Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace 
i'm just saying that if i was the president of reddit, i wouldn't make such an obviously bad decision after seeing another website make the same obviously bad decision
it's literally what steve ballmer was trying to tell you about all those years ago. developers, developers, developers. if people want to make your site better for free, let them.
do you charge the goose to lay its golden eggs
if you are a platform, like reddit or twitter or windows, people don't come there for the platform itself. they come there for the things people make for it. historically, that's "you (well, OEMs and big businesses, mostly. microsoft doesn't care about selling Windows to individuals) buy windows because you want to run Office and Outlook and video games and whatever else people have written for it. you don't go to Twitter or Reddit because you enjoy clicking on the buttons there, you do it because other people put things there you want to see. you want to make it as easy as possible for the people who already want to give you their valuable shit for free.
anyways, if anyone's looking for someone to be president of their website, i'm currently unemployed, so
my resume:
- i'm so wise
- i know so much about software
i'm literally a top mentor on the wisdom app. what more could you want
it would be really funny if i posted my way into having a job, but i get the feeling that this isn't the kind of website where that happens
i would be really good at being a tech CEO, but i probably wouldn't last very long because i would refuse to chase cycles of hype bullshit.
i dunno, everyone I know is like "damn, grace, you're so cool and you do so much and you're so fucking employable" but i can't seem to distill any of that into a resume or whatever.
i mean, it's not like resumes really matter, and your job or lack thereof don't correlate to your worth as a person. I know I'm fuckin' great at it. it's just humiliating to try and explain that to people who don't want to hear it
i'm sure some place out there would love to hire a great software engineer who's also a beloved writer, communicator, and any number of other things, but, like, looking on job listing websites is so unlikely to help
the main problem is that i got my last job a gender, ideology, and eight years ago, and it's a lot harder to care about the same kind of bullshit now, y'know
employers should just know that i'm the one person on earth with nothing but correct software opinions and pay me appropriately to have them. is that too much to ask
Josh@BestGirlGrace unfortunate not so hidden truth here is that employers only want to pay you for explicitly wrong opinions
arclight@BestGirlGrace You'd be over the line if you added "... and a pony". Otherwise it sounds pretty reasonable.
@arclight See, that's the beauty part. I got the pony part all taken care of.
@BestGirlGrace You walk through those doors holding all the cards.
alarmingly large glaceon girl 🍓@BestGirlGrace Grace you are so wise
crab@BestGirlGrace i guess people have just forgotten that microsoft has entire teams dedicated solely to writing patches for obscure 20 year old programs so they keep working on new windows versions