Ben Hughes

rap game bob vila

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

I dislike getting older and there being younger real housewives who are close to my age.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Remember when Landry killed a guy?

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

I have become the suburbs

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Wait is ceci n’est pas une chute anything?

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@Pinboard It’s made my favorite cheap dive bar popular with the youth. Nuke it.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

You should be able to order a liquid iv as like your last drink at the bar

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Yeah I’m into dune. Anatomie d'une chute

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Pretty chill that my tech worker 401k charges 1.5 bps for an s&p500 index while my wife’s teacher 403b charges 28 bps

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Still think Brian Eno would be the best halftime show

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Hell yeah!

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

🫡

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@ndyjohnson Relic of ZIRP?

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@ndyjohnson “I’m telling you people, there is water. At the bottom of the ocean. They don’t want you to know about the water”

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

Wrote about why I think prisons and policing need to be radically reformed, but not abolished. TLDR on the latter point: https://t.co/OUmDRrc5Ki

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@skevy @mjackson @spikebrehm The fallacy is thinking that you can create a service so small that you’ll never have to talk to another team and no external event will ever ruin your day.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@spikebrehm @mjackson I think the real nightmare is scaling development to thousands of engineers (but an important one, involving different tradeoffs than for small teams). We definitely made many mistakes and had a lot of chaos with microservices, but the status quo was also unstable.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

Ruby’s still the language that I know best, and I have nothing but respect for how Rails completely changed the game on web dev (and it’s still a great way to get started quickly on a project). Other langs are more cost efficient and types make working on a large team better.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

At @Airbnb, while we appreciated the flexibility of Ruby on Rails earlier on, it absolutely became unsuitable at scale (both traffic and organizationally) and we had to work miracles while replacing much of it with java microservices.

[DHH @dhh]

Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...). https://t.co/lwxTGan6ZO

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

@olexpono Dumbest AB test you’ve ever been in so far.

[Ben Hughes @schleyfox]

I’d love to see the energy requirements for AI tasks (excluding training) expressed in calories.