I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve seen this pattern a couple of times with close friends: they get obsessed with a topic, their sleep falls apart, they seem manic, and eventually they start doing really strange things online and crash and burn. They usually recover, but by then a lot of relationships are damaged and they’re left with a lot of shame.
Now I know these are symptoms of bipolar disorder/psychosis (they both eventually got professional treatment and told me much later), and I wish I’d known at the time so I could’ve helped. He’s bragging about sleeping 4 hours and joking about having cyber psychosis. [0]
Sleeping only 4 hours is a classic mania symptom.
I’m not as close to Garry, so I don’t know for sure, but some of the behavior feels very similar to what I’ve seen in my friends.
I hope Garry has people in his life who can help. At the very least, you have to sleep — poor sleep is strongly correlated with psychiatric conditions.
Don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but this comment feels like a pretty good distillation of a certain mindset you often see in Googlers:
* we know better
* we judge everything against internal big-company standards
* we speak as if we’re setting the bar for “the industry”
Someone is openly pushing on a frontier, sharing rough experiments, and educating a huge number of people in the process — and the response is: “we can do better than this as an industry.”
Can you? When is Google launching something like this?
> I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government
I understand you have a lot of employees in Ukraine and you have to show support. Your heart is in the right place. I empathize and would try to do the same if I was in your shoes. But you didn't do a good job here, unfortunately.
When gitlab had to make a similar move [0] at least they had a good excuse — security of their customers' data.
Your message does not make any excuses like that. You straight up equate being russian / living in russia / whatever it is with supporting the war. You fell victim to the same primitive xenophobic thinking you're claiming to condemn.
This is a bad decision. Being a CEO is a tough job, but I think you could do better. I wish you luck.
I'm not an expert in this field so maybe I'm missing some important context here, but this idea of preventing people from porting your software seems odd. Who cares if people make shitty ports? If they're not good then no one will use them. The whole thing also reads a little bit condescending.
Any time there's some popular public API, people will copy other people's projects built around this API and make them "better". I don't think Daniel Stenberg (author of cURL) is upset that there's HTTPie. I don't think it hurts cURL and I don't think it hurts the developer community as a whole.
I guess one could argue it would make life easier if there was just one HTTP library (or one eBPF library I guess). But that's just unrealistic, that's not how people work. Plus it removes the competition aspect which is nice to have for any project.
Is there any examples of open source projects that died because people were making too many ports?
Now I know these are symptoms of bipolar disorder/psychosis (they both eventually got professional treatment and told me much later), and I wish I’d known at the time so I could’ve helped. He’s bragging about sleeping 4 hours and joking about having cyber psychosis. [0]
Sleeping only 4 hours is a classic mania symptom.
I’m not as close to Garry, so I don’t know for sure, but some of the behavior feels very similar to what I’ve seen in my friends.
I hope Garry has people in his life who can help. At the very least, you have to sleep — poor sleep is strongly correlated with psychiatric conditions.
[0] https://youtu.be/W3YpC4Dvzso?t=929