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But we as a species decided that jQuery bad :(

> A classic example of this is that no one can "get you into Google/Facebook/whatever".

That is so not true.


Care to offer an explanation?

It used to be that a referral from a current employee was a big plus and would allow the applicant to get directly to onsite interviews. Not sure how it works now.

> It’s how a business with healthy and defined processes should operate.

That sounds like bullshit. Why?


Because it shows the company has processes in place for economic planning, with budget allocation, and all the other systems and checks that are meant to ensure stability and profitability.

That’s not to say that businesses with these processes defined can’t still be total shitshows. But the ones that don’t have those processes are more likely to be shitshows.


> I'm not sure what this is called, but when the chapter can be summed up in a sentence or two, but fleshed out to cover 3 or four pages, with multiple anecdotes conveying the same concept.

This is how I felt when I read Tony Robbins. Or a modern business book.


> Yes, and you can get fresh tomatoes any time of year for cheap and they're so firm they won't get damaged in transit and with a blast of ethylene they're a perfect shade of red when you buy them

My family calls those "water balloons".


Not everyone works for Valley Virgins


> Computing at this scale is not marketed to flashy fanbois.

Every vain CxO is a flashy fanboi at heart


It's the irresistible taste of boot.


the harder i lick the less likely they kick me


They'll kick you the hardest for being weak and annoying


Agree.

The paragraph when I stopped reading:

> What we built isn’t an app. It’s a repeatable local format: a standing night where strangers become regulars, centred on music rather than networking.


> Mozilla is a deeply corrupt and failed organization.

Can you elaborate?


See: Firefox, management churn, alienation and discarding of community, etc.

Some of us who donated money and supported Mozilla and Firefox are deeply, deeply disappointed and disgusted.

Principles are meaningless to non-human corporate entities, and I'll never donate to a non-profit, charity, or other institution again for the rest of my life.


A great deal of greed exists within many non-profits. (It's frankly obscene when you do your research.) That's not to say some don't serve the public well, but the legal structure of a non-profit isn't by itself enough to deter corruption.


I'm sure a lot of shady activity can be found if someone does some kind of bulk analysis on IRS 990 forms.


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