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My understanding is this is actually what’s exacerbating the “two-class” system at big tech cos like Google where something like half of all workers are contractors. Like it was bad before, but from what I hear it’s even worse now because companies want to make you look as little like an FTE as possible.

Just because your impact on the world is not as huge or consequential as Facebook doesn’t give you free range to exploit user data as you please and protect you from legitimate criticism for doing so. That is classic “whataboutism”

You can google for it...both the lawsuits around misuse of user data and their notorious use of dark patterns

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth that Reid Hoffman, Jeff Weiner, DJ Patil et al get to live their day to day without the reputation hit or scrutiny of FB because LinkedIn is not as “sexy” a media target despite being notorious for using the shadiest dark patterns in the industry and almost certainly historically more cavalier with user data than either FB or Goog with the lawsuits to back it up.

Edit: I added DJ Patil because he’s built a post-LinkedIn image as a champion of data for good but as the chief data person at LinkedIn almost certainly was the mastermind behind all the shady things LinkedIn ever did with user data.

I’m a fan of the Chinese-style captchas where you just move a puzzle piece with a slider. I have no idea how defeatable it is vs reCaptcha but it’s far far less painful.

Interesting. I’ve gotten two offers from two European tech cos, one in London and one in Amsterdam though did not end up accepting either. In both situations I felt they were pretty eager/open to hiring.

The biggest hurdle they face in hiring non-Europeans is that I believe they must somehow prove that you possess skills that are uncommon in the local talent pool in order to get you a work visa. I think SWE, other technical skill set, or having an advanced degree all would help there...

Increasingly very common? Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to.

I don’t agree with it at all, mostly because too often a job looks like a toxic relationship more than anything else, meaning you as an employee are expected to be fully emotionally invested in your work, while at the same time your company can fire you in the blink of an eye and not think twice about it.

Utterly depressing to see how much damage we can cause in 30-40 years, basically only since older “millennials” were born.

Knowing flexbox, positions, pseudoselectors, media queries, and how specificity works will get you very far with CSS.

I mean food delivery is becoming massively more popular each year w DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, Postmates, etc. collectively worth tens of billions. The trend is up and to the right. I believe in terms of annual deliveries the US is probably smaller but not that much smaller.

Why just China? Wouldn’t the same be true in the US too?

I’ve had a lot of success using flexbox personally, and at least on my own projects I develop features on a page in 1D vs 2D...

This is partially why I like shopping at Costco. Usually there is only one or at most a few of one thing, and usually it’s of good quality.