Comments on: A Sad Day

By: Eero Saynatkari (rue)

Eero Saynatkari (rue) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:40:58 +0000

Ultimately, I think the story here is that Engine Yard *continues to fund* Rubinius even in the current climate of uncertainty and that counts for something in my book.

The community response has been awesome. For anyone wanting to help: clone the repo, run some specs, fix some of that nummy pure-Ruby kernel code. The four of us will be just fine.

Thanks to everyone for the support!

At the very least, drop in #rubinius to hang out

By: Daevid Vincent

Daevid Vincent — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:00:16 +0000

“Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust”… So many companies are closing doors right about now. I’ve been at TWO since March! Make lemonaide out of lemons and while it is sad for those that were let go, I’m glad that EY is still standing behind you and rubini.us and progress will continue forward. Plus, honestly, I’ve interviewed at several companies that were looking for ruby developers here in Seattle, so I’m sure some of those folks will land on their feet…

By: oshea12566

oshea12566 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:49:42 +0000

Tough times are here again. I hope we are not heading to another Great-Depression Era.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:48:10 +0000

Hi,

Sorry to hear this – your chaps might get something from my blog on Surviving Redundancy which can be found at:

http://edenchanges.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/surviving-redundancy/

There will be more on the topic from me later this week including how to cope as the person making people redundant.

Best of luck to all concerned.

Regards

Stephen

By: Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:42:59 +0000

It isn’t easy having to lay off people. I’ve done it and also have been laid off in the past. That’s life in today’s economy.

For the people who’ve been laid off, they should know it’s a tough economy everywhere, even when you have great skills. The best thing to do to find that new job is network, network, network. LinkedIn is a great way to find contacts and a full profile will help others find you.

The local EDD has workshops for people seeking work, learning how to interview well, network, get the resume in order, etc.

Additional resources are at http://www.ourhrsite.com/resources.html – our focus is the Silicon Valley, but similar resources are available elsewhere and some of the links are independent of location.

Check with the person handling benefits, if you offered them. If your company had an Employee Assistance Plan, there may be some counseling available including financial advise.

Best of luck to you and to your former employees.

By: tabphotographic

tabphotographic — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:16:54 +0000

That does, with out a doubt… SUCK… For everyone involved. From you having to lay the facts out there, to the others whom received the papers. But do keep in mind that they’ll still be your friends. As long as they were your friends, none of this will stop them.

By: jaejoonggf92

jaejoonggf92 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:16:04 +0000

Have fun~~~~~Don’t be sad anymore ok?

By: Michael Klishin

Michael Klishin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:05:34 +0000

Though it is a sad thing to hear but compared to next gen VMs for other dynamic languages, Rubinius still has the best corporate support, it still has amazing community and a lot of impressive work is done over the last year.

RubySpec and unified FFI layers pretty much guarantee that Ruby will stay Ruby even with 7 implementations going. Ruby lexer and parser make it possible to add/remove language features way faster than before. Actors model is the way more and more languages use for concurrency, and Ruby now has it’s own implementation thanks to Rubinius effort.

Ruby community is lucky to have a company with vision Engine Yard has, and lucky to have a project as promising as Rubinius.

By: Jason Seifer

Jason Seifer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:43:07 +0000

Sorry to hear, that couldn’t have been easy. However, to look at the bright side of things: You guys have all done amazing work on Rubinius. Everyone who has worked on it should be proud.

By: ara.t.howard

ara.t.howard — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:29:09 +0000

evan, no one is going to hold it against you. it’s just a bad flu going around. and, seriously, that’s a dream fxxing job i’d be super happy to have had – i’m sure all the guys feel that way. in the words of winston churchill “if you are going through hell, keep going.”