I recently rented a tesla from hertz - I had made sure my hotel had charging in it's parking lot. I arrive at the hotel to find that the tesla was missing it's j1772 adapter, which is what the hotel charger required. I had to hunt down a supercharger and hang out there for an hour. Pretty lame. When I returned the car I complained and was told that there is no guarantee from hertz that the adapter will be included. Without the guarantee renting an a tesla is a scary prospect - I probably won't do it again.
this from someone who has a model y at home as my daily driver and I love it.
the board was about to vaporize employee equity overnight - the secondary was days away and would have been life changing for many employees and significant for all of them. SA is probably a great a leader but the financial incentives for the employees to support him and ensure the secondary went through were huuuuuuge
Thats putting the carriage before the horse. How did the valuation get there, particularly when it did it before M$off, GOOG, etc?
It was the team. Who put the team together?
We will never know if OpenAI would have succeeded w/o SA. That's unfalsifiable. But they got to a life changing equity because the CEO helped get it there.
My point: SA was likely putting the scaffolding of a 2nd home run in place, right as the board got scared of being on 3rd base going for the run.
And therein lies the problem. The BoD was not playing the long game.
Yep, the boards failure occurred when they allowed the profit motive to take control of the organization. The crisis was merely a manifestation of the inevitable.
How did you market it and do you think listing on mls, having an agent show the house, or paying a buyers broker fee would have gotten you more and higher offers?
We didn’t market it. My found our current house through a friend. The wife of the couple that owned the house and my wife hit it off. They sold the house to use at well below market rate (in fact, afterwards we got a letter from the county tax office basically asking “uh… you bought this house well below the market rate… how did that happen?”). We figured out how much we needed to sell our old house for everything to work out. We told friends that we were looking for a buyer for our house and someone had a coworker that was interested. They came and looked at it and bought it for what we wanted. Everyone was happy at the end of the day.
That’s a great story! Do you know why your friend was willing to sell below market? Was it just 6% below market - what they would have spent on fees anyway?
Well, they built the house (the husband was a contractor). It’s an integrated concrete form (ICF) house. They raised their family in the house and had lived in it long enough that it was all paid off. They didn’t want it to go to just anyone, so they asked us how much we wanted to pay and we came to an agreement on a number. They wanted to build a smaller retirement house and were just looking for enough to build that house (as in, they planned on building it themselves).
I put mine on Zillow after interviewing a realtor and it sold for $1,000 less than the maximum amount he realtor said I could expect. Since I didn't have to pay his commission I came out ahead by a lot.
Reading higher in the thread, some Elixir folks are saying that the techempower benchmarks used the wrong settings (debug mode, etc) for their Elixir benchmark.
The fastest Elixir framework on the list, phoenix, is about as fast as uvicorn. (Both around 10 times slower than dragon.)
I was mostly responding directly to these 2 statements from my parent comment:
> They did savings by re-implementing their services and attribute those savings to the new tool / programming language.
> I wonder what the saving would look like if they chose another tool for the second / optimized system. I doubt it would differ much if they went with Go, Java or stayed with Python.
Talk to your manager or find a mentor within the company and ask for advice. Rather than framing it as “my colleges are all slackers” frame it as “what am I missing?” At big tech orgs success can mean a lot more than coding. It’s possible you are not doing things the others are doing… writing specs, documenting, interviewing, planning, etc. the bigger the engineering org the more time spent communicating. It may be they are doing more testing than you as well. It may be that this isn’t for you and you should return to the world of tiny teams where you really can code all day and “feel” much more productive because the communication overhead is so low.
Google pays for on call but it is absolutely the exception in the US. Most Silicon Valley tech companies do not - it’s considered part of the job. Paying for a call is an elegant solution when you have a massively profitable business. Comp days like you are describing are more common, but often informal arrangements.
It would be informative if someone made a list like the extended exercise window list [1] for on call practices and comp if it exists
However one piece of conventional wisdom - on call rotations should be no less than eight people, and not much more. Going on call any more than one week in two months leads to burn out. Any less frequently than that you risk losing familiarity with on call procedures, the observability systems, etc.
this from someone who has a model y at home as my daily driver and I love it.