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Grindr Loses Almost Half Its Staff on 2-Day RTO Requirement

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Post by isykt »

n8cpdx wrote: post #248
isykt wrote: post #201

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Sniffies. It’s far better than Grindr in almost every way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffies

I tried it out, it is a very different app from Grindr and despite the very low floor I’m not sure I agree it is better. Totally disrespectful of the web platform and the UX is not great. But if you are looking for quick and/or anonymous sex exclusively it appears to be best of breed.

I’m not familiar with web platforms. Would you be willing to share what you mean about it being disrespectful of it?

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Post by rhaway84773 »

mrguyorama wrote: post #167
Animats wrote: post #142

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> The Grindr data is essentially a blackmail gold mine. More than that. It's leaked before.[1] Grindr data was used to catch a senior US Catholic official: "... an analysis of app data signals correlated to Burrill’s mobile device shows the priest also visited gay bars and private residences while using a location-based hookup app in numerous cities from 2018 to 2020, even while traveling on assignment for the U.S. b…

Amazing how quickly they solve the "problem" when it involves completely legal consensual adult activity, compared to when it's a YOUNG boy

Yeah. Rape a kid? Silence and you get moved to a different location where you can continue raping kids and be moved to a further new location.

But had consensual sex with a man? Unforgivable. You must resign.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

gnicholas wrote: post #242
dghlsakjg wrote: post #234

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You've proved that the ADL is calling for an advertising boycott, which is a 1st amendment protected right. You haven't proven anything in regards to the effectiveness of that action. Here's some vetted research from reputable institutions unconnected to any boycotts showing a demonstrable increase in hate speech on twitter https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.04129.pdf . I don't have insider knowledge, but I would be perfectl…

> You've proved that the ADL is calling for an advertising boycott, which is a 1st amendment protected right. The First Amendment is somewhat beside the point, since Elon is alleging that they are defaming him/Twitter. Defamatory speech is not protected by the First Amendment. So it's totally fine to call for a boycott — but totally actionable to call for a boycott using defamatory statements. It will be difficult fo…

elmu could wake up tomorrow and allege space aliens were trying to break into his brain, and the same group of sycophants would take his word for it as is now

for everyone else, he is an entitled, inherited-wealth internet troll with a history of lying

you don't see him filing his lawsuit against the ADL like he said he would, do you?

how about him stepping down as CEO of twitter like he said he would?

he's just an attention whore.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

vuln wrote: post #217
supertimor wrote: post #187

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I mean, Elon is also blaming the CCDH for his loss in advertising. He’s not exactly an unbiased source here. Just because he says it, doesn’t make it true.

Do you have any sources or insider knowledge that you can present that would put Elon himself on the hook for loss in advertising? I’ve replied to multiple comments citing ADL CCDH and others actively seeking to sway advertisers away from twitter using “research.” Instead of presenting a counter argument with facts or data to back it up you resort to calling Elon a liar. It obviously shows your bias. You can believe…

elmu is a liar, thus him and his word simply can't be trusted

do you have any reliable sources or insider knowledge that you can present that would prove true these unreliable, unconvincing claims of an infamous liar?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

enraged_camel wrote: post #193
mrguyorama wrote: post #165

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That looks like a lot of marketing to me trying to shore up Biden's reputation with Union workers after he killed the railroad strike and left our necessary workers to the dogs.

You’re getting downvoted because that wasn’t Biden, it was Congress. Biden is probably the most union-friendly president over the past 50 years.

which I wouldn't have expected, honestly

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Post by red-iron-pine »

ghaff wrote: post #153
KptMarchewa wrote: post #111

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1-2 years for first few years in the industry, possibly a decade. Older employees tend to stay much, much longer.

>Older employees tend to stay much, much longer. A lot of things probably going on there. - Personal/family situation probably favors stability over mobility - May already make pretty good comp so jumping for something better is less incentivized - Value is more in making connections and using internal networks than banging out code, biasing towards longer term.

