I feel like governments have so many options for hacking that forking open source and dealing with all that is likely more work than whatever outcome they hope for.
Some high profile companies or even portions of those stink. The vast majority I've worked for in the US are NOTHING like that, but "company behaves, invests in employee growth, and treats employees nice" doesn't get picked up by the news / on social media.
In fact in the US worked for a company bought by a Japanese company and really nothing really changed and the Japanese and American company were quite similar.
I don't disagree exactly but I think if you pay enough, it matters less. Meta, Amazon, those places can afford to churn through people.
Personally I work at a very small company, I make changes largely how and when I wish ... lots of freedom. In a couple minutes the fix is in production and we're all good to go. It's great.
But I don't think the folks attracted to those big companies with big pay are applying for tiny co for less money. Actually I know they're not because I'm not seeing them in interviews.
To some extent folks make themselves hired guys for top dollar and if that's the deal there ya go.
Agreed, my car is a tool for going places, consistency is a big attraction and I’ve zero interest in some new UI with every vehicle or vehicle software update.
Sure I would like the vehicle to have some style but trying to navigate with maps or something I want it to work / look consistently.
It reminds me of the other social media type experiments, I applaud their efforts but the underlying technology just isn’t a huge selling point to viewers compared to the actual content.
I'm on team convenience. I don't like it, I get how the media ownership situation sucks a times ... but I don't want to drag a bunch of cds, or blue rays or manage files on some personal server because I want to watch movies.
That's my local meetups too. I eventually stopped going. I'm not super social so I figured I was part of the problem but yeah they had a very transactional vibe.
Long ago I once participated on a forum where meta conversation about the conversation was not allowed. It really did a nice job to avoid the kind of (often way off) meta comments about other comments that come up like this.
It's telling if someone can't actually find a comment to reply to in order to address whatever meta issue they're concerned about.
It’s weird too, these people’s history will show up on job sites and etc, people will find out… fast.
The examples seem clumsy and amateurish.