Sean Cook

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@JulieChangRE constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/a… can’t do that I’m afraid

Can CA charge other states tariffs and I dunno make our groceries cheaper I’m just saying we do grow a lot of food here so ya know

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Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to free you up to think harder about the data structures to use, not leave things comically inefficient. This context is always skipped when it’s uttered. Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature. If you are in engineering, here is a fantastic anecdote. I refer to this account often. It’s a bit subtile, but the implications are massive- It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones. SQLite is everywhere today because of this work. sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-fa… We need the engineers in all companies fight for this more. Product leads are not the right owners of the end performance of the software. This needs to be encoded in the professional pride of the software engineering discipline. Leaders in companies need to encourage it and hold engineering accountable. It’s simply not ok to fritter away the performance of the products for random reasons. Every user of your products cares exactly as much about latency as engineers do when typing in their terminal. They just don’t have the words to describe what they don’t like about the experience and neither should they.

@Austen 5 million

Alright a quiz: Without googling it, reply to this tweet with the number of Americans you think have a net worth of $10 million or more.

hard to beat Boltzmann’s tombstone which is just his glowering bust and the formula for entropy

Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost. But the red midst of vindictiveness is blinding Apple’s view of history, and making them repeat the mistakes it took Microsoft two decades to undo. It’s the ultimate monopoly irony too. Apple owes its entire modern existence to the fact that the DOJ was breathing down Microsoft’s neck in the late 90s. This legal threat made Microsoft desperate to prop up a semi-credible alternative to their Windows and Office monopolies, and Apple fit the bill perfectly. A basket case of a company, with an irrelevant, shrinking marketshare, in dire need of a lifeline. So in 1997, Microsoft invested $150m into Apple, and promised to bring Office and Internet Explorer to the Mac. Back then, these were crucial monopolies without which any platform would struggle. This saved Apple, but it didn’t save Microsoft. In Redmond, they were still bent on total domination. At the height of its monopoly power over the internet, Microsoft had an incredible 94% marketshare. It used this marketshare to seriously slow down the evolution of the internet, as it continued to perceive it as a threat to the Windows and Office cash cows. And it worked. They really did slow down the evolution of the internet, and even disbanded the IE team, once total domination was assured. But Microsoft’s brutish tactics also managed to turn an entire generation of developers against them. And the bill for that didn’t come due until Windows Phone. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to lift a finger to help Microsoft gain a foothold in mobile. The wounds from the late 90s and early 2000s were still fresh in many developers minds. So many cheered as Apple went from underdog, favored by developers for their embrace of Unix roots in their operating system, to the dominant player on a new platform. Microsoft has had to work hard to undo that poisoned relationship ever since, and under Satya Nadella, seems to have broadly succeeded in that mission. Microsoft is no longer developer’s enemy #1, Apple is.  Now that’s not a universal statement, just like it wasn’t for Microsoft. There are hardcore Apple stans who will defend every atrocious monopoly abuse they commit, just like there were hardcore Microsoft stans doing the same in 2000. But the vibe has swapped. I don’t know of many developers brewing a burning hatred for Microsoft these days, but I know plenty of developers who feel like that about Apple. Apple would be wise to study the long arc of Microsoft’s history. Learn that you can win the battle, say, against Epic, and end up losing the war for the hearts and minds of developers. And that while the price for that loss lags beyond the current platform, it’ll eventually come due, and they’ll rue the day they chose this wretched path.

The most important message I can give to college students: NOBODY WANTS TO HIRE YOU You don't have any skills. You will require significant investment before you add value. You can't lead other people and you are a poor delegator. College has done virtually nothing to turn you into an asset to a company. So what now? Realize one thing: Your job is to make a company more profit than they pay you. It is up to you to build skills that can create profit for a company. Easy ones: - Become a master of Microsoft Excel. - Learn how to format an email and "reply-all" when necessary. - Be a short and succinct communicator. - Be eager to learn and demand more work when you're finished with what you're working on. Harder ones: - Start a business and learn how to manage / lead other people. -Learn to solve problems. -Practice making decisions and get better at it. Take it upon yourself to learn these things or just get in line for mediocrity.