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I guess it's the case of malicious compliance. Nobody wants to argue with Elon and be fired on the spot and nobody gives a shit.

The company is a clown show if a CEO has to interfere with moderation policies.

Do you think they still run Ruby that can't reclaim allocated unmanaged memory? Do you have any idea how their stack looks now?

They should hire @jdegoes to save Twitter from the heresy of their Java++ ways.

Did he actually send such a letter to everyone? That's really a dumb move cause there's no reason for key engineers to stay - they have millions of dollars and will be immediately hired if they want to.

Why would anyone go and destroy their career by sabotaging an employer? Such person is clearly can't be trusted cause god knows what they do if they think their boss is an asshole. I quit two times not on the best terms with the management and the only "sabotage" was a zero-day notice and a two-week notice. It just never crossed my mind.

Dude, they use machine learning to tune JVM and OS scheduler, they'll handle restarts just fine.

Twitter is one the few Scala shops around, would be sad to lose it.

Do you have any insights on a technical debt thing? From the outside their engineering looks top-notch.

Try Uber in Stambul. The driver will send a message asking where are you going and ask for double the Uber fare or will cancel the order. They don't care about their ratings.

Uber in California and Russia (it's actually Yandex.Taxi for quite some time here) works great.

The job being un-interesting and un-rewarding doesn't make it bullshit. The job of a truck or a taxi driver is boring as fuck, but it's not bullshit.

I wonder how anyone in IT could take Graeber seriously. One of his opinions about programming was that programmers work "bullshit jobs" for their employer and do cool open source stuff in their free time which is demonstrably false.

Sometimes the scraping situation gets kinda ironic. I worked at a large eRetailer/marketplace and obviously we scraped our major competitors just as they scraped us (there are four major marketplaces here). So each company had a team to implement anti-scraping measures and defeat competitor's defences. Instead of providing an API everyone decided to spend time and money on this useless weapons race.

Haskell is much more than folds, maps and monads.

As far as I understand, Teslas can't do multiple runs at highest performance level unlike Taycan.

I mean, look at Java Futures and Streams API. Like, who the hell designed this crap? Didn't they have C# and Scala to rip-off? And it's stuck forever.

Certainly not DB handling. Databases have vastly different features sets and tightly coupled to I/O abstractions, so it's not uncommon to call database specific functions from a driver. Maybe a very stable first-party crate, but not stdlib.

Lol, I do remember how an upgrade of a JSON serializer (JSON.NET in that case) broke an application. So, there was a .NET service publishing events to a queue with a bunch of consumers - a bunch of Golang service and (our) Scala service. One day our service starts crashing cause it can't parse the payload. We asked developers of the upstream service if they had change anything and they said "no, and by the way, other consumers are doing fine".

Turns out, they upgraded JSON.NET and it started to name fields in different case. Golang parser didn't really care about snake_case, camelCase or PascalCase but whatever parser we were using in Scala at the time actually did.

I'd say the biggest difference is personal usage vs. public broadcasting. You can watch a football game with friends but you can't show it in a pub without paying additional fee.

Ruby standard library is such a mess. It had like two YAML serializers at some point, right? dbm and gdbm (whatever they are)? Multiple prime number generators? Rinda (what the hell is this)? RSS? Xmlrpc? So, they had time to put in all that crap while failing to design a usable HTTP client.

Heh, one of the most successful modern games wouldn't exist if game mechanics could be patented or copyrighted.

Dune 2 -> WarCraft -> WarCraft 3 -> DOTA -> League of Legends.

Come to think of it, the only time Blizzard invented the whole genre was with Diablo. All their other (incredibly successful) games were refinements of prior work by other game developers.

It's common practice in game industry, each successful breakthrough game spawns clones of various quality. Doom spawned tons of first-person shooters, WarCraft spawned tons of real-time strategies etc.

It's interesting how there exists a huge market based on what is in fact copyright infringement. And the biggest player on this market is a legit publicly traded company. Thankfully, game developers understand that it doesn't make sense to try and shut down Twitch and/or individual streamers.

That's new. I always thought clones of successful games is widely accepted practice in game industry, game mechanics can't be copyrighted or patented.

Pretty weird to go after Apple and Google with such a frivolous lawsuit, their legal teams will tear Krafton apart.

You do know that IBM essentially shut down its blockchain division? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-blockchain-shell-former-s....

Well, I'd rather provide a letter than put all my transactions in public eye.

As far as I remember, Web 2.0 was about platforms enabling P2P interaction between users and we have tons of this stuff - social networks, marketplaces, gig apps...

That's like the worst example ever. With international peace talks there usually is a trusted third party, like US was a part of various Israeli-Palestinian talks.

I wonder how they handle retries with backoff? It's something that Redis backend is pretty good at with sorted maps but kinda hard to implement in Kafka.

My previous company still uses Vertica (on-prem) but it still wasn't as fast as it should be. Trying to hire anyone for an operations team was an enterprise in futility, since it's a rather niche tech. Maybe it would've been better in the cloud, but here large companies are cautious about vendor lock-in and after 2014, potential impact of sanctions.