<story><title>I&apos;m Joining CloudFlare</title><url>https://words.steveklabnik.com/i-m-joining-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a genre of post that I&amp;#x27;ve never really understood. Klabnik is great and all, but, ok? Sure? Were people really record-scratching over his totally reasonable decision to take a good-paying job at a big company?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obviously not just Klabnik. In fact, when we did Starfighter a few years back, I think Patrick did one of these posts as well. But: like every other post about Starfighter on HN while we were working on it, the whole thing was pretty uncomfortable. It&amp;#x27;s an experience I&amp;#x27;d prefer not to repeat.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of excellent people taking all sorts of jobs at all sorts of places, and, unless those jobs involve, I don&amp;#x27;t know, mechanizing payday loans to squeeze poor people or hacking the phones of people the government of Bahrain doesn&amp;#x27;t like, nobody needs to justify them. Some of these posts seem like they might be good examples of content actually better delivered in a tweet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible that I just don&amp;#x27;t think Cloud Flare has earned the spotlight Klabnik is giving here. Who knows. But I felt the same way when Yegge announced his job at Grab --- just, &amp;quot;why am I reading this?&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m sometimes reminded of the way Anthony Bourdain described the trailing years of Mario Batali&amp;#x27;s tenure at Food TV (Batali was a &amp;quot;lion&amp;quot; but not in a good way). Like: did you want to write this, or did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libria</author><text>What exactly is the confusion here? That people share things on their own blog? Or that people vote it up on HN?&lt;p&gt;If the former, people share all sorts of oddities in their own personal space especially life-changing events of which career moves is one.&lt;p&gt;If the latter, a lot of people follow &amp;quot;developer influencers&amp;quot; to keep up on the cutting edge trends.  I&amp;#x27;m personally keeping an eye on the Rust Book and hoping it maintains its high quality so that&amp;#x27;s my investment in this.  I&amp;#x27;d go the other way and say it would be borderline irresponsible of him not to publicly state he&amp;#x27;s moving off Mozilla&amp;#x27;s payroll b&amp;#x2F;c of so many of us depending on his super-active involvement in and documentation of Rust.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; why am I reading this?&lt;p&gt;Yeah, why? A better question is, why are you commenting on not wanting to read it instead of just skipping and moving on?</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m Joining CloudFlare</title><url>https://words.steveklabnik.com/i-m-joining-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a genre of post that I&amp;#x27;ve never really understood. Klabnik is great and all, but, ok? Sure? Were people really record-scratching over his totally reasonable decision to take a good-paying job at a big company?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obviously not just Klabnik. In fact, when we did Starfighter a few years back, I think Patrick did one of these posts as well. But: like every other post about Starfighter on HN while we were working on it, the whole thing was pretty uncomfortable. It&amp;#x27;s an experience I&amp;#x27;d prefer not to repeat.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of excellent people taking all sorts of jobs at all sorts of places, and, unless those jobs involve, I don&amp;#x27;t know, mechanizing payday loans to squeeze poor people or hacking the phones of people the government of Bahrain doesn&amp;#x27;t like, nobody needs to justify them. Some of these posts seem like they might be good examples of content actually better delivered in a tweet.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible that I just don&amp;#x27;t think Cloud Flare has earned the spotlight Klabnik is giving here. Who knows. But I felt the same way when Yegge announced his job at Grab --- just, &amp;quot;why am I reading this?&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m sometimes reminded of the way Anthony Bourdain described the trailing years of Mario Batali&amp;#x27;s tenure at Food TV (Batali was a &amp;quot;lion&amp;quot; but not in a good way). Like: did you want to write this, or did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kentonv</author><text>&amp;gt; did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think any of us at Cloudflare had any idea Steve was writing this.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, no one at Cloudflare asked me to write &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sandstorm.io&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-03-13-joining-cloudflare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sandstorm.io&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-03-13-joining-cloudflare&lt;/a&gt; back when I joined, and I can&amp;#x27;t recall if I even told anyone I was writing it. That post also hit #1 on HN, which, honestly, was a huge surprise to me -- I didn&amp;#x27;t think it was that interesting, for similar reasons to what you say. I wrote it because it seemed like an obviously sensible thing to announce, but not really for attention-getting purposes...&lt;p&gt;I guess people are free to upvote what they think is interesting?</text></comment>