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How do you think Jeff got a 500 million dollars yacht? Not by writing checks. But on a more serious note, it is crazy that between Google and Amazon they can n
by kwanbix 11mo ago
How do you think Jeff got a 500 million dollars yacht? Not by writing checks.
But on a more serious note, it is crazy that between Google and Amazon they can not fund them with 50k each per year, so that they can pay people to work on this.
Specially Google, with Youtube, they can very easily pay them more. 100k~200k easily.
- BowBun 11mo agoDouble funny considering new-grads who may polish up some UI features or rewrite components for the 10th time will get paid 200-400K TC at these same companies. Evidently these companies value something other than straight labor.
- kwanbix 11mo agoYeah, sadly crazy.
- doctorwho42 11mo agoWhat's wild is the importance and impact of the work/tool. And for google and Amazon, $50k-$100k/yr isn't even a single engineer salary to them ... And they get the tool + community good will, all for a rounding error on any part of their budgets...
- kwanbix 11mo agoExactly. That is why I said easily 100~200k. It will be a rounding error for them. It is actually crazy that Google is not already hiring the main dev to work on ffmpeg with all the use they give it on Youtube. I also wonder if it is maybe used by Netflix also.
- noir_lord 11mo ago> I also wonder if it is maybe used by Netflix also. They do and it is. https://netflixtechblog.com/the-making-of-ves-the-cosmos-microservice-for-netflix-video-encoding-946b9b3cd300 https://netflixtechblog.com/the-making-of-ves-the-cosmos-mic... https://netflixtechblog.com/for-your-eyes-only-improving-netflix-video-quality-with-neural-networks-5b8d032da09c https://netflixtechblog.com/for-your-eyes-only-improving-net...
- kwanbix 11mo agoIt is really sad that none of Netflix or Google had hired a couple of devs to work full time on ffmpeg.
- noir_lord 11mo agoI'd be amazed if any of the FAANG's isn't putting real money through ffmpeg somewhere. So yeah it'd be nice if they put some real money (to ffmpeg - wouldn't be their coffee allowance to any of them) into it. Almost everything that touches video at some point uses it.
- EasyMark 11mo agoI'm just imagining them having 4 or 5 250K a year security workers pumping out endless bug reports for one guy in Norway who works on ffmpeg at night and weekends for free because he loves open source and demanding him meet their program deadlines lol
- themafia 11mo ago> How do you think Jeff got a 500 million dollars yacht? Not by writing checks. A rising tide lifts all yachts. If he had written the check, my instinct tells me, he would have enough for two yachts. Goodwill is an actual line item on 10Q's and 10K's. I don't know why companies think it's worth ignoring.
- jancsika 11mo agoIf I had built up 500 million in a savings account to buy a yacht, giving 50k of that to FFmpeg devs would put off my ability to buy a yacht by nearly a whole day. Boltzmann brain-wise it clearly doesn't make sense to wait that long.
- gowld 11mo agoCheating on your wife would put off your ability to buy that yacht off by 20 years, and yet here we are.