grobaru's comments

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku

Even Beam really ?...another one that received an insane amount of money in funding. There IS virtually nothing that prevents mri from becoming at least as fast as v8.

Again you are comparing apples to oranges.

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku

Sorry but everything is relative and we could have just stick with JVM and Java as it's super performant and you have enough developers to choose from. Picking elixir over ruby is like picking a katana when you want machete.

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku

Wow are you seriously comparing mri with jvm that receivee billions of dollars and significant manpower investments and is fundamentally different from.mri?

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: 8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice

I do not want to discourage you but these companies hardly solve "real problems". Yes they might be challenging and more prestigious but you will probably end up just working on better ads targeting.

I mean I do not want to underestimate your skills and intellect but look at what happened to Geohot and I believe he is above your average MIT/Stanford graduate

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Should people over 40 work a three-day week?

These costs are banal compared to what your usual medium to large enterprise is paying in bonuses,benefits and other.

I am coming from Europe and always admired capitalist systems but I think the americans and others are probably stressing it too much.

I have experienced large US corporations firing people that had 2-3 years till retirement, people that spent 30years with company and have been replaced with cheap offshore resources.

I think companies could keep these employees but incrementally decreasing their salaries and working hours. They could still earn more (overtime) but I would dynamically adjust the salaries.

I mean anyway...95% people are just slacking at their jobs

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Mediocre talent in Silicon Valley

Most of the people are mediocre. Just because they work in hyped companies (Uber,Google,Facebook whatever) does not mean they are the top 10%.

And even being in top 10% does not directly translate into being able to create an extraordinary product.

There are hundreds of thousands talented people that did not buy into hype or are not too ambitious to even attempt the amazingly tiring interviews at these companies.

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China

1) pollution 2) oppressive government 3) language barrier 4) too many people 5) twisted ideas of morality (not respecting IP)

Well...unless all you care about is $$$.

grobaru | 9 years ago | on: Salary transparency at Stack Overflow

I think SF is a bubble and very unhealthy to the whole IT industry. It basically raises the costs for everyone.

It makes no sense to hire a person in SF for much more (and he will not really benefit from it) just because you compete with multi billions dollar businesses that can cut costs somewhere else.

At some point people do not want to change the world with next Instagram. They just want to live nicely.