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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’m saying that many jobs require frequent travel. Software engineers will need to attend meetings in other offices, salespeople will be out with potential customers, customer success staff will embed in other offices, people at all levels and in all functions will need to travel. CEOs need to travel too; if you think the CEO of Amazon or similar sized businesses can do their job from a small office, I would wager you haven’t been very close to the demands of C-level in a business that size.

    What makes you think I’m defending Amazon’s CEO to somehow protect my own future? I’m arguing that many jobs require travel, and that’s also the case for any CEO.

    I personally work in a fully remote business that has never been anything but fully remote. I’ve made my bed and I’m laying in it very well thank you.


  • I’ve been fully remote since COVID and have successfully argued for my team staying fully remote. I don’t for a second buy that a team works better in person, provided you make the right changes to your culture to ensure remote works.

    I’m a fan of remote.

    But come on, thats false equivalence and you know it. Of course a CEO isn’t in his office 5 days a week; mostly likely he is travelling 3 weeks out of 4 and the last week he is actually in his nearest office. You would expect a CEO to move around their business. If they sat in an office every day they wouldn’t be doing their job.

    Look at the job description and then decide if a role can be non-office-based.


  • The difference is that there is SOME accountability in the West and we can, to an extent, influence who leads us, especially in Europe.

    So if flagrant misuse does appear, there’s a much higher risk of it being discovered and of heads rolling in the west.

    Think of the number of exposed scandals in the West and compare that to China.

    And I’m not throwing shit China’s way and thinking the West infallible. I’ve been to China plenty and worked with awesome Chinese people plenty. There’s a lot to love in China.

    But let’s not get lost in whataboutisms. Where would you rather raise your children?!







  • I pay about £2.50 for 700+ GB storage, with about 2-10 GB of ingress every month. Storage alone is only £1.40. That’s using OVH’s “Cloud Archive” product; they also have a product called Cold Storage which is a smidge cheaper but doesn’t offer updating of existing data, so according to my projections based on the class of data I am archiving it wouldn’t be cheaper in the long term.




  • I’ve used backblaze for years and regularly run recovery exercises. Never had a problem.

    However, to avoid any fears, I store remote backups in two locations (the other one being OVH, a large French cloud provider).

    My data retention regime:

    • Mirrored disks in local NAS.
    • Continually (every night) copy to Backblaze(US) and OVH (DE).
    • Once/year, copy all local NAS data to offline disks (ie disks that are plugged into a tray only during the copy) to avoid a file locking/encryption infection that could spread to the online files.



  • The challenge is, in a real org of some size, you’ll suddenly get marketing or customer success asking you for commitments that are very far out, because ad slots have to be booked or a very large customer renewal is coming up.

    And some of the normal coping mechanism (beta-branch that spins off stable feature to the general release branch) don’t work for all those requests.

    Try as you might, you are going to get far off deadlines that you have to work towards. Not for everything but for more than you’d like.