Sorry, when I see this I just assume people aren't telling the truth. I have literally never seen a C++ codebase that doesn't fall over when you first point ASan at it.
@rodgab, I took my daughter to your show in Oakland and we loved it. She bought a t-shirt (pictured) at the show, but unfortunately it's the wrong size and I can't seem to find one of these on your website. Is it possible to exchange? Thanks!
Who has migrated away from Slack entirely?
Product is stagnant, costs are outrageous, won't let us downgrade our plan to less expensive tiers without deleting the workspace entirely.
There's gotta be something better out there.
I read: "A deep dive into how Khan Academy took a 1 million-line Python monolith and split it into ~40 Go services in a more than 3 year-long project."
My triggered lizard brain translates: "Welcome to your nightmare made flesh."
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I don't write much JS, but I started a little personal project a while back and tried to pick a modern build tool. 11 months later: "Update: [tool] is no longer actively maintained and is not recommended for new projects." I feel like a real JS engineer now!
Under communism, you wouldn't have a boss who you have to obey or starve.
You'd sort of think this alone would be enough to convince absolutely everyone to become a communist in like 12 seconds, but apparently not??
@mjasdixon I ran across these little patches of grass in a games store and giggled. Maybe I'll give some out for presents to those in need.
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In total cost, just on capacity / backend cost alone, the mandated tool / library must've cost the company well over $1B due to its violation of the mundane principles in the post. It's harder to attribute issues on the growth side, but I would guess the impact was even larger.
1/ CW: Holocaust. Since most of you will never visit Erfurt, a short thread on how engineering prowess devoid of humanity can lead to the most evil kinds of technological progress. A warning for all techies. I'll start in the next tweet for those for whom this is too much. ↵
Every business that spends $1M or more on their compute needs suspects that half of it is probably wasted money. The problem is: which half?
I've run analyses of billions of dollars of compute spend over the last 20 years, and this is what I've learned. 1/n
@mattyglesias Surface streets are stuck in a 2d plane so any crossings require traffic to stop and start, dramatically slowing down as volume increases. Tunnels take advantage of the 3rd dimension so you can travel continuously. If you can get the costs down it would be transformative.