revenue is probably the better indicator of whether revenue is growing or not

These companies don't disclose revenue.

Interesting that you highlight classics, is the implication that it's more ... productive for your personal development to read classics than trashy thrillers?

As someone who spent four years reading 'the' Classics at uni, I doubt it's very true

you comment wouldn't read quite so well if you swapped classics for posting cat tiktoks and hanging out with strangers you bump into in the street. But what makes that inferior?

> Interesting that you highlight classics, is the implication that it's more ... productive for your personal development to read classics than trashy thrillers?

No. You can play Candy Crush for all I care if that's what gets you more enjoyment. The classic were just what were on my mind when I wrote that comment.

not every profession has excess, not sure I can get on board with the idea that candy crush is of equal value to any job. money is just a measure of goods and services.

Yes, it is more productive. Becoming more familiar with the English language and skillfully written prose is good. The notion that modern prose is of lesser quality is widespread.

This comment reads as snarky post-modernism.

I think you missed my point. But you think the bounds of every field of research and technology has expanded, except language?

To learn how to read and write well, then you would do just as well, if not better, to read modern authors at the top of their fields. I wouldn't exclude thrillers. Reading Chaucer in old English, to stretch the point to breaking, is not going to give you any kind of edge. Maybe it will teach you a bit of French, but again, you are better off reading modern French literature for that.

I suspect you were not forced to read the classics as I was. Much of it is stuffed with overly flowery prose and immature ideas. It's mostly tradition that keeps them alive.

There is much personal satisfaction in literature, but I would place it much closer to leisure than work.

Cloud is so cheap and quick. I use local too but my api bill is like 3 quid a month. You would have to be very cheap or have compliance needs to tolerate the error gap

i researched and experimented with edibles after beign diagnosed with CVD.

i don't beleive edibles are any safer

Yeah this was a big one for me, weed has lots of little knock on impact into other CV risk factors

this is true of most risk factors though, diet, excercise, relationships, work , all suffer under stress. it's the job of medical reseach to sift this stuff as best they can.

shocked that an engineer would not mention user numbers or revenue growth in their analysis

My anecdote is there was a single wave of cuts and a bit of a shuffle, but for most part it's business as normal now

It doesn’t sound like the author has a real business?

This is a common problem with devs - they don’t understand how code fits into a business model, and generally massively underestimate non technical elements such as focus and sales

I love how everyone is repeating conjoined triangles of success shit like it’s “a wake up call”, now.

Mike Judge is a fucking genius. But every person who has every tried knows that selling your tech prototype can be hard.

I was a heavy quest user but I think it ruined my eyes a bit and I needed glasses after having 20 20. Could be standard aging but the correlation was very strong

You need glasses to see far-away stuff now?

Doing close work with your eyes can cause your ciliary muscles (they flex your lenses to focus) to be overworked. They seize up, and lose the ability to relax to their former length. When your lens can't relax, you can no longer focus to infinity.

"Nearpoint stress" is the term I believe