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by papito 4y ago
You do a Death March project once in your career, as a lesson. Just so that the next time you see it coming from 100 miles away, you run, run hard. Like in this case. Those who peaced out made the right decision. This is beyond office her
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by papito 4y ago
This is HackerNews for you. Call out any of these magnates for their lack of moral compass or incompetence, and get downvoted. Somehow being rich and "successful" automatically makes your shit not stink, even though usually the op
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by papito 4y ago
If you want to do "office heroics", this isn't it. Office heroics are needed when the management is broken, but sometimes you just work through it, look back, and you can tell yourself "hey, I did that, I did something c
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by papito 4y ago
It's like watching Trump meltdowns in the middle of the night for four years, but the blast radius is just one company and not the Whole Country, so it's a train wreck that's actually fun to watch. And since [checks notes] th
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by papito 4y ago
People calling out an objectively clear dumpster fire are not the ones being "emotional". Words like that and also "hysterical" can only be applied to the new CEO.
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It's a "she", first of all, and no, Robin Wheeler is an ad business veteran who spent a decade at the company and cultivated countless client relationships. You don't just fire someone like that on a whim because your su
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by papito 4y ago
I mean, try hiring Scala engineers on a good day, and especially those who are willing to deal with this crap.
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by papito 4y ago
It's almost like Twitter is just a bunch of socialist snowflakes, borderline welfare queens who start drinking wine at 11 and work noon to four. What does that even mean? Try running a site at this scale with this track record and see
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by papito 4y ago
That may be true for an outsourced team of "yes men" but I would imagine the talent at Twitter has more self-respect than that. If the boss asks me to perform "office heroics", I will want to know what for. When I was yo
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by papito 4y ago
The cloud is great when you are starting out, but at scale you are going to hemorrhage money. This is why it's dangerous to tie yourself to all those cloud "toys" and then rapidly expand. If I just want to have my own littl
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by papito 4y ago
Why do we need to assume that it’s always 5D chess? It usually is what it looks like - a man who strategized himself into a corner and is now flailing.
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by papito 4y ago
I am really wildly speculating here, but I wonder if his source of energy is something like Aderall, and if that has any effects on people who are already “troubled” by their giant egos. And lack of sleep doesn’t help.
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by papito 4y ago
He also pissed people off by insisting PayPal runs on Windows instead of Linux. Hey, I have fond memories of coding for the Windows platform for fun, but especially back in the day we kind of scoffed at those who wanted to run mission-criti
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by papito 4y ago
So far it seems like Elon wants to turn Twitter into a less horrible version of 8chan, but the lessons in real-world moderation will come fast and hard. I wager it's going to get nastier before it gets any better.
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by papito 4y ago
Maybe we should stop lionizing VCs as some sort of investment prodigies. All it is is some people already with money gambling on a large scale and occasionally winning - mostly because there is a bigger sucker somewhere downstream that buys
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by papito 4y ago
Absolutely. Musk drew first blood by making a public accusation of his own employees and then got all torqued after getting a public response. Notice that he didn't really continue the conversation and his last argument was &quot
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by papito 4y ago
It really is true. These "freedom-loving" billionaires, when given a chance, really show their tendency to be authoritarian-curious.
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by papito 4y ago
No, line up a job first , then tell the new company you will start a bit later. That way the job search is not hanging over you and you can truly relax. If an employer thinks you are a good candidate, and finding good candidates is hard ,
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by papito 4y ago
We already know that Tesla and SpaceX employees are working like mules to implement Musk's ideas. SpaceX engineers were living like farm animals on some island, building and testing rockets, but you know what? I bet it was fun. Buildin
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by papito 4y ago
This is great, but people do still need to keep in mind that this is not a full replacement of the emergency beacons that use the Cospas-Sarsat system, which would work anywhere, from pole to pole. If you are going to do extreme hiking in P
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by papito 4y ago
That may actually be counterproductive. If you start regulating crypto, then you are IN. You can't do it half way. Now you have yet another banking sector to regulate. Maybe what's better and cheaper is to let this wild west &quot
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by papito 4y ago
I sympathize sincerely. A friend once worked at a startup that hired new people and made them relocate from all over the U.S. to NYC. The founders said noting about the runway ending. A few weeks later, the company closed. I imagine being f
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by papito 4y ago
This is not a new observation. The crypto market is basically the pre Great Depression banking sector. That's why this libertarian talk of "freedom" and "decentralization" is really just longing for chaos. Respek th
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by papito 4y ago
The race to the bottom, this unwinding of civilization, should halt and rewind at some point after people realize this is unsustainable. Hopefully. Seems like the nihilists, the "nothing matters" crowd, and the neo-libertarians (c
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by papito 4y ago
One thing they did at Github years ago was get closer to the metal by ditching JQuery. You can do the same things - and more - with ES6 and updated browser support pretty much across the board. Nowadays you don't even need a transpiler
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by papito 4y ago
The U.S. law enforcement really starts the Consequence Train up if the wrong people get screwed. Ironically, the billionaires who seek justice for their scammers are the ones who also spend a ton of money gutting the government of its pow
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by papito 4y ago
The person behind the checkmark was a real person/entity and whatever they said, true or disinformation - they owned it. That is the difference. If Candice Owens had said something detestable, at least I knew that I was being trigger
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by papito 4y ago
Even on HN I think people will not dispute that those who are [monetarily] successful are not always the nicest people. Sociopathy is almost celebrated here and, you know what, that's fine. But let's not pretend that these people
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Reshape... Like, we all suddenly want to go to a bar and socialize, where everyone is shouting at each other and throwing chairs? What people fundamentally want in a civilized discourse has not changed for thousands of years. Elon will resh
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by papito 4y ago
We are days away from a major Twitter outage, at this pace. And then more of those right after.

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