• Mingusdynasty@lemmy.myserv.one
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    8 months ago

    Can we just agree as a society that people like this are ruining the world? Maybe if they were treated like the enemies of humanity they are, and exposed to 1% of the misery they cause, it would be a less common genre of shitty person?

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    8 months ago

    If it is your startup, you are free to work 996 mode. Don’t expect your employees to do the same.

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    9 months ago

    This guy’s upset you won’t break your back to make him richer.

    What a piece of shit.

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    9 months ago

    Robber Barons are back in style!

    Why is anyone questioning why people want to murder the rich and support social programs more and more. You have just sit and think how much people will take before they absolutely slaughter these fucking pieces of human trash.

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      9 months ago

      They throw people in concentration camps without any process, much less due process, get giant tax breaks while taking away people’s healthcare, layoff thousands of workers while getting a generous bonus, dump toxic waste in the rivers, use 45% of the corn grown to make ethanol that doesn’t solve anything, and say there’s not enough room for solar panels.

      But don’t post Luigi memes because that’s inciting violence.

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    8 months ago

    Stebbings, founder of 20VC, a firm managing $650 million in funds, advised founders on LinkedIn last month that “7 days a week is the required velocity to win right now,” to compete with startups in Silicon Valley and China.

    Just from that sentence you can tell the guy leads an impoverished life in ways that won’t be fixed by money. But he’s going to spend his life chasing money because he can’t imagine what else to do with it.

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      8 months ago

      These are the people when some folks say “you can’t buy happiness” are referring to because they will never be happy.

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      Just like all the other psychopath techbros, he’ll take from everyone else, make everyone miserable, wallow in his superiority, and be a general scouge to Earth in an attempt to fill a void that will always just expand anyways. At the end of the day, they’ll always have the most money and still be the poorest people in the world. No amount they exploit from the rest of us will satiate their ravenous, everlasting hunger.

      They’ll punish us, who they envy for our ability to live rich lives with emotions that they will never experience.

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        8 months ago

        If there’s one thing that businessmen and investors demonstrate an appalling lack of understanding of, it’s economics.

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      9 months ago

      What I don’t get is…they can just hire more people to do the work and expand the company? When you consider this, you realize that they’re just asking people to work 40% more without an increase in pay (hence hiring more people is not an option)…then they call it “productivity gains”.

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        Then they’ll complain when no one wants to work those ludicrous hours and they’ll sing one of the greatest hits of all time:

        “nOBodY WaNts To woRk ANyMorE”

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        they can just hire more people

        In software development, it’s not that easy. Having multiple people working on the same code adds a lot of overhead. Also, finding another excellent programmer is slow and expensive. (The “fast, cheap, good: pick two” rule applies.)

        Plus, do you want two software developers with a good work/life balance and fulfilling ways to spend their free time, or do you want one software developer with mental issues that, among other things, leave him with nothing to do except work and no source of meaning in life except getting work done? The first option is more dependable, since the guy in the second option is crazy. However, if you’re building a startup then you need to take risks and the second option is the one more likely to create something amazing. (IMO, of course.)

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          This seems short-sighted. You want to hire enough people and give them what they need to grow their skills as they work. Invest in your employees a bit. Then you get the quality without the burnout and mental crises, plus you get a company that feels good to work for.

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            Plus the fundamental insanity of saying efficiency is a single monolithic thing that can only be effectively worked on by a single person. The only reason you have that is because the type of coder these people want to abuse is the same type of person who’s bad at designing code. They just keep stumbling on subsuming additional features into the monolith because encapsulation and code design is uninteresting to their reward centers. That’s why multiple people can’t work on it, not because there’s some fundamental inability to effectively partition work during the production of innovative software.