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No offense, but this is just a really weak PR fluff piece. The with only interesting thing is that they use Go for the hit access part. Oh, and Ruby and multit
by ambentzen 8y ago
No offense, but this is just a really weak PR fluff piece. The with only interesting thing is that they use Go for the hit access part.
Oh, and Ruby and multithreading don’t mix, who knew?
I like that if you preface your offending remarks with “no offense” you’re excused.
- ambentzen 8y agoAs an aside, when companies are doing these interview-style pieces are they actually interviewing the CEO? I always just assume they pull the quotes out of their ass.
- unilynx 8y agoI don't know about other companies, but given that gitlab's CEO is the type to be regularly active on HN (and will probably be reading this) it seems safe to assume that he would actively cooperate with such an article
- sytse 8y agoCorrect, this was an interview with me. We keep a list of topics that might be a CEO interview https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=CEO%20interview https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues?scope=al... If I recall correctly https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/2887 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/2887 was part of a 1 hour interview that generated 4 articles https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=closed&label_name[]=CEO%20interview https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues?scope=al... Great work by our content team.
- richardwhiuk 8y agoI suspect that a PR person writes the piece with rough quotes, which the CEO then puts into their own words.
- jashmatthews 8y ago> Oh, and Ruby and multithreading don’t mix, who knew? Modern Ruby has great support for threading. Rails has been threadsafe since 2008 and Ruby has a huge advantage over Python in JRuby: no GIL, JIT, parallel GC etc.