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fooster··on Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
I worked a unionized job in my first position with CUPE and we ended up going on strike after an open vote (2 against, my coworker and I, everyone else for) which is illegal. After 3 weeks out we went back to work for 1% more in the first year and 1% less in the second. Our union attempted to ruin the reputation of folks in my union who I personally knew crossed the picked line to teach so as not to violate the terms of their contract teaching positions (along with their union position). The union was stupid, corrupt and ultimately everyone who went on strike lost money.

Unions are not the answer.

fooster··on Signs that it's time to leave a company
Get serious unless the employee is open about what is going on none of that is ok. And if they are open they won’t be employees by multi employers for long.
fooster··on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio
Not even close to enough. Look at the growth of revenue and headcount. It is clear another huge cut has to be made.
fooster··on A Canadian payroll dependency chart
You have to be kidding me. I really don't think Argentina is an example of a revolution anyone should follow.
fooster··on Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
I doubt an n2-standard-8 is remotely close to the speed of an m3 pro. Did you test the performance?
fooster··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Vscode remote has almost no visible latency period.
fooster··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Have you actually used vscode remote? If not you should. If you have all I can is that I’ve personally used all the solutions you are mentioning and for me vscode remote is the top bar none even for very large repos.
fooster··on How to survive in a Chinese company
By the grandparents.
fooster··on $20k bounty was claimed
Dude I got $1000 a day in Canada in the early 90s. You just need the right skills and contacts.
fooster··on A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Who could have possibly predicted a backlash?
fooster··on A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
A not for profit than just so happens to own a 90b business.
fooster··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Of course it isn’t. Without executive sponsorship there is no staff or resources.
fooster··on Building a high performance JSON parser
Last time I compared the performance of various json parsers the simd one turned out to be disappointingly slow.
fooster··on HubSpot Acquires Clearbit
> just got the old CEO back as far as I can remember

hum? The original CEO is developing https://reflect.app/

fooster··on The product manager role is a mistake
Customer relations under sales? Who does that??
fooster··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
Yeah we’ve had one too. Actually no two. Wait three. Actually I’ve lost count. In the 6 years I’ve been using GCP we’ve had a new rep practically every quarter. It’s ridiculous.
fooster··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
Really dumb humans mostly that won’t answer your questions and deny all compensation.
fooster··on Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago
They may have just made it up to fit their narrative.
fooster··on Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago
Nonsense. Don’t spread misinformation.
fooster··on Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
Yeah exactly. If I can avoid it I wont watch ads including paying more.
fooster··on Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
People do it all the time. Cable tv.
fooster··on Sonnet: High performance JSON decoder in Go
Thanks
fooster··on How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers
Scoping is pretty much bs until the thing is mostly done anyway.
fooster··on Sonnet: High performance JSON decoder in Go
Those don’t make much sense to me nor do I see a comparison with the segment high performance json library.
fooster··on Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics (2022)
It’s so frustrating that every post on go brings out the same tired tropes. It just ruins any sensible discussion on any changes. Why do you do it? Are you trying to troll and actively make HN a worse place because that is for me what you are doing.

If you don’t like go don’t read the posts it’s not hard. Just stop.

fooster··on Warner Bros. CFO Thinks You Deadbeats Have Been on a Free Ride for Way Too Long
I don't know what the streaming services have been paying for their content, so its hard to evaluate whether the content has been given away below FMV. However, I do know that the way things are moving now into everyone and their dog having their own streaming brand is also not going to work long term. Not for me, and not for anyone else either. No-one wants to subscribe to 101 different services. Either there will be some sort of reconsoliation, or we'll resort to buying shows a-la-carte, or people will switch services every week, or as a last resort back to piracy.
fooster··on Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
You are choosing teams. What are your employees choosing? In my experience teams is a terrible mess and a company using it would exclude me from working for the company because they very likely don’t give a crap about the day to day experience of the employee.
fooster··on Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'
EVEN MORE true at the VP level because the stakes are so much higer.
fooster··on Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'
I find this a very naive view point. Hiring is exceedingly difficult, and the reality is that no matter how well intentioned your process you never know whether the person you've hired fits with your organization, or isn't an outright liar. If you hire people, you will fire people (or be stuck with people who for whatever reason don't work well).
fooster··on Meta blocking news links in Canada
That hyperbole is just that. Overly dramatic nonsense. If the other parties want to win an election they first must elect a leader who themselves speak to the remainder of Canadians. Which is something they managed to do even more badly this time around.
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