Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by tptacek on Saturday January 20, 2018 @11:16AM (#16193845)

1. Starfighter did not seem to me at the time to be beloved by HN.

2. Starfighter is one of 3 companies I've been involved in publicly on HN. The first one did pretty good. We're doing pretty good with this one. Thanks for asking! :)

3. There's an obvious difference between the question of whether something's a viable business (CTFs as contingency recruiters: probably not!) vs. whether an argument represents any kind of popular sentiment.

4. Do upvotes validate my argument? No. But they would seem to me to rebut your claim to speak for "most developers".

What kind of publication were you thinking of?

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by pfarnsworth on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:04PM (#16194088)

I’m glad your first and current ventures are successful. Hardworking people should be rewarded. My point is HN love has no bearing on success. Starfighter was pretty popular and everyone on HN wants a new way to interview. But it didn’t translate to a success.

A converse example is Uber. Uber is despised on HN and every anti-Uber comment is upvoted. But HN sentiment has had no consequence on Uber’s success and growth.

“Most developers” don’t comment on HN. Most developers also don’t want unions otherwise we would have had one in the 50 years of industry, despite all your precious HN upvotes.

Also, your misrepresentation of “publicize” into “publication” is strange.

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by tptacek on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:57PM (#16194421)

Right, but no part of Uber's "argument" depends on the support of HN users. You can't say that, at least not cleanly, about organizing SFBA software developers.

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