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genepopeon Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

A butthole and a drain hole. Sounds like they are spot on. Give it to society in the butt and drain all societie's resources

genepopeon $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

Amazon has become the absolute worst place to sell or buy things. I try to avoid them if at all possible (disclosure: I worked there for 12 years). Just leave them to the Chinese crooks and eventually enough people will wake up that they will all burn out (or move to another fraud host)

genepopeon Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?

Pretty much spot on post.

genepopeon Top USB Drives on Amazon are a Scam

Pretty much any tech product top search results on Amazon is a fraud (and it can go VERY deep into the results). I have been burned so many times I finally learned: DO NOT BUY TECH from Amazon! PS: Forget the Amazon Choice as it is mostly just based on how many buy the product so it tends to be self reinforcing, even for a fraud product.

genepopeon Is 40 the New 60?

Having lived in the tech software world from the late 1970s through 2012 I can say that age discrimination has always been a part of the software world but it is survivable. See other comments in this thread. I remember chats with my older co-workers about where are all the older programmers? I think part is discrimination but another part is that people burn out and go do something else. I have seen this in even the very best programmers I have worked with. By the way, this is not new to software. A common practice in the aerospace industry was to bid low for a contract and when you got it fire all the old guys and replace them with cheaper young guys.

genepopeon Toxic workplace, what do I do?

Leave. The org is old enough and established enough that it isn't going to change and you won't change it, it will change you (think Gollum). There are plenty of good and great places for a talented person to work. Don't waste your life working for bad organizations.

genepopeon I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

This is very cool! Great idea, good luck on this. (ditto on the US centric approach but then a shoestring startup can't always go global from day 1. You will get there though.

genepopeon Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to get its mojo back?

step zero: Fire Steve Ballmer

genepopeon Google is now officially evil

btw, on Digg too. http://digg.com/programming/GOOGLE_FAIL_Don_t_Be_Evil_Slogan...

Digg it and help wake up the google techs asleep at the (off) switch. Still going on after many hours. Some people getting 60 sms messages per hour.

genepopeon Google is now officially evil

shit happens, but responsible companies do something about it, not just say "shit happens"