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Have we collectively forgiven Triplebyte for this yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 ?

GhostVII 6y ago
How is that relevant to this blog post? Do you think we should stop reading any posts hosted by triplebyte for a mistake they made months ago and didn't even roll out?
- peteretep 6y ago
  > How is that relevant to this blog post? The blog post is marketing fluff
w-j-w 6y ago
They handled the fallout very well. Completely rolled it back and gave a heartfelt apology that actually just said sorry. I think we should forgive them, as long as the good behavior continues.
nfriedly 6y ago
I have
29athrowaway 6y ago
I don't trust Triplebyte. I don't think it's in the best interest of developers to deal with an intermediary. What you posted is only one example of what can go wrong. Having a decentralized job market for developers is the way to go.
hyper_reality 6y ago
Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? It's offering advice that is completely independent from past scandals on the platform it's hosted on. From the article, I thought this advice hit home the most: "The problem is that lack of engagement in meetings is often interpreted as apathy or a general lack of engagement in your work, even in cases where that's the furthest thing from the truth." Remote workers need to be more persistent in getting involved and speaking up where they can, otherwise they can easily recede into the background where colleagues are left wondering if they are participating as much as others - even when they are working just as hard, or even harder.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
  > Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? Nope, they doxxed everyone and only backpedaled when they got caught.
  - Thorrez 6y ago
    Did they actually dox anyone? I thought they planned to, but ended up not doing it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037
- cinquemb 6y ago
  > "…The problem is that lack of engagement in meetings is often interpreted as apathy or a general lack of engagement in your work…" > Remote workers need to be more persistent in getting involved and speaking up where they can, otherwise they can easily recede into the background where colleagues are left wondering if they are participating as much as others Or one can try to stay away from working at companies where "engagement" in meetings or work is conflated with actual results that one is responsible for delivering? Probably goes against the some of the ethos of the need to drink the local flavor of the koolaid and sing the $COMPANY hymns with ones colleges…
ThePadawan 6y ago
I haven't forgiven them for making me sign up to discover that "remote" means "remote, US-only", then making deleting my account a pain in the ass (you need a password for that - if you sign up using social SSO, you don't have one.)
ignoramous 6y ago
Startup School ran a "skill test" once, for founders, in association with triplebyte. In exchange for something very trivial ("YC interview") you now give them the license to judge your "skills" for a lifetime. Even if not that, it seemed like a very inappropriate, unnecessary, dishonest bait. Yeah, no thank you very much. https://www.startupschool.org/posts/34082 https://www.startupschool.org/posts/34082

GhostVII 6y ago

How is that relevant to this blog post? Do you think we should stop reading any posts hosted by triplebyte for a mistake they made months ago and didn't even roll out?

peteretep 6y ago
> How is that relevant to this blog post? The blog post is marketing fluff

w-j-w 6y ago

They handled the fallout very well. Completely rolled it back and gave a heartfelt apology that actually just said sorry. I think we should forgive them, as long as the good behavior continues.

nfriedly 6y ago

I have

29athrowaway 6y ago

I don't trust Triplebyte. I don't think it's in the best interest of developers to deal with an intermediary. What you posted is only one example of what can go wrong. Having a decentralized job market for developers is the way to go.

hyper_reality 6y ago

Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? It's offering advice that is completely independent from past scandals on the platform it's hosted on. From the article, I thought this advice hit home the most: "The problem is that lack of engagement in meetings is often interpreted as apathy or a general lack of engagement in your work, even in cases where that's the furthest thing from the truth." Remote workers need to be more persistent in getting involved and speaking up where they can, otherwise they can easily recede into the background where colleagues are left wondering if they are participating as much as others - even when they are working just as hard, or even harder.

WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
> Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? Nope, they doxxed everyone and only backpedaled when they got caught.
- Thorrez 6y ago
  Did they actually dox anyone? I thought they planned to, but ended up not doing it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037
cinquemb 6y ago
> "…The problem is that lack of engagement in meetings is often interpreted as apathy or a general lack of engagement in your work…" > Remote workers need to be more persistent in getting involved and speaking up where they can, otherwise they can easily recede into the background where colleagues are left wondering if they are participating as much as others Or one can try to stay away from working at companies where "engagement" in meetings or work is conflated with actual results that one is responsible for delivering? Probably goes against the some of the ethos of the need to drink the local flavor of the koolaid and sing the $COMPANY hymns with ones colleges…

ThePadawan 6y ago

I haven't forgiven them for making me sign up to discover that "remote" means "remote, US-only", then making deleting my account a pain in the ass (you need a password for that - if you sign up using social SSO, you don't have one.)

ignoramous 6y ago

Startup School ran a "skill test" once, for founders, in association with triplebyte. In exchange for something very trivial ("YC interview") you now give them the license to judge your "skills" for a lifetime. Even if not that, it seemed like a very inappropriate, unnecessary, dishonest bait. Yeah, no thank you very much. https://www.startupschool.org/posts/34082 https://www.startupschool.org/posts/34082