"I grew fed up of being stuck in this e-commerce framework – having to work with its hyper-normalised MySQL database (the EAV model)"
2011? Had to be Magento. Not a great fit with what they were trying to accomplish. Not that they seemed to have a clear understanding of how to accomplish what they wanted, which was to throw spaghetti at a wall and hope something made them rich.
Technically, no, and then they would probably terminate the employee.
Maybe this is better stated as "If you resign from a hugely visible platform, because it's bad, but you don't tell anyone, have you really maximized the impact of your resignation for good?"
Multi-Level Marketing, e.g. that person from grade school who messages you out of the blue to ask how you're doing, and then tell you how much better you'd be doing with daily injections of IsoLeanIonigenTonicWater which you will also want to sell once you feel amazing/thin/virle/whatever.
It depends on the PE firm. We thought the same at Magento (eBay > Permira Funds), but in the end it was a pretty good ride into Adobe. Ryan does not strike me as a corporate raider - he seems to genuinely like building companies (e.g. MongoDB)... curious if others have more to add.
But seriously, good to see so many companies stepping up to just get things done, and to see (more or less) regulations being set aside or handled speedily.
The people who will start flooding the hospitals in the next few days are infected now. This action assumes these emergent cases are about to hit and will be followed by a leveling off of demand and increase of resources (e.g. temp hospital space).
I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.
Another aviation-related WASP program was the essential WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots, which ran from 1942-44. These women "became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots [including towing firing practice targets]. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II."[0]
They were recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and granted internment rights at Arlington.
My favorite example from the (ecommerce) domain in which I work is https://www.cobby.io/ - I know the team behind it, and while it perfectly solves the problem of product data for shops of a certain size, the live-editable cell idea always sparks conversation about the broader applications. Years later and we still see the genius of spreadsheets.
You might reach out to Michelangelo van Dam. He knows this story well, and continues to be an inspiration in the PHP community. He’s @dragonbe on Twitter.