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Hand of fate is moving and its finger points to you

It throws you on the street; now what's next for you?

Your options: worthless, and you're bound by NDA

Pied Piper seems quite cushy, best update your resume

-- Iron Maiden, "The Wickr Man"

Can you explain a bit for us how "come work at a company that's actively laying people off" would be compelling?

CrashPlan. Not Cloudflare.

Likewise. I enjoyed my time there (well, until this blog post wound up on my radar!), but after a year it was time for me to go, so I resigned without much in the way of hard feelings.

I'm not at all pleased to discover today that we (and many like us) are now being painted as "disruptive," "miserable," and ultimately crappy employees. Expensify has just taken themselves from "Not what I ultimately wanted, but a good experience that I'd recommend to most folks who fit their model" to "company I'll actively steer people away from if they asked me."

I struggle and fail to understand the point of this blog post; did someone think this would be well received? Do they think it makes them look better than the average company? Is there now an internal sense of "achievement unlocked" that thrills them when the rest of the industry sees this as abhorrent? Their GlassDoor reviews are starting to seem a lot more ominous lately as well.

If you take a look at NetFlix, another company whose culture speaks to "top performers or get out," there's always been a sense that people who've left are still great people / employees. When someone leaves (voluntarily or not), the consensus and messaging becomes that it just wasn't a good fit, and they stand behind their former employees as being fantastic hires elsewhere.

This entire blog series / ad campaign just comes across as either profoundly deluded, or a desperate cry for attention.

Sure, but most CEO's tend to determine exactly what their public-facing position IS before speaking. In this case he looks the fool as they're walking back his statements.

Concur. "Here's a current business situation. Please stand by while I speculate wildly based upon that situation in isolation" is how this reads.

Very interesting that GCE wasn't mentioned on the slide of supported infrastructures at the DockerCon keynote today.

Fascinating.

I wonder what the cultural implications are if this passes. Someone generally expects their peer group to make within ~20% of what they make, not "2x."

At least one log parsing tool I've seen in years past was vulnerable to log injection attacks. Hilarious proof of concept to own a box by way of PTR record.

I haven't checked to see whether fail2ban suffers from this model or not.

Pretty much "as a cautionary tale" is as far as I see it going. They pretty clearly fabricated results; in the healthcare field, this is the kiss of death.

"This hasn't gotten FDA approval yet, but be sure to ask your doctor about it!" is a bit of a non-starter. As a culture we're generally leery about "disruptive" startups that affect our bodies surgically...

I agree, if you're able and willing to pay market salaries rather than 80% of market plus some ephemeral equity that you've no realistic possibility of realizing value for...

There's a whole crop of companies / people in this situation. I'm wondering if new hires register this as the glaring red flag it should be with respect to how companies treat the people that got them to where they are.

I think Siri is a great example of this. I've had it fail to work enough times that I simply don't think to use it, despite its improvement over the past year or two.

Dynamic image generation / hosting.

I give you a baseline image. You dynamically modify that image and host it for me based upon (ideally encrypted) parameters that I pass you.

Example use case: I send an email that features a thermometer that shows how far from $100 your balance is. It dynamically calls this service to generate a thermometer showing your $96 as meaningfully different from my $22.