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How many meetings have you had at your workplace to discuss these issues? Surely you must have nestled a meeting or two between standup and sprint planning to d
by drstewart 13y ago
How many meetings have you had at your workplace to discuss these issues? Surely you must have nestled a meeting or two between standup and sprint planning to discuss SOPA or the NSA?
I'm guessing none. And I see it similar to HN -- these are topics that are important and affect you, but they're not relevant to what you do. Personally, I come to HN to discuss technology, not politics.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoThere are "not relevant to what you do" because most of the people you meet at work probably don't give a crap about anything else than the end of their (short) noses. It's common in people in general. I actually tend to bring out issues like SOPA or NSA at work regularly, only to find them losing to topics like "what's your opinion on the last Game of Thrones episode". Even in a situation a company could take a meaningful stand, the issue typically gets dismissed as "it doesn't affect the bottomline". And it sucks to be the only person around who cares, so at some point you just stop bringing issues up.
- mncolinlee 13y agoIf you work at a startup, SOPA is more relevant than Sarbanes-Oxley ever was. It's only relevant, however, to people whose function is directly affected by it. In that sense, it's similar to any serious, macro-level issue that affects your company, but which goes unnoticed by the rank-and-file engineers. That doesn't mean you can ignore it.