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New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

_pythonlover_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:12:53 +0000

A result of their performance-review driven development. Every engineer, product manager and team is focused on one thing only. Get through the reviews. That means building feature after feature, projecting revenue/cost savings that may not materialize.

No one is focused on quality of the feature. It is all about speed. No one stops and thinks that may be users doesn't care about it. Data science teams are focused on cherry-picking data in a way that shows positive impact to show to the leadership that things are working. Engineers and teams are disincentivized to improve existing features, performance issues(unless it impacts revenue/some enterprise customer complains) and sometimes being punished for it. They are also steadily downsizing their support teams to cut costs.

Things are not going to improve. You should move away.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

_pythonlover_ — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:24:03 +0000

I was in Atlassian and one of the impacted. Company spent ridiculous money on acquisitions and marketing and AI is the scapegoat.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Is Web3 Bullshit?"

_pythonlover_ — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:03:21 +0000

I think that just as AWS, Stripe and few other players cornered the infrastructure and payment market, as things scale and consolidate, few players will control the nodes and control the blockchain as well. So things won't change much.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces"

_pythonlover_ — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:03:46 +0000

Works fine with firefox afaik

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’"

_pythonlover_ — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:06:10 +0000

Fillout whatever you want :)

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’"

_pythonlover_ — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:24:23 +0000

Off-topic. If anyone wants to play the beer game, https://beergame.opexanalytics.com

PS: Made by the company I work for

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic"

_pythonlover_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 12:36:39 +0000

Recent post by the Pradeep Poonia showing proof how fake their ads are. There is a slack screenshot posted where the employees (including their CEO) talking about creating a fake app that they advertise as an app made by a 13 yo kid. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic"

_pythonlover_ — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 12:31:29 +0000

Another article on WhitehatJr

https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-h...

(behind paywall)

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "India’s WhiteHat Jr is startup hell"

_pythonlover_ — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:18:59 +0000

This company, WhiteHatJr, is the scummiest of the edutech companies in India and one guy (u/pooniahigh) has been posting about this company in reddit and everywhere and he is even getting death threats.

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jvvlpr/whitehatjr_gi...

Some of the content he posts is not legal but you can see how bad they are.

WhiteHatJr's ads are everywhere now from tv to newspaper and their parent company BJYU is valued at $10B. I cannot believe a company can openly do such shady business, that too in educational sector and government doesn't bat an eye. :(

India’s WhiteHat Jr is startup hell

_pythonlover_ — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:10:49 +0000

Article URL: https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-hell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25133421

Points: 25

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New comment by _pythonlover_ in "PS5 Teardown [video]"

_pythonlover_ — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 04:42:10 +0000

XBox Series X gpu is even more powerful and I think they are more like RTX 2070 class GPUs. They make money on subscriptions and games and probably just selling hardware without profit.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis"

_pythonlover_ — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:21:34 +0000

It's not usable because the sand has been mined by the sand mafia for more than two decades. I'm from that area and I've seen thousands of trucks carrying sands every day. And the river is continuously being polluted by industries. It'll take immense effort from the government to make it usable.

One district collector (Irayanbu) tried to fight the sand mafia but he was transferred soon after.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous"

_pythonlover_ — Sun, 28 May 2017 07:13:13 +0000

I'm all for aadhaar but I'd like to know who has access to my information and why did they get it. Also If possible I'd like to have a degree of control over it. Also I'd like to know how they secure it without using a bunch of PR terms.

These are all valid questions raised by that article but could have done a better job of explaining these problems and its implications.

New comment by _pythonlover_ in "The stupidity of crowds"

_pythonlover_ — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:45:41 +0000

What if 99% of the people has no idea about the implications of their vote? I'm genuinely curious here. What if the experts are right and the majority of people are against them?