At the risk of saying something terribly unpopular, I've got about six more of these in me, then I'm done.
At the risk of saying something terribly unpopular, I've got about six more of these in me, then I'm done. Seriously. Let's get real. There are what? Say thirty thousand or so startups in the U.S., with ten thousand joining and dropping out in any given year? So if 1% were fuckups, we'd be able to run several of these stories a day. Forever. I think people like them because it feels good to see young jerks acting like, well, young jerks. Don't we know so much more than them? Wonder how they feel, now, those assholes! You can get the holier-than-thou feeling and you can riff off the righteous indignation. Lots of folks just can't get enough righteous indignation. Then you can sit around and share stories from the good old days. The problem is, not only can you run these ad infinitum without actually doing more than sharing a ton of anecdotes -- it doesn't lead to any sort of productivity. It gives me nothing to go and accomplish, it offers no insights into what public policy changes might be required to stop it (if it did, it'd be politics, and we don't want to go there). It's just -- nothing. Like driving by a fender bender and talking to the other people in the car about what happened and who must be at fault. A waste of time. I really wish there was something useful here. Best I've got is "People who don't understand employment law are going to make lots of mistakes" So I got that. I got that with the first of these. Maybe we're seeing the start of a new genre, like FuckedCompany. If so, perhaps there's a subreddit for it somewhere? After a few dozen of these, it ain't going to be stuff hackers are interested in, unless they're some pretty monotonous hackers.
Posted by DanielBMarkham on Oct 22, 2014, 1:39 AM
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- Unless it is running on a government issued iPhone, it is not the Individual #1 you are alluding to.
- Great job, will try it.
- I also have a 2014 CR-V and I hate this too.
- I wish there was a setting to make audio and video opt in per site.
- There sure are.
- I feel like it's once a week that HN surfaces some incredibly overhyped, low-on-the-hierarchy-of-evidence ( https://en.wikipedi...
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Unless it is running on a government issued iPhone, it is not the Individual #1 you are alluding to.
NewGreat job, will try it.
NewI also have a 2014 CR-V and I hate this too.
NewI wish there was a setting to make audio and video opt in per site.
There sure are.
I feel like it's once a week that HN surfaces some incredibly overhyped, low-on-the-hierarchy-of-evidence ( https://en.wikipedi...
That usually works well enough for risc code.
> The Bulletin calls her Miss Swindell.
At the risk of saying something terribly unpopular, I've got about six more of these in me, then I'm done.
At the risk of saying something terribly unpopular, I've got about six more of these in me, then I'm done. Seriously. Let's get real. There are what? Say thirty thousand or so startups in the U.S., with ten thousand joining and dropping out in any given year? So if 1% were fuckups, we'd be able to run several of these stories a day. Forever. I think people like them because it feels good to see young jerks acting like, well, young jerks. Don't we know so much more than them? Wonder how they feel, now, those assholes! You can get the holier-than-thou feeling and you can riff off the righteous indignation. Lots of folks just can't get enough righteous indignation. Then you can sit around and share stories from the good old days. The problem is, not only can you run these ad infinitum without actually doing more than sharing a ton of anecdotes -- it doesn't lead to any sort of productivity. It gives me nothing to go and accomplish, it offers no insights into what public policy changes might be required to stop it (if it did, it'd be politics, and we don't want to go there). It's just -- nothing. Like driving by a fender bender and talking to the other people in the car about what happened and who must be at fault. A waste of time. I really wish there was something useful here. Best I've got is "People who don't understand employment law are going to make lots of mistakes" So I got that. I got that with the first of these. Maybe we're seeing the start of a new genre, like FuckedCompany. If so, perhaps there's a subreddit for it somewhere? After a few dozen of these, it ain't going to be stuff hackers are interested in, unless they're some pretty monotonous hackers.
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