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Those employees are going to have a hard time finding a new job. No one is going to want to touch anyone related to FTX. Not even crypto bros.

And him using the word family should have been a red flag. He ruined their careers knowingly running a ponzi scheme.

I am not sure desperation is the right word here. He used it to list out a bunch of unrelated motivations, but most of them I wouldn’t consider desperate.

What makes Scala great is their language syntax. The ability to do higher kind functions makes it a joy to work with. I program much faster than I would Java. I am also not a big fan of OOP myself. The downside is that it’s slow to compile and it’s no faster than any Java based languages. I am slowly realizing if I want performance, I need to forgo Scala altogether.

No one wants to:

a) migrate their production server to a new language for a weak reason

b) learn new syntax when the old one works fine

I am sure Scala 3 is great but I see no reason to learn it. The constant change with Scala with only slight performance improvement doesn’t make me excited. I would rather spent my time learning Rust.

That’s very narrow minded and incredibly short sighted. Good arguments have a thesis and supporting evidence. Conspiracy arguments have no supporting evidence.

There is already very little growth left at Google. If the talent leaves, I believe Google will start a long term downward trend. I am not doubting Google employees are overpaid, but that’s the only way to keep them there at this point.

All the big VCs have egg on face and are now trying to justify their due diligence.

> I tend to interpret a written message in a much worse way than I do a message that is communicated verbally.

I see this happening on Twitter a lot and I can see why it causes people to get into online arguments.

Couldn’t agree more. I also really like his idea of apps. Micro services introduces operational complexity and overhead. Most of the time, I see teams using it by default that really should be a monolith.

His older essays are grounded in experience. These ones he is trying to be Socrates - it's embarrassing.

> Because Apple are not in the Ad business! - That was 2017 to 2021 if not 2022. They have their ads business right infront of you for a long time.

If you look at their careers page, they have been hiring quite a few adtech talent in Texas for the last half year. I won't be surprised they are waiting for their competitors to die off before swooping in. Corporate strategy and PR teams deserves a raise.

Some middle manager at Apple is shitting themselves right now for causing this.

Or does he have so much free time because of how wealthy he has become through YC that he has lost touch with reality. Now he spends all his free time thinking you can't want to want what you want. Or is it you can't (want to)* want what you want?

Cheap I agree but objective is definitely not one of them. It’s a way to not get sued.

A good story is enough. Good to know.

Good people can still do evil things. Should someone not face the repercussions simply because they are a good person?

This is in reply to those letters and not your position.

All VC investments look like genius moves during a bull market

- someone on Twitter

There are so many VCs that invested in blockchain startups. Now their source of money is dried up, I can't imagine they will be able to pump these startup valuations for long. At some point, they have to write it down. It will be the dot com crash for blockchain startups.

Would this role be good to transition to engineering management in the future? I find the role much less technical than I thought. It's a lot of coordination with stakeholders to ensure we are building something they want. Letting go of my technical mindset has been the greatest challenge for me since I worry I will not be hireable.

The CEO is told they need to layoff by the CFO. The CEO agrees, then the corporate strategy team devise a strategy with the PR team. After the strategy is devised, the severance and headcount numbers are sent to the CFO for approval. The CFO should be the final go/nogo. Off course, the CEO can come in and change his mind, but that wouldn't be wise since the CFO has the best understanding of the economic situation and company's financial health.

If you are thinking this is him and not the corporate strategy team, then you are a mistaken.

Social media has a lifetime value. It will go from one company to the next.

Same for me. The sense of wonderment is no longer there. It's really just a job for me nowadays. I hope that spark comes back one day.

Also library suggestions are great too if you can wait a few months. I usually suggest a bunch of books not just for me, but other people that might be on the same career path as me.

People outside SV think its full of smart people, but when you work there, you will see how real the TV show Silicon Valley is. I am convinced if not for the money, a lot of people would leave.

No. For your argument to be correct, I would have to argue that Google makes all its money through SOFTWARE.

One is a BUSINESS MODEL, the other is a product category. You are confusing the two.

It seems unsophisticated because it is unsophisticated. Take away the ads model and you don't have a business. It's that simple.

I am not against the ads model, because it's business at the end of the day. But to think it's anything more than that is kinda dumb too. All products need to make money. That's how employees get paid 200-500k salaries.

You might not like it, but Google functions as a whole, not individual products. No CEO is going to look at YouTube and think of it as a separate business. It may be able to function as one, but he/she is always thinking how it can help the other products under the company.

You seem to have this fascination with Google products. I would argue you are not business-minded at all. Would you consider yourself a Google fan boy?

On a last note, I would appreciate it if you argue on the merits of the argument instead of calling other people kinda dumb. It's doesn't convince me one bit about your logic and shows the limit of your reasoning skills. The cap locks also don't help. It's immature.

> YT would still be making money

You are aware how YT makes money, right?

All three products you mention produce a ton of personal data/ monetary value for Google's ad machine.

> Today, our Android apps for Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram each have more than 1 million lines of Kotlin code, and the rate of conversion is increasing. In total, our Android codebase has more than 10 millions lines of Kotlin code.

Probably 1000 engineers working on an app with each writing 1000 lines of code. I am not surprised Facebook app has >1 million lines of code. The app is bloated with features that it's user unfriendly.