Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

sef.kloninger.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

131–140 of 250 posts

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#131

Post by ntoshev »

Apparently this site is using CloudFlare, and it's failing:

DNS Resolution Error

You've requested a page on a website (sef.kloninger.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, CloudFlare is currently unable to resolve your requested domain (sef.kloninger.com). There are two potential causes of this:

Most likely: if the owner just signed up for CloudFlare it can take a few minutes for the website's information to be distributed to our global network. Check back in about 5 minutes and the site should be up and running and enjoying all the benefits of CloudFlare.

Less likely: something is wrong with this site's configuration. Usually this happens when accounts have been signed up with a partner organization (e.g., a hosting provider) and the provider's DNS fails.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#132

Post by neurostimulant »

joshu wrote: post #76
dangrossman wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been posting my e-mail addresses in plaintext all over the web for a good decade and a half. I still use those same addresses. I see no spam. Spam filters work. Why are people afraid of having their e-mail address out there without obfuscation?

I get a boatload of spam daily. On gmail.

Every year I get 3-5 nigerian-type spam in my gmail inbox. The most recent one use google group to deliver the spam.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#133

Post by mh- »

gaius wrote: post #104
steve8918 wrote: post #84

Valuing an employee's time is definitely something that should be considered. But even taken a few steps further than "I need another monitor to increase productivity", and you're floating dangerously close to self-entitlement, and simple, pathetic whining. At Yahoo, I distinctly remember a thread on devel-random where one employee, in a single post, complained about things like how ugly the color scheme of the walls…

you're floating dangerously close to self-entitlement, and simple, pathetic whining Developers acting like this, and getting away with it, should ring the bubble alarm bells. It's how it was in the 90s too.

this developer was at Yahoo, which burst long ago.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#134

Post by mh- »

dsirijus wrote: post #124

At my place, you get name.surname@mycompany.com and can have as many aliases as you want, I don't care - I'll always send you mail to name.surname@mycompany.com. How is it NOT geeky to have local mail parts in friggin' order? Also, even if I had money to provide some hardware to people working for me, I'd call them whining b....s they are. We'll organically upgrade on neccesity and keep it lean at all times.

congrats, you found the most effective way to ensure that you only hire candidates who couldn't get on at more enjoyable places to work.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#135

Post by rdl »

gnarizard wrote: post #69
jroseattle wrote: post #37

For the engineers I've hired onto my team, I insist they be provided the very things that I want as an engineer: - Two big monitors - New dev machine/laptop, running latest bits - A top-of-the-line chair - Some natural light (not to be confused with *natty light*) These are the non-negotiable items, and having taken a few senior mgmt positions, it's now something I state upfront: this is how we roll, no exceptions. T…

Natural light can't be emphasized enough. I just moved to a window-less fluorescent fishbowl shared by three analysts/developers, and I've never had so many headaches.

I hate natural light and windows; give me a windowless room where I can set the temperature, light level, etc. exactly, independent of time of day.

The first thing after "private offices for anyone who wants them" is "24x7 HVAC adjustable as close to individually as possible"; I have a shared office in an invite-only coworking space which I largely don't use because the HVAC shuts off at 6pm and is on again at 9am, with huge windows -- it's barely ok in the evenings/mornings during the week, but unusable on weekends.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#136

Post by nicholassmith »

Hm, I think a few people have missed the point of the post by the 'omg how self-entitled' posts I've just scanned through. This isn't just about getting bigger monitors, or a fancy email or a dozen other things, it's about companies that don't understand the development environment that works best is whatever the developer needs. Your company makes software? The developers are their biggest asset.

Plus given a blank cheque most of us wouldn't go wild, we understand what we need and skip the rest.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#137

Post by stusmith1977 »

crazygringo wrote: post #8

The monitors, I totally understand and agree with. That's about actual productivity. But choosing your own e-mail address? There must be a thousand little details like that in my life, every day, that I have no control over, like the color of my desk, or the sound of a coworker's voice. By all means, try to find a workplace that suits you the best, but if a seemingly tiny detail like that bothers you so much, unless…

Email addresses, agreed, not so much. But one thing that annoys me where I work is our logins are of the form 'u0123456' (roughly sequentially allocated, but starting from 0100000)... and they're tied to our source control system. So you look through the commit logs, and all you can see are Unumbers - no names. Half the whiteboards in the office are covered in lookup tables of U-to-name.

It's a real downer when someone joins the company too - pretty much the first thing you have tell them is "you're a number now - everything in the company is accessed by this number". You can see in their eyes an "oh shit what have I gotten into" moment.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#138

Post by Limes102 »

codeonfire wrote: post #116

This has always been a tell for what kind of management runs a software company. If you can't get a 24" monitor because the guy in charge has a 24 and has to have a 30 before anyone else can have a 24, time to run away.

Haha, yeah. That happened to me.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#139

Post by dsirijus »

mh- wrote: post #134
dsirijus wrote: post #124

At my place, you get name.surname@mycompany.com and can have as many aliases as you want, I don't care - I'll always send you mail to name.surname@mycompany.com. How is it NOT geeky to have local mail parts in friggin' order? Also, even if I had money to provide some hardware to people working for me, I'd call them whining b....s they are. We'll organically upgrade on neccesity and keep it lean at all times.

congrats, you found the most effective way to ensure that you only hire candidates who couldn't get on at more enjoyable places to work.

No, I attract hard working, no nonsense people who take joy in getting things done with least amount of friction, and who don't need masseuse to write code.

Re: Why Quit? Because the other company has bigger monitors.

#140

Post by Genmutant »

crazygringo wrote: post #8

The monitors, I totally understand and agree with. That's about actual productivity. But choosing your own e-mail address? There must be a thousand little details like that in my life, every day, that I have no control over, like the color of my desk, or the sound of a coworker's voice. By all means, try to find a workplace that suits you the best, but if a seemingly tiny detail like that bothers you so much, unless…

My email adress at my university contains the full name. But because I have 3 first names, all are included, which brings the total adress to 41 characters. I hate it.
Post reply on HN