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I don't know that replaceability (true or not) should have that much of an outsized impact on the expectations of humane treatment

I realize capitalism rewards scarcity here, but imo this is a piece explicitly about the tolls that tends to bring

i've never seen a company take action from someone leaving, and any push for change has to be sustained by people still at the company.

i'd be curious if anyone has ever seen it happen

i think there's also a fallacy there that you can't work on billion dollar cases while also pursuing million dollar ones

even if they were the same people, relatively simple cases like this probably helps provide some sense of closure while the big fish are being hunted

like art, not all software must be commercial

Pretend Wordle was an open source MIT licensed game that someone created and released online.

Or pretend Wordle is one of the countless examples of freeware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware) that exist online.

Would we be having the same conversation?

It's strange to me that many folks can't accept some people release things and don't necessarily care how it's further used, when the exact thing happens for many other examples of software and software products.

Being an engineer who wasn’t happy with a situation like this, I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl like that, so I decided to hang up the phone.

I'm going to guess there's more to "gave my manager a piece of my mind" than described that led to firing

Talk about property taxes next tim

(this was published back in dec)

This article is focusing on user customization in the wrong places. OS window chrome is mostly invisible to most users nowadays. The places where customization happens is within apps. Custom emojis, sticker packs, browser themes, slack themes, whatever else.

IMO "theming" and customizing visual appearance is alive and well. But it's moved to higher layers.

They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat.

I think they've solved it better than their competitors, but I'm not sure that they've solved it broadly for people using hospitality services.

For better or worse, one bad experience tends to sour people that I've talked to on the overall host-driven places to stay. Whereas for hotels and other more traditional forms, that seems to be compartmentalized to specific locations ("ugh, the hilton in boston") or chains ("I'm avoiding all Marriots from now on").

teachers at your school are able to directly effect organizational budgeting and spending?

$1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask

teachers and many essential workers who need masks the most are also most vulnerable to unexpected expenses like PPE costs. and the organizations they work for typically have strict budges and can usually only provide limited supplies.

that statement feels wildly out of touch.

I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds.

My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read status and labels / sorting.

Epic, btw, has the exact same kind of agreement with Sony, Microsoft, and Google, for access to their gaming platforms. All three of those companies are extracting the same 30% fee that Apple is.

You don't have to agree to Epic's terms to access the platforms from Sony, MS and Google. You do, however, have to agree to Apple's terms to access their Platform.

Interesting to also compare and contrast to his post on the initial acquisition by Yahoo:

https://ma.tt/2013/05/yahooblr/

I was against banning Alex Jones

However, encouraging violence

hmmm

It's ironic to me that useplaintext.email uses formatting and design to communicate intention that would be impossible in a plaintext email

Did some of y'all stop reading at half of the first sentence?

The article isn't a parody, and is expressly saying that SF/Silicon Valley can be a pretty bad place to live, specifically with regards to the author mental health.

I'm not sure how people are getting from this piece that SF is a great place with no problems

Did... you read the same article I did? The author describes a hyper competitive childhood that explicit took a mental and physical toll on the student body

Ignoring for a second what should or shouldn't be allowed...

now the moderators are just subjected to constant child porn or potential child porn, which, let's be honest, is still essentially the same issue re: their mental health.

Whatever the semantics of security by obsucrity, it's still not ideal that an unintentional screengrab or screen share could reveal the fully editable path of a doc

(i much prefer the google docs method of being able to limit to specific orgs or people)

I actually feel a big difference when I upgrade, usually on the same 3-4 year cadence.

Admittedly, the most recent cycle felt somewhat the same, but generally I see a boost in quality of life. Not things like how fast a script runs on a large dataset, but like how responsive my machine is _while_ that script is running, or _while_ I'm doing some intensive task.

As with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), it looks like there must be processes and other practices/support systems/safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.

That's fair enough, it sounds like as with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), there must be processes and other safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.

It's important to note that the CEO makes pains to specify that it created a lack of work ethic in him:

https://youtu.be/CJcTdA55aWA?t=65

Whether or it meant his employees were delivering less work wasn't mentioned. He felt like he had less of a work ethic, so it seemed to be nixed.

Which is kind of shitty tbh, if it was just him. Because I think it's also reasonable to say that the CEO/founder of a startup will probably need to put in more hours than their employees. It's not fair maybe, but then, the CEO/founder is also reaping most of the rewards.

If it still gives a manager the last word though, and requires the employee not be present, that hardly seems fair.

The initial analogy made me cringe, and to be honest, the rest of the post didn't change that impression too much. Reading past the prose and paeans to loyalty, a couple points stick out to me:

"we discovered that the specific charges flagged as fraudulent were not fraudulent charges" "where fulfillment was lagging heavily during the transition which led to some dissatisfied customers who opted to dispute charges"

Fulfillment lagging heavily is a fancy of way of saying people paid for orders, never got what they ordered, and so assumed it was a fraud.

Despite understanding that our Stripe Atlas account was used across a number of businesses, and that the seemingly fraudulent/chargeback activity took place in a relatively short span of time through a single eCommerce store (that was no longer operational)

TBH, the actual percentages Stripe details in later emails would be alarming to me. 23% of charges disputed and 44% of volume are pretty red flags!

(2017)

I've talked to many otherwise perfectly rational folks who get worked up about avoiding MSG when it comes to Asian food — but still go out and buy liquid aminos or eat foods that are caked in it.

Infantilization seems to be a wholly inaccurate description of the behavior; "pandering" or "courting" is much more accurate.

TBH, if folks are having fun, and companies want to join in, I see nothing wrong with it. Devs are likely aware that the companies don't normally wear super hero costumes, and companies are probably aware that making a good first impression is only the first part of a successful relationship.

The blog post seems to have a pretty toxic view of employers (there are a bunch of assumed "to be explored" paragraphs), and I think that view is poisoning the entire experience.