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I have evaluated it to the best of my ability and don't believe it's a majority by any stretch. Why would I reject the null hypothesis when there is no evidence for another one?

The woman who took issue with the framing thought the Kotaku article was too hard on Atari's culture, so that only supports my argument.

The people involved don't think the behavior was shitty. It's only now, 40+ years after the fact, that people on twitter are complaining about it.

Yes it is a straw man. In Atari's case the people working there enjoyed the culture and didn't have an issue with it. You can't say the same thing about slaves.

I don't understand why the standards[0] of 2018 are relevant to the culture of a startup in the 1970s.

[0]: And these standards aren't broadly shared. Rather there's a vocal minority who wants to classify much of what was previously common behavior as harassment.

I doubt these ethics courses do anything to change people's behavior.

That's a poor approach to life. I've tried it.

I think you underestimate your capacity to commit a bad deed if you're in a situation to do so.

The only thing I use it for is messaging people whose phone number I don't have and a couple of groups that have events near me.

There is (or at least used to be) a menu next to people's posts that lets you stop following similar posts (or unfollow the person completely while remaining friends).

> Any way you look at doing software development as a career you come to see that it stinks. I'm not going to recommend it to my kids.

What are the alternatives though? Lawyers work much longer hours and only the ones who went to top schools and get into top firms make more. Doctors make more but have 6+ more years of education and training. Finance is competitive and also has long hours. Programmers have it pretty good.

Yep, I switched from fintech to another industry (still software development) and took roughly a 50% paycut to do so. It let me live in a much nicer part of the country (given my non-work interests), but I might go back since the pay is so much more.

This is the most perceptive comment in the thread. Based on moving from NYC to a much smaller metro area without any major tech companies I think you're right. Compensation here is roughly half of NYC compensation. The big tech firms are driving the high salaries.

I'm sure you'd see the same pattern if you looked at finance grads. The top ones who went to work for investment banks, hedge funds, etc. are pulling down large salaries, the rest are making much less working for small to medium size companies.

Is there any evidence that people would be more productive without Facebook? I bet they'd just watch more Netflix.

Edit: Plus, it's really not that hard to not use social media once you finish school if you don't feel it's beneficial.

NYC metro area population is ~21M. It's way more dense than Colorado, so it's not surprising that a large company moving into NYC doesn't change it much.