the expansion, but it's still fun, which is what counts.
(I like that you get some more puzzles in the minigame too.)
Rob Isaac
Charlie Stross
Unseen Japan
Viss