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As a reminder, Whatsapp had *35* engineers for 450M users at the time of its acquisition by FB (2014). It had *50* engineers for 900M users (2015). https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us... .
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So the statement "corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value" is false. I'm not defending the clickbait content a lot of outlets engage in but I'm concerned that if the "corporate media" disappeared tomorrow a lot of things would go uninvestigated. I'm also not sure that the number of stories published is a worthwhile metric either. Maybe one truly eye-opening investigative story is worth a hundred boring…
> So the statement "corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value" is false. I'm pretty sure the original was hyperbole but more accurate statement would be "most of what corporate media produces have zero or negative value and is just facilitator for the clicks"
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing. > I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired. "I built a tool to allow people to copy corporate data so they could find a job easier." To…
lol He wrote a JS script that clicks a a button in your inbox. That's not "bypassing security" in any way.
Like a judge is going to understand that after lawyers spend hours talking about data theft and how they have policies and how the security team had concerns.
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GP didn't say "layoffs are inhumane", but that the manner in which people have been fired is inhumane.
What was the "inhumane" manner? From https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588671155766194176 "Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required." Seems reasonably generous. Certainly not "inhumane."
If you trust Elon to do the right thing for employees after seeing the class action lawsuits at Tesla (and more are on the way for Twitter), I have a bridge to sell you.
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Anything you do on work hardware, it the US is pretty much free range for them to snoop into as much as they want. Putting that kind of stuff on your work laptop is just unthinkably weird to me. Why would anyone do that?
Mostly because we generally work during the same business hours other people are? If you ever have to deal with an insurance issue, sign a lease, take out or refinance a mortgage, buy a car... etc... its probable that you will have to print something out at the office, sign it, scan it and send it back to someone- and now its essentially open for the company to read. Even if you aren't downloading and printing someth…
I guess my experience must not match others', fair enough.
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Unfortunately there is not anyone dumber than Musk to whom he might sell the platform. That being said, even Musk isn't capable of destroying Twitter (at least yet). The site is still here, and all the profiles with their 280-character messages still load. Trust me, I want Twitter to suffer the worst death of all. It's just not likely that Elon Musk will be the reason why the site falls, at least not from a technical…
You also seem to have a very narrow definition of what failure looks like as defined by HTTP status codes. It’s already over… I don’t know how long the death rattle is going to last but it’s past the point of no return in any meaningful sense.
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If people are scheduling emails and faking commits to feign value then they should absolutely be cut.
So when your new teammate decides to start working through the weekend and suddenly you need to do so as well in order to match them in the performance review, what's your response? And notice that I didn't say anything about the quality of work being delivered - when you need to be visibly pulling overtime with the exact same work output in order to compete, what do you do?
I feel like this thread contains a lot of people upset that other people are better than them at a game that's not worth playing anyway. Promotion is an extremely artificial game setup so that neither companies nor employees have to play the actual game of capitalism. In a real market economy you deliver value by trading with others; if you feel that others are capturing more value than you, take the other side of the trade. When competition requires that you work 60 hour weeks to be considered good at a field, that's a sign that there are too many people in that field and you should get out of it and instead consider employing that field in your new job instead.
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What was the "inhumane" manner? From https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588671155766194176 "Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required." Seems reasonably generous. Certainly not "inhumane."
That statement is inaccurate for many reasons. Employees in India and other countries were offered nothing. The “severance” is really 1 month severance and 2 months garden leave, which is required under WARN and may not be paid if employees get another job. This is a direct contradiction of the terms of the merger. If you trust Elon to do the right thing for employees after seeing the class action lawsuits at Tesla (…
Where did I say I trust Elon or any other CEO?
Still waiting on someone to explain what is "inhumane" about getting laid off with a severance package. Remember we are talking about employees working at a big tech firm. They'll find work elsewhere, and have had pay above the national average. They likely have plenty of savings.
I don't give a shit about Elon or Twitter. My comment was just holding someone accountable for the narrative they were creating. Typical for HN to have someone jump in with an irrelevant reply.
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I think it's more the dichotomy of companies asking for high levels of commitment, loyalty & trust, but offering none in return. It's funny that they would fire people in this way, then turn around and ask the remaining folks to sign up for "working long (uncompensated) hours at high intensity" . They are trying to have it both ways.
I mean - no offense... - but if you still think corporate entities have any real loyalty you've clearly not been paying attention for a long time. I've never seen that attitude last beyond the initial 50 or so employees at a startup, and it sure as fuck doesn't last past the "we're installing monitoring software on all your machines" stage. Work is what you do to get paid - it's not your family. It's not your friend.…
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I think it's more the dichotomy of companies asking for high levels of commitment, loyalty & trust, but offering none in return. It's funny that they would fire people in this way, then turn around and ask the remaining folks to sign up for "working long (uncompensated) hours at high intensity" . They are trying to have it both ways.
I mean - no offense... - but if you still think corporate entities have any real loyalty you've clearly not been paying attention for a long time. I've never seen that attitude last beyond the initial 50 or so employees at a startup, and it sure as fuck doesn't last past the "we're installing monitoring software on all your machines" stage. Work is what you do to get paid - it's not your family. It's not your friend.…