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Yeah the tone of that entire article struck me as very arrogant. Even "small" things like "my engineers" -- I don't think I'd want to work with this person.

• ozfive 7y ago
  You obviously don't understand your position in the economy then. As an engineer you are a comodity. As much as you would like to deny this fact you still are. Why do you think that you make a salary and the companies make hundreds of millions or billions!?!?! The tone of your comment struc me as very arrogant.
  • ozfive 7y ago
    Keep downvoting. You tools are creating a feedback loop algorithm without writing a line of code and yet you complain about this very thing. Hacker News is dead for constructive debate. Instead of responding you cower behind a downvote. Damn, seriously!?!?
  • lukevdp 7y ago
    Maybe it’s cultural differences but in Australia I have never heard “My engineers” and would never use it myself. A company does not own it’s employees. It simply purchases their labour.
    • whack 7y ago
      That's a very odd way to view a generic term. I don't own "my friends" but I wouldn't think twice about saying "my friends went to the bar last night". Similarly for "my co-workers", "my manager" or "my uber driver". Just because someone used an uncommon expression, does not mean they have some nefarious intent behind it. Especially when the context is completely innocuous > I was too mesmerized working heads down with my engineers knocking out features and crunching out thousands of lines of code for a few months
  • asveikau 7y ago
    > Why do you think that you make a salary and the companies make hundreds of millions or billions!?!?! Marx had this neat term "surplus value" to describe that problem.