zoeysaurusrex | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
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zoeysaurusrex | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
How so? People can have all the opinions they want but saying things such as "women are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit." isn't okay. Please convince me how that is employable behavior?
zoeysaurusrex | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire
Who is "they"? Don't be shy.
Saying things like "women soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit." is more than just a difference of opinion. You cannot hold that opinion and be a fair leader.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: Raising the American Weakling (2017)
Really?? Because when my coworkers and I meet someone like this we are all amazed and respectful. No offense, but I have a hard time believing that people become the worst versions of themselves because of your private behavior. Sorry to be so curt, but I’m tired of this sort of circle jerking going on in HN as of late. what you say may be true, but this sort of commentary is rampant lately.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: On Jony Ive Leaving Apple
Sure, you are pointing out his failings, but I’d say his successes outnumber his failings.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: Nebula: A paid alternative to YouTube, curated by the creators
I too wish for this. As a trans person I learn a lot from videos. They unceasingly think I want to want cringe compilations that bash trans people.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: HN: The Good Parts (2017)
I used to really love HN for the good parts. Even back when I first started lurking, you would see waves of mean and incorrect comments, but it ebbed at times. These days the good stuff seems to be getting drowned out more and more. It feels like the polarization of discussion based social media is finally consuming this place like a cancer. I’ll always love the things I learn here, but I’m driven away from the discussions more and more.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
I agree with you here. The majority of the people involved are trying to do something good. I’d wager the egomaniacs are a much smaller percentage than those who want to build better things.
zoeysaurusrex | 6 years ago | on: Windows gets a new terminal
Totally agree. I've largely quit commenting here at all because of it. I always thought gross polarization of topics would never come to HN, but here we are.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Minetime.ai – A Calendar for the 21st Century
Holy shit HN is extra today. In this thread I counted maybe three responses that were meaningful. The rest were armchair quarterbacking from a lot of folks on how to do it better or how the product sucks without substantive feedback. What happened to HN? Nearly every thread is like this anymore. This quote is becoming more and more relevant here.
“You write your snide bullshit in a dark room because that's what the angry do these days”
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral
They’ll take advice from us when we stop naming things like BouncyCastle[1]
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Time protection: the missing OS abstraction
Do you think that people in the software field need something like the AMA to protect us so that we can have liability?
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Arabsat-6A mission [video]
I do think most people realize it. When I’ve been around the country, when SpaceX launches come up, people are amazed by it.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: The Coming Corporate Brain Drain
I’ve seen the unfortunate side effects of losing these types of folks. I’m also a believer that though this happens through the natural course of life, it is also happening more and more to younger developers as well. I’ve seen plenty of talented senior and principal engineers leave organizations at the 7-15 year mark, in their prime, because of what software shops are becoming. Sure, it’s easy to argue that there has ways been a vein of sweatshop mentality to the software profession, but it’s growing to extreme levels. The attitude of the startup mentality of working yourself to the bone seems to have become a model for all size organizations. I’ve always believed our field, though called computer science, is equal parts science, art, and philosophy.
The art, science, and philosophy is being replaced with deadlines akin to working in other fields where timelines are nearly exact. Immature CEOs and CIOs think that because their disciplines are exact, that they can will-into-existence complex line of business software by working developers harder than ever, and firing those who aren’t dedicated enough.
The brain drain of our profession is happening because the art of gardening (making software) is being slowly replaced by factory farming versions of producing software.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Netlify Dev
I decided I’m building and hosting my dev blog on Netlify now instead of anywhere else. This post honestly helped me get there.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes
Weird, it causes the same reaction in humans...
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: A Twist on the Spoon Theory
Both my wife and I have autoimmune conditions and we operate like your friend. Coding can be a bitch on the bad days.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
This is wonderful! Thank you
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive
I’m not amazed. While many stacks support it, most organizations still have lift on their end to implement this behind the other “priority” customer change requests.
zoeysaurusrex | 7 years ago | on: Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims
I’m not 13 years into my career (three under the table at a hometown co and ten professionally), I’ve had the mom and pop shop experience, the big corp experience, and currently the startup experience. I’ve found the same abuse everywhere, but it’s not always caused by top level executives. I think the abuse in software has a dynamic that other industries don’t have. A lot of product managers and IT managers don’t understand what we do (and I say that on behalf of devs, ops people, the whole works). They want to look good for their executives and they overpromise, or they start treating us like garbage because they are afraid not to have anything to show in their weekly updates with their boss.
When product managers and CIOs don’t have anything to show, we get tossed under the bus. I’ve never been a fan of the dev unionization movement, but I’m becoming more of a fan it by the day. I think of how I feel after having given my all to my career, and I can’t imagine how young H1B professionals feel when the abuse they put up with is far worse than what I’ve dealt with.
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It's not about safe spaces or offensive ideas. It's about enabling sexism and racism to freely propagate while telling minority groups that it isn't harmful despite past experience.