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by throw0101c 1297 days ago
> 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.

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> 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.

He's been writing his weblog since before Twitter existed:

* https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/199x/

* https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/

He doesn't need (to use) Twitter to promote anything. If he was willing to sell out, cheaply or not, he would have kept his AWS job.

Of course he doesn't need to use Twitter to promote his blog. But it is what he is doing, as per the article:

> I’ll still use Twitter to post pointers to ongoing pieces because that benefits me, not Elon.

And that's exactly what makes it selling out for cheap. He doesn't need the traffic; it's not like it's providing his livelihood or anything. But just going by his actions, he still cares more about those hits than about his supposed principles.