> Value is more in making connections and using internal networks than banging out code, biasing towards longer term.

bingo. it's about finding the right people and building them solutions.

my boss used to fly into different offices early to make time to see different people and just ask them pain points. buy coffee and donuts for the different team and pick their brains for things that needed solutions. a couple times he had them just show him and walk through stuff.

many of our deliverables and projects came out of that, and we became dedicated git-r-done staff.

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Post by gwright »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #14
mjhay wrote: post #6

Not sure that it's such a great business decision to lose almost half your staff, and probably moreso the higher-performing ones with other options. I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance, which sounds attractive to the average MBA brain with zero ability to think through long-term consequences.

> I'm guessing that this was intended to reduce the headcount without paying severance The employees were planning to unionize, and the RTO plan "conveniently" came up right at that time. These are pretty classic union-busting techniques. I'm actually pretty nervous for users from a security perspective. The Grindr data is essentially a blackmail gold mine - combine a ton of disgruntled employees with the loss of exp…

> These are pretty classic union-busting techniques.

It may be a union-busting technique, but I'm not sure about "classic".

I mean how often has the economy had to recover from a multi-year work at home mandate due to a pandemic?

The massive switch to remote work and the pendulum swinging back towards more in-office work is a unique phenomena, not a recurring "classic" situation.

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Post by red-iron-pine »

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #78
stronglikedan wrote: post #12

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Being that the job market is currently favoring employers over employees, I'd say they'll likely have no trouble finding new staff that has no problem with working in the office. They still have enough staff to get the new folks trained up. This would have hurt them a few years ago, but not now.

You're overlooking the main issue with firing half your staff: you've just lost a huge swath of your institutional knowledge. That's what turns your living codebase into legacy code. A new hire, even a fantastic code ninja guru rockstar 10x unassailable god king new hire, is going to have to spend a lot of time learning your codebase. Even when they are at a level when they can productively dig through it to do bugfi…

real life example: there are comments in code I've seen that are like "don't delete this or it breaks X"

but there is no X, no mention of what X does in any Confluence page, and deleting it borks stuff badly. asking around and no one is sure what X is or does, and short of refactoring the code, no one has bothered to get rid of it.

a simple question of "wtf is X?" turns into multiple meetings, failed QA tests, general custerfuckery, all of which have a $$$ cost in hours wasted.

the people that knew are gone and DGAF, but would happily consult for a heafty fee.

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Post by archo »

jwestbury wrote: post #258
archo wrote: post #256

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Change your DNS - Cloudflare and archive.today do not play nice - (think, David vs Goliath) Search; 2023:'public-dns' Take Control of your DNS

This isn't David vs. Goliath. archive.is blocks Cloudflare DNS because Cloudflare doesn't pass EDNS subnet information. This has been addressed directly by the Cloudflare CEO on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Cloudflare (CF) is a large Conglomerate. - Archive.Today (AT) is perhaps a single person. - Hence David vs Goliath.

CF could easily pass on the EDNS subnet information to allow AT to load-balance using its own CDN.

CF has made what appears to be a specious claim that they do not pass on the information to protect an end-users security.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831439

In my honest opinion, Both CF and AT are acting in an infantile manner with no attempt to mitigate this issue for the end-user.

Which ever way you look at this problem, the average end-user is hurt/damaged,

perhaps it is past time for regulatory body(s), Legislators to cast an eye on anti-competitive stifling of competition.

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Post by spacemadness »

mjhay wrote: post #69
factorymoo wrote: post #49

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> " with zero ability to think through long-term consequences" The median tenure in tech is one to two years before moving on to another team or company [1]. You need to say that what you care about is long term, but that's now how we're compensated (read: incentivised). Plus you're not there to see it anyways so there are really very little incentives to think long term. [1] some googling but couldn't find a great s…

Yeah that is a good point. Short-term thinking and short tenures are incentivized. The short average tenure in tech is just crazy to me, considering that onboarding takes forever compared to most industries, and how expensive the hiring process itself is. Nonetheless, companies hate giving existing employees raises despite how much it helps retention.

The idea of switching jobs every year and going through the usually grueling tech hiring process is exhausting to me. However, it’s mostly juniors in Silicon Valley doing this. I would also be wary of hiring anyone jumping ship every year unless they’re not senior.
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