| > Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: "This guy" is Tim Bray, who quit as a VP of AWS over its treatment of employees: * https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-bray-quit-amazon-web-se... * https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-A... > Bray, who was born in Alberta, went to University of Guelph and who worked in Vancouver, was a distinguished engineer, a coveted title large tech companies award to senior technologists. The decision will likely cost him more than $1 million in loss of salary and unvested Amazon stock, “not to mention the best job I ever had,” he said. * https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/amazon-engin... Dude co-authored both the XML spec and the JSON spec (RFC 7159/8259): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray He has principles and he's willing to put himself out there for them. |
He thinks that Twitter is despicable but will still continue to use it to promote his blog. That's not having principles and sticking to them. That's selling out for cheap, and coming up with a lame justification for it.