Some people just have jobs, either because of ability, or choice.

What is worse, that no one is available to listen to you when you're suicidal, or that you lack so much value that only a machine would talk to you. I'm sure some people would have an extremely poor reaction to that.

So much of Intels decline reeks of arrogant MBAs.

It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to with MSN/ICQ etc. and then just use it for DMs. She doesn’t even use Snapchat stories because “no one watches stories” and are just direct DMing her friends, and posts general audience stuff to TikTok.

I immediately went and bought Snapchat shares when I found that out.

I can’t imagine a software engineer developing an interest defensive software engineering will be very visible until after there has already been a crisis to screw people’s heads on straight.

A lot of people seem to see “Do things that don’t scale” and think that’s a phrase meant for engineering.

At some point after their series C they became rent-seeking, their support became increasingly distant, and the quality overall started degrading. Then I get an email that we need to pay for seats.. on top of paying for CI minutes.

It was an extra > $500 a month for no additional service, no additional usage, no nothing, and they would not budge on their new pricing plan. So I just moved all the stuff to GitHub who was barely mature enough at that point and never looked back.

Putting the finance department in charge of product decisions is a mistake with long term reproductions and CircleCI is only seeing the results of this. Treating your oldest customers like a financial liability is a mistake.

I’ve been able to reduce reserved instances when the market has turned unpredictable.

AWS isn’t a pushover, not even a little bit. Dealing with them externally has just been a good experience with professional understanding and a flexible business sense.

There are some things which AWS suck at unless you have an enterprise support plan, like having a deep review of a technical issue in their products, and having visibility into product bugs in general.

Even then after reporting a significant issue like Aurora query execution being non-deterministic in a very specific case, I only found out it was solved months later after working around it from reading patch notes.

A false negative security alert from 6 months earlier was the cause, which had blocked CC changes. It took months to resolve but it was manageable.

I know from first hand from a different experience that you can be months overdue with tens of thousands of missing payments on AWS, and tens of thousands in recurring costs without them closing your account. You can effectively run a quarter of credit line from your hosting costs without any issue if you need that.

Your account manager doesn’t even start raising it personally for the first 3 months, they are very easy to deal with.

Copyright never has to be declared, and I think in many ways Google is responsible for websites having copyright in footers not realising it’s not a legal requirement.

Financial exchanges are doing 100,000rps of transactions per sever. That’s hard.

I also deal with a lot of scale, the issues people have here doesn’t match my reality. I think people have issues and rather than looking at what is fundamentally happening with their call patterns, they jump to calling out rails itself.

Rails does have some specific issues, but you’d have to go pretty deep to see them and boot times are terrible.

Because a lot of web developers these days build applications and ORM's are great but make certain patterns convenient so it's really easy to code yourself into places that don't scale. Then people reach for various caching solutions rather than taking a step back and looking at what's actually executing.

I've seen just about every bad pattern you can imagine and it's not usually obvious because the code looks simple enough. Like that permission check in your controller is actually serializing 1000 ids and querying against them, or that .first doesn't have an index so you're sorting the whole table, and much worse than that.

In an unusual situation it is possible in PG to have a very large pg catalog if you have thousands of tables and schemas which is resolved at run-time because Rails resolves models and types through db introspection, and the types specicially are only loaded during runtime. But that would be very unusual. I'm working on solving this in Rails because this unusual sittuation is affecting us.

Independent of all that the train still leaves at 2pm local time and I need to be on it.

Trunkly, it was indexing all my social media links and made them searchable. Bought by delicious and killed.

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