defendBanana

Wikipedia is fairly transparent about how they spend the money. Anyone donating can easily check and donate to their liking. Stop making up random 10% etc.

I never understand this obsession that people have with non profit funding. A weird way of counting efficiency by counting how every dollar spend and not really the value produced.

Clearly Wikipedia is one of the most useful things in the world. They would be more "efficient" wrt money most people give to them even if they were to set fire to a large portion of it.

Is that the right statistics here though? Billionaire classes ability to spend should be compared with governments ability to spend. This is not same as wealth.

The few with money are still a fairly large class. They are also paltry in wealth as compared to the masses aka govt spending.

It is ok that many of these fails. Some will work (wikipedia, khan academy etc). We should only require that things are being tried.

In your scenario, presumably you are 20% less effective for same pay. So in a way yes but comp does not need to be adjusted.

With clouds this is not true anymore. They are exactly linear. If you ask for a smaller node they are simply propositioning a chunk of a larger machine anyway.

There is a point where the exponential pricing starts, but that point is way out there than most people expect. Probably ~100CPU, ~1TB RAM, >50Gbps network etc.

Kafka can keep a decent bit of data in RAM using file system pages. Often times you end up wasting CPUs on kafka nodes, not memory i think.

https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/deployment....

Something that has helped me, in many similar situation is to restate my intent.

Reminding myself that my goal is to be a better engineer tomorrow and not really to do a great job right now. I am after getting better, current work that i am doing is just way to get better. Taking such a position seems to solve lot of problems.

Criticism becomes something that i am actually after. I am not attached to what I build in the past. Of-course it is crap, i would not do it the same way now as i am better.

Take pride in getting better. Not in in the job done.