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kennywinker | on: Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
Shopify’s founder and their coo both fund far-right extremism, and its founder thinks only rich people should be able to vote. But anyway, they switched databases.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/340_shopifys_leaders_are...

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hdndjsbbs | parent
Yeah it's an awful place to work unless you're a far-right bro. My old director used to use slurs and vape in the office. The founder hires pro gamers with no technical expertise because he thinks they're cool.
chucksmash | root | parent | next
Don't get shy now. Which slurs?
KingMob | root | parent
Why are you trying to get someone to repeat slurs?
chucksmash | root | parent
Because "slurs" is vague and covers a wide variety of utterances that run the gamut from unprofessional to unemployable and I had a tingle of Spidey sense that OP might have chosen the vague phrasing specifically to inflate the sins of the nameless Shopify director in the mind of the reader.
kennywinker | root | parent | next
Which slurs are ok, and which aren't?
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KingMob | root | parent
I... guess that's possible? Summarization doesn't really seem suspicious to me.
derwiki | root | parent
Are you implying that vaping is far right?
kennywinker | root | parent | next
I think that was part of the “bro” bit, not the far right bit
nozzlegear | root | parent
Sounded to me like they were saying people vape in the office, which would make a bad work environment on top of the far right bros.