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I burnt out after a few years at Google. It's a real problem. I was heavily involved in open source for a decade, but the stress of Google's bullshit (not to le
by myWindoonn 8y ago
I burnt out after a few years at Google. It's a real problem. I was heavily involved in open source for a decade, but the stress of Google's bullshit (not to let any other employer in our field off the hook!) was not something that my soul could withstand, and now I hate computers and wish that the entire industry would stop existing, for the sake of everybody's mental health.
- walshemj 8y agoWhat sort of companies have you worked at before if you don't mind me asking. If all your experience hand been in very small companies doing solo work you might have never had to develop the sort of skills needed in large companies.
- digi_owl 8y agohear hear. I try to map out a timeline and it seems to all come out of those years around 2007-2008. For some reason around that point the industry, FOSS included, seemed to decide that most computer owners are idiots, that need to be put in the proverbial padded cell for the well being of both themselves and the larger computer ecosystem. Ever since that time, there have been ever more layers of obfuscation and automation put in that is supposedly there to avoid problems, but more often than not fails to account for any usage scenario outside of the valley mainstream. And thus result in all kinds of added complications that needs to be disabled, bypassed, and monitored as some future patch may well bring them roaring back to life.