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Comevius on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:36PM
from the self-post dept.
I have been an insider in one of the widely reported news item in my country, and it was a news item I would under normal circumstances take at face value, since it's politics and it's the people I support, or at least did, if not for their unequivocal support for something that I know to be not true, but reported as if, for political purposes. If I wouldn't be familiar with the details I would...
It's hard to tell if that's the case.
I honestly don't understand what remote procedure calls have to do with the client. Surely the clients wouldn't interact in such a way with the microservices, there would be some sort of API gateway, maybe even one for each platform or service, like the backend for frontend pattern.
It's probably more complicated than this, and you can't exactly put it into a few words, but he tried, and it didn't make sense, but he still managed to call his employees idiots.
Eventually he will be right, only idiots will want to be a part of it. That suits him, he needs to be the smartest person in the room, and absolutely no one can tell him what to do or not to do. He bought Twitter because the board told him what to do. He also moved Tesla's headquarters to Texas for the same reason. It's a pattern with him.
Apparently he is the sole software genius at a company filled with lazy millennials, so he will now single-handedly rebuild the platform, starting with throwing away 80% of the microservices and seeing what happens.
That's also how I repair my computers, so that checks out.
I not one for keeping stuff, so it's the keyboard I use, made by Codegen in 1986 with Futaba clicky switches. It doesn't have a Windows key, but you can choose between an XT or AT modes, and I use it with an AT to PS/2 passive adapter. The keyboard is not rare or valuable, but I adore the switches, they remind me of IBM's beam springs from the 70's. One day I shall build a new keyboard with these switches.
Cloudflare Pages is pretty good, it's for server-side rendering as well, and have things like Durable Objects that no one else have, and D1, which is built on SQLite. Sending emails is also free with Cloudflare Workers. No egress fees. Best of all fully-local development and testing is supported with an open-source runtime you can also deploy on your own, albeit without Cloudflare's edge-first infrastructure.
Cloudflare makes Firebase look antiquated, not to mention how unreliable Google is with their automated flagging of accounts, and non-existing support. They charge for storage and egress through the nose as well.
Not affiliated with either, just my 2 cents.
There is no way to tell if this is right or wrong, we are not engineers at Twitter, and I suspect that no engineer there would dare to correct him. I'm pretty sure Twitter has an API gateway of some sort, it doesn't make sense that it's a batching issue.
But it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. The unprofessional atmosphere, the callousness, the one-upmanship is the problem. He is the CEO for God's sake. This is a PR nightmare. I know that it worked for Trump, but it isn't working even for him anymore.
Take into account that between the two of them Eric is the expert.
It was Musk who failed to keep things professional. His first post was literally humiliating his own employees for writing bad code. It's his own company, he may not have been around, but it's his people now. Even if Twitter's Android client is not the best, playing the blame game is callous and petty. There is no point to trying to show that you are better than your employees either. It's the opposite of what a functional CEO should do.
He called Musk's public statement out, because it was wrong. Twitter shouldn't be the place for this, but it's on Musk for creating such unprofessional atmosphere in the first place.
Imagine the same thing with Microsoft. We all know Windows is held together with scotch tape, not to mention that 7 years after Windows 10 they still haven't quite manage to unify the old and the new interfaces, not that Windows 11's new interfaces are any good. What a mess. Except it's not, it's business as usual. Big software projects are messy and hard to manage, but these issues are unimportant when you get the bigger picture right. For Windows the bigger picture is that it runs all your application. This is what makes Windows a good product, the rest is details and can be fixed over time. Preferably in a professional manner.
Many software are like that, especially those that have been around for some time. You don't see the CEO of Microsoft spewing nonsense about Windows publicly, and then punching down on an employee for correcting him. There is no need for the circus. Technical debt is a fact of business, it can be dealt with professionally. It's not a reason to treat people badly.
Eric Frohnhoefer may not have a job at Twitter anymore, but him fact checking dear leader constantly spewing nonsense about things he doesn't understand was a sweet moment.
Time doesn't automatically make you wiser. I think most people get rigid in their thinking as they grow old. It's way too easy to stick to existing beliefs and attitudes, also because of nostalgia.
