friedman23

Ok, so when do historical victims stop being victims and stop being treated like victims?

Do type related programming bugs include null pointer errors? I also think this 2% stat is just complete bs. Anyway, this debate is over. Absolutely every top language designer has seen the merit of statically typed languages, if not for avoiding type errors then for making code refactorable.

> so please update me on what you know here and on what you think we should have as policy.

> on another note, it seems silly to have both firefox and safari. perhaps there is some unificaiton strategy that we can get these two to pursue. combined, they certainly have enough marketshare to drive webmasters.

Would be absolutely hilarious if these series of calls and emails led to the development of Chrome

I feel like that's a terrible use of their capital if all they are trying to do is just not screw things up. I'm not a shareholder but if I were I'd rather have my money returned to me than have it spent on a bunch of projects that will get nowhere because the goal is avoid risk taking.

Amazing

> “Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time”

Isn't Google's software engineering culture kind of a joke right now? I've spoken to multiple ex-Googlers and they tell me they leave because everything moves at a snail's pace. From the outside looking in, it seems like absolutely nothing is being done in Google and I would not want to replicate their engineering culture in any company.

Please don't take this as flame bait and I'm open to discussion about what I'm missing. I feel like for people in the know, Google has a reputation for being a "retirement home".

The Larry Ellison remarks are written with a lot of sarcasm.

Yes, that's the common refrain, just migrate when you hit scale. Just pay people to do the migration. My experience at multiple, billion dollar companies has been that it's never that easy.

People become afraid of doing schema migrations and tools like dynamodb become the default datastore choice for all new feature development.

Every single startup I've worked at, technical cruft that existed from company founding never disappears despite the founders intent that it was never supposed to stay that way and it slows down feature development to a crawl.

If NewSQL databases exist that support 90% of the features of postgres but give support for cross shard transactions then I'd rather use them than technology that has been proven to not scale. Unfortunately I'm not an expert on distributed databases and there is not much written about these databases in practice outside of the startups creating the databases themselves.

Happy to find this blog, wish there was more talk about NewSQL databases. I've personally seen the amount of cost that goes into migrating off of traditional RDBMs systems to sharded RDBMs systems and was wondering why people don't go with these scalable systems from the start now that they exist.

It's not just lithium and none of this is as simple as you imagine it to be.

Funny enough I think it's actually undervalued now. Tesla has bought up all the mining rights for the minerals required to ramp up battery production and will likely be the only EV manufacturer that's not supply constrained for the next decade.

I'm still not bought in yet, probably a lot more room for it to crater.

Building good onboarding is not easy and it's quite tedious work. It's also extremely important work that is frequently ignored because of how tedious and thankless it is. Why is it important? Onboarding is the single place in a product that every user is guaranteed to experience at least once. Small changes to onboarding can have effects on user retention like the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings and causing a hurricane.

I'm not surprised an app with no profit motive behind it doesn't focus on this kind of work. It's very hard to motivate yourself to do it if it's not your job.

Ok, so you think being in a bubble with people that agree with you is worth 16% of your income a year. Meaning if you work 30 years you need to work 4.8 years longer to retire. This doesn't take into account investment returns.

I think overall taxes are undercounted in California because the state taxes absolutely everything. California has the highest income tax and highest sales tax in the US. Throw in the grocery bag taxes, and all the other random taxes in that state you are just paying an absurd amount for nothing.

Why do you think I moved there myself? The jobs didn't exist anywhere else. Thankfully that's changing. If you are a valuable employee, one trick you can do is after working at a company for a year ask them to let you work remotely. If you are good they will let you.

Additionally, I think companies and investors are catching on. If I give a company $100 million I don't want $10 million to go to avoidable state income taxes and another $20 million to go into landlord pockets via inflated rent prices (commercial and residential), I want it to go into the business.

People are doing the math. If you make enough money in California you pay 10% of your income in taxes. First of all, what do you get from that 10% you pay that don't get in other states with lower or no income taxes? For the people paying the taxes the answer is not much. People also fail to account for the fact that the 10% they are paying is 10% of their GROSS income, not net after federal taxes. So if you are already paying 30% of your income in taxes that 10% can be a material increase in the quality of your life. It's the equivalent of receiving 16% more net income. Also subtract what you pay in increased food prices and increased housing costs you will be saving much much more by leaving CA.

People in California seem to believe that other parts of the country with lower taxes are hell on earth, they aren't. When I moved to San Francisco, I had many conversations with people denigrating my home state of Florida. In retrospect I can see this for what it was, a coping mechanism for having to live in such a terrible place and pay an absurd amount of money for the privilege of doing so.

The reason California has seen such economic success can be attributed to proximity to the fastest growing economies and largest manufacturing hubs in the past 30 years and a little luck. If you really need to live on the west coast, Washington state is a much better option.

When I was reading Dijkstra's wikipedia page and read that he called himself a programmer I suddenly wanted to start calling myself one.

I want to know why this thing was automatically added to my menu bar

Of course they will be affected if their customers are unprofitable and are forced to cut costs or go out of business.

> Catering to vegetarianism is virtue signaling?

Yes, it is. All the stuff you wrote makes 0 sense in the context of what we are discussing, I suspect you are very deep in the bubble.

>Was the investment because of “moral beliefs” or because it takes billions to get a food to that market?

You don't invest in something "to get it to market". You invest in something to make money. Food is a notoriously difficult and unprofitable market.

I reject that it's reductio ad absurdum. We do not know the effect of this kind of stimulus on children and how it can affect their development.

The evidence is that an entire class of multi billion dollar companies based on vegetarian and vegan food alternatives exists and they will all go bankrupt or be acquired for pennies on the dollar.

So how did VCs get that so wrong other than turning a blind eye to the obviously terrible business models and investing because of their moral beliefs?

ESG as an investment thesis is a sad joke. I wonder how much of the money that was destroyed by investing in oatly was done because of virtue signaling. You couldn't seriously look at projections and think this company would ever be worth $10billion right?

Ah ok, so you are fine with taking your child to Las Vegas and sitting them in front of the slot machine with a handful of quarters? Maybe just give them a small heroin injection too, there's a chance they wont get addicted.

Like I said in another comment, phones and tablets are portable slot machines. Gambling wins over "other interests" every time.

Yep, all these people don't understand they are handing their kids slot machines disguised as harmless kid games. Completely irresponsible.

I tried everything before considering medication. I took every vitamin under the sun, walked 5 to 10 miles a day, lifted weights, did cardio, slept at the same exact time every day, and ate at the same exact time every day.

None of it worked. Medication, so far, has been life changing.

Those databases I mentioned are not NoSQL, they are relational databases.

Can someone explain why I shouldn't just use something like cockroachdb, yugabyte or spanner for my primary database nowadays? I've seen the pain and resources wasted from teams needing to find ways to shard mysql and postgres and make them scale. Sure, you might say I might never need that scale but why not just avoid this problem entirely? If I'm building something I intend to support hundreds of millions of users why would I choose a technology I know will fail to scale to that?

As someone else has stated, you have not said anything of value here and are just vaguely screaming into the wind. Do you just find people being highly enthusiastic about something off putting? If so, do some introspection.