i have been to europe. trust me, the so-called stars of european tech community are definitely overhyped. Not only do they solve much smaller problems, their beliefs and thoughts are really small too. The engineers they attract are very average not rockstars at all.

jordan, agree fully with your assessment. i have experienced significant challenges in keeping elasticsearch in green since it just loves to failover at times without prior notice, while seeming to work smoothly otherwise!

this is very bad for your health. if possible avoid any caffinated drinks or stitch to healthier ones like green tea.

I upvoted. You spoke from the heart!

Dropbox is a resource hog. Unless i want my windows machine to fireup on RAM, fan speed, hard disk usage and stall, I avoid running Dropbox in background. Onedrive works better for me!

Are you on a mac? I have the same issue :( and only run Dropbox when I'm not engaged with my computer to let it do its thing.

Saying that, as a paying customer, I still love Dropbox since it's sync quality & ease is outstanding. I'm also a fan of their Datastore API.

I am on a Mac and don't have that problem. Did you try to trace the Dropbox process to see if anything weird is happening?

Same here !

Microsoft's Onedrive has been surprisingly good for me - on Android as well.

After foundation db leaving users in lurch, i'll be more careful while trusting other products.

Spot on!

> How to be a 10x engineer: Incur technical debt fast enough to appear 10x as productive as the ten engineers tasked with cleaning it up.

We have a guy in our onsite team that keeps making our user facing application suck with his changes one day and then fix those every other day. So lots of git commits but limited productivity in the team, and a very tough maintainence task for every developer in the team.

> Lots of coffee turns me into a highly alert rambler.

not good for health if done daily.

my learning is to approach "fads" with some skepticism and wait for market to give a thumbs up before you try.

improve upon the existing ideas which are poorly executed.

Or which were well-executed, but occurred too-early for whatever market to form. (As you get older, you see this more and more.)