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Don't beat up an engineer for decisions made by company leadership. It's really inappropriate.
by Schiendelman 7mo ago
Don't beat up an engineer for decisions made by company leadership. It's really inappropriate.
- diebillionaires 7mo agoYeah, no one is responsible for what they do as long as someone else tells them to do it.
- lionkor 7mo agoThey decided to work at this company, I think it's a reasonable discussion to have?
- SilasX 7mo agoWhile I would generally sympathize on that front, it doesn't really apply here. None of the management-level desiderata he appealed to require that the user experience be broken this bad. There is very little bot deterrence from prevention of typing at that stage, while it heavily impacts user experience, especially on mobile. I elaborate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575982