Half the company within seven days of the deal closing?
@simonw
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CEO Leadership Fails to Understand Social Media Product Strategy
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I don't think strategies that work for building spaceships (projects where people will tolerate a LOT of bad culture for the chance to work on them) are going to work for a social media service – especially not when the new CEO clearly doesn't understand /why/ the product works
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Major layoffs after acquisition raise questions about decision-making
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Imagine firing half the company a week after you bought it and being confident that you made good decisions https://
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Blockchain profit mechanisms and zero-sum economics explained
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How do you make money on it without other people losing that money to you (minus the fee that goes to the miners/validators)?
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Layoff Strategy: Using Education to Weather Economic Crashes
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I did exactly that in 2001 – got laid off by the collapsing dot-com I was working for, went to university for a few years to wait out the crash Helped that I was young and completely free of responsibilities though!
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GitHub Actions Compiles SQLite Database from Flat Files
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I have a whole bunch of repos these days that use GitHub Actions to effectively "compile" a SQLite database from flat files at deploy time – this one for example https://
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SQLite as Fast C API for Efficient Data Access
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I mainly see SQLite as a fast C API for accessing subsets of data from a file on disk, optionally using indexes to speed up that access It makes all of the decisions about what gets read into memory and when for me, so I can pretty much ignore those low level details entirely
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Federated Networks: Challenges in Decentralized Architecture
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Yeah there's a very significant cost of having it federated across independent servers – clicking "follow" on another profile behaves in a surprising way, and there's not yet a good option for global search outside of a single server I'm impressed at how well it DOES work though
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PostgreSQL Design Makes Ideal Target Compatible Database Implementations
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Yeah there seem to be things about the specific design and implementation of PostgreSQL that make it a really great target for compatible database implementations
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Mastodon Exceeds Expectations After Six Years Development
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I had low expectations of Mastodon and it has massively exceeded them – it's had six years to iron out the kinks, I was surprised qnd impressed when I set it up yesterday