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Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#101

Post by tomc1985 »

allzeros wrote: post #97
preommr wrote: post #50

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

I really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If…

Squeaky wheels get the oil. Sorry dude...

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#102

Post by tomc1985 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #88

I expect there to be a momentary burst in attempts to go remote-first, or at least hybrid. Senior executives will want to level the playing field between expensive areas and cheaper ones, and use that to drive down salaries overall. But then, there are plenty of managers who really see a lot of value in spontaneous face-to-face interactions, or even planned ones, because so much communication happens just in body lan…

> next generation of ambitious managers

Fuck, I really hope I am out of software by then. Ambitious managers are the worst

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#103

Post by Aeolun »

frandroid wrote: post #99
ethanwillis wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a valid point of discussion. What isn't is you actually complaining. You could take your own advice and write to Dang about the moderation?

You literally just repeated his own point, but about his comment.

If only nobody would write comments on HN we wouldn’t have this problem!

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#104

Post by Waterluvian »

allzeros wrote: post #97
preommr wrote: post #50

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

I really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If…

How on earth can this individual’s speech vex you to such an extent that you need it silenced?

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#105

Post by foogazi »

nbardy wrote: post #60
threeseed wrote: post #13

There's an insightful series of comments from Sid, CEO of Gitlab about why this is not likely to work over the long term: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720 It might be different for Quora given that their CEO and SLT will be remote. But I still believe that whenever you have an office you are creating a community of employees who will have a different relationship to those who are working remotely…

Wholeheartedly agree I worked remotely for the first 6 years or so of my career and hybrid approaches turn the remote team into second class citizens more like contractors.

Wonder if it ever happens the other way around?

Does the office team ever turn into second class citizens?

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#106

Post by ardit33 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #104
allzeros wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If…

How on earth can this individual’s speech vex you to such an extent that you need it silenced?

It adds 0 to the conversation. It is very weird, almost borderline autistic behaviour...

90% of links, have some kind of: "doesn't work on my mobile... format sucks, i don't like the colors, etc... etc.." comment.

It is pure infantile/juvenile bikesheding and distracting from the point of the conversation/link that has nothing to do with formatting.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#107

Post by preommr »

allzeros wrote: post #97
preommr wrote: post #50

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

I really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If…

Then let me add that this is a particularly bad case.

I know there's a user called foone that has gotten posted to HN enough times that they explained why they use twitter to make posts instead of writing a blog (they have adhd, and they find it easier to write on twitter). Which is reasonable since there's an empathical justification. And I've read other twitter threads in the past, which were fine.

Usually, people just write out a paragraph but broken over multiple tweets. This is the first time that I've seen someone try and link other videos/posts/images which is somehow so much worse.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#108

Post by beachy »

pleasantpeasant wrote: post #46

I hate when Quora pops up from searching for something. I loathe Quora and wish they never existed. They make searching for things a lot more annoying.

Many have made this observation, but I wish there was a way to blacklist sites from my search results.

I literally never want to see results from Quora, ExpertsExchange and a bunch of other grotty spam dens with low quality user generated content.

I don't get why Google is not doing this. If I could block these sites, I'd get much more value out of Google, and it would be sticky value - because over the years I would have added hundreds of sites to that list, and I wouldn't want to transfer that over to some other search engine.

Some nice extras would include:

- blocking sites for e.g. 12 months only

- sharing black lists

- being able to search without the blacklist applying

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#109

Post by Austin_Conlon »

dantheman wrote: post #20

I can't believe this site still exists, who goes there?

Why does it surprise you (and the many dismissive commenters in this thread)? The way I personally get the most value out of it is by asking questions from people who are active and have clear expertise. Some examples are questions about the Swift compiler and standard library from people who worked on it, or from Alan Kay about the history of computing.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

#110

Post by [deleted] »

allzeros wrote: post #97
preommr wrote: post #50

I made an honest effort to read that and I just couldn't. I actually can't imagine any kind of reading medium that's worse. There's chunks of text interlaced with a bunch of visual noise, random images, links to separate threads which are huge images and bigger than the surrounding text.

I really, truly wish HN would moderate and remove comments about a link's medium. Every single post here has at least one person complaining about the layout of the source. Every time. It's exhausting. I hate it. It contributes absolutely nothing, and I don't know if anyone's noticed, but people keep using Twitter! Gasp! If you hate Twitter so much, reach out to the tweet author and ask them to publish elsewhere. If…

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