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What It's Like to IPO

wiredone — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://staysaasy.com/startups/2026/06/04/what-its-like-to-ipo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434317

Points: 2

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Disagree and commit is not disagree and complain

wiredone — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:49:01 +0000

Article URL: https://dougrathbone.com/blog/2026/02/22/disagree-and-commit-is-not-disagree-and-complain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108852

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The feedback you're not giving is the problem you keep having

wiredone — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:03:23 +0000

Article URL: https://dougrathbone.com/blog/2026/02/14/the-feedback-youre-not-giving-is-the-problem-you-keep-having

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011741

Points: 1

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New comment by wiredone in "Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report"

wiredone — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:00:14 +0000

there actually isn’t much good content on the platform in my experience.

it’s just people raging about trump and whatever brand they’re looking to try and cancel next.

it’s so far from the greatness of the original twitter. no tech community or content.

New comment by wiredone in "Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report"

wiredone — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:57:50 +0000

“toxicity and inflammatory” does a lot of heavy lifting for Blueskys moderation team.

i find it’s pretty toxic, in a militant way… that doesn’t get moderated of course.

That’s “free expression” when it’s about topics blueskyers all agree on.

waits to be called a nazi

New comment by wiredone in "Developer productivity metrics are measuring you, not your team"

wiredone — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:08:40 +0000

In the age of AI, the performance of a manager has never been clearer.

Developer productivity metrics are measuring you, not your team

wiredone — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:08:39 +0000

Article URL: https://dougrathbone.com/blog/2026/01/19/your-developer-productivity-metrics-are-measuring-you-not-your-team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678070

Points: 1

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New comment by wiredone in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

wiredone — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:44:31 +0000

The impact of this was huge.

New comment by wiredone in "Tough news for our UK users"

wiredone — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:53:08 +0000

The great thing about language is that it changes over time.

eg the past decade has seen us remove “that” as a qualifier, and the word literally has become interchangeable with figuratively.

its worth considering whether you’re just losing touch…

New comment by wiredone in "Myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn't"

wiredone — Fri, 31 May 2024 11:35:27 +0000

respectfully, after knowing and working with many ex googlers; i don’t think google are the operators and cloud experts they once were and thought themselves to be.

New comment by wiredone in "America Fell Out of Love with Affirmative Action"

wiredone — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:53:46 +0000

When you focus on equity over equality everyone loses. There's a lot more minority groups in this country today. Why do african Americans get special treatment in 2023 over say ukrainians, afghanis or syrians?

There's a lot of poor and uneducated minority groups, but the idea that reverse racism solves anything is just outdated.

New comment by wiredone in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

wiredone — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:04:35 +0000

… but you have to ask - why can’t this person find a job? Surely not every employer is non-inclusive. There’s smells of a partial story all through this.

New comment by wiredone in "I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing"

wiredone — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:02:29 +0000

Honestly, while I believe a lot of the perspective shared, there always seems to be a huge lack of objective assessment of options for these folks.

In tech there are many incredibly high paying jobs - taking control over your situation has a low bar.

if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them/right wrongs.

There are certainly real victims in these environments.

There are also in my personal experience a lot of people who make noise/complain about immaterial incidents in the hope of claiming some group control over their situation or with some sense of justice around fixing things. This thrashing can create a toxic environment for those around in itself.

New comment by wiredone in "GitHub Sponsors will stop accepting PayPal on February 23, 2023"

wiredone — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:50:28 +0000

Visa and Mastercard debit. Google it. Welcome to 2023

New comment by wiredone in "Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021)"

wiredone — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:57:44 +0000

As a trained pilot, flight planning is a huge part of your job.

Navigation is also a big part of the job. if you assumed you had to turn off parts of your nav equipment to avoid detection, then visual reference (ie flying the path to visually memorise/familirise yourself with wayppoints) would be something you'd certainly do - and a flightsim would be perfect for this.

New comment by wiredone in "We need a replacement for TCP in the datacenter [pdf]"

wiredone — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:22:26 +0000

You're missing the frame size comms that then occur following this.

New comment by wiredone in "Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z"

wiredone — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:10:08 +0000

Isn't the idea that you'd get paid for use of a LoRaWAN access point pretty much the same thing as money. Sure, earning HNT for mining/proof of coverage is nice, but I see the long term game is pretty much earning money (via crypto) for use of your home internet connection. Otherwise why the hell are you building a wireless network in the first place?

New comment by wiredone in "Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation"

wiredone — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:39:42 +0000

I'll be honest - i've worked places where kubernetes was a thing, and places where it wasn't. Both within the last 5 years.

Kubernetes is a layer of complexity that just isn't warranted for most companies. Hell even Amazon still sticks with VMs. Autoscaling and firecracker solve most things.

Its nice to have cluster (pod?) management as a first-class concept, but you get that with tagging of instances just as well for most use cases.

In short - i think the author has a point.

New comment by wiredone in "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize"

wiredone — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 06:13:11 +0000

Not a lot sure. But WAY above minimum wage in many many states.

These aren’t highly skilled jobs. They come with healthcare and leave benefits. That’s game changing. Yet people seem enraged… I just don’t get it.

New comment by wiredone in "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize"

wiredone — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 06:11:35 +0000

I’ve been sound a few and have seen the same. The wannabe politicians and “negotiators” that are attracted to these union roles are the bullies or powerbrokers from middle school who tend to love the power that comes from those roles. They’re also actively motivated to be at odds with the employer which tends to make them part of the problem not the solution.

I genuinely see this as bad for online retail.