Agreed that the steps taken vis-a-vis these employees may have been the right one if they indeed breached company policy.
But I do have an issue with publicizing this so openly, and using this to showoff of how serious "we" are.
Even with the best intentions, you will run into bad apples. You still need to have the right controls, preferably automated, to avoid sensitive material to be used for internal purposes. Blogging on how they terminated employees doesn't help to showcase their leadership imho.
What would be a good way to find companies that try to address more "pressing needs" and need strong technical help? I am currently in Indonesia, on a break after 20y in Silicon Valley, and would have time to help. I've thought about NGOs but I suspect these may be hard to navigate? Thanks in advance for any pointers and ideas
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I have been using RethinkDB over the last month in a new project. If you know that a document store is the right solution for you, take a look at RethinkDB. I evaluated it against some of its competitors, and I must say that I was really amazed at the deep engineering thinking that is going into RethinkDB. The ease and power of its programming model (use of AST/lamda functions and like abstractions are awesome), and attention to ease of deployment and manageability (great UI!) is unparalled in like products. RethinkDb is a young product for sure, but one with a very bright potential. In addition, being well funded should help alleviate fears and hopefully help it further gain traction.
