I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.
Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there’s a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.
And the ultra rich would deserve to lose everything
It’s wild to me how some places I’ve worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately… and other places are like “ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file”
One time in a game of DND the players were exploring a strange cave system, and found a strange thick goo collecting in a pool. Players being players, one of them decided to eat some.
It was, in my notes, some sort of celestial honey made by these extra planar insects that were causing some of the region’s problems. It was supposed to taste amazing, but with some drawbacks. I started to blank when trying to describe how good it was, and the phrase that came out was “it’s like… It’s like … it’s like seven pizzas!”
The player eating it, his eyes lit up and was like “AMAZING”
The other players were like “wat”
I think that adequately captured how delicious it is but also maybe you shouldn’t be eating it.
Oh that’s a good pun on transitive reasoning
LinkedIn is so blandly bad. There’s a lot of formulaic slop, but apparently it’s effective enough that people don’t stop posting it.
Also I thought all reasonable people agreed that unconscious bias is bad and we should minimize it in the job process, but then LinkedIn goes and says “Everyone have a profile picture! This definitely won’t unfairly benefit some kinds of people!”
Also people who try to use it as a dating service need to be banished from the land.
Palantir is pretty awful. I knew a guy who took a job there, a bunch of years ago. When he said where he was going, I asked “But what if they work on something really shitty? Like spying on people?”. He was like, “Meh”, with a big shrug.
He was friendly and kind to the people around him, but I guess he just didn’t care about anyone he didn’t know personally right now.
One of my jobs went to microservices. Not really sure why. They had daily active users in the thousands, maybe. But it meant we spent a lot of time on inter-service communication, plus local development and testing got a lot more complicated.
But before that, it was a single API written in Go by an intern, so maybe it was an improvement.