Incidentally, if any hackers are looking for jobs working on an interesting problem, I know the Rethinks are hiring. It would be the perfect job for a lot of hackers. You'd get to solve big problems starting with a blank slate, and you'd get to work with smart, totally pragmatic people (Slava and Mike). Plus they now have enough to actually pay you.
Not to mention they are very transparent with their compensation and stock options (Scroll down - http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/). People who run their hiring process and business like that seem like very good people to work for indeed.
I would jump on this immediately if I was in the bay area and didn't already have my own startup. As it is, I'll have to satisfy my (data)base urges by writing my own high performance SSD-optimized key-value store.
Tarsnap splits data into blocks of ~64 kB which are individually compressed and encrypted before being uploaded. I use S3 for back-end storage, but need to keep track of where I put each of the blocks.
It's not that the metadata is demanding; it's just that there's a lot of it. For each $/month Tarsnap takes in, I have about 200,000 table entries.
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Incidentally, if any hackers are looking for jobs working on an interesting problem, I know the Rethinks are hiring. It would be the perfect job for a lot of hackers. You'd get to solve big problems starting with a blank slate, and you'd get to work with smart, totally pragmatic people (Slava and Mike). Plus they now have enough to actually pay you.
Not to mention they are very transparent with their compensation and stock options (Scroll down - http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/). People who run their hiring process and business like that seem like very good people to work for indeed.
That's really, really cool. I've never seen the stock options/equity listed on a hiring page before.
And I love that it's a percentage, not, eg, 10k options.
Do people actually quote the number of options without reference to a percentage or a stock price?
Not bad compensation for a start-up.
I would jump on this immediately if I was in the bay area and didn't already have my own startup. As it is, I'll have to satisfy my (data)base urges by writing my own high performance SSD-optimized key-value store.
Wow, are the metadata of Tarsnap that demanding?
Tarsnap splits data into blocks of ~64 kB which are individually compressed and encrypted before being uploaded. I use S3 for back-end storage, but need to keep track of where I put each of the blocks.
It's not that the metadata is demanding; it's just that there's a lot of it. For each $/month Tarsnap takes in, I have about 200,000 table entries.