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There's a difference between believing in something and explaining it, which I would have loved to read, and openly criticizing Larry Page's hiring decisions be
by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
There's a difference between believing in something and explaining it, which I would have loved to read, and openly criticizing Larry Page's hiring decisions because you disagree with the hire's views.
How would you feel if you got hired somewhere, it was a big enough event to make news, and I wrote an open letter saying "bummer you hired geofft; his views on database scaling will never work. Oh, by the way, I run a company that's doing cutting-edge research on database scaling. Glad my name's out there now!"
It's just shitty and low-brow.
- georgespencer 14y ago> openly criticising Larry Page's hiring decisions because you disagree with the hire's views. Not forgetting that the letter is based on the misconception that he was hired to work solely on his AI project, rather than Director of Engineering.
- jspthrowaway2 14y agoI, and by extension, you, are assuming it was a misconception at all in the first place. My jury's still out. Could be a "his views on AI will permeate Google as a whole, too, who happen to be in a position to execute on it" sort of thing, too, knowing full well why he was hired. I agree with the tongue-in-cheek jab above, though, sounds more like a "I know the answer, why don't you?" sort of letter.
- geofft 14y agoI would be humbled that news of my hiring were big enough news to attract that sort of attention, and certainly that companies think it's an opportunity for publicity. I would also hope that I had not become so self-important a person that I couldn't reply on the blog and have a nice (if brief) discussion on the merits.