Looking at the picture makes me wonder why tech doesn’t get more constant criticism for being almost completely devoid of black faces?
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#12Looking at the picture makes me wonder why tech doesn’t get more constant criticism for being almost completely devoid of black faces?
Tech gets unending criticism for lack of diversity including the lack of black employees.
There’s all sorts of age, gender, and racial diversity in that photo. Just no black faces.
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#13Kind of uninteresting post tbh, I would love the authors take about how it is like working at Mozilla now when they are going hard with the identity politics. I can't imagine everyone at Mozilla are sharing that specific political agenda, or are they?
Maybe everyone that didn't agree with the stuff they're pushing now got fired? I don't know, but that is what I want to know.
All I am saying is that I expected it to be some juicy information about how it is like working at mozilla but I got disappointed (please don't downvote me for asking questions and sharing my humble opinions).
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#14> The cherry on top was being specifically targeted for harassment that same week after the release by unhappy users of Firefox looking for someone to direct their frustrations at. Thats lovely.
I work on an open source project which is popular, but definitely a lot less used than Firefox. I often feel pretty lucky that I grew up with the early internet, back when you hid your real identity and trusted no one. While I don't do that anymore, it does still give me with a strong sense of maintaining a "firewall" with the public. I don't put myself out there as a public face more than necessary. I don't have work email or any of that on my phone. If it's not work hours, I'm not dealing with it. The Internet is an incredibly harsh and toxic place, always has been, and these days I find the less time I spend around technology, the happier I am.
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#15> The cherry on top was being specifically targeted for harassment that same week after the release by unhappy users of Firefox looking for someone to direct their frustrations at. Thats lovely.
I was curious about this, and went searching, and it's fairly difficult to figure out exactly what is being referenced.
There is a reddit thread that links to deleted tweets that appears like it might be related: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb
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#16If you really love your work or want to make an impact it’s possible to work “all the time”. This can be so rewarding but since most startups fail and the next big feature can flop it can take a huge toll on your life.
My dad always said it’s good to have at least 3 or 4 legs on your stool instead of 1. Family, friends, health, hobbies, faith, etc. That way if one of the legs fails the others can still support it.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket...
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#17Looking at the picture makes me wonder why tech doesn’t get more constant criticism for being almost completely devoid of black faces?
Maybe it's largely out of their control? You can't hire people who don't apply, and in my 30 years in tech (albeit not in SV) I can probably count on one hand the number of black job applicants I encountered, and they were all non-US/immigrant blacks.
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#18>For someone who thought of themselves as an empathetic dev overworking myself FOR the end users and product, this hurt and I’m not sure I ever really recovered.
I think everyone remembers the time when they learned it's not worth it to work insane hours to make some sort of launch just so you get to do it all over again in 6 months.
I worked 22 straight days to meet an insane deadline. I delivered my stuff 4am the morning of only to be told that every other team was late and the inflexible due date that couldn't be changed, got pushed back 6 months.
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#19> That and.. I am also extremely burnt out. > Working too much during the week for the last 2 years was normal for me We need to stop normalizing working beyond a 40 hour work week. I can accomplish far more and with greater clarity of purpose, mental acuity and motivation in an actual 40 hours, than I could if I attempt to push myself to 10-12 hours a day.
Yes, Please! Burnout culture is horrible and we need to respect our work/life balance. If you work for a company where you can't say "I'll get to that first thing tomorrow" then you should be working somewhere else.
Unreasonable expectations usually starts with management though. I had a "boss" who was very much my senior as far as age but had zero management experience and his benchmark for value was Lines of Code and Cards Completed instead of better value metrics like features delivered, velocity, bugs reported, etc. Needless to say, I didn't stay very long.
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#20Emily seems to have the gift of being able to be noticed wherever she goes - I almost never go on software development twitter (or any other area of twitter for that matter) but whenever I do she seems to have some recommended tweet listed alongside whatever I'm looking at - and now a top post on HN about leaving because she wants something different - impressive