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Comment by joshcsimmons | Hacker News Reader

I worked with Travis on the Electromagnetic Warfare Team at Anduril and he's one of the most phenomenal engineers I've had the pleasure of working with. Nix is already such a niche software it's absolutely baffling they'd prevent one of the few companies hiring Nix experts from advertising jobs because of a few loud individuals with anime avatars.

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Are you baffled that people dislike companies that create killing machines? All the stuff made by Anduril will end up causing "collateral damage" in a middle eastern wedding.

I understand that you have an ethical framework that ignores or justifies this, but a lot of people don't. My normie mother would spit in your face, it's a given that a niche FOSS community wouldn't look kindly to MIC ads.

The NixOS team is an order of magnitude more unstable than their software. The most surprising thing here is that anyone who needs their systems to actually work would rely on it, given the history of the project and the maintainers' psychotic behavior.

Also a delightful human in every interaction I’ve had with him.

not here: while I have little against military applications in a world that needs to defend itself from putin, i've found Travis Whitaker to be unserious and adolescent when it comes to doing serious business. After interacting with Travis I would never consider working for or with him or Anduril, and I would be wary of hiring anyone that did work for them in the past.

To each their own, but if I was running a job forum, I would also be reluctant to provide ad space to companies building instruments of death and pushing regressive politics. Is this really baffling to you?

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