Good point. And I think that is an important consideration.
However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.
Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.
I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.
As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p
John Dunkin is the pilot you refer to. Do you think that he should be excluded from the job based on his Trump affiliation - or are there specific things he lacks that would mean he would be unsuitable for the job?
It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.
Just glancing at your previous comments on HN (the most recent 2 pages of which are all Musk/Tesla related), it appears you are not a Musk fan. So I take this comment with a grain of salt.
I think it makes sense to just stick with what you know, unless you have good reasons not to. But since you asked (and mentioned Elixir), Phoenix live view or https://github.com/grych/drab.
> Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them.
Care to provide examples of the patterns? Genuinely curious
> I was so high up on the peak of the C# mountain that recruiters could no longer understand me, employers could no longer understand me, co-workers could no longer understand me
What sort of things were you saying that led to people not understanding you? I can't imagine knowing a language so well that others can no longer understand me
He used to (maybe still does) work for Google and write Java. Thus, likely making him adept at both languages. C#, from what I understand, is his passion though
I would have said Heroku. But it doesn't appear its as straight forward for your stack as it is for others. However this looks promising: https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust
I would have also suggested https://nanobox.io/ - but their pricing is no longer transparent (used to be pretty cheap). It would also involve dockerizing your app.
As for clever cloud, their Rust support is in beta...
I'd spend a short amount of time on Heroku though, if all goes well that's the best option for an MVP IMO
Perhaps there's a strategy to reducing debt in the long run that involves taking on more debt in the short term? Spend money to make money as they say.
Slightly off the beaten path, but:
IIRC, roughly, the U.S began transitioning from a creditor nation to a debtor nation around the time of the Nixon handshake. Some argue that period marked the beginning of the end for the U.S as a superpower. Of course, that result has not fully materialized yet - if it will at all.
> Which ones? Your repeated use of the word artificial is why I believe you are succumbing to the "artificial = bad" fallacy.
I opted to generalize in those instances. As there are a multitude of artificial colours/preservatives/sweeteners used in the soda industry.
Sure I could have said E150d/E102 instead of artificial colours. Or sodium benzoate/etda instead of artificial preservatives. Or acesulfame potassium/sucralose instead of artificial sweeteners.
However, someone could then point out "well X mainstream soda I drink doesn't have all those". Which could be accurate, as the formulas and ingredients of sodas vary.
However, the vast majority of mainstream sodas use at least one of those _types_ of ingredients.
Listing them all out felt unnecessary, I assumed the reader would have heard of or seen an example(s) of each/some and understand my point.
There are a few others per category that are widely used in the soda industry, so it would be a decently long list - to the point where such a list would likely detract from the point (or not, from your perspective)
Edit:
> "phosphoric acid" From Wikipedia: "Products such as soft drinks that contain phosphoric acid pose no threat to human health in general."
Phosphoric acid has been linked to kidney stones and osteoporosis. Does that mean everyone who drinks a coke will get a kidney stone and break their limbs? No.
If you could avoid drinking a coke/mountain dew every morning and have fruit juice instead, would you live a radically healthier life? Probably not, but it's healthier.
As I have mentioned earlier, it could just be marginally, but I think it's quite strange to suggest they are equally as heathy/bad as each other - which you appear to support
However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.
Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.
I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.
As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p