Fred
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Kind of wild to see so many folks proposing microservices again because “Rails can’t scale”
I thought we got past this… but goes to show that heavily funded companies can paper over huge migration costs. All that engineering time to declare victory with a blog post & a promo.
MJ@mjackson
Counterpoint: Java (Scala) microservices we’re an absolute nightmare for us at Twitter as we migrated off Ruby on Rails. Much of the complexity that Elon mentioned after he bought the company was from this architecture.
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Every year, the first thing I do is put @BoilerBall through to win it all. #thisistheyear
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Every year, the first thing I do is put @BoilerBall through to win it all. #thisistheyear
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@shajanjo Aye, "programmer" and "developer" can many lots of things, that's why I like "coder"
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My self chosen job title of "coder" has been replaced with an uneditable "Software Engineer". The stolen valor of job titles. When someone calls themself a software engineer, I think "why do you need to tell me to take you seriously?" and assume they're new or not very skilled.
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@ethangunderson I have that too. The wooden case doesn’t add much. Go with the cards.
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@ethangunderson Seriously though, consider these products. I like them. baronfig.com/accessories/st…
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@searls It is obvious that you are a Sr. Dir, QA. And, @jersearls is your manager.
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My brother and I are staying at the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser next weekend and we are are currently fleshing out the (naturally, satirical) background stories of our characters.
If you have a deep knowledge of Star Wars canon lore and want to help me out, send me a DM!
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I'm super late to the Squid Game convo (only just watched the series recently) but I can't be the only person who saw the track suits in the show and thought of the ones that Groupon gave employees for making it past a year or two, right?
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Fred retweetledi
I've created a free course on crypto.
The goal is to demystify blockchain, BTC, ETH, NFTs, the DeFi ecosystem, etc.
Email me at sean.johnson@gmail.com with the subject line "crypto course" for access.
Nothing to upsell. Just trying to level the playing field.
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@searls I'd estimate roughly 95% of software development practice trends since the 1990s are just devs straight up lying to themselves and each other about what customers really want in order to justify behaviors that make their own lives easier.
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Nintendo's position at the turn of the century was "the Internet is bad, because it'll lead to post-release software patches, which will lead to developers shipping hot garbage, which will suck for customers"
Feels like they've been proven right across nearly every industry.
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@__smiz @TooManyNickLees Not sure how you define expensive. But, an airtight cap, and keeping things cold/hot for long are worth paying for.
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To this day, I dream about facing a final for a class I forgot I was in.
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The enduring legacy of a college degree is that recurring nightmare about missing all of your classes.
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@intentionally Vegas. Great food. Shows. Surprisingly great nature options: Red Rock Canyon. Grand Canyon. Hoover Dam. Valley of Fire.
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Next summer, both our kids will be at sleep away camp at the same time for 2 weeks.
Want to go somewhere with my wife where we can work during the day, go out at night, and do nature stuff over the weekend. Close enough where we could fly back quickly if needed.
Ideas?
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