Reminds me of LingQ. Though, Lingq require importing raw text.

yeah I used LingQ in the past. It's a great tool and was part of my inspiration for this. Realized I needed a tool that worked for physical texts though, so I built Readly.

Interesting article. I find it interesting that they recommended a book about acting to their employees. The book is called "Impro".

It's not about well-rehearsed acting to bluff clients (like conventional management consultants).

Impro is about improvisation: having a deep reservoir of experiences and reference points, but no pre-planned templates; empathizing with the client's situation; thinking fast; being open-minded and creative; challenging received wisdom; pulling disparate ideas together; assembling a synthesis; embodying a story; imagining a solution; presenting difficult concepts smoothly; having conviction in your ideas; high risk tolerance; be convincing; be committed to doing what you say and implement what you imagine; create a technical solution, an operational scenario, a bottom-up deployment plan, and a path to win strategic acceptance based on results.

In short: Founder sales.

(I strongly suggested to every employee to take some into improv classes for the same reason. I didn’t want them to be better actors. I wanted them to be better listeners, which is what improv is really about)

Is it wrong to say that they are developing sociopaths in this fashion? Anyone ever read the book to say how it is applicable? If you were a client how would you feel about knowing that your interactions with your consultant were all an act?

“Being a successful FDE required an unusual sensitivity to social context – what you really had to do was partner with your corporate (or government) counterparts at the highest level and gain their trust, which often required playing political games.”

It’s very wrong. Improv requires empathy and awareness of the person you are in a scene with.

The dark triad personality traits are defined by an explicit lack of empathy and ability to connect with other people

Yes, it’s wrong, because it isn’t an act. Improv isn’t about being fake or acting/lying.

You can use whatever editor you like .. some weirdos even use vim.

Maybe, but the end user of a browser based application (what this post feels like it references) deals with regular files served over HTTP still. Its source may be S3 in the end, but ultimately it's webservers and files, be they self hosted or one of the major content distribution networks' servers.

And that's absolutely fine, it's simple, highly optimized, standardized, etc. S3 blobs aren't and except for very specific use cases I wouldn't use it for serving files to end users.

I think you've thrown around the words 'most' and 'many' a little too freely.

Not everyone moves all their applications, files, kitchen sinks and glasses to cloud. There are still tons of traditional systems out there, and there's a small requirement for many of these organizations to have local, object storage systems.

... in corps hn crowds hang; in companies we consult at (very large to very small), things are very different. From nfs, nas/san to just the filesystem. S3/etc is still rare I would say for where we go.

For a moment I though this is European space agency sending a rocket :'(

Just use Slack. It's a lot more user friendly and inclusive.

This is a joke right?

or a massive troll on freenode