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by orangechairs 1y ago
^^ Can corroborate. Intel had a fleet of airplanes for employee use commuting between sites. You did not have to be an exec or VP to fly.
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by orangechairs 1y ago
I am rooting for this to be the case, and frankly it should be, but typically the massive startup boom comes from companies IPOing (PayPal mafia, Google mafia, etc.). So much talent has been locked up at Intel, I'm hoping this is a lib
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by orangechairs 1y ago
In Oregon, the layoffs were 3x-4x more than in AZ. What's kicked both regions in the teeth is that the layoffs were 4x-5x more than what Intel had stated. OregonLive has been reporting for weeks that 500+ Oregon Intel jobs were going
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by orangechairs 1y ago
SingleStore (nee MemSQL) was/is niche -- great fit inside banks in particular.
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by orangechairs 1y ago
How are Neon employees doing? Heard Neon laid off a few teams this week. That's fun. Anyone hear if their shares are worth anything in the acquisition?
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India to conduct nationwide security drill today(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3 points by orangechairs 1y ago|2 comments
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by orangechairs 1y ago
So many companies have massive teams in India -- tomorrow could be more like a mock drill of our globally distributed engineering systems.
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by orangechairs 1y ago
Anyone hear rumors of how much they were acquired for?
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TikTok's Privacy Problem: It Didn't Have to Be This Way(skyflow.com)
2 points by orangechairs 1y ago|2 comments
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How to Keep Sensitive Data Out of Your Logs: 9 Best Practices(skyflow.com)
2 points by orangechairs 2y ago|0 comments
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Some shareholders of A16Z-backed Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale(techcrunch.com)
6 points by orangechairs 2y ago|2 comments
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by orangechairs 2y ago
Can any employees confirm if they're getting shut out of the sale? Is this another startup where the employees' shares are lit on fire? "Another source told TechCrunch that equity holders “got zero’d” so “founders, employees
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by orangechairs 2y ago
That's correct - CockroachDB's license changed in 2019, from Apache 2.0 to a permissive version of the BSL: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach... "We’re adopting an extremely pe
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by orangechairs 3y ago
Tornado / Reader / CockroachDB co-founder Ben Darnell on database isolation levels and what's wrong with the anomaly table.
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Isolation levels without the anomaly table(cockroachlabs.com)
2 points by orangechairs 3y ago|1 comments
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by orangechairs 3y ago
I love that this exists as software. Me and coworker argued for hours with our boss about what "rubberducking" was.
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by orangechairs 3y ago
Behind a paywall...
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We stress test and benchmark CockroachDB for global scale(cockroachlabs.com)
3 points by orangechairs 3y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding 'Success Disasters': Ticketmaster vs. Taylor Swift(thenewstack.io)
2 points by orangechairs 3y ago|0 comments
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True Tales of Survival: Saving your data center with a bucket brigade(cockroachlabs.com)
2 points by orangechairs 3y ago|0 comments
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by orangechairs 3y ago
I only ever hear about Shein in a negative light. It's never been entirely clear to me why Forever21's and H&M's disposable clothing is somehow morally superior to Shein's.
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The Architecture of Serverless Data Systems(jack-vanlightly.com)
147 points by orangechairs 3y ago|43 comments
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by orangechairs 3y ago
Why the "but cigarettes"? Is it harder than the other substances to shake, or are you more interested in maintaining consumption? Really curious. My dad's smoked cigars for nearly 60 years, and he's never been able to qu
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City Storage Systems: CockroachDB on Kubernetes at Global Scale(cockroachlabs.com)
1 points by orangechairs 3y ago|0 comments
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by orangechairs 3y ago
DoorDash's engineering blog has a much more indepth look at their architecture: https://doordash.engineering/2023/02/07/how-we-scaled-new-ve...
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by orangechairs 3y ago
According to their slides/video (bottom of the blog post), the 1.2 million QPS is their daily peak number, not the average.
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DoorDash manages high-availability CockroachDB clusters at scale(cockroachlabs.com)
52 points by orangechairs 3y ago|61 comments
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by orangechairs 3y ago
That sentence caught me, too. The fear of Google downranking AI-generated content with its left hand, while creating and promoting its own Bard bot-generated content with its right hand. Can an ai-generated snake choke on its own tail? Or i
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by orangechairs 3y ago
That's completely fair. In pursuit of a headline (and a character count limit), the nuance hit the cutting room floor.
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by orangechairs 3y ago
"The tech industry's mistake was all collectively setting up shop in a small handful of trendy, dense, expensive cities and not investing in housing, transit, or otherwise doing anything to improve the collective quality of life o

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