And by “find”, they mean that Indonesian phone bank people are calling every pharmacy near you until they find one who has the drug you’re looking for.

I’m a 404 Media subscriber, but I was a bit disappointed at the misleading nature of that headline.

Thin steel frame, no air bags, no crumple zones.

Check out the crash tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roLcNwRi1Sk&t=40s

12 year SDE + 12 year TPM vet here.

Do everything you can to help your software engineers (or whoever is doing the work) have as much focus time as they need. Buffer your meetings and questions to one chunk of time per day. Encourage them to block-out and protect their focus time. And encourage the team to keep office hours so they can still make themselves available to others, but in a controlled way.

Be transparent with the business’s goals and frustrations you are facing. There’s an attitude (often among inexperienced devs) that PMs are good for nothing; just an interface to the rest of the business, and a source of where tasks come from. And some certainly are that, but a good PM is worth their weight in gold.

Find a good mentor, and start thinking about your next career step now.

I’m genuinely disappointed that Asbestos Cafe is basically forbidden now. That’d be a solid name for a hardcore alcoholic vegan bar.

I worked for Akamai for 7 years.

This is why, if your CDN infra is core to the operation of your business, you make your systems accommodate multi-CDN integration. Cutting one CDN off shouldn’t be significantly difficult, and it comes in handy during contract negotiations. All the major players work this way.

That cable management is horrendous. Pull them out.

Skonx, I choose you!

No wonder I can’t find a TPM job anywhere. The senior devs are doing all my work.

There was that one DuckTales episode about it….

Pike Place Market flower merchants work that game 7 days a week.

Next up: racing horse names:

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/best-racehorse-names-be7b8ad6b49a42df

Until the day of release arrives and you launch the game for the first time and discover the “Oops! All Escort Missions!” title card.

Television programming? It’s a stretch, one might say a broad-casting of the term.

American audiences are no longer the sole demographic for Hollywood. The audience is global, and high budget films are planned with that in mind. The lowest common denominator is the result.

During his Academy Award speech, Cord Jefferson (who won for the American Fiction screenplay) argued for more low-budget films at the cost of a single big-budget mess. More movies means more types of stories, allowing more niches to be filled. It also creates more industry jobs, and deepens the bench with talent development.

The best way to come up with good ideas is to figure out how to have a lot of ideas in the first place.

The Production Design category had me scratching my head about why Barbie didn’t take it until I remembered the Mattel headquarters. That was one part that felt under-thought. Every square inch of Poor Things was a feast for the eyes.

The real stinker award was Best Animated Short going to a wish.com Christmas Truce story based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono songs about how war sucks. All of the other nominees were better films.

Archive.org is here to save just a thimble-full of the magic:

https://archive.org/details/robotunicornattack_flash

When you’re negotiating on behalf of environmental sustainability concerns, who would you rather be sitting on the other side of the negotiating table?

😄👋

Futurama is currently in the middle of its 8th season.

Family Guy is in the middle of its 22nd season.

Firefly had a geek royalty showrunner who turned out to be a real creep.

Any other examples?

At this point, the executive leadership needs to see the film destroyed purely to save face.

It’s just the kind of petty move I’d expect from WBD’s current leadership.