That's also how I tend to program after having read Joe Armstrong's dissertation "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of sodware errors" and having programmned in Go for a few years.
I'm enjoying uv but I wouldn't say the problem is "fully" solved -- for starters it's not uncommon to do `uv add foo` and then 5K lines of gobbledygook later it says "missing foo-esoterica.dll" and I have to go back to the multiplatform drawing board.
This is one of the worst article I read on this topic. The author is confusing the structure (pyramid versus network) with the type of leadership (authority versus direction and autonomy).
The goal of a scam is to make the scammer richer. Who gets richer in this case? No one. So that’s not a scam. I’m disappointed seeing that kind of accusations stated without evidences on HN, a forum about entrepreneurship and tech, where we used to celebrate success as much as learn from failure.
Most of the money went into the pocket of extraordinary dedicated employees who were paid market salaries (actually often slightly below market), and suppliers as well.
As far as I know, no executives received “millions of dollars in bonuses”. What is your source? And in Sweden and Europe, people are usually not paid in dollars :)
And? It is targeting 230 employees, and explicitly excluding top management. Employees at Northvolt are often paid slightly below market, because they also warrants. But considering those warrants are probably not worth much anymore, the bonus may be necessary to retain necessary talents.
Since northvolt is private, there is a lot less insight into what goes on there. However, I'm fairly sure that the CEO did sell some of his shares during one or more financing rounds, in order to create a little nest egg for himself.
On top of that I'd imagine that during the 8 years or so, he probably took out at least 200k EUR in salary, if not more, per year. So a few millions of dollars probably went to the CEO.
It's unclear if the employees receiving that are actually top management, but honestly, I would be surprised if they're not, as they are the ones who always get this sort of bonuses.
EDIT 2: you don't need to speak Swedish to understand what North Volt itself wrote is about a bonus program, so yes, it most definitely is a bonus: "bonusprogrammet är avgörande för att upprätthålla arbetsmoral, motivation och lojalitet"
I live in Sweden. Can you share a link? I bet that what you have in mind is the bonus that could be paid to about 230 employees, explicitly excluding the top management, in order to retain them. Or perhaps the news that the former CEO has sold some shares during a founding round, which is a relatively standard practice and not a “bonus”, and a way to keep the CEO salary reasonably low.
Edit (following your edit): You wrote earlier: “including paying millions of dollars in bonus to their incompetent executives”. The link you shared directly contradicts this since it mentions the equivalent of 6M USD distributed to about 230 employees. Another article mentions very explicitly that top management is excluded. According to these articles, it is simply impossible to conclude that top executives will receive “millions of dollars”. You’re just contributing to rumors that are not based on facts.
In my view, you're the one spreading lies here.
I haven't seen anywhere that top management is excluded. Please link to sources if you have reliable ones.
About the bonus being spread over 230 employees: no one can know how much will go to each employee. From my experience with shenanigans like this, usually two guys will each get 40% of the whole bonus, and the other 228 will get the remaining 20%. Do you have actual data on that or you're just interpreting this in the most charitable possible way you can???
Remote work is about collaboration. That requires an effort from both sides to make it work. For sure, management has a huge responsibility. But putting every failure on management is overly simplistic.
And even that is questionable, since many web applications offer SQLite as another DB back end, and it works just fine for a wider range of workloads than one would expect.
the problem with sqlite has never been performance, it's always been extreme (dead)locking when writing concurrently - how does Rails get around that assuming this is actually recommended for prod deployments?