I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend’s friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you’re less trusted.

but take any increased productivity for themselves

Many people seem confused and this.

Worker makes charts and reports. Owner sells for profit. Worker suddenly is making double the charts. Owner makes double the profit. Worker… ???

Just like… What do they expect to happen.

I leave my PR in draft until the checks pass. I don’t want anyone reviewing it when it’s broken.

I hate teams so much. Some of my friends have never used anything else and they’re like “I don’t understand what’s so bad about it”

It’s like trying to explain to someone who lived their whole life in a sewer what fresh air is.

My job had the entire engineering team spend 12 hours in “training” with Microsoft for AI. All they did was show us like some basic GitHub functionality.

Utter waste. Management are a bunch of fucking idiots.

Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.

Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.

They don’t understand that most of the time isn’t going into typing code into the computer. It’s figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It’s pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user’s name is null?) or dealing with it when they don’t like your decision (eg: you didn’t say what to do when I don’t have their name, so the email just says “hey”. I really don’t think this is a crisis)

Many executives are also board members.

I think there’s a difference between like a landlord and a property management company.

Property management that fixes stuff, cleans up common areas, and such adds value. They do labor that’s useful.

A landlord that just gets money because they legally own the place is not adding value. That’s what most people hate.

You can, of course, have horrible people assigned to manage the property.

Right? Emulators are pretty popular. Piracy is a service problem.

If they released PC ports of Nintendo games I would play a lot of them.

Paywall, but going by the headline: good

The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.

Imagine a context where the reader is looking at the news for the first time that day. They think they missed news in the morning, perhaps the US starting aggressions, and now China has dropped another bomb.

I’m sure you can imagine such a scenario

Because I thought China had literally bombed the US for a very tense moment before I finished reading the headline. Especially because of how the words wrapped. I didn’t need that stress.

Can we please not write headlines like that when we’re on the verge of ww3 and literal bombs might be dropped on the US in the coming months?

Cool. Fuck Microsoft

I wouldn’t do it based on join time. Age doesn’t always map to quality, and it might encourage people to make sleeper accounts to age up.

I would do it based on a graph of trust.

Let’s say you’re user 0. You trust yourself. You can then invite or vouch for a user. If they misbehave, it should reflect badly on you. If they post good content, you should share some of the glory. If one of those users invites someone, the good and bad flow upstream.

People no one has vouched for have very little power. You can filter them out with a toggle.

You’d be able to see the web of behavior. If someone keeps inviting or endorsing assholes, then they’re a problem.

Endorsing is different than upvote. You can upvote whatever, but endorsing is saying you trust this person and you’re willing to put your own reputation and access on the line.

Something like that.

Workers skeptical of unions in a survey of 1,900 tech professionals conducted by the career site Blind cited specific concerns: that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

Looking at my non union job where idiots make millions and it has taken years to get even the basics of ci/cd implemented.

That can be scaled horizontally and is just a matter of building more data centers.

At one of my old jobs “just” was considered a bad word

But on the flipside, it’s hard for me to stay concentrated while at home.

While I believe that is true for you, I don’t believe it justifies the lost time, health, and environmental damage of mandating in-office for everyone.

The office is super distracting for many people.

Oh, I read your thing backwards then.

I can’t imagine wanting to go into the office on the regular. The commute. The lost time (can math out to like a 20% pay cut, if you spend two hours a day traveling + getting ready). The sickness. The lack of control over environment (temperature, sound).

Can’t relate to it. And I’m a very social person that likes interacting with people.