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^^ 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.

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 liberation of sorts.

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 to be cut -- they cut 2500 jobs. This is also round 3 (?) of Intel's layoffs in the last 12 months. It's massive and devastating.

SingleStore (nee MemSQL) was/is niche -- great fit inside banks in particular.

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?

So many companies have massive teams in India -- tomorrow could be more like a mock drill of our globally distributed engineering systems.

Anyone hear rumors of how much they were acquired for?

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 and VCs” will get “nothing” from the sale. The identity of the source, who asked to remain anonymous, has been verified by TechCrunch."

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 permissive version of the Business Source License (BSL). CockroachDB users can scale CockroachDB to any number of nodes. They can use CockroachDB or embed it in their applications (whether they ship those applications to customers or run them as a service). They can even run it as a service internally. The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license."

Tornado / Reader / CockroachDB co-founder Ben Darnell on database isolation levels and what's wrong with the anomaly table.

I love that this exists as software. Me and coworker argued for hours with our boss about what "rubberducking" was.

Behind a paywall...

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.

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 quit.

DoorDash's engineering blog has a much more indepth look at their architecture: https://doordash.engineering/2023/02/07/how-we-scaled-new-ve...

According to their slides/video (bottom of the blog post), the 1.2 million QPS is their daily peak number, not the average.

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 is it tails...

That's completely fair. In pursuit of a headline (and a character count limit), the nuance hit the cutting room floor.

"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 of those cities."

Hat tip to you, Legitster. Louder for the expensive seats upfront.

Opinions like this drive me bonkers. The mass movement to remote work wasn't an "experiment" we all "opted into", it was a necessity driven by a global pandemic. Putting the narrative on equal plane as "choosing avocado toast" makes my blood boil. We went remote because we had to. We fled cities because we had to. It was our civic duty to "flatten the curve" and save lives. My hat for a bit of nuance and grace.

Has anyone ever actually triggered the Halloween problem in their database?

This by far my favorite article about CockroachDB, and I've been involved with CockroachDB for a long, long time.

Can't help but wonder why the metamorphic testing of cockroachdb isn't called kafka...

"I’ve used it in anger and it was honestly pretty great" is one of the best user testimonials I've ever heard.

A very happy October 3rd to all who celebrate.

Ah — explains why I’m having a hard time finding it, so thanks for sharing! (To my total discredit, I was searching their docs from my phone, which is a sub-par research medium).

Could you share the source for the neon cold-start time?

$5 to the next person who correctly uses "backronym" in a sentence: "Unfortunately, SEQUEL was already trademarked by a British aeronautics company and so the vowels were dropped to make it SQL, acronym (or is it backronym?) for Structured Query Language."

What I really want to know is can he EAT that ramen faster than CockroachDB setup. RIP tastebuds. We hardly knew ye.

Hey all -- Cockroach Labs blog editor here. Based in part on the feedback we received from this community, we have retracted the post. The blog post link above will take you the retraction, where we share what we've learned from this experience.