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New comment by vigilantpuma in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

vigilantpuma — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:04:34 +0000

I had an interview in 2024 and my interviewer was CLEARLY doing other stuff during the interview. So a very different experience.

New comment by vigilantpuma in "How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale"

vigilantpuma — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:29:41 +0000

Musk is a clearly brilliant man who does not know how to keep his mouth shut or not act like a teenager. I know he doesn't need my respect... But he's certainly lost all of it by now.

And for people who are like "yeah but he gets results," are you really saying he wouldn't be getting more results if he didn't spend the last 10 years being an idiot online?

New comment by vigilantpuma in "How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale"

vigilantpuma — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:23:02 +0000

Probably because major news outlets are reluctant to include pictures of penises, even stylized ones, in their articles.

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office"

vigilantpuma — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:29:37 +0000

Nobody is against hard work, but what's the point of working harder than you need to for a company that has shown that hard work is no defense against being laid off?

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI"

vigilantpuma — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:04:31 +0000

Why would anyone be motivated to work 60 hours a week on Sergei's say-so when Google has amply demonstrated that they will lay people off at random regardless of their work ethic or contributions? I would think the layoffs demoralize people a lot more than the work habits of their colleagues.

The time for this sort of exhortation was before 2023, Sergei.

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Microsoft is eating the world"

vigilantpuma — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:05:20 +0000

Signing a petition is not the same as quitting, but that is something (and I hadn't seen it).

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Microsoft is eating the world"

vigilantpuma — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:12:12 +0000

Have 500-750 key employees departed? Or even threatened to depart? OpenAI has (well, had) 770 employees, you think Microsoft will lure away 70-97% of them?

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

vigilantpuma — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:16:11 +0000

Google, according to the article, has no moat either.

Ask HN: Setting up Mac for dev work

vigilantpuma — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 19:16:11 +0000

Having just been laid off from a megacorp, I find myself back outside a technological walled garden for the first time in over seven years. In the past I've done Android development, server side development, data analysis, as well as frontend dev (but I hate it). I'm armed with a Macbook Pro but I have no idea what the latest sine qua non software is for development.

Any recommendations for a software engineer looking to start coding in the real world again?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850069

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Mothers who regret having children are speaking out"

vigilantpuma — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:54:26 +0000

I think having children is pretty selfish also. You bring a child into this world... for what? To see yourself continued in the next generation? To make some future friends for yourself? To have that experience? How are these not selfish things? Both choices are selfish in different ways. The fact that one requires some personal sacrifice doesn't make it selfless.

New comment by vigilantpuma in "Mothers who regret having children are speaking out"

vigilantpuma — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:48:44 +0000

Really? In this comment page alone we have shit like:

"Final point, and one that I am cautious to make for not wanting to offend anyone needlessly: I know plenty of singles and couples who are childless, and several that are childless by choice. Suffice it to say that my anecdotal view is that sadness, eccentricity, and empty hedonism seem to develop over time in these couples, especially in the women."

"Spot on with the final point. I have 3, now aged 22, 19 & 16. I like to joke that I have parentdar: it's like gaydar, I just know if someone is a parent or not without them telling me. There's a selfcentredness about the childless that gives itself away in a thousand minor tells. It's more pronounced in women than men."