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Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by anewpersonality »

mbd64 wrote: post #52
sleepytimetea wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, wow, exaggerations everywhere ! Very distasteful. His LinkedIn profile says: "I’m responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption." W O W, really ?

Yeah, he's a consummate self-promoter and exaggerator I was at Mongo at the same time. He worked on the drupal website which was a godawful mess. Then there was the Drivers team. He spent 3 years there, was absent most of the time working on Hugo while employed at Mongo. Mongo probably owns most of the IP for it. I am not sure what he did at Docker but he'd like you to believe the 10 months he spent there was pivotal…

Thank you for calling out this behavior!

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by anewpersonality »

10genvictim wrote: post #78
mbd64 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jealous? NO. Someone just needed to finally call him out on his bullshit. He left in the middle of 2014. He was checked out for a long time. I'd say that timeline adds up pretty nicely. So while Steve would like take credit for Mongo's enterprise adoption he barely had anything to do with it. Not with the Server, not with Cloud, not with Sales, Marketing or Education.

What a strange world 2022 is, wherein former employees of MongoDB openly catfight on HN over who was most responsible for suckering some of the Fortune 500 into buying a truckload of technical debt. Arguing over that like it’s taking principal credit for achieving sustained cold fusion. Baffling. We all contribute to poop. Our level of contribution to said poop does not diminish that, in fact, we all work on poop so…

It would serve you better to become clearer in what you are trying to say.

Are you agreeing with the "whistleblower" or not?

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by JaggerFoo »

#1 Continue working with exceptional people.

This is what I miss the most nowadays. Being the number one item is proper placement IMO.

Go is fantastic and makes it easy to build. Hugo is great too - I'm currently using the Docsy template to avoid/replace multiple software products for a crypto/blockchain project.

Cheers

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by davidkuennen »

threatofrain wrote: post #3

> Over the past 6 years Go’s user base has grown ~10x and Go users have increased their frequency from occasional to daily usage. Impressive. How accurate is this?

Anecdata: I've been doing all my projects in Go for many years now. My current production backend with 20+ services all run in Go on Kubernetes and serve 100k+ users.

It's an amazing language since it's so productive. Sometimes I write services in on go (pun intended) for an hour and after turning it on it just runs. Never experiences something like that with another language.

It's also very low on resource consumption. My server barely needs anything to serve that many users.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by melony »

singhrac wrote: post #34
podiki wrote: post #19

A bit off topic, but does anyone else find a data/financial company name "two sigma" to be...either troubling (how often two sigma events happen randomly and their lack of meaning beyond random fluctuation), or really on the nose?

A few more off-topic thoughts about this comment: (a) Two Sigma is an investment firm (a wrapper around a hedge fund), not really a financial company, (b) pretty much no one at Two Sigma is unaware of how often 2 sigma events happen, so I think neither? and (c) two sigma events can totally have meaning beyond random chance, in fact they're usually a leading indicator that there is some connection beyond luck :).

They are a very famous quant fund

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by abm53 »

podiki wrote: post #19

A bit off topic, but does anyone else find a data/financial company name "two sigma" to be...either troubling (how often two sigma events happen randomly and their lack of meaning beyond random fluctuation), or really on the nose?

I believe it is "five sigma" which carries this stigma (because many value-at-risk models saw the market moves in 2008 as a 5 sigma event).

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

IshKebab wrote: post #119
tptacek wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is deeply idiomatic in the language.

But only because there's no `contains` function!

what `contains` what?

you could write this in Go

   if m[key] { }
the comma ok idiom simply lets you distinguish a "zero" value from a missing value.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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Post by jd_mongodb »

Redsquare wrote: post #18
Karupan wrote: post #16

> I led the team that designed MongoDB’s pioneering user experience As someone who has used mongo, genuinely curious about which part of the user experience is being highlighted here. Thanks for all your work with the Go community and good luck with the new team!

Perhaps Mongo Atlas?

Steve left many years before MongoDB Atlas launched
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