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I'm all for the positivity but really??

> Access to an elite organization

In what way is Slack elite?

These writers need to tone done their hyperbole.


Please don't take HN on nitpicky tangents, especially bilious ones. Every article contains some minor provocation. We all need to learn to handle those, not start threads about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


In what way is Slack not elite? Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by. By almost any measure, that's elite.

Is Berkeley not an elite school, because it's less prestigious than Stanford?


> Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by.

What about profitability?


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Whatever dude, I'm not going to argue with you here. The beginning of this article starts out by explaining what a stand up is. It's not written for tech workers it's a general piece. And just working at any large technology company puts you in a very small fraction of the population and the truth is a lot of people vy for these positions. If you work at Slack coming out of undergraduate, you'll be a top 1% earner for your age bracket. That is pretty "elite" by a normal person's standard.

My original point still stands. Realize you're living in a bubble if you think a normal person would not consider working at any "average" tech company like Atlassian, or Dropbox, elite. Let me guess, you work at a company that's """elite"""?


> In what way is Slack elite?

Slack's a big name in the tech industry and there's certainly competition for jobs they have on offer.

As _elite_ as, say, Apple, Google or Facebook? Probably not - but they're not Accenture or Capita either.


I tend to avoid valleythink, but Slack's brand value is definitely elite, it pays extremely well and is widely used, even if it is just a glorified Bay Area chat app.


Agreed 100%.


> this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times)

...without using an XSD schema. With a schema,not an issue


> Richard Hendricks and the rest of the crew finally sell their new internet company — to HBO parent company AT&T, no less

This didn't happen!

They signed a deal with AT&T to build out their network.

Nowhere was this hinted at. The whole fricking idea was that they were yet to become rich and had to decide between riches and potential encryption devastation.

That was the main plot.


MMmmm. Would have thought that was not a defense for him seeing as he then went on to call him a child rapist:

> “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole,” Musk wrote in the first message. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...


Musk apparently hired an 'investigator' who turned out to be a conman who came up with this tidbit.

He had no actual knowledge that the guy wasn't a child rapist, and he did use reasonable care to verify his "facts", so it wasn't willful defamation.


> He had no actual knowledge that the guy wasn't a child rapist

What?! I can't even..

More importantly, he had no actual knowledge that the guy _was_ a child rapist


>and he did use reasonable care to verify his "facts"

No, he made the claim before he hired the investigator.


Which claim? The one with specifics like the age of his child bride? Or the "pedo guy" tweet?


Both, I believe.


Wow, genuinely surprised by this.


It's not that surprising when you consider that the British guy opened the conversation by suggesting that Musk stick his submarine up his ass. That kind of set the tone of the conversation, i.e. mean and figurative.


not op - 1 click clear storage/site data button.

Do any of the firefox devs use chrome dev tools to see what's missing in FF/nice to have?


Agree with this. Clearing site data is more verbose than it needs to be.


How many devs are on the firefox devtools team?


~10 across various panels and the new profiler.firefox.com.


As feelgood a quote as that may seem, this line:

> Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full.

is complete nonsense when contrasted against modern times. All the thieves in jail are not there because they stole to feed their family or some other noble deed.


Yep. Agree with his conclusions but also think that his reasoning is nonsense


> I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C#

Could you give us some background on your professional experience? There is no "About" section on the site.


I've been a professional developer for 10 years at several mid size companies. I've led teams for a large proportion of that time. Not claiming to know everything, still learning. I'm just writing up my thoughts at this time, they do change (they often cycle).


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