loud 996 people are directionally the same as wifeguys if you know what i mean
Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says working weekends is essential to survive, calling it "purely statistical"
"So China is 996. And then even if you are good in Europe or even if you are good in US, how can you outcompete people who work nine to nine, 6 days a week?"
"When I started in the startup space, there were 140 companies. Within five years, only three companies survived. They all worked on weekends."
"Within 10 years, only 2 companies survived out of 140. So I think work on weekends is a must if you want to survive. Purely statistical."
"Out of all European companies, we're probably one of the hardest working, and I think we're also one of the hardest working companies if you include US as well."
i built Tasker, a Go-based SQLite-backed durable task queue, motivated by the same need across my side projects
- dispatch tasks to be executed async outside user requests
- configurable retries, concurrency & dispatch rate
- durable outcome w retention
github.com/kennethnym/tasker
Tasker is designed to be lightweight and easy to use. dispatch task payload and the HTTP endpoint on which the worker lives, then Tasker will call the worker at the appropriate time. Worker response is persisted, and it can be retrieved at any time.
"your funniest trait is that you'll be debugging some incredibly obscure Rust or Linux issue one minute, then ask me something like whether you need to wave at a tram in San Francisco."
this is me in a nutshell
it did the thing, god knows what happens in year 10000 but your service will survive somehow!
part of me thinks i don’t deserve all of these gifts, but i am eternally grateful that my friends are all so lovely and thoughtful..
kenneth retweeted
Open Superintelligence Research Day
Friday, October 23
Berlin
Own your intelligence
Own the factory that improves it
Own the means of production
wait until you find out about the 2010s microfrontend fever dream..
it’s hard to explain the 2010s microservices fever dream to anyone who wasn’t there
every day on HN, we'd wake up to an article from a new startup about how they split their app into 300 services so they could infinitely scale (never mind that they only had 100 MAUs today)
so many companies never recovered from this
it turns out, replacing simple function calls with network calls that could randomly fail isn't great for shipping velocity