I have the same experience with software developers, many of them refuses to learn new things. On average new JavaScript frameworks aren't frivolous complexities, as much as stepping stones in the evolution of the web as an application platform. Mocking them is pointless when they gives us so many new capabilities. You can build very complicated things very fast with these incredible tools. You needed a hundred very smart people a decade ago for what you can accomplish alone with Qwik, Cloudflare Pages Function and Durable Objects today. Other previous stepping stones like React increased developer convenience considerably.
Older people are horndogs, they just have many age-related issues, and not everyone is able to overcome them or the stigma, since we tend to idealize the elderly, like they are supposed to be pristine and wise, when the evidence is to the contrary on both counts.
The current solutions on the market don't scale, some key innovation is still missing for full self-driving. It might be a new kind of machine learning, or something very different, I don't know.
What I know is that it's disgusting to pretend that we are about to have full self-driving, and already market cars with it. Nobody does it more than Tesla, since the company's entire valuation rest on it, even if they are currently technologically behind other companies with partial self-driving features. Tougher regulations are needed to curtail Tesla's snake oil salesmanship, both for the sake of safety and the market.
Didn't we already conclude that big data is not that useful if we can't make sense of it? Which is why AI is cool or will be. Quality, not quantity, and all that.
It's board members, not CEOs. Women do 1.1% better for DAX (40 large cap companies), 0.1% better for SDAX (70 small cap companies) and 4.7% worst for MDAX (60 mid cap companies).
So the few women that are board members in average are compensated 1.1% better at DAX companies, that's the story.
The argument is about making abortion illegal, I called it out as a barbaric idea, because it is. You are free to harbor such ideas, you are free to misrepresent the issue by calling a clump of cells an unborn person, and I'm free to call all of this out, especially because it is being forced on millions of women for no reason, ruining many lives.
It's reasonable to be angry under such circumstances. Adults are allowed to be angry too. I wish we would be angry about more things, instead of being complacent all the time.
Speech can absolutely incentivize violence. See the Rohingya genocide and the part Facebook played in it. See right-wing domestic terrorism in the United States. See Hitler and his radio.
People are not perfect, independent, rational creatures. They get affected by speech. They can develop new beliefs, even a new personality as a result of speech. They can end up doing things they wouldn't even dream doing as a result of speech.
Nobody suggested that though. People deserve equal chances.
Literally is. It's my argument. I don't want to criminalize this particular intolerance, I don't want to suppress it. I want to reject it and call it out. I don't have to unequivocally tolerate it. My tolerance doesn't have to be boundless. I should be generous with my tolerance, but I'm not when millions and millions of lives depend on it. This is the line. This far and not farther.
Literally my argument. The whole thread started with why don't my co-workers respect my intolerant ideas if they are all about a diverse set of ideas, and I said that diversity doesn't include any ideas. I didn't suggest suppression. People countering your arguments is not suppression. People not wanting to listen to your intolerant ideas isn't suppression either.
The guns are only coming out when the law can't help, for example because the country is being attacked, like in Ukraine. Until that moment law and order is all we have.
It's the same idea. Illegal abortion threatens society. I'm not a fascist for protesting it. The Democrats and their voters, and many Republicans are on the same opinion.
They would be misrepresenting the issue. Nobody is ripping anything, abortion is strictly regulated. There are gestational limits, usually 12 weeks, or up to 24 weeks under special circumstances, and only more for fetal impairment and such.
"Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them" - Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Sorry to say, but intolerance is to be defeated, with words, with votes, with lawyers, with guns if it comes to that. Ask the Ukrainian people.
If you are coming after women's rights, their autonomy, their health you shall not be tolerated.
To be fair the blame isn't entirely on them, the government should know better, and the people voting should. This is yet another thing the market cannot and will not fix.
He is constantly out of his depth, just got lucky with the government subsidies and the right people at the right time, like Gwynne Shotwell.
What even he is doing with Twitter at a time when Volkswagen and the rest of the auto industry is easting Tesla's lunch. Most CEO's are practically invisible, busy managing their company, this man has multiple companies and yet he keeps posting meme pictures all day long.
Marginally. People are still voting en masse for a party that doesn't stand for anything but endless culture wars, obstruction and gerrymandering.
I don't even know what are you talking about, most teenagers didn't own a car in the 80's. In fact there are more cars now than there were back then, more people too. I don't see how the video game industry helped the environment, on the contrary it had a measurable negative impact on it thanks to the energy consumption and the waste.
The only thing video games have going for them is that they don't get you laid.