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Anybody want a new Internet yet?

With such a stark barrier to entry, why would I spend much time on there? Also, at the beginning of my career I got much more value from "explaining articles", and much less from ultra-specific answers.

Later on when I had more experience, I wanted to give back:

- try to answer -> "you need cred"

- okay, upvote -> "you need cred"

- try to comment -> "you need cred"

- Ask a question -> "Duplicate. You should RT(Free)M we built."

Ask people about 2016 if you haven't already been told. That Amite River isn't one to be ignored, nor the Comite.

In my experience, offices have simply been judgemental, time wasting, lacking in proper equipment/tooling, and quite frankly just uncomfortable. Granted, it's been a lot of mid-size enterprise/corporate places, but it's been backed up by a lot of middle/upper management that don't bother to think through why such criticism would come their way.

I'm all in favor of a GOOD office to come to, but until then I'm spending no more time on the property than required. Our white-collar culture and urban areas are too dysfunctional for hybrid and remote options to not be normalized. (In the US) If we're going to be "right-to-work", then give us the right to be remote.

Yep, gotta agree. I picked up and moved 500 miles because of money. Sure, ATX is a tech hub and all that jazz. I moved from a place where top-end after 10 years was $80k-100k/yr, and there were few jobs to pick from. I moved and got 2.5x's my old salary.

Now I'm looking at starting my own thing and moving back. Why? Because money. (real estate) Yes, family would be close again. But when comparable homes are $600k vs. $275k...c'mon, I'm ready for these tech hubs to not be as necessary.

I voted company culture, but that's not the whole picture.

I was laid off about a month ago (2 weeks before Christmas; "non-performance business-related decision"), but I was job searching anyway. Why? Because nobody freakin' listened, and my position wasn't taken seriously. Call it strategy misalignment, bad culture, whatever.

After joining, I learned they had 4 CIOs within 3 years. As a mid/sr. level engineer, I was teaching senior management about my position while also learning about it myself. I still don't know how many they laid off during the annual review period, but it was at least several to a couple dozen.

I'm done. I know now why so many retire early to farms, baking, wood working, homesteading, etc. Corporate can have their BS.

90F to 28F within 24 hours

After slowly becoming bored with the weather in Austin (initially, I couldn't believe it)...this type of change sounds refreshing.

I like this one. Reminds me of how I felt moving into software engineering growing up in south Louisiana. I only moved to ATX, and yet others' bewilderment is my amusement.

Right to jail...

I'm just a country-bumkin managing to build and secure software, but uh...someone wants to push me around without having the money to do so? Let 'em, my kind are stubborn anyway.

Then again, maybe I just enjoy fire a bit much.

Physics is the language that never ceases to blow my mind.

Thank you for this.

What I left out of my question is my desire and admiration for automotive sports. It's so strange to me that I have no problem admiring to one day build a track car, and waste tires, fuel, and endless hours of amateur manufacturing effort all in the name of "fun". Sure, I'll learn many skills, but it's primarily for fun.

So I'm left with--how do I resolve the cognitive dissonance that "cars" are okay, but "games" need to be justified? I think there's something deeper going on for myself.

Thank you for taking the time to walk through this.

I'm asking because you seem to speak with experience...

Why do we make video games? I've been programming for 10 years, I love games; wanted to make them. But I went into infosec because it felt...justified? Like it's more noble? But that doesn't seem to make sense saying it out loud.

But your points on understanding game design because of that human-software-machine connection, that just feels like it makes sense.

I'm sorry, this question has just been bugging me for over a year now.

While I'm sure it's a fine app, this oddly looks like a graduation of using Thunderbird in ~2006 as a multi-email client.

What's the difference? And why does executing commands (even if you're actively developing the code they execute) in a terminal need a new name?

Isn't this just...using a computer?

I don't know; maybe I missed something.

How long until someone takes them down for Twitter?

The type of corporate-heavy experience the author described is less "directionless" and more draconian. It's just flat boring and borderline useless. You sit through it because you need the paycheck.

Is the author not a team player or tired of the BS? Would you be willing to have a conversation with a team member like this?

If I witnessed your type of response (seemingly defensive) within the first hours/days of starting, I would begin to wonder what kind of change I could impress even if I did take the "approved channels". Ideally, we would pick up on all of this during interviews and go our own ways. It doesn't always work that way though. There is /something/ we have to offer each other.

You put up your defenses, I put up mine. And in a short time you're looking for a new hire, and I'm looking for a new place.

"Anonymous" is a bit much to ask for this, yes. I'm really just asking for the company to--for once--lower its defenses so we can have a conversation. Air the frustrations without fear of immediate professional retaliation.

If a company, manager, exec, or leader can't exercise that kind of humility, then quite frankly they don't deserve the position.

I really wish companies would start asking for anonymous, unbiased reviews of this process. I've had a few companies come close, but they made it clear the answers were (or seemed to be) heavily filtered.

Their onboarding processes all sucked.

Please stop with the cute HR nonsense. I'm not a kid. I don't need your cute program. We don't need someone reading 10 pages from your legally unenforceable handbook from a projector. Keep your gift bag; the squeeze ball is stupid and you didn't pick the pen. (Have you ever given a gift?) If you're going to lean into the sterile corporate decor, then at least hand me a clipboard and let me fill out paperwork just like I'm at the doctor's office.

If it sounds salty; it's supposed to. I hope a C-level, or business owner, takes it to heart. I'm not trying to beat you down. This first-impression is important--I took 10 minutes on a Saturday at 2:50AM to let you know. I've seen your "all-hands", your quarterlies, your launches, and your totally-not-Christmas parties.

You already know how to do better.

I'll be opting for a Darter Pro from System76 later in the year. Like others have stated, going with FOSS hardware/software isn't cheap, but it looks to be the best compromise for myself.

Dell's XPS "Ubuntu edition" looks like a great device. However, limitations on repairability at that price are a non-starter for me.

Carta is a fun company because the more problems we solve, the more problems we get to solve.

So, you're like every other company? I used to work as a Soft. Eng. for a particular Fortune 500 company in the outdoor/pool luxury industry. They've been around ~40 years. Technologically though, woefully immature. Every e-commerce problem we solved was answered with another "fun" problem to solve. What makes you different?

Let's look at the "ideas"

- Total compensation, "problem": Ah, so data mining and monetization.

- Portfolio analytics, "problem": ...you want data analysis?

- Sell-side Research Firm: "There will be a market for sell-side research." ...umm, why? Why would those private venture-backed companies WANT to be associated with you? Then you're differentiating factor is...marketing?

Finally, why are you posting this here? On HN? At best, it's misguided. At worst, it's tone-deaf or shady. If your ideas and motivations are legit then keep building. Put your own hours and sleepless nights behind it. Prove yourself. Show there is actually market demand for what you claim. Then come back. Offer value before asking for it.

What's the alternative here?

Not a popular one, but another alternative is to fundamentally change the service. But that involves possibly losing YouTube.

Assuming Alphabet/Google (and most others) won't even consider that option...yeah, you're pretty on point.

I'll just say it.

Google you are being run by fools. Godspeed.

That's just awesome. Glad to see it.

Cool, I won't work for Google. Probably ever if this crap keeps up.

In my limited experience as a developer, managers and supervisors need to first open their mouths before we can determine if the feedback is good or not.

It really depends on the machine.

Yep. This is awfully close to the staring contest between Apple and the US gov't a while back on unlocking iPhones for criminal investigations.

I know--different context--but the technical implementation is similar. Which would suggest the impact of those discussions is larger than previously thought.

Sure did :) and I went back to mention that in a later comment.

It's all good!