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Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee m
by rjurney 17y ago
Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee means participating in the profits as the company grows, as well as being able to focus on turning Hadoop into the kernel of the network computer of tomorrow. As cool as Yahoo is, its not hard to see why Cloudera could lure Cutting away.
- joshu 17y agoSince when is Yahoo cool?
- rjurney 17y agoSince they hired Doug, gave us Hadoop, Pig, YUI etc? Since their home page started being a great portal for normal people? Since Yahoo Labs started churning out the awesome? Since they've given more to FOSS than any other company, ever? By any standard other than 'Web 2.0 Douchebag' - Yahoo is SUPREMELY cool, whatever you think of their long-term prospects or what might have been.
- joshu 17y agoAnd, you know, killed a lot of good startups, wasted a lot of engineers' time, etc. "gave us Hadoop" -> let Doug do what he wanted. I'm not convinced they've "given more to FOSS" - significant examples other than Hadoop and Doug's work? Perhaps I spent too much time inside that particular sausage factory. Would you go work there, right now?
- adw 17y agoI'm slightly intimidated to reply to you, but YUI and YSlow are pretty significant if you're a front-end guy.
- rjurney 17y agoI feel like YDN is pretty meaty. And yes, 'Let Doug do what he wanted and paid him, and gave us Hadoop and Pig with great docs, along with YUI' is a pretty strong contribution. I've never worked there, but if I could work on a cool project - yes, I would. You do sound like you have a unique perspective :) I've always heard nothing but bad things about Yahoo management, and if they acquired my baby and kilt it I'm sure I'd hate them too. Don't the cash and freedom make up for it, somewhat?
- joshu 17y agoI guess. I think the folks that pay Linus or whatever have done more for OS. Sun's opensolaris, too. MySQL, etc too. Just by sheer weight of code. The problem is that the number of cool projects is pretty minimal. They're in duck and cover mode. They'll get pushed to trim employees further and further to stretch the revenues out. I wish I had not sold it to them. The cash and freedom do not even come close; I would rather work on a big, popular product.
- rjurney 17y agoI'm overall pretty impressed with Yahoo's commitment to FOSS development of Hadoop. They've done 90% of its development, and they seem very serious about a commitment to open source going forward. But yeah, I can see how you'd feel like you do.
- keefe 17y agoCan't you work on anything you want now that you have the money? If you hadn't sold and some catastrophe struck you, what then? I'm sitting here counting out months of savings and wondering if I'll be able to build what I want to build before debt and daily life grinds me down.