It's akin to "single payer" in the health insurance context. If you're not already well-versed in the subject, you probably won't know what it means, because it's focusing on the process rather than the intended result.
If you can make a virtual machine equivalent to your computer: make one, get a list of all the files (and dump the registry on windows), then install and uninstall zoom and repeat. Then just inspect whatever the diff is.
> The obvious one is one senior developer who writes a bunch of trash code to get stuff done in a hurry. Later is asked to maintain it...
There's some survivorship bias at play in this; it disregards all the startups that never reached the "later" point because they were too busy polishing the code.
Someone should publish a series on such startups. Intuitively it seems there might be some. But I haven’t seen any articles naming names, describing details.
1) One SF wifi mgmt. software startup had a 50,000 LOC product with 250,000 lines of test code.
They seemed content, but obviously a lot of resources went into tests.
2) Many late startups in SF spent a lot of time and effort on perfecting CI/CD software (multiple years), or struggling with k8s in the early days (1 year to finish one service.)
3) Often post-founder programmers these days have a lot of process to overcome before shipping. I know one startup that hired dozens of programmers, but the founder (alone) still writes most of the code.
We can debate whether struggling with k8s and CI/CD would fit in the category. These are tooling not product but all part of the use of engineering resources. See the “choose boring technology” posts/articles.
> If everyone sits at home doing nothing, you bet inflation will happen
Why would people sitting at home doing nothing be detrimental to growth? Growth doesn't necessarily require masses of people to do more work; it can be achieved through productivity gains, e.g. improvements in tooling, and research + development.
I've been getting playback glitches in Logic* with a 2020 MPB 16" running (as shipped) with Catalina.
It seems to only happen when using the built-in speakers. I never hear glitches using headphones (which is what I have as the default audio interface for Logic).
So I just use headphones all the time, but it's an incredibly negative experience to pop open one of your projects on your new laptop and hear this rhythmic popping. If it had also glitched in the headphones I might literally have thrown the laptop out the window.
* This isn't my post, but it's exactly the glitch I get in the built-in speakers: https://imgur.com/a/YPCmyiV
