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Jamie Turner

Jamie Turner

@jamwt

Co-founder/CEO of @convex. Former Sr. Director/Principal Engineer of Storage & Databases at Dropbox. Shameless startup junkie.

Seattle, WA, USA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@ScientificPeach We worked out of people's houses and friends who kindly volunteered some office space to us.
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Miguel 💾🔨
Miguel 💾🔨@ScientificPeach·
@jamwt And before you raised money who funded the office?
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
We're 3 days in office (two days you can stay home). the purpose of in-office time is to build culture and strategy together etc. Not to prove your working. A little pressure relief goes a long way, especially for parents, or those with long commutes. So those two days are important.
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Jon Klaric
Jon Klaric@complex_maths·
I'm in two minds about this. I know when I worked in a corporate environment, the amount of distractions from other staff members easily exceeded my two kids (especially when Bluey is on!) - but I would imagine (/hope?) that the people you'd find in a successful startup like convex are much more locked-in though. That being said, especially with very-young/young kids, being able to take a few minutes to change a nappy or hold a baby or make a snack/lunch for the kids helped my marriage a LOT (and gave/gives my wife the chance to go take a shower or go to the toilet etc knowing the kids are being watched/looked after). Do you think SF would ever look to do FIFO style arrangements to give people the options of 'remote work' half of the time while still being able to lock-in, in-person with the rest of the team? Two-on/Two-off say (or possibly longer in person for all-hands meetings/catch-ups)?
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@o_glethorpe Postgres is better at being whatever Postgres is. MySQL is better at doing what is actually most crucial for a database to do for you.
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Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe@o_glethorpe·
@jamwt Tech aside, you said it was better not that it was fine. Posts obvious bait to trigger nerds, then complains when nerds get triggered. What are you, a teenager?
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@blakepark I don't want you back in the office every day. I just want to see you a few times a week to hang out, jam on a whiteboard, brainstorm on the walk to coffee. Convex is hybrid. I don't need to see you to prove you're working. I want to see you to build great culture together.
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@IvyAstrix If that's all it took to lose you, our product wasn't good enough, and we didn't deserve your business anyway! 😉
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Ivy
Ivy@IvyAstrix·
@jamwt your competitors just got a new customer, highly recommend you keep posting ragebait
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riffy_z
riffy_z@riffy_z·
@jamwt that's a choice you can make there is a considerable percentage of top talent that simply isn't going to move to SF, ever
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@zex_exe Yes, by in person, I really mean hybrid. Fourty hours a week butt in seat does not matter. Some time over the air across the table on the whiteboard at lunch walking to coffee every week... matters
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Z🦨@zex_exe·
@jamwt You guys are hybrid which I think is the right approach
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@kineticquant Culture is easier to build in person. In person isn't about "management"; it's about culture (and exposure to serendipity).
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Mike
Mike@kineticquant·
@jamwt I mean there are amazing companies and startups formulated with remote work, too. There are also absolute dog shit companies that work in office and can't seem to accomplish even the simplest task. It's almost like the people and culture matters more 🤔
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@vbar_io @ThePrimeagen What if you love your work? What if it's one of the best parts of your life? What if the people you work with are wonderful to spend time with?
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Vladimir Baranov
Vladimir Baranov@vbar_io·
@ThePrimeagen @jamwt This is exactly it. If you care about the company you go to the office. If you care about yourself you work from home. Neither is correct. You just pick.
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@SaxenaAbhishiv Why do I want my OLTP to do this? Columnar stores + query engines are everywhere.
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Abhishiv | Lemmon ePOS
Abhishiv | Lemmon ePOS@SaxenaAbhishiv·
@jamwt I mean in postgres with timescaledb extension you can create hypertables which use columnar storage and have great benefits regarding query performance and storage costs. Impossible to do in mysql right? How's that based on vibes and not "engineering"?
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
The way agents are collapsing the adoption timeline for new platforms completely inverts how incumbency used to work. Your teams knew the platform inside out, you had docs for it, and your entire hiring pool was trained on it. Once your org was locked in, switching had real costs. The incumbents built familiarity and won by accumulating that friction. That's completely gone now. If your platform is better designed for what agents actually do, you win, and you win fast.
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Tony
Tony@ToniAQW1·
@jamwt that's not a flex, that's just your management style being absolutely retarded
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salt
salt@saltjsx·
@jamwt can i also be a special snowflake. i can pull up to mike's crib, we're in the same state
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
Also if you still give a shit about stellar engineering, come work with us in SF: convex.dev/jobs You will love it.
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@ikraamdaanis @jamwt tbh the only reason i'm still enjoying web dev with typescript is because of convex, and before that elysia js + postgres. if it wasn't for them both i would have quit programming a while ago
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
I'm old enough to remember when ruby was gonna dethrone python. zig is giving me the exact same vibes vs rust. Fun, beautiful, deeply beloved... and ultimately a charming distraction that splits the mindshare right before rust runs the table.
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Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner@jamwt·
@thekitze Three kids in: go screenless as long as possible. Keeps her tethered to a healthy “boredom trigger” where consumption vs production ratio is good. Screens tilt everything commercially toward consumption. Wait until she’s fallen in love with her own creative power.
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kitze the 🐐
kitze the 🐐@thekitze·
i'm battling a serious dilemma, help my daughter will be 3 yrs old in september. she doesn't use screens at all in any way shape or form. she is completely fine without them. she has a super happy childhood and a WILD imagination. loves playing outside, loves playing on her own, loves books (both when we read to her and she likes flipping them on her own) her vocabulary is super developed and we have conversations about things. my dilemma is about screens tho computers and tv were my childhood. even tho it was wrong, unlimited, and we saw things that were not appropriate for our age. i'm dying to show her cartoons, concerts, music videos, making music, creating art, sports, nature documentaries and computer games. i'm like, if she doesn't see this on a screen where tf will she see MOST things? we take her to museums, theatre plays, she traveled like 11 countries so far, she plays with kids etc etc but when we were kids we learned MOST things (including learning languages) from the tv being on 24/7 (which we don't do now obviosuly) i am very aware of what modern cartoons/movies can do, so i would def start oldschool and very slow and very limited. i'm planning to get old crt tv with vhs/dvd and have a very small collection on rotation, instead of sitting in front of a 138" screen to watch pokemon in HDR lol also we would start with super oldschool retrto nintendo games i just knows screens+vr+ar+ai (whatever tf this combo gonna look like) will be literally her entire life, so i'm really not sure if it's better to: 1. let her enjoy a screenless childhood as long as possible 2. slowly start preparing her and showing her how computers can be used as creative tools, and see how her creativity just to be clear again, i'm not talking about giving her her own device, that's not even crossing my mind. i'm talking about supervised time using a device TOGETHER as an educational/entertainment tool
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