There is also the added stress of commuting, which its fair to assume has negative impacts on heart, cognitive, etc. health.

Stress, risk, and stress compounding risk. So many people speed recklessly after having been stuck in traffic.

I would, however, not strongly link WFH to college and RTO to non-college. Many companies (as well as governments) have implemented RTO. The key outlier for WFH seems to be contracts and/or good negotiation skills.

> sits for hours playing a video game

> if you are not moving, you are dead.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but there is some irony here.

Dying in your chair so your game character can live!

The metaphor still works, it's just the timeline changes.

Rats don't sit down to play.

Microsoft's past behavior _may_ explain *why* there is a lack of investment in Github Actions; so yes, TheFeelz are relevant.

Then I agree with this. But still feel their size is irrelevant.

Their size is relevant in so far as it allows them to make really any investment they want to in GHA without it causing a cash flow problem.

They manage a lot of old, big mainframes for banks. At least that is one thing I know of.

> It's hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior

> There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Huh.

The second quote is not from the posted letter. It was a quote attributed to Buffett by a New York Times column in 2006.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26ever...

I'm aware of that. That does not make the second quote any less relevant.

Buffett has long been a critic of things over favouring the rich. He argued he should pay more tax https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/oct/31/usnews and almost got a law passed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffett_Rule

Is this satire?

I worked for an energy tech startup that did consulting for big utility companies. It absolutely does.

> dependency inclusion _should not_ be a main criterion for evaluating how good a build system is

That's just like, your opinion, man.

> That's just like, your opinion, man.

I would love to know how many younger readers recognize this classic movie reference.

i mean, unless you have some absolute divine truths, that's kind of the best i have :shrug

There are no truths but your opinion in this case runs counter of what 35 years developing software have taught me.

Obviously, I may be an outlier. Some crank who's just smitten by the proposal of spending his time writing code instead of trying to get a dependency (and its sub-dependencies and their sub-dependencies) to build at all (e.g. C/C++) or to have the right version that works with ALL the code that depends on it (e.g. Python).

I.e. I use cargo foremost (by a large margin) for that reason.

in my original comment i specifically mentioned that C (and C++) situation is also too extreme and not optimal...

How are you quantifying that 10% ?

We are talking about Netflix. You know, the 'N' in FAANG/MAANG or whatever.

As a non-FAANGer Netflix has always intrigued me because of this. While Google, Facebook and others seem to have bogged themselves down in administrative mess, Netflix still seems agile. From the outside at least.

(also worth noting this post seems to be discussing an event that occurred many years ago, circa 2011, so might not be a reflection of where they are today)

Netflix is a much smaller enterprise. It got included because it was high growth at the time, not because it was destined to become a trillion dollar company.

Netflix isn’t trying to be a search engine, hardware manufacturer, consumer cloud provider (email, OneDrive, etc), cloud infrastructure provider, and an ad company at the same time. Or an Online Walmart who does all the rest and more.