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Because everyone wants to Cargo Cult the architecture they see in Big Tech blogs. “If we build like Google, we become Google” I don’t know why a small company would want Google’s e…

Decent list but the ORM thing makes me suspicious. He links here as some kind of damning proof that ORMs are default bad. https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/ “It’s a poor …

Why did Uncle Boob ever have any credence or credibility? What did Bob ever ship that gives him any gravitas or authority in this area?

Are the examples any better? What a muddled bunch of gibberish.

Yes. So all you need to do is look at the code samples. Is the most non-sensical thing I've seen. So of course the junior dev parade thinks it's the gospel. Had a terrible manger w…

What?

Agent code can only be read and understood by agents. We’ve reached the point where people just can’t comprehend these giant code blobs. Feature, bug or emergent property? I don’t …

Could just as easily say the same thing about Bun. If one can easily swap in the next new js engine du jour…

$30 billion for “hundreds of jobs.” Theater to keep Mad King Trump off their back.

CS degree? Employable?

"One major trick in distributed systems is to always attempt things in the same order" This is inportant in DBs in general to avoid deadlocks by two requests taking locks in differ…

But you are assuming distributed transactions as soon as you have two systems participating in the transaction. It's a recipe for deadlocks and even live locks. That's a reason ind…

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Trump could care less about that. Operation Epstein Fury had one goal...

https://80.lv/articles/developing-microlandia-a-socioeconomi... Do you have a dev blog or anything else? This is super interesting to me as I have an idea for a game I can rapid pr…

GM is running 0% interest, no payments until n deals right now. That’s usually a sign that sales are not “just fine”.

Yes, two decades ago. Docs was acquired (writely)

Somebody read/watched too much Casey Muratori.

It happened over Covid. All those checks to business owners and farmers. Huge slush funds. Californians used it to buy houses in smaller cities across the country. Not doubled but …

Wheat isn’t grown in the same places that beans grow. If you can, you’