Interesting projection, but to respond to your point: anyone could just put in a decade at Averagecorp inc. or even just hop around and throw together a decent resume. If a random OSS side project lands you an offer from apple thats gotta be jackpot level luck.
I'm now with the sibling commenter in that I can't tell if this a troll account.
In case it's not, there's an extension of Cunningham's law. If you're wrong and disagreeable to a sufficiently high degree, people will just ignore or quietly ridicule you rather than try and correct you.
Getting a developer job at Apple or other big Tech company isn’t a particularly difficult hurdle. If that’s a personal goal of yours treat it like trying to get into a specific college and set yourself up for success. You may not have great odds applying today, but there’s many options for improving your chances with some effort.
Not really. I have someone reach out every couple months because they saw something I worked on that relates to the technology that team is using. If you take a framework and do something cool with it, and the people who work on it find out about it (say, because someone spotted it on social media) they will often look to see if they can hire you. If you want to improve your chances, pick a technology few people are using and make something cool with that: there’s a lot of people who are experts on UIKit but very few who understand how AirPlay works. To get scouted for the former you have to be really, really interesting.
Most others do not because voicing anything means no exchange listing, no potential of support from Alameda/FTX and their partners
Many token founders are fine with it for the payday (like in Ren/Republic protocol) while all the tokens get dumped on their community
It is very common in the crypto exchange/advisor space for contractual arrangements to go “I’ll buy your illiquid treasury and wont immediately sell, trust me bro” and then they sell once the partnership announcement creates a bunch of fomo and liquidity to sell into, Alameda has the reputation of being that way. And then when confronted they say “it wasnt in the contract and there was no vesting smart contract to prevent selling either, we’re not in the wrong”
Not the most community collaborative to say the least, its very lucrative for them
Dang, I wonder how easy it is for the Alameda EA folks to rationalize this as being for the greater good.
"We're reallocating surplus speculator dollars towards AI safety?"
Probably helps that many token founders don't seem too virtuous when many are just looking to make a quick buck through copycat apps. But sounds like some earnest people are getting burned, too.
> Probably helps that many token founders don't seem too virtuous
This perception is exacerbated because this kind of stuff has been happening behind the scenes for half a decade
Many founders do want to collaborate with their community, a community that expects and begs for exchange listings, which the founders cant talk about in advance and the exchanges know that and basically extort them and dump on the community, making the founder look bad and radioactive from then on.
Many/most want their project to organically grow and get help from large whales along the way, but it's more likely that tokens which have high value and many coveted exchange listings have nothing organic about them at all and cannot be emulated. Any founder trying to emulate it get into these token crashing toxic arrangements leaving many community bagholders.
It is nearly impossible to tell the difference between founders, the best thing that has occurred is that nobody needs these exchanges anymore. liquidity went onchain.
Great app, but I find myself accidentally bookmarking sites via the Chrome extension with no way to undo except for manually deleting the entry in desktop.
Any consumer app would've had this implemented by now but that's the tradeoff of being FOSS.
I had no idea about this cultural history. A bunch of us in high school comp sci used to play the online version bundled with Windows XP once we were done with our assignments...we'd try to queue up at the same time to get matched in the same game.
Would have been great to have this when I was first learning CSS. Problems like this one are what made me so reluctant to touch frontend for a long time.
