@jmoiron As an Engineer, I know that every time you look at an unfamiliar but sophisticated system, your first reaction is "this is 10x more complex than it needs to be, we could get rid of half of it", and I can tell you that this reaction is always wrong.
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@jmoiron @copyconstruct Other than thinking this was obvious based on my timeline, my first thoughts were that they missed a favorable IPO market 3-4y ago when they were clearly "ready" if they wanted to raise, and not being sure if that would have made this better or worse.
@jmoiron @MarcJBrooker No, this is exactly it. A lot of backends can handle some nominal shuffling in the temporal order semantically but are actually relying on this order for throughput, eg. to run compactions less frequently.
@jmoiron When queue transit latency is very low, LIFO will produce load that loosely approximates FIFO. This can be a metastable state, as your goodput may be higher in FIFO-ish circumstances, when requests are roughly ordered, than during a LIFO catchup. https://t.co/OSNlovzWNc
@jmoiron Definitely a response to something in #yorkville. Something related to the construction site on 84th and 2nd maybe? https://t.co/RMS7kzSggX
@jmoiron naming a service:
day 1: this only does x, so we will call it xer
day 180: xer is the natural place for y.. fine, lets add it
day 365: x is actually a multi-stage pipeline, so we pulled out half of x into xworker
day 730: oh, yeah, for historical reasons "xer" is where we do y
@jmoiron @jkupferman A version of this is the "climate accord", which is a meeting whose result is the an agreement on when to have a followup meeting where you will address the problem at hand.
@jmoiron "git add <dir>" should require --force and do a sleep 30 to discourage people from using it
@jmoiron @davidcrawshaw I am here for "companies should build stuff that isn't just about short term profit", but the main issues with the MV seem to be the lack of trust in FB to control the virtual spaces it has already established & monopolized, and that it looks kinda lame.
@jmoiron @dysinger The users whose feedback I've been reading are developers who know what they are doing. My point about students is that the device platform lineage is old at this point; the iPhone is older now than eg. Linux was when WinXP launched, but the gap feels much wider.
@jmoiron Reading about the experience of PinePhone/Manjaro users and thinking this game was up way before it started. Today's college students were weaned on iPhones. The utility of a smartphone that "just works" outweighs the extreme privacy concerns of the libre crowd.
@jmoiron One of the qualities of NYC is that it steadfastly refuses to learn anything from cities that have already solved the problems it is having. Andy Byford was so popular because he seen as a departure from this mindset. https://t.co/opGX08HKcP
@jmoiron @bryanl To answer the metaphor literally, the keeper is having a bad day in both cases. In the first, they had a poor performance and were bailed out by their attack. In the second, they lost. Scoring 5 goals each game is not sustainable, but spending 40m to make 50m may be?
@jmoiron @rugby_podcast You can always count on Fozzie to pick the right side after he's tried everything else.
@jmoiron @chimeracoder "we want that Ina Garten ambience of throwing together some amuse-bouche for the guests and having a casual glass in the kitchen, but we don't want to actually make anything the help can do that"
@jmoiron @goinggodotnet According to c2, it's called a spike because it's "end to end, but very thin" https://t.co/vN7UJEAcEx. I've always thought of it as "the most crude way to pierce through a barrier (ie, the unknown parts of your problem)"; I like "tracer" for focusing on a minimal ...
@jmoiron @simonw @tmcw The financial crisis exposed how much of the pay gap for finance jobs was discretionary (the entire difference was bonus); from a NYC perspective, that really felt like the inflection point.
@jmoiron Roger Federer played the most exquisite tennis I've ever seen. Gonna miss it.
@jmoiron @buckwilson @jkupferman lets double click on this
@jmoiron @milosgajdos I was thinking about that match and fed/roddick a few years prior as I was watching. Shame it wasn't a final.
@jmoiron Sinner/Alcaraz last night was an all time great.
@jmoiron @copyconstruct @YuriShkuro I come to feel very similarly about code that has no testing and code that has no instrumentation. Black box is not quite a substitute in either case.
@jmoiron @buckwilson What do you like about them? I've always gone closed because I like the isolation.
@jmoiron Abstraction Discourse: abstractions for things I'm familiar with are bad, you can't be good (like me) without knowing them.. also, abstractions for things I'm unfamiliar with are good, they are not important and I shouldn't have to know them.
@jmoiron This great exploration of TDD (https://t.co/wRKbkhZEtj) by @hillelogram explores a lot of issues with "TDD maximalism" that I have noticed over my own career and wrote about earlier this year: https://t.co/89nhgnx9mK