In the lounge at Heathrow sitting next to two movie producers and they’ve discussing a new movie one of them is making
“A band of mecnaries take a wealthy family hostage without realising who the father is, who’ll stop at nothing to get them back… Santa Claus”
is this the prelude to a terribly predictable romcom where, joined by naught but a surname and an email we fall in love before splitting up bitterly over the configuration of mx records?
less "you've got mail" and more "it took you 10 fucking years to respond to that mail?!"
spent the last 10 years sending increasingly desperate emails to the person that owns https://t.co/dXcmzzWmMw trying to buy it from them. not once got a response lmao
one of my life’s great disappointments is not being able to come up with a sufficiently good tweet based on the idea of “a telltale blart” a goth horror sequel to paul blart mall cop
so given the stadia news today, i think i was broadly wrong about stadia and it's importance to google, but i think i was on the money in the thread about why they did it and why it failed
Interesting article, but I see a lot of the Stadia commentary missing something important: Stadia is an *advertising infrastructure* product for Google (like Chrome or Android) they don't think of it's success in the way many people assume they do (thread)
“i could murder a brew” but you’re in Canary Wharf:
✅ little science beakers
✅ loose leaf “artisanal” tea
✅ a piece of dry ice in the strainer to make it smoke for literally no reason whatsoever
✅ £9.50 lmao
globally normalising compensation is like putting on the hiring infinity gauntlet. massively juicing your ability to hire great people quickly is worth orders of magnitude more than the extra few weeks of runway
paying global remote engineers doing the same job differently based on local salary levels is a sign you see technology primarily as a cost centre and not a value creator, which is indicative of a bad culture and people should be wary of working for you send tweet
i mean, i get it, capitalism is gonna capitalism and we all get our solid gold toilets by exploiting the labour of the proletariat, but my argument is that it's not even the best Way To Do Capitalism™