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yelp doing something not shady or bullying? i'm very skeptical...

• skyyler 7y ago
  were software engineers ever the ones at yelp doing shady things or bullying?
  • ar_lan 7y ago
    I'm not a Facebook fan, but I am hugely grateful for their contributions of React and GraphQL. I think engineers should be considered dis-associated.
    • meddlepal 7y ago
      Engineers are special innocent snowflakes that would never do a bad thing?
      • strig 7y ago
        Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.
        • meddlepal 7y ago
          So "just following orders"?
          • threeseed 7y ago
            What the hell is wrong with you ? Nazi soldiers killed innocent men, women and children en masse. The association with engineers who have done nothing unethical is really inappropriate and unnecessary.
            • weego 7y ago
              So in your opinion if someome works on the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism that doesn't amount to tacit approval of the model?
        • InterestBazinga 7y ago
          I feel like this is an intricate argument. Why are german soldiers held in a negative light even though the war decisions were by its commanders?
          • itake 7y ago
            They aren't held in a negative light... After the war, they were forgiven and I think society in general has accepted that they were just following orders. The leaders definitely thought in a negative light.
            • lxw 7y ago
              This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
      • threeseed 7y ago
        Well they generally aren't responsible for the strategic decisions of the company. But nobody said they are somehow immune from doing bad things. So nice strawman.
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• dang 7y ago
  "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Btw, that rule doesn't mean tangential topics aren't important—often they're more important than the thread topic. We have the rule to prevent interesting/unusual discussions from getting supplanted by boring/predictable ones.