> I came here meaning to be all snarky and cynical. I was going to say there's no way Apple trained him to do that, and they'd probably fire him when they caught on to what he was doing.
And now for the real challenge: Figure out why you were convinced that there was no way that was true. I know you won't actually do this, who has the time? But it's worth considering nonetheless.
Who exactly are the members of this cult? Seems to me the members of the "A/B test everything" cult are much more prevalent. I wonder if the author just works with a designer who's a domineering jerk :) If that's the case, sorry to hear it, but that does not a "cult" make.
This guy is such a clown, and I am really tired of internet people lionizing him because they think copyright infringement is super-cool and patents are super-dumb, or whatever.
Yeah, why take a pay cut or cut something you as a board member personally care about, when you can just cut something stupid peon employees care about. Engineers in such an organization are right to leave, though granted it is stupid that they are getting upset about sodas.
While I sympathize with the situation MailChimp is in, I am getting tired of this anti-elitist attitude of PHPers. Of course, part of the reason why I feel that way is because I think PHP actually is crappy, but putting that aside doesn't change much.
There's this notion that programming languages are all really the same, and devs are just a bunch of prima donnas chasing the newest thing. It couldn't possibly be that we have used PHP before and have good reasons for not wanting to use it anymore. No, instead we must be a bunch of groupthinking prigs, scoffing at PHP because we're afraid to let our peers see us using such a shameful thing. You can tell they think that by the title of the post.
I guess what I'm wondering is, at what point will they consider using PHP to be too costly? If:
- they already have a limited talent pool due to location and the business they're in,
- PHP only serves to reduce that pool even further,
- presumably software development is important to the future of their business,
- and they're not changing markets or locations anytime soon,
when will it get too expensive to continue using it?
What rankles is the digging in of heels, the attitude of "oh, if only devs could see how clean and great our PHP code is!" They see a tons of developers not interested in using the tool they use, and decide that all those people are simply mistaken, and just need to be convinced otherwise. The problem couldn't be on the other side of the table, no sir.
How is leaving SF any different? You're doing the same thing but at a greater step of remove. Instead of the homeless people being down the block, they're safely away from you in a distant country.
As for your local area, I suppose either there are no homeless or poor people, or you are just constantly thinking about them, unlike those hard-hearted Californians. Come on.
To each his own. I don't work for the world's largest anything, and while programming is only one thing I do, it's the only one I'm interested in doing professionally. How quaint, I guess.
Do you want to run a business, or do you aspire to be the kind of person who runs a business, because magazines told you that means something? One is sexy and the other isn't.
I work for a company that offers unlimited vacation. It works, and I think it's great, and it's a major hurdle for me leaving to work somewhere else. It seems that even top companies offer maybe 3 weeks vacation, which just seems pitifully small to me these days. I don't wanna sit around trying to figure out how to optimally use my remaining 1.79 weeks of vacation time, I just wanna do a good job and take time off when I need or want to.
I see this argument about unlimited vacation pretty often, and I think the people making this argument think they are out-clevering a clever idea. But it comes down to the organization's culture -- if you work for a place where taking time off is encouraged, then you feel free to take vacations and others do too. If you don't work in that sort of place, it doesn't matter what your allotted vacation time is because you won't use it anyway. Or if you do, you won't enjoy it.
Here's the real problem in a tech context, though -- conferences. If you can't get away, you can't go to conferences, and you'll end up forfeiting the knowledge and outside perspectives you get from going to conferences. It's just not the same thing at all as learning on your own.
I mean, I'm not in a situation where I think my tiny company will one day be worth untold billions. Maybe in that situation you need to keep your nose to the grindstone. But I think that sounds like kind of a grim existence.
I will say this, though: if you have a balanced life to begin with, the idea of laying on a beach somewhere kinda loses its urgency. Vacations become less necessary to keep your sanity or whatever, which is great. But there still is the need to step away and see something different for a while. There is value in that, believe it.