Last I checked Valve is a game company with a pretty flat org structure.

They have their own problems but, last I checked most people like working there.

This is false. GH Enterprise, although the moneymaker, did not have a lot of devs on the project.

Source: MS employee now works at GitHub

SQLite is so awesome. I love how python has a library built-in for it.

That SQLite plus SQLAlchemy makes hackathon code so easy to port to another RDBMS after finishing the initial PoC.

Also makes it super easy to run unittests; just load data into sqlite with the memory connector and go!

SQLite is so great. We built this partially because we wanted SQLite's capabilities without deploys blowing away the instance.

That's essentially what the movie Middle Men was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Men_(film)

> If you want to grow and push yourself you're going to need some new coworkers.

I don't think it's necessarily that clear-cut. Some individuals are capable of pushing themselves. Those who can't, may have managers who are able to. Or, perhaps they rotate to work on a different project or problem space.

One dosen't necessarily need to leave a company to experience change or extraordinary growth. Granted, the extra push/pressure may assist a bit.

I was super out of the loop on the drama so I looked it up. Oh boy...

Response - https://dearstackexchange.com/ HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176712

Yeah, almost every long-time member of Stack Exchange is sick of all the drama that Sara has caused. It's a huge mess.

It sure is but, I believe the ultimate goal is to become an interplanetary species which would be pretty cool.

When discussing this with my friends, an interesting question came up: Who owns the music this produces?

Couldn't one generate music and upload that to Spotify and get paid based off the number of listens?

That's funny b/c we have that in our EE version.

GCP, Azure, Oracle, Alibaba ... just to name a few.