Patrol8394

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by Patrol8394 4y ago
What about AI/ML, Cloud, Workspace ? (+ of course ads and search). Why didn't they launch something like ChatGPT? Even if it was half baked, they should have made more noise and marketing PR on what's cooking ... instead they
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
It all comes down to Apple being a very focused company. They know their customers, what they want and they have a much better business model. Steve Jobs once explained it by saying they say no to a lots of things even to those who seem on
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Current layoffs are not due to macroeconomics, but more a normalization of what happened in the last couple of yers. Most of the companies laying-off they all over hired. Why don't they just say so. https://www.statista.com
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> Supporting departing Zoomies Zoomies??? stop using this language, these are people with a life outside your company. Refer to them as such, not fck zoomies….
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
This, I can agree with. I know first hand failed software engineer that turned into engineer management at FB just because they didn’t know how to do anything. So management was their escape route to success. Shuffling things around, rarely
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
... and yet a good chunk of their revenues is driven by ads. On the other hand Microsoft can deploy ChatGPT tech in all their enterprise products. Google does have the means and knowledge, but they are not as good at monetizing them. See al
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Well said. Also, for professionals who have a life besides coding and work, they might prefer spending their time with family, kids etc. I spend my entire day at work in front of a screen coding, writing documents, meetings etc … the last t
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
The company was doomed the moment they started hiring at unreasonable pace because VC $$$. I have seen the same at other startups I worked at: VC pump $$$ into the company, the CEO starts bragging on doubling headcount every other quarter;
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
If he takes full responsibility then it should step down. But hell no, why would he…all these sugarcoated emails make me sick.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
>No VC wants to be funding the next Theranos or WeWork I wouldn't bet on it. Wait for $$$ to become cheap again and you will see all sorts of garbage with multi million $$$$ evaluation out of thin air.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
VC has unfortunately pushed forward a model that rarely helped building sustainable businesses, but rather grow fast, build hype, IPO, cash out move on model. It definitely benefitted few at the expense of many. People have accepted to work
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Granted that there are definitely people there resting and vesting and not contributing much. I get it. This still does not explain why all these big tech companies went on hiring spree when clearly they did not need that many people. And n
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
I think they just cashed out; enterprise had to pay, for now, while evaluating and migrating to free alternatives. I don't think it will be a sustainable growth.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Totally! I was literally spammed by FP recruiters .. hyper growth, hyper growth ... and now you see it ... give me a break!
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> “people are our most important resource” Did you ever believe it? It makes me throw up every time I see corporate messages speaking of family and employees being their most important resource. I have been around for long enough and I
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
This x 10000 ! If I had a dime for every time I provided this exact feedback in code reviews…I find surprising that a lot of devs in tech industry are obsessed with pointless micro optimizations and they don’t care about writing maintainabl
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
My wife and I did not sleep trained our kids. They co-slept with us, they were happy we were able to sleep through the night. Eventually they transitioned into their own bed no problem. Our neighbors will let their baby cry like forever, it
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
And yet people don't care and keep using it. It shows exactly why you can't trust common sense and people to do the right thing.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Steve Jobs once said: “ It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
It is just impossible to innovate and deliver at mega corp like FB. That’s why acquisitions become the only mean through which they can “pretend” to grow. Mega corp are good to rest and vest. If you wanna build stuff you should work at smal
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Unfortunately, titles do matter.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Yes, but, the problem with ic becoming managers is that they are too involved with eng work. Often dictating how things should be done. Also, they have hard time letting their beloved legacy code go. Best managers are IC who have the abilit
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Rule number one at startups: write things that don’t scale and use mature, boring frameworks/languages. The goal is to deliver products and iterate as fast as possible. Productivity is key to success. IF (and it is a big IF) your start
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
They all look shining from the outside, problems start when you join the new team and realize the pile of s t you will be dealing with. Btw this happens in most companies, tons of tech debt. And those who created that s t are off onto new p
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> and said FTX was totally fine I want to think that by now people have learned that "totally fine" in crypto means that they are not. Also, wasn't FTX gonna buy Voyager?
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
It is mind blowing how such unprofitable companies got away for so many years. VC and startup incubators nowadays only want to hear about profitability, but they have poured $$$$ into unprofitable businesses for the last decade ad so. And c
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
> employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone They know, they know. They just don't want to be the first one to putting numbers out there, because they want to low ball as much as they can. I clearly
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
>they will absolutely shutdown some of the other value-add services They need to be competitive, and to do so, they must be at least feature pairing with AWS/Azure. I can't think of a single service they can simply shutdown. A
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
They could, but I don't think they will. They desperately need to build new revenue streams, as of now, most of the $$$ still come from ads/search. Sunsetting GCP will immensely damage their reputation.
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by Patrol8394 4y ago
Google, went from ~$60 (March 2020) to ~$145 (August 2021) .. that's more than ~140% in ~1y ??? Did revenue grow that much to justify this crazy appreciation? Now, it sits at around ~$95, still ~50% gain since pre-covid ... I think th

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