pacificat0r

>I also see the best workers rising through the ranks, and bad ones either never actually entering the union or quitting when they realize they're not going anywhere.

This doesn't sound like an advantage for software engineers. Surely unions can't decide on someone's competency. It kind of raises a red flag about potential gatekeeping methods (e.g. the tax status where you have to join or else).

So these are really good examples, but I still don't understand what unions can do for 1% of someone's pay. They kind of look like subscription services, or worse places you have to join or else there are unintended consequences from other examples where they mention looking at union membership as an indicator of some experience (so kind of like a tax).

The screen actors guild and all the movie-related guilds seem interesting, but aren't those kind of like freelancers more than closer to fully employed people? I guess it would be beneficial for salary negotiation for non-software engineers and maybe contractos, but I don't really see the incentive to join one as a fulltime software engineer.

Maybe I have a bad opinion on unions due to how they operated in my country that's not US :D.

Could someone help me understand what an union could do vs the abuses presented as examples in the article? In my limited experience, from my parents(not US) unions are mostly some sort of barganing power for salaries in various industries but stop at that.

For example, could a union stop the payout of that high-level exec that was eventually shown the door for harrasment with a good bonus?

After that, they are also mostly like various subscriptions that you forget you have, as memberships require pay. In this beautiful part of the world you would even sometimes pressured to pay and join as if you're not a union member can have consequences that are unwanted.

Gitui is a better alternative

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

Overwatch and Fortnite don't really work :D

I don't super understand these articles. Before slack we had Lync, and then skype, and now it's slack.

It doesn't replace email, it replaced those other communication apps.

I am aware that Slack has a crusade against email but the article or that business example didn't ask why not both? There's a need for real-time communication and there's a need for email too.

This is a really good article. I will include it in my reading materials at the end of the post :)

He got upset when ppl with 15+ years of experience, working at dice or directors of tech at Activision pointed out that modern c++ is over complicated and they've been in that phase of liking abstractions but moved on. Funny he blanked the names of those dudes and some other milder replies.

Then he wrote a blog post on it.