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by ddevault 6y ago
The adtech industry is a huge sham. It's an open secret that ads don't work and that most of the data is fraudulent. There are thousands of companies with deliberately complicated relationships to pull a giant shell game with ad
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by ddevault 6y ago
"Corporation" is not a unit of measure. A "unicorp" does not have a market cap of $1. "Megacorp" does not use an SI prefix - it just refers to exceptionally large companies. This is the understanding my word ch
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by ddevault 6y ago
>FWIW I'm from the UK so things might be very different here. Yeah, it's different. One obvious difference is that you don't have the threat of preventable death or debilitating injury bankrupting you overnight. >So you
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by ddevault 6y ago
You're comparing a known with an unknown. We can judge that the known is unethical. We cannot judge either way on the unknown. It follows that the only possibly ethical choice is at Smallcorp. And I'm sure we could make a much bet
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Mobility in entry-level jobs isn't as bad as you make it out to be (I worked plenty of these as recently as a year ago). Having been there, too, and knowing many others who have had similar experiences, I don't think you fully
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I have added a small edit which clarifies this point. However, I do not consider my definition to be "out of whack with the rest of the world".
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Google was a very large company at $23B, but hardly a stand-out on the Fortune 500. The megacorps which are the focus of discussion - contemporary FAANG et al - are in an entirely different league, by orders of magnitude.
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>is it evident that Bigcorp will behave (on average/net) more unethically than Smallco? Smallco is certainly capable of unethical behavior, and I would encourage you to critically examine your both prospects and the companies you en
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The cashier at the supermarket does not enjoy a job market with exceptionally high salaries, benefits, and mobility. They don't have any choice. You do.
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Just to give you some perspective, using Google as an example. I don't know when Google had 5,000 employees, but I have a source[0] that says they had 3,000 in 2004, when they went public, and after the market settled their market cap
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by ddevault 6y ago
>Everybody who disagrees with you is wrong, by definition. That's not what I said. I said the following: >This post wasn't written for you[, a person who already works at a megacorp. The article is written for an audience wh
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by ddevault 6y ago
I have called no one evil. I have spoken of behaviors that I believe are unethical, and necessarily if someone in this thread is doing these behaviors then they may be offended by this. If we are unwilling to talk about ethics for the ris
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by ddevault 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism This is Hacker News. This is an appeal to hackers, software engineers, tech workers - not government workers.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I see. That's a really messed up power dynamic. I'm really ashamed of the US immigration policy, and of the exploitation of H1B's by US companies, especially in the tech sector. I'm sorry you have to endure that.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I'm not an immigrant, so I don't have your perspective. But I wonder the same about H1B's: I don't understand the allure of the United States (besides the money?). Our industry is horrible to its H1B's, H1B exploita
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by ddevault 6y ago
If a company's value starts with a "B" (or... ugh... a "T"), they won't care about you. You should not give them anything of your life, because it's worth next to nothing to them. Mega-corps are life sucki
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On the other hand, the existince of a cryptocurrency ecosystem has given us a really easy and clear indicator that a company or individual is lacking in scruples, and that we should move on from whatever they're hawking.
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by ddevault 6y ago
That's a really shitty way to think about your job. If you don't have the courage to advise your peers (which is what the product manager and UX designer are, your peers ), then you aren't worth your salary as an engineer. T
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by ddevault 6y ago
It's your job as the engineer to tell the product manager or UX designer "no" when they ask you to build interfaces which lock disabled users out of the product. Take some responsibility for the code you write. And if you rea
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by ddevault 6y ago
Tough shit? It does what you want. It doesn't have to look like what you want.
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by ddevault 6y ago
"Dropdown with multiselect" is addressed by adding the "multiple" attribute to your select tag. Which has been possible since the 90's.
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by ddevault 6y ago
You don't add ARIA tags to the UI - you use UI elements which are already accessible. You should never, ever make a button out of a div. The JavaScript community needs to grow up and stop chasing shiny things, because they're leav
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by ddevault 6y ago
You should fix this attitude, becuase it's making your applications worse. The browser is the best at doing the things it does, and any control that you implement yourself is going to be worse. If the browser can do something for you
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Users with accessibility needs deserve to be able to use software as much as any of the rest of us do, and we should pride ourselves in making time to address their needs. Try reading your comment from the perspective of someone who is unab
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by ddevault 6y ago
I use Fennec from F-Droid as well. The redesign broke many features for me and rendered it near unusable (or actually unusable for certain tasks, like downloading files).
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They may have negotiated the $100M deal, but who was responsible for the value creation that made the deal possible in the first place? The staff. The staff, who were subsequently fired.
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fwiw I can reproduce the problems with Firefox Android, the latest major update broke heaps of shit.
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http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html The data is only as recent as 2018, indeed, but I don't have any reason to suspect that they've corrected course. It's an especially bad look when they're also laying
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by ddevault 6y ago
The VPN game is a grift. It's based on using fearmongering to sell services people don't need without adequately explaining the tradeoffs and risks. I lump it in the same category as multi-level marketing scams, and it's not

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