Jack Dorsey’s Block lays off ‘large number’ of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts::Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a “large number” of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.

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    10 months ago

    Former employee here, quit in 2017 after 8 years.

    I am watching hundreds of people stream in to the “square mafia” slack as 11+ year tenured people are shitcanned.

    Extremely depressing.

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      Meanwhile, very few people are left who know how Linux actually works, which is why they had that massive outage last year; turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

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        turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

        “Hey, I bet we could get the benefits of Istio by using iptables. What could go wrong?”

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          I guarantee you someone thought they could reinvent istio. Historically square is HORRIBLE about “not invented here”