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by _qulr 6y ago
> I think its more likely that they are taking advantage of economic incentives. My question is, who is taking advantage of whom? As I said originally, "one may fairly ask whether Facebook's hiring process produced this result.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Why do you conflate indie developers with startups? They're entirely different.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I think thats an unfair, and frankly agist extrapolation. Is it ageist to point out that Facebook is ageist in its hiring and operations? Or that Facebook encourages its employees to be overly dependent on Facebook? What some would vie
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The implication here is everyone that's a Mac developer like you shares these opinions No, I don't see how that's the implication. It sounds like you do agree with me that native Mac software is going away. We can argue
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by _qulr 6y ago
Not quite sure what you're arguing here?
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by _qulr 6y ago
From what I've seen, I don't think $5K per year is a big chunk of a Facebook engineer's compensation. In any case, the bigger issue is that this situation exposes how utterly dependent these engineers are on their employer, n
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I have built trust with Apple and prefer the centralized Apple (over the decentralized dev-houses of the world) IMO this is a false dichotomy. Epic and Spotify are not the size of Apple, but they're still giants compared to little
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by _qulr 6y ago
Yes, I was thinking of joining, but the fact that the site didn't work without turning off my ad blocker was a turnoff. Why do they even need cookies? Terrible first impression.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It's minor, but "A major sell to candidates is our office perks include free food" "with work from home, we’ve lost a huge financial part of our package" https://www.levels.fyi/company/Face
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It sounds like a reference to the policies around WFH and changing locations Yes, but that was also behind the snack complaints. According to the article, everyone got monetary bonuses, but it seems the problem wasn't the cost of
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Atleast the guy there for the snacks was getting snacks until recently IMO destroying civil society for snacks is a worse reason than destroying civil society intentionally. The pettiness of the tradeoff makes evil people look good by
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by _qulr 6y ago
Politics aside, many Facebook employees come across as rather childish, incapable of taking care of themselves. The big complaint is about lack of snacks! Zuck has to scold them by asking rhetorically whether they joined the company for the
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The conclusion would've been more clear if you had stated that it was coming from frustration. The title of the HN submission is editorialized and misrepresents the purpose of the blog post. Some people were puzzled by a mysteriou
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by _qulr 6y ago
The submission title is editorialized. The linked article's title is simply "macOS Containers and defaults".
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Please, please don’t speak for all of us. Where do I purport to do that? I speak for myself on my own blog, of course, and also here.
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by _qulr 6y ago
This seems like kind of a strange telling of history. Were extensions ever abolished in OS 9? Mac OS X was an open platform for its first 10 years. It only started to get locked down in 2011 and 2012 with the Mac App Store and Gatekeeper.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> because changing a setting didn't work That's not why. I've been a Mac developer for 14 years and a Mac user for longer. I've seen the Mac platform enfeebled, dismantled, locked down before my eyes. The conclusion d
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It was also built to draw in new talent Was it? I mean, clearly Apple needed more office space while they're ramping up hiring, but do potential employees really care about that building?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I don't think we can take for granted that another social network with hundreds of millions or billions of user can just easily arise. Many social networks have tried and failed. Also, we were perhaps very naive about the corrosive soc
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by _qulr 6y ago
I think this is very dependent on one's area, and other factors. For me, Twitter has been important professionally. Also, I work remotely and have very little direct contact with people in the major tech cities.
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by _qulr 6y ago
I don't think they just handed over money though. It was said that Apple Park was a singular focus of Jony Ive. It's difficult to find something more disruptive to Apple than taking away their head of design from the focusing on c
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by _qulr 6y ago
What is risk, besides time and money?
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by _qulr 6y ago
Apple Park cost $5 billion and took over a decade to design a build. I'd call that a lot more disruptive than experimenting with WFH.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Why do you have to be there? For software developers it's become the de facto professional network, at least in my area. If you want to get a job, or if you want to promote your product, it's difficult not to be on Twitter. I
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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm a regular Twitter user, but I wish that Twitter would shut down. The problem is that in many cases you have to use Facebook and/or Twitter, precisely because they're social networks. If the people in important social gr
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by _qulr 6y ago
iCab The problem today is that nobody can even make a browser. Even Microsoft failed, and was forced to adopt Chromium. The web has become far too complex.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Technically, you can sideload Chrome extensions with Developer mode, so I don't think that's much different from Android.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Is it just that nobody paid for things? Correct. Most people expect Chrome extensions for free.
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by _qulr 6y ago
They're already drawn in. Epic sued Google too. But Epic doesn't have a Chrome extension, and Google Play Store payments aren't similarly deprecated.
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by _qulr 6y ago
"There is no way to bulk export your existing user licenses, so you need to have your users help with this part of the migration."

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