Re:Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux wi...
by kdkwcjkejdwijc on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:42AM
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> People don't—and aren't incentivized—to give the slightest shit about quality, security, you name it.
This normally happens on two scenarios: a) they are not paid enough to care that much or b) they are paid more than enough to not have to care that much.
Either way it’s almost always down to how much the company is willing to pay for people that actually care about these things.
Re:Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux wi...
by brailsafe on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:51PM
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It's not about the pay, it's about the expectations. Turnout time and business outcomes are the expectation. Pay me an amount I'll accept (modest) and I'll give as many shits as I can, unless the expectation is that I'm doing things on a wildly compressed timeline where a checkmark is more important than data leak that might never come up. I care as long as I'm not punished for doing so.
Hard agree, especially the apparent 99% of AI boosters on HN who seem to basically only care about shipping arbitrary products as fast as possible and skipping the whole middle part where someone sweaty person is grinding through the details intimately, all day, and while they should be sleeping.
At my last place, it was a battle to convince the narcissistic idiot CTO and even one of our senior engineers (both in age and experience) that it was important to encrypt customer data before it transited through third-party cloud service providers. People don't—and aren't incentivized—to give the slightest shit about quality, security, you name it.