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You want old finance companies. In fact any company older that 30 probably won't care. I'm not a grey hair yet, but I actively hate startups. We aren't changin
by 999900000999 2y ago
You want old finance companies.
In fact any company older that 30 probably won't care. I'm not a grey hair yet, but I actively hate startups. We aren't changing the world, we're helping cat photos load 3 milliseconds faster...
- pipes 2y agoAnd finance companies offer better pensions and benefits than anywhere else I've seen in the UK. Plus real life useful domain knowledge. Now I'm older I prefer working with older staff, seems to be less bullshit.
- Terretta 2y ago> You want old finance companies. ... I actively hate startups. Or consider some finance startups. For us it's not age or title, it's ability to learn and apply, throughout a span of experience. We've found those who learned and applied while the commercial Internet was being made, the web being made, the cloud being made, are better equipped for learning and applying today's higher abstractions. If you helped build the stuff of which it is made, you can better create new things on top of it.
- dpkirchner 2y agos/photos/ads and you got it
- exhaze 2y ago> I actively hate startups Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups? Also, is it really fair to apply such a strong statement to all startups? Look at your screen and the browser you're using, the user interface concepts, the computer itself. Where do you think those came from?
- 999900000999 2y agoFine. I hate *working for* startups. It's fun when your young, not when you have bills.
- stetrain 2y ago"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
- RockRobotRock 2y ago>Have you asked yourself why you hang out on this website given how you feel about startups? Maybe they just like technology.
- greentxt 2y agoIs that ok though? Some would say "that's not what hn is for." I've read that a lot. Usually the follow up is something about folks being intellectually curious, not just people who "like technology." I think this comes up a lot and isn't so clear cut as many claim it to be.
- stetrain 2y agoIs what ok? Liking technology? Using HN? I'm not sure why we should be a gatekeeper of what someone likes or whether they hang out on this site. The HN guidelines cover what topics are relevant to submit as new posts here, and cover civility and usefulness of comments. That seems good enough. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ipaddr 2y agoPlenty of different groups and one of them are developers burned out after a startup job.
- mepian 2y ago>Look at your screen Liquid crystal displays were invented at RCA, an old radio monopoly. >and the browser you're using CERN, a government-funded research lab. >the user interface concepts SRI, a government-funded research lab, and Xerox, an old copier monopoly. >the computer itself ENIAC was a US Army project.
- wrs 2y agoFor the browser, don’t forget the University of Illinois.
- jejeyyy77 2y agoyou don't want to make the world a better place by reinventing the way people do email??
- loco5niner 2y agoEmail is already good, please don't "fix" it.
- loco5niner 2y agoWhoops, looks like I missed the sarcasm.
- rightbyte 2y ago> we're helping cat photos load 3 milliseconds faster... No. You don't load cat pictures faster by surrounding it with spyware and choose the cat pic with data from said spyware.
- mathgeek 2y agoThe spyware is the revenue generator, but that’s limited by third parties, so we make the cat photos load faster to keep our internal metrics up and please stakeholders.
- throwaway211 2y agoWhy were cats not used for NFTs? The question verges on the rhetorical.