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Ya, more and more large tech companies are oblivious to the practice of not mixing politics with business. It will always alienate and anger a large fraction of
by gnarbarian 9y ago
Ya, more and more large tech companies are oblivious to the practice of not mixing politics with business. It will always alienate and anger a large fraction of your customers. Off the top of my head: Github, Mozilla, and Google all seem to be doing this unfortunately.
This is especially ironic to me when measures are taken to ensure some tiny quantity of people don't feel uncomfortable in exchange for angering a huge swath of their customers.
The Crockford/Nodevember thing is a perfect example of this:
http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford
- observation 9y ago> The Crockford/Nodevember thing That's the sort of thought process I expect from a totalitarian regime, not being humorous. What's next? Slashdot looks too similar to a Heil Hitler salute? Peter Thiel made a bunch of observations on this kind of thinking. It's in 1996 if the C-SPAN camera's date is correct, but very relevant I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY
- gnarbarian 9y agoAwesome video. Thanks for sharing it.