NDizzle

Databricks is a furnace. It burns money.

Yeah, you phrased it better. I am really frustrated these days. The (more accurate) statement I should made is: "The only people who can afford devices like this are smart enough to question the value."

Who can afford this shit?

Removing their fake job postings is low on the priority list. Same with the other companies and their fake job postings...

I had the same thing happen. Twice, actually - after the non-competes expired for the first acquisition, of course I accepted a position working for the same guy at the next company. Another successful exit there. These were small time, meat and potatoes type startup companies. Nothing fancy. The one thing I did post about here on HN, which I think was one 1) ahead of its time, 2) lacked investor connections, 3) we went with Oakland instead of SF DID flame out spectacularly. My part was the money from the first acquisition plus about 40% of my savings. Ah well. Gotta try it a few times. (still looking for the next opportunity)

*Deloitte CYPRESS falsified documents... After Arthur Anderson went down for global issues, Deloitte split into country based things so when Deloitte Cypress has an issue they can hand wave away it being an issue regarding Deloitte in that country only.

It somewhat operates that way, too. Back when the little company I was at was acquired by Deloitte USA - I was exposed to some of the IT workings. Deloitte Canada did things their way, USA did things their way... no knowledge sharing, combined efforts, learnings/failings passing between the "different companies". Worst of both worlds. For tax and risk reasons.

Mine is in a blue case. My last case was black. Only when my cases wear out do I remember that my phone is actually white.

I joined a company using Notes back in '00. Performed the 4 to 5 upgrade, skipped 6 and went to 7.

We had our "email blast" code in the founder of the companies mail database. When we launched new features or had various announcements, you would log on to Mark's email database and run those features in the drop down. Of course there were various permissions in check that only certain people could do (or view) certain things in the database, but that's where it ended up...

I always thought the data/design replication was cool as well. I had to bake in what I called "relational fields" into the documents to be able to perform some standard relational database type of work, but it was really easy to work with overall. Maybe too easy - as one person mentioned in the thread, there were hundreds of little custom apps built by anyone/everyone in the company, because it was just that easy.

Words will never be a human, for what it's worth. May as well delete that code path, as it'll never be reached.

This is my favorite soap, by far, for what it’s worth. The peppermint one, in fact. ALL ONE!

From what I can tell, gaming with an nvidia card on Linux is still rough. Is that incorrect?

Man, everyone is demonstrably bad - until they aren't. Some things, like being CEO, are much more rare in the "try, try, try again" space, but it does seem to work like most things. My son was a terrible, demonstrably bad hitter for ~2 years. Then, all of a sudden, he was not, nor will he ever be again.

The company I work for is about 15mm into what is effectively a rewrite. Just a lone data point…

Leadership asks us if we have friends who are skilled looking for a change. We do. We hire those people. They do great work. They then get laid off 8 months later. Leadership then asks (the few we have…) skilled people in India if they have friends who are skilled looking for a change. They say to find the job postings for the laid off people to use verbatim for the India roles.

Maybe we should start a support group.