The further responses from Vlad may be ill advised, and maybe he should've realized those emails were going to be unproductive, but they aren't combative. The email Lori sends explicitly asking him to stop emailing is…
That obelisk (we call it the monolith) effect is what led to the approval in my org to take a small team and start work on replacing our nearly 25 year old pile of enterprise Java with a new codebase. I agonized over…
What an aggressively myopic, narrow view of the situation. The reason "this VMware stuff" is a huge issue is because Broadcom are just absolutely fucking up relationships between every part of the VMWare ecosystem: the…
Pichai doesn't need to sincerely believe what he's relaying here to benefit from it, he needs only believe that by saying these things he can steer employee discontent to back within a manageable margin. Therein lies…
To my understanding a lot of these managers aren't sticking with the product too far after launch, they're often moving on internally to the next thing. So these managers get to say they were responsible for launching…
Outside of ads, and maybe LLM work, what projects are going on at Google that are interesting, to both the top brass and to line level engineers, that might lead people to feel differently? Google has been a rudderless…
The don't-bother-unless-it-hyperscales majority attitude of tech company funding and growth heavily limits the variety of new things that the tech world at large can offer. There are simply not that many types of tech…
Dynamics is Microsoft (somewhat poorly) making a Salesforce for people who are all-in on the Microsoft ecosystem. In terms of collective human suffering caused per year of existence I would say it's on par with the rest…
It doesn't until there are negative externalities, you know, like labor retention rates, that cause those transport costs to go back up. Tesla might be able to sell some of these to some companies for a while, because…
You're correct about the testing not being a concern. Testing for psilocybin is very expensive and unreliable. Really only one major drug testing lab in the country will even try to test for psilocybin, and that's…
We self-host our Oracle instance because we really, genuinely like Oracle SQL and Oracle Cloud is the only cloud provider (that I'm aware of) that offers Oracle as a service, which is undiserable. Also, in general I…
I'm not going to try to justify how I would act, or how anyone else should act, were I to have a compensation package putting me easily in the top 0.1% of society, but we can collectively dispense with the notion that…
He's perfectly capable of giving stock to these employees as well.
Setting aside the hilarious disrespect of assuming that I'm a drug addict from single comment on the internet, you are capable of realizing that taking issue with people who use a drug only because of the mental and…
While I may not be someone you want to be for specific reasons relating to our individuality, I am a long time psych user and I'm demographically and overall culturally someone that is presented as desirable to be. I'm…
I have had good trips and bad trips on a variety of highly psychedelic substances, and I've had a lot of those trips. Trying to engineer the trip out of the drug to get a desired psychoactive result free from pesky side…
Not the owner, but the one of the principal decision makers for this sort of thing. We're an org that just hit 100 employees and prior to migrating our ancient software stack to heavily utilize 365 offerings we looked…
I agree that the comments in this thread are uselessly snarky and uncivil, but Lennart Poettering is not just a single person who wrote software people don't like. PulseAudio has, deservedly or otherwise, been the face…
The further responses from Vlad may be ill advised, and maybe he should've realized those emails were going to be unproductive, but they aren't combative. The email Lori sends explicitly asking him to stop emailing is…
That obelisk (we call it the monolith) effect is what led to the approval in my org to take a small team and start work on replacing our nearly 25 year old pile of enterprise Java with a new codebase. I agonized over…
What an aggressively myopic, narrow view of the situation. The reason "this VMware stuff" is a huge issue is because Broadcom are just absolutely fucking up relationships between every part of the VMWare ecosystem: the…
Pichai doesn't need to sincerely believe what he's relaying here to benefit from it, he needs only believe that by saying these things he can steer employee discontent to back within a manageable margin. Therein lies…
To my understanding a lot of these managers aren't sticking with the product too far after launch, they're often moving on internally to the next thing. So these managers get to say they were responsible for launching…
Outside of ads, and maybe LLM work, what projects are going on at Google that are interesting, to both the top brass and to line level engineers, that might lead people to feel differently? Google has been a rudderless…
The don't-bother-unless-it-hyperscales majority attitude of tech company funding and growth heavily limits the variety of new things that the tech world at large can offer. There are simply not that many types of tech…
Dynamics is Microsoft (somewhat poorly) making a Salesforce for people who are all-in on the Microsoft ecosystem. In terms of collective human suffering caused per year of existence I would say it's on par with the rest…
It doesn't until there are negative externalities, you know, like labor retention rates, that cause those transport costs to go back up. Tesla might be able to sell some of these to some companies for a while, because…
You're correct about the testing not being a concern. Testing for psilocybin is very expensive and unreliable. Really only one major drug testing lab in the country will even try to test for psilocybin, and that's…
We self-host our Oracle instance because we really, genuinely like Oracle SQL and Oracle Cloud is the only cloud provider (that I'm aware of) that offers Oracle as a service, which is undiserable. Also, in general I…
I'm not going to try to justify how I would act, or how anyone else should act, were I to have a compensation package putting me easily in the top 0.1% of society, but we can collectively dispense with the notion that…
He's perfectly capable of giving stock to these employees as well.
Setting aside the hilarious disrespect of assuming that I'm a drug addict from single comment on the internet, you are capable of realizing that taking issue with people who use a drug only because of the mental and…
While I may not be someone you want to be for specific reasons relating to our individuality, I am a long time psych user and I'm demographically and overall culturally someone that is presented as desirable to be. I'm…
I have had good trips and bad trips on a variety of highly psychedelic substances, and I've had a lot of those trips. Trying to engineer the trip out of the drug to get a desired psychoactive result free from pesky side…
Not the owner, but the one of the principal decision makers for this sort of thing. We're an org that just hit 100 employees and prior to migrating our ancient software stack to heavily utilize 365 offerings we looked…
I agree that the comments in this thread are uselessly snarky and uncivil, but Lennart Poettering is not just a single person who wrote software people don't like. PulseAudio has, deservedly or otherwise, been the face…