Say what you will about Google but at least it's not a complete fucking parasite on society and the economy like a hedge fund.
Spf13 is leaving Google
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#62Two Sigma (and others) have been poaching senior level google talent at a quicker and quicker clip. Very exciting to watch the exodus happen!
Hedge funds/hf trading companies can't compete with monopolies in printing money. I wonder how they are getting all these people.
High performing hedge funds make way more money per employee than Google.
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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…
Wow! Jealous much. His LinkedIn says he started at MongoDB in 2011. The first commit to Hugo was in 2013, a full two years later. Your story doesn't add up at all.
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.
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So basically a Googler, nonetheless.
Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
> Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
This is true about any successful institution in general. I noticed it first with Universities but it applies to jobs as well.
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Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.
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 ?
> responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption.
In terms of proliferating Go I think that statement is fair. spf13 is like brand name in open source.
I recall years back on GitHub, spf13 was like a name you were guaranteed to come across if you were sinking your teeth into Go. I ended up using cast / viper: https://github.com/tony/vcsync/commit/a76681b. (Not that I'm anything special at golang)
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#66> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!
Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.
In contrast, I think someone like Fabrice Bellard could absolutely use such phrasing without overselling himself... but then again, Bellard doesn't seem to exactly brag about his accomplishments either.
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#67That's an exceptionally garbage link color scheme
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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…
Thanks for taking the time to leave this comment.
While it may be read as some sort of Jealous screed, I have observed similar behaviors from people who fall under this collection of traits. People that might at first be seen as having accomplished a lot, but on further examination, its maybe a few things, and the rest of the things are generally exaggerations.
To a certain extent I understand the need to self promote if one wants to continue to work on OSS but without corporate sponsorship/funding.
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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 ?
> responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption. In terms of proliferating Go I think that statement is fair. spf13 is like brand name in open source. I recall years back on GitHub, spf13 was like a name you were guaranteed to come across if you were sinking your teeth into Go. I ended up using cast / viper: https://github.com/tony/vcsync/c…
To be clear, nobody is claiming that he didn’t write viper, or that he isn’t a brand name in OSS. The claim is that he was responsible for “taking go language from niche technologies to widespread adoption”, which seems like a pretty big one to make.
No doubt his contributions did in fact help that process, but as I read it, the claim asserts him as the driver of that process, which he was not.
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I'd hope so; it would be pretty damn embarrassing if you couldn't do a slightly advanced fuzz buzz.
A tree is just a type of graph. A graph can be represented as an adjacency matrix. So come up with that matrix, then drop it into lapack for inversion. Lapack is well optimized so this is probably a very good solution.