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Re:Buffer Layoffs by dave2000 on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:16PM (#11919923)
I just posted my opinion on an aspect of the post. (I don't care about down votes; if I could hide my scores I would.)

I don't need to know anything about a companies culture to know what they're saying is patently specious nonsense. You might be impressed by it, who knows. Do you read a company's mission statement when considering a job and say "company a say they're honest and driven by a desire to put both their employees and their customers first, but company b claims integrity and a desire to raise the standard of customer service to a new level.....oh I just can't decide!"?

Re:Buffer Layoffs by dang on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:23AM (#11920826)
When you pile up phrases like "moronic drivel" and "patently specious nonsense", you're tipping onto the wrong side of the HN guideline which asks you not to call names in arguments. It's fine to make an argument against mixing work and family values; others have done so in this thread. It's not so fine, though, to do shrill denunciation in HN comments. That's good for stirring up indignation, if that's your thing, but it's bad for casual conversation, which is our thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Buffer Layoffs by apetresc on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:46PM (#11920580)
If you've been following Buffer at all, you'll know that they actually walk the talk. It's not just a vacuous "mission statement".