Suraj

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[pikuma.com @pikuma]

Dude, where is my char* ?

[matt swanson 😈 @_swanson]

The @t3dotgg Problem

Teaching a generation of developers to race for quick dunks, ignore context when evaluating decisions, outsource thinking to who has the most internet points, and then crybully if anyone disagrees

RE: Exiting the cloud
I'm not sure if Theo has actually read the articles.

The first paragraph has the conclusion spelled out: "Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth"

Theo begins his teardown by talking about:
- Why you can't just consider server costs (37signals posted a full line-item cost breakdown, including caveats around production/non-production servers, power, rackspace, bandwidth)
- The costs of employees to manage (37s has a ~10 person ops team and has said they have not needed to increase)
- Losing the agility to try things out (DHH explicitly mentions the opposite: high costs to try a new experiment around disk based cache; vendor lock-in means you need to wait for providers to support new offerings)
- You have to consider your growth curve (the articles say the same including examples like Black Friday traffic spikes and the launch of HEY with 300k signups in three weeks)
- "Majority of companies have variable workloads" (I don't think this is true and probably a consequence of being in the early stage start up and/or VC hypergrowth bubble...B2B SaaS companies generally have a slow ramp of growth)
- The only time to leave the cloud is if "your traffic has peaked or is slowly declining and you want to squeeze the last cent from every customer" (Or...your traffic is predictably growing and you can forecast capacity? What?)

And the absence of other useful discussion points: is it good to consolidate all servers to a few platforms? what has changed in the past 10 years when it comes to managing data centers? could you actually get better performance? how should I personally evaluate if a cloud exit make sense for my company?

Does Theo approach the situation with an open-mind, looking to see what lessons he could learn for his own projects and share with his community? No. He gives a few surface-level takes that are all covered in the articles he is lambasting.

The articles are all here (Theo doesn't link or encourage viewers to read for themselves -- that is "scary" and "concerning" and "might be used by your coworkers to make bad decisions").

You may have a knee-jerk reaction to the title or hate the author, but these are not long posts and they do provide the context and caveats to help you understand if your situation applies.

https://t.co/it1ufw928h
https://t.co/FxPFMlcThb
https://t.co/YR0yDr0YIM
https://t.co/mGO8ZFQTUe
https://t.co/4RcbwGccSO
https://t.co/E0eyz0JsKu

I'm sure I will get plenty of "lol u mad?" and "DHH bootlicker" comments. That is the kind of tribal, hostile to other opinion community you are building.

Not even going to cover the TypeScript Turbo part: that will be left as an exercise to readers to find the context of how Turbo is used and how Basecamp and Rails have historically managed open source libraries and their obligations.

It's a clear case of Gell-Mann Amnesia: when you see someone talking about a topic or situation you know about and are clearly wrong or misrepresenting, but then the next topic comes and we trust the same people to be giving accurate takes.

Challenge the people creating content to "Do better". It's hurting you and your abilities, not them.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

L take

[kache @yacineMTB]

Fabrice Bellard:
- creator of FFmpeg
- creator of QEMU
- creator of tiny C compiler
- held the world record for digits of pi calculated by coming up with his own algorithm
- created a compression scheme for text that holds the number 1 place

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

good summary about the floaty rock drama so far

“if you’re not following LK99, you’re missing out on the most fun thing happening or the internet now. Feels like the old internet.”

https://t.co/ETlt031ObZ

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

"Millionaire: Makes $20m in 2022

Millionaire: Hires "artist" to make "art" for $25k

Artist: Puts one streak on canvas

Millionaire: Thanks artist and has art appraised by an appraiser in his same circle of friends

Appraiser: Values artwork at $20m

Millionaire: Donates $20m artwork to museum to get $20m tax write off

Millionaire: Pays no taxes in 2022

Me at museum: This is stupid, it's just a line on a canvas

Hipster next to me: No, you just don't understand it because you're uncultured."

—-
Ohh and millionaire can also register the walls in his home as an “art gallery”

Donate the newly appraised “art” to his walls & write off the total amount

Welcome to America

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

I just can't stop
Smiling
About this

[David Vance @DavidVance]

This is so surreal. The socialist Spanish minister uses a private jet to attend a climate conference. 100 metres before the venue she gets out off the limo and takes a bicycle. The security cars follow her.

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

The UK seems to want to lead the West into a mass surveillance system.

On the other hand, they serve good beers in their pubs.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

In Brazil, thousands of politicians, scholars, journalists, researchers, ex-ministers, and activists -- many on the left but not all - sign a letter urging President Lula da Silva, a vocal defender of Julian Assange, to grant asylum to Assange in Brazil.

https://t.co/UUIqch08Vt

[Ben Visness @its_bvisness]

I'm really excited to finally announce Orca, a new platform for WebAssembly apps. This is a major new Handmade Network project led by @forkingpathsdev.

https://t.co/kkhIRhy997

It's very early, but we've already got a working prototype and are excited to share more soon!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why ESG is the devil …

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

“Beware the undo influence of the Military Industrial Complex”

This will make you’re jaw drop:

[@fclc cmp lea char (Chicago Nov 15-22) @FelixCLC_]

If Rust wanted to be a safe language, they'd disallow floats

[Suraj @h0lyalg0rithm]

Casey dropping some facts once again https://t.co/9Fr1LQIZNy

[Mark E. Dawson, Jr. @medawsonjr]

Why do people believe this is a slam dunk? Dynamic dispatch is 5x slower, has a 0.70 IPC and a 12.81% branch miss rate compared to the switch case w/an IPC close to the max on my i9-10940X and a 0.02% branch miss rate. I'm truly baffled.

[Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr]

i'm going to go out on a limb and say no spanish-speaking person was involved in the design of this name, nor in the approval chain... 🤦‍♂️

(also, comments on the tweet did not disappoint!)

[Ian Hanschen @furan]

Full stack developer

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

LOL. Oh no the Linux source code was leaked 😡😭 https://t.co/wCxKoVFDlt