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Sure, please point to some that pay equally well and offer equally interesting coworkers and tasks.
by dmitrygr 8y ago
Sure, please point to some that pay equally well and offer equally interesting coworkers and tasks.
- meesterdude 8y agoor take the pay cut and stop selling out future generations for your greed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y agoI don't foresee any likely path by which encouraging the adoption of a particular open source publishing technology is going to do serious damage to future generations.
- scarface74 8y agoYou mean like HTML/Javascript/CSS?
- jphalimi 8y agoTelling Google is open-source is like telling MacDonald's is healthy because it has a slice of tomato and salad. Android is not entirely open-source. Chrome browser is not entirely open-source. Google Web Apps are not open source. Google Search is not open source.
- gowld 8y agoParent said AMP is open-source. https://www.ampproject.org/ https://www.ampproject.org/ Do you disagree?
- 908087 8y agoYou can't see any path upon which allowing a massive advertising corporation to gain majority control of and lead in the AOLification of the web/internet could be damaging to future generations?
- saagarjha 8y ago> I don't foresee any likely path by which encouraging the adoption of a particular open source publishing technology is going to do serious damage to future generations. Wasn't that the entire premise of embrace, extend, extinguish? Sure, adopting open source technology is good, but it seems to me that Google's in the "extend" phase rather than being actually altruistic.
- tibyat 8y agoworking for google will
- ForrestN 8y agoI’m not saying it is likely, but you really can’t see a path? A company that clearly aspires to control the communications system that global society increasingly relies on for everything, that spends massive amounts to influence governments, that controls the visibility and economic destiny of the journalistic organizations that might hold them accountable... could decide to, ya know, do a lot of bad stuff?
- oihoaihsfoiahsf 8y ago> I’m not saying it is likely, but you really can’t see a path? For all X, there is a path from X to great harm. Likeliness is critically important in evaluating whether X is still a good thing or not. I grant that your scenario is possible, but I consider it very unlikely.
- sctb 8y agoDo you mind saying something we can learn from? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- meesterdude 8y agoI would expect basic morals to be par for the course.
- tomhoward 8y agoIt's an age-old discussion board trope to seek rhetorical effect by taking a vastly complex topic and by distilling it down to something simplistic like "basic morals", But all it really achieves is to make discussions boring or even depressing. The best HN commenters come here for the opportunity to contribute something far better than that, and we all benefit when they do.
- 908087 8y agoThose sound more like things that would be important to someone who joined Google because it paid well and offered "interesting" coworkers and tasks, not someone who (naively) joined Google to "make the world a better place".
- dmitrygr 8y agoIf you really do not care about being well paid and want to change the world, Red Cross is hiring.
- Brockenstein 8y agoSo is Hyperbole R Us.
- Nursie 8y agoThey are. However there is a sliding scale here, and a lot of people will willingly take somewhat lower pay in order to work for places they consider reasonably ethical and transformative. Pay is not everything, but neither is it nothing. (My partner works for the Red Cross in the UK, they are a great organisation)
- quickben 8y agoHe's talking altruism, you are talking about personal gain. From the start these are distinct categories. Sure, sometimes they overlap, but Google is past that point lately.