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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by anonuser123456 »

lucb1e wrote: post #78
staticassertion wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5 years at Google is forever, and it's not uncommon at all for people to jump around projects at the company. It's also a full year beyond what's necessary to vest. Really silly way to write that.

European here - what's it mean to vest shares? It sounds like some sort of stock options became unlocked? I haven't heard of this thing before, just of stocks being part of salary for small startups that don't have actual money to pay you (or at least, that's what I've heard warnings for on HN).

Big corps pay RSUs as part of your compensation package.

This helps them reduce compensation during hard times. Salaries are very sticky; it’s hard to cut salaries. So they offer RSU comp because it’s tied to stock price. When the company is doing poorly, they can pay less. But it also lets the pay high compensation and retain long term talent.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by throwaway3699 »

Ataraxy wrote: post #66
_etyf wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth noting that the Pepe meme has continued to evolve, and is no longer associated solely or primarily with 4chan. The streamer community in particular has adopted, rehabiliated, and popularized Pepe as a mascot and chat emote. For example, here's Pepe and the "poggers" meme in a recent stream from Pokimane, a streamer with over 7 million followers who made Forbes' 2021 30 under 30 list: https://www.youtube.co…

It was a big thing on Twitch long before any of the negative associations were made with it via media.

Yup. The GPs viewpoint could only have been discovered without firsthand knowledge of the situation.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by at_a_remove »

AllegedAlec wrote: post #70
russdpale wrote: post #17

Literal definition of failing upwards. He isn't a boy genuis, he copied code from japanese websites and then fostered one of the most toxic communities in human history. At google, he took a job from someone who was almost certainly way more qualified, both technically and morally.

Holy shit imagine this salty about a guy who admined a Czechoslovakian turnip farming forum.

"Toxic," that wound up over a Bulgarian dog-spinning board. Whew.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by superflit »

okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

Welcome to /pol/ you will never leave.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by [deleted] »

beaconstudios wrote: post #23
_lffv wrote: post #18

> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe…

you'd think this would be common knowledge given 4chan is literally an open website, but I always hear these mythologised recountings of it like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by Andrex »

blissofbeing wrote: post #3

"only five years" that's a long time in my opinion to be at one company.

Ron Amadeo is a talented reporter but his transparent smarminess towards anything Google-related has become exhausting in recent years.

A lot of the time it may be warranted. But just as often, like in this article, it definitely is not.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by superflit »

whymauri wrote: post #61
beaconstudios wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you'd think this would be common knowledge given 4chan is literally an open website, but I always hear these mythologised recountings of it like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

>like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's pretty interesting, because as long as I've been conscious on the Internet it's always been posed as an 'inaccessible cult.' Probably due to all the inside jokes, I guess?

The 'inaccessible cult.' is about the structure of the board.

First time you go there is a Chaotic mess that feels you went back to 90's.

Then in shock you start to see the subs like /pol/ then you click and bam More chaos.

Threads and threads you are more lost.

Then you click catalog and set order Reply-by-count.

Then it does start to make sense. You read people talking in two ways. On the text and on the image attached.

It is full-duplex com.

In the 90's I used to read my Mainstream media + Pravda (the other side) jornal.

Now I read the local MSM and 4chan (the other side ) jornal.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by mhh__ »

beaconstudios wrote: post #23
_lffv wrote: post #18

> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe…

you'd think this would be common knowledge given 4chan is literally an open website, but I always hear these mythologised recountings of it like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

> It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

Isn't that hackernews

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by dang »

carabiner wrote: post #6
blissofbeing wrote: post #3

"only five years" that's a long time in my opinion to be at one company.

The original CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-mo... lacks this editorial spin. Tech people hop around a lot, 5 years is a solid tenure.

Ah ok, we'll change the URL to that from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/4chan-founder-chris-.... Thanks!

Actually we should already have changed it - that's standard practice when one article cribs from another. But I missed it in this case.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by dang »

cavisne wrote: post #56

“ Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest. It sounds like Poole never found a solid landing spot at Google, as he had three different positions during his five years.” Lol such a dishonest representation of FANG employment. Well above average (2 years) a year past the vesting cliff, and about average in terms of team swi…

That was from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/4chan-founder-chris-.... We've since changed the URL - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916649

That spin had so much torque I'm surprised the article stayed motionless.

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