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^^ Can corroborate. Intel had a fleet of airplanes for employee use commuting between sites. You did not have to be an exec or VP to fly.

I am rooting for this to be the case, and frankly it should be, but typically the massive startup boom comes from companies IPOing (PayPal mafia, Google mafia, etc.). So much talen…

In Oregon, the layoffs were 3x-4x more than in AZ. What's kicked both regions in the teeth is that the layoffs were 4x-5x more than what Intel had stated. OregonLive has been repor…

SingleStore (nee MemSQL) was/is niche -- great fit inside banks in particular.

How are Neon employees doing? Heard Neon laid off a few teams this week. That's fun. Anyone hear if their shares are worth anything in the acquisition?

So many companies have massive teams in India -- tomorrow could be more like a mock drill of our globally distributed engineering systems.

Anyone hear rumors of how much they were acquired for?

Can any employees confirm if they're getting shut out of the sale? Is this another startup where the employees' shares are lit on fire? "Another source told TechCrunch that equity …

That's correct - CockroachDB's license changed in 2019, from Apache 2.0 to a permissive version of the BSL: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach... "We’re a…

Tornado / Reader / CockroachDB co-founder Ben Darnell on database isolation levels and what's wrong with the anomaly table.

I love that this exists as software. Me and coworker argued for hours with our boss about what "rubberducking" was.

Behind a paywall...

I only ever hear about Shein in a negative light. It's never been entirely clear to me why Forever21's and H&M's disposable clothing is somehow morally superior to Shein's.

Why the "but cigarettes"? Is it harder than the other substances to shake, or are you more interested in maintaining consumption? Really curious. My dad's smoked cigars for nearly …

DoorDash's engineering blog has a much more indepth look at their architecture: https://doordash.engineering/2023/02/07/how-we-scaled-new-ve...