billyraejohnson

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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
..and of course you do not see a relation between the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs and public spending oddly ever more looking like a neoliberal's wet dream...
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
...interestingly enough, they have been publishimg this same "story" every few years for a long time now. He seems to be very carefully maintaining the image of a frugal billionaire. Either that or making sure to initiate every ne
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
No, the workers have generated billions, not him. But he and his ilk damage the society by pressuring the company mgmt to perform layoffs and cut costs until shit hits the fan. Have you not heard of the struggles of workrs at one of "h
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
You are missing the point and are confusing real-world applications with SEO-optimised websites and e-commerce apps. Besides if anything, dark patterns, tracking etc. are pushed mainly by the product mgmt. sect, a group which I agree has ha
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
How could you possibly know what his inner motivations may be? Do you live with him or have at least talked to him for an hour? Yes I was talking about them based on the visible outcomes of their actions, that is what experience tought me a
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
No, not really. A bad comparison. A programmer building software, commercially or not, will have a positive impact on something (product, customer, technology, ideas). Any negative impact coming from an enthusiastic programmer, in form of b
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
^This. Please stop publishing the frugal, benevolent billionaire propaganda, we've heard this nonsense so many times. Look up "precision scheduled railroading" for just one real life example of how these KPI-focused idiots r
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
This is pathetic. You provided only multiple repetitions of a general description of your supposed process, dancing around very specific and concrete questions. You did not dispute any of my claims. Your explanation sounds a lot like the no
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
That is a lot of words to bend around my arguments. Apart from effectively stating that your curation can be completely arbitrary, you are offering no arguments in the way of explaining WHAT specific criteria did you apply here? Not wantin
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
Btw, this is the only layoff discussion you hid, from all the many others. I wonder why.
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
It is extremely relevant topic because it is *not a standard bureaucratic-technical layoff discussion around roumors, numbers, departments, teams etc. Our new buddy Chris, in his own words, un-covers all the shitty corpospeak, all the bulls
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
I am sorry but this does not sound very convincing. You are blocking the visibility of a highly important topic.The thread was not just down-weighted, but also taken away from the topic listings altogether. It happened within a very short t
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
No, I meant, almost as if HN admins took the thread off of the frontpage intentionally.
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by billyraejohnson 4y ago
Funny, almost as if there was an active attempt at hiding this discussion...