A huge number of developers at Amazon and Google are clapping their hands with glee when the read this…. It’s their jobs to get exactly this outcome. They’ll show your post to the boss to lock in their bonus.
This is the prime purpose of these gigantic companies. Of course it works like that.
The smartest software developers in the world dedicate their working lives to advertising.
The most toxic device on the internet is the downvote.
It’s nothing more that a “criticize” button, or perhaps “attack”, “belittle”, “devalue”.
Downvotes make people feel hurt belittled and attacked.
Nothing wrong with upvoting - that’s positive.
Downvoting destroys all good will.
And of course so clever and funny here in HN this comment gets downvoted, which proves my point. The downvote is the tool of the drive by vandal. It allows people to behave like a dickhead anonymously and at no cost.
My question to you….. did you START with passion drive enthusiasm and a sense of inherent drive? Has that now been replaced with the desire to succeed primarily for money?
If yes than that’s fine.
Maybe it’s even good, or better than your previous motivations.
All the tech people in this thread arguing how it makes no difference technically where the data resides etc etc. really guys can you not think further than that? It’s simple and obvious the Indian government is exercising total control over its affairs. Naming technical distinctions completely misses the point.
This is not a technical issue and has zero to do with tech. It’s political.
Goodness knows there’s plenty of porno training images out there.