baconsunday

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   by baconsunday 5mo ago

   I think that Damore was stupid for writing and posting it internally and disagree with portions of it, but almost all of the reactions I saw to his manifesto were to third-hand misrepresentations of it or willful misreadings of it. (e.g. hi
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   by baconsunday 5mo ago

   Is that actually the case for the tech unions that actually exist, though? Historically, the people pushing for tech unionization were doing it for ideological reasons, not in response to the relatively recent layoffs, etc. and you can see
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   by baconsunday 5y ago

   > Over 40 dev (Individual Contributor - IC as they call it) here and all I can say is that the article is completely ignoring large companies like FAANG, Microsoft, etc where ICs are allowed to remain ICs (design, write code, mentor juni
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   by baconsunday 6y ago

   > - We did a user study and they liked it, so it must be good. My favorite is "We did a user study and they hated it, but a VP is pushing for it because Apple did it"