It's so cluttered, it's giving me anxiety just looking at those photos. I keep a fairly clean desk, I don't think I could function well in that environment...

But that's a person's own desk. If you wanted to keep a clean desk then surely you could.

Could you? I'm thinking michaelbuckbee[1] is right about the flair thing. I would bet that if you keep a clean, organized desk with no decoration you would get asked about your feeling working there and maybe not be seen as Zappos material.

I'm not sure who's working PR as Zappos but that picture[2] cballard[3] linked to is probably not a good corporate message given the sign in the upper left corner.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239602

2) https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/zap03-15_b...

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239584

Many years ago I worked for a stint at ebay and I was definitely considered a pariah for not flaring out my desk with juvenile toys. I did that in Grade 9 with my locker

I know it's not fair to whoever's desk that is, but I'm tidy/OCD enough that sitting near that disaster would cause me serious anxiety.

"Stig of the Dump" immediately jumped to my mind looking at that [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_of_the_Dump

> I don't think most people run into this because most backend node programmers have moved to Go at this point

Comments like this are what make it difficult for me to take HN seriously anymore. It's just an example of the hivemind at work, assume that an entire industry has the same ideas as you about what technology to use.

The Node/JS ecosystems are experiencing a Cambrian explosion in technology, with all that implies. If you don't like it, don't worry. It probably won't take 20 million years this time to settle in on the "best" ways of doing things.

On the contrary, I got a kick out of the quoted line because it was exactly what I did.

Same here.

The advice in this post seems like it could undergo a minimal rewrite and apply even better to cult leaders.

Yahoo is moving to React as well.

As if the churn wasn't already bad enough, I've recently started using JSPM[1] and it's pretty awesome. I'm writing ES6+ code with hot reloading react components.

If you're trying to decide between build systems I would recommend checking it out, and watching this video[2] for a nice overview.

[1] http://jspm.io [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukBMY4apvI

Thanks for mentioning JSPM/System.js. It's really cool; it runs ES6 compilation with Babel (or Traceur) in the browser, and is able to download arbitrary versions of dependencies off a CDN.

I'm still fiddling a bit with hotloading React and caching source files, but it looks promising.

npm is getting its house in order when it comes to browser package management. I wouldn't bet too heavily on something else.

JSPM has fairly seamless support for loading libraries from npm, Github, local Git repos in any format (global, CJS, AMD, ES6) as ES6 modules.

So you don't need to bet on any particular ecosystem.

I agree, this post was pretty pointless and any relevance it has to Ellen Pao's situation is insubstantial.

There should really have to be a (paywall) warning added to the titles of posts like this.

I can't read it because of an obnoxious paywall.

There needs to be a better way to monetize written content online than this...

Thanks! (how'd you do that?)

Scompany.

From "scalable company".

Horrible. My first thought is it sounds like scumpany and is likely to be associated for word play for "scum company".

Why were you expecting this?

Title reminds OP of Apple Watch Editions, which are gold and cost $10,000: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-edition

Good lord, those are ugly.