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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
It’s not merely politics or teams in-fighting. It’s straight up unprofessional, abusive, insulting behavior that goes unchallenged. It’s belittling, bullying, traumatic environments that everyone accepts as is or are completely oblivious to
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
What happened to the people you know?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
This is a different article from that one.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
> When you’re a new employee at Apple you’re pretty much thrown into the deep end. There’s no orientation for projects on how to contribute to them or requirements to work within a certain set of guidelines. For the most part I was expec
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
Well, after Google purchased Nest, there were all of those tales about the difficulties of integrating that startup into the parent company. Tony Fadell founded Nest, and he brought Apple's culture into it, and that style definitely di
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
It's more that Apple's lows might be lower than those in other big tech companies, because conditions at Apple are permitted to get as bad as they are.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
No, to some degree it is Apple. No doubt any larger corporation has its share of worse offenders. But some of the toxicity that exists within Apple is specific to its DNA. The secrecy, siloing across departments and teams, obsession towards
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
Apple is a very old and heterogeneous company that flies by the skin of its teeth and there are engineering and organizational practices that would make the most hardcore Mac Addict blanch.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-death-idUSKCN0XP383
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
It's high time this has happened. Certain large tech companies with abusive cultures have been open secrets for years (Ballmer-era stack ranked Microsoft, PIP culture at Amazon). But Apple's secretive, authoritarian nature has kep
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
They might be getting paid over six figures, yet they're still infinitely poorer than '90s cubicle drones for not having personal offices. AGM discounts how much the present generation has lost. Besides, it's not as if the fo
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by exBarrelSpoiler 5y ago
He sounds like a hard-hitting, abrasive writer. He would do well as a gossip columnist, gonzo journalist, or writer in the redpill/"intellectual dark web" scene. But this sort of vitriolic writing that gets personal enough to
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by exBarrelSpoiler 6y ago
You just contradicted yourself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569102
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by exBarrelSpoiler 7y ago
Depending on the org, that's definitely believable. Jobs' legacy has a dark side that people are unwilling to talk about, save for scant few "employees speak out" exposes that break out every few years. It's a massi
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by exBarrelSpoiler 7y ago
Just how meritocratic is the selection of corporate leadership anyway?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 7y ago
And then leave a few years after that office building is opened. Solid exit.
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Ask HN: What cities are good for mobile developers beyond the Bay Area?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 7y ago
Julian Jaynes didn't even think that Socrates had a unicameral mind, so it's not as if he was operating with the same psychology as modern man: http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=...
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by exBarrelSpoiler 7y ago
 should just go ahead and buy him out, and integrate Windmill's capabilities into Testflight. They probably will eventually anyway. There was just an article yesterday about Sherlocking.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 8y ago
Anyone who's worked at both Amazon and Apple want to compare the two?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
The cruelest part of this whole farce- Apple might not get very far in China even with government sanction. WSJ: "Why the iPhone Is Losing Out to Chinese Devices in Asia" Google link: https://encrypted.google.com/s
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
And yet, now that they've climbed to the top of the heap built on planned obsolescence and chasing after relentless growth quarter after quarter, maybe it's time for them to use their wealth and influence to shape the market more
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Vorrath.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
The role of EPMs has been known to the public for some time: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-role-of-an-engineering-pro...
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Like any large org, quality standards vary from product to product, just as they do from team to team.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
QA being divided between Craig and Kim didn't help, either. Nor the organizational wars.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
The primitive state of tooling in some corners of a sprawling corporate empire would make your head spin.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
The comment was half-right in describing the situation radar-obsessed culture (Radar-Driven Development?) It places the blame on EPMs because EPMs are just the bearer of bad news, middlemen who carry out the whims of the UI Gods and VPs. Th
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
She may be a plagiarist, but that doesn't mean the author of this post isn't also a bully who should be likewise questioned. There are extremists on both sides, the truth is in the middle, etc.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...

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