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.)
@jackwilliambell Revised opinion: this main character is an ass, and so is the author.
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“I know the Empire is male-centric, but do you have to always say ‘guy’ for everything?”
“When females start pulling their own weight instead of charming men into doing stuff for them, perhaps I will.”
She growled. “Hurtful but true. I am pulling my own weight?”
@jackwilliambell I'll probably read more. At least I don't get annoyed when I have to tear my attention away from it. (Parental hazard)
Isekai is a decent comparison point. The writing is practiced enough from the author's previous (brace yourself) 94 self-published sci-fi novels that it's not poorly done, it's just... naive?
One of these days, when I have more time, I'll reread The Lost Fleet. I'd love to read another series like that. Was kind of hoping this would be that. It isn't.
Rob Isaac