@jmoiron I think about this when I see perf come up in the Python community; it's always downplayed.
It's circular logic. Python is too slow for eg. a db implementation, so you write that in something else. Then they look around and think "look, nobody is writing databases these days." ...
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@jmoiron He still had so much more to give. https://t.co/45mapy25p9
@jmoiron That said, delivering the rugpull+layoff message with the tact and humility of Lord Farquaad is optional. Surely they could have ditched hobby and pivoted their awesome team toward profitable use cases ages ago.
@jmoiron For saas infra products w/o direct network effects, free tier traction is fool's gold. Most free tier use cases can't justify $500 ARR, but they will anchor your pricing at 0 and skew support/feature reqs, potentially leading to feature dev that doesn't affect your bottom line.
@jmoiron @buckwilson got a bunch of thoughts on this particular layoff, but yeah there are some unsettling parllels in the messaging
@jmoiron @jasonhevans @tenzin_rose Good thing about TCP/IP jokes is they reliably deliver.
@jmoiron @stephxsher let me recommend to you some better restaurants
@jmoiron.bsky.social After a month away, first thing I hear in America is an announcement on the proper procedure for transporting your firearm on a plane.
@jmoiron @elithrar without the bunnings i would totally believe this was america somewhere
@jmoiron @ibuildthecloud @adamhjk I'd love to never touch k8s again, but even when that's a goal it's difficult to achieve because at the end of the day there is no environment where logic can be expressed; you're forced to declare everything the way k8s expects.
@jmoiron @eatonphil Went to this area 2 years ago and highly recommend it.
@jmoiron Great thread on perf. Very relevant to Charlie's work, if go fmt was not fast, we probably would not have code formatters in every major language's toolbox today. https://t.co/QDTHJFBfFM
@jmoiron @copyconstruct @hynek Companies no longer need to show off their projects on blogs to attract talent and top engineers are looking for good companies not good blogs.
@jmoiron @dmtrubman @worsematt I do think the city could do a better job, but it doesn't make sense that housing units could scale based solely on residents, ignoring density, and the population density in Manhattan is ~7000x that of North Dakota.
@jmoiron Was clear there was something special about these two. Great for the fox to get his first major tonight. https://t.co/1gyE3n0YrN
@jmoiron I'm (very) sympathetic to the idea that modern tech stacks are more complicated than necessary, but there's something about the way people throw around "ZIRP" that rubs me the wrong way.
@jmoiron Can't think of a more vibrant time period for new datastore development than the last 10 years.. I think the industry noticed. https://t.co/2O4CZSMWI4
@jmoiron @shanselman Even if we spent time in the places they tend to go, we don't pay attention to other people generally.
@jmoiron @stephxsher @sarahcat21 My mother did this with me; I've never not known how to swim.
@jmoiron @eatonphil Boy, I have a lot of thoughts about this topic, but I think it's probably a blog post and not a tweet.
The biggest hurdle I think I had with SQL is that the clause order in your query expression is different from the execution order.
@jmoiron https://t.co/8ToOmUEGsR +1 https://t.co/irCIG7nTPc
@jmoiron I often wonder about the way sci/tech pioneers of the lost/greatest generation worked and lived.. John Van Neumann, Alan Turing, Norman Borlaug, Rosalind Franklin, Jonas Salk, et al. Would people view them as having passion? https://t.co/RrXMyPUHPn
@jmoiron @billychasen We're good at refining and commoditizing technological breakthroughs (eg. heavier than air flight) but we're bad at projecting the next breakthrough (eg. sky fortresses and flying cars).. from where we are now it seems really hard to call.
@jmoiron @billychasen My room temp AI take is that progress over the past ~50 years has mostly been a step function dependent on individual breakthroughs, but because LLMs are the biggest step in my lifetime, they will be disruptive despite not leading to a different kind of compounded pr...