The manager-gone-founder has sympathies and apologies for the destructive ideology of his capitalist master. Of course. The majority of managers have this same character -- it's their class nature. Be wary of trusting these people ;)
Yep, you're right. There's a belligerent, Randian dream behind that 1000% nonsense that always seems to be accompanied by some far-fetched narrative of climbing the ladder.
Thanks for creating that. I use OBS so this sounds perfect.
Could you recommend a Blackmagic product supported by your plugin that can capture from HDMI (cheaper the better, I plan to use it for hobbist-level capture of desktop/games)?
Apart from possibly needing an update to the kernel package, all of the DeckLink devices are supported by the same SDK, with only some small variations (like giving the user the choice of selecting which input connector to use or similar).
I used the Intensity Shuttle for USB 3.0 on a Macbook (OS X) to develop the plugin. It costs $190 and works pretty well, but can't capture 1080p @ 60fps (only 720p/1080i). I only got it because I couldn't install a PCI-e card on my laptop ;)
If you need 1080p @ 60fps, the Intensity Pro 4K is also $190 and is a PCI-e card. Otherwise, the Mini Recorder should work just fine.
Hierarchy requires justification, and inequality requires justification, since always and forever.
You should be required to try to convince someone working three manual labor jobs and making $40k a year that your $150k salary for making CRUD apps in your underwear is morally justifiable.
Because the value of the output of the person making CRUD apps is presumably worth more than $150k to their employer, right? If a company pays its employees more than the value of their output, they'll go out of business.
I think this is tangential, but you're very correct! This alone makes you question the morality of capitalism. Your employer necessarily steals some of the value that you create, otherwise you would have no worth to the employer and you would either be fired or the employer would close up shop.
Employers take on risk. Risk of employing you, investing in the business, market research, risk of market down-periods, etc. Additionally, they're an intermediary that makes finding/retaining clients easier and more efficient.
So no, I wouldn't call it "stealing", rather an exchange that is not immediately obvious because it's not entirely monetary/transactional in nature.
well I suppose my employer adds some sort of value to what I create or it wouldn't be enough to keep them in business either. I suppose I question the value of capitalism a lot anyway, but that doesn't mean I have to justify the money I make (in fact saying I should justify the money I make implies I should not question the value of capitalism when employed by capitalists).
The means of production that you use are privately owned by your employer, that's all they provide. Maybe they also do some managerial/clerical labor to lubricate the interaction of the commodity with the market, but this is really only the case for small businesses.
Imagine a shirt that sells for $20 on the market. The shirt is composed of $5 from raw materials and depreciated tools and $15 from your transformative labor. The boss pays you $5 for your work and makes off with $10. The boss steals way more than their investment. They'll tell you (e.g. Paul Pester from the article) that they have more responsibility: this is a bold-faced lie. Corporations are never held responsible for the havoc they wreak on society and the Earth.
The result of this arrangement is the obvious wealth inequality graphs that we've all seen. This is the true injustice. The CRUD worker making $150k and the food laborer making $40k are fighting for scraps. We should focus our fighting upwards.
Wages aren't a hierarchy, they're supply and demand. The only reason why someone earning 150k would have to justify their wage to someone earning 50k is if the person earning 50k wasn't afforded the same opportunities as the person earning 150k.
There are any number of examples of people who have low income, but much higher rank, status and authority within their circles than the average engineer has in his or her. If you are perceiving one continuous spectrum along which every human alive is ranked according to these measures, I would suggest that you might have a naive view of the world.
I wasn't being reductionist, that is not my world view; I recognize many different hierarchies. But wealth is an extremely important dimension and the one under examination here. Simple example: people with higher income hire literal wage slaves to do their gardening and cleaning. Low income people don't have nearly such authority.
If ever a person wonders whether or not they're being paid fairly all they need do is imagine the scenario where they quit. The difficulty and financial losses felt by their employer should strongly correlate to their pay.
The Employer does not "steal" from the Employee. There is an employment contract, the transaction is voluntary. Being an Employer has greater risk, and half of society hates you.
There is no voluntarism in slavery, even if it's of the wage variety.
But yes, sure! The employers are the oppressed class. All of us plebeians are so ungrateful of their estate inheritance -- er, brave risks. But don't worry for them! They can hire "domestic workers" to dry their tears with million dollar banknotes.
Employers are necessarily oppressive and may fire employees over this sort of notification if the listed project or the AngelList profile in general is against business interests.
If it wasn't clear already, this sort of move shows exactly who AngelList is serving. After all, as you said, how will the employer, in their contractual fantasies, ever be able to confirm that a potential interviewee is telling the truth?
I don't work for AngelList however I think this is overblown.
If you add yourself to an open site, your employer will see it. It is indexed on Google. It shows up when you search the site for the organization.
Are you saying as an owner of an organization, you are happy for anyone to claim to be an employee and to have done any project at your company without you knowing?
Should I be able to claim I did the Dropbox AWS migration without the folks at Dropbox getting notified I am making the claim?
It would be bizarre for an employer to fire an employee for stating (s)he works at the company and did a project.
Reporting for roll call. Once you get cope with abandoning all of the metaprogramming-heavy APIs a la ActiveRecord that have been front and center in pop web dev, it's quite lovely. The only thing that seems to slow down my work is the lack of a developed web ecosystem for Rust.
My hypothesis was that the type system is be able to benefit practically all domains. Personally, so far, I've become a cautious believer.
I loved GameMaker so much as a kid. I was sad to see it get taken over by money. :( Are there any modern free & open source alternatives?
Correction: I remember the underlying scripting language being GML (GameMaker Language). Maybe Delphi was embeddable into early versions of GameMaker? I also know that you could link plugins as DLLs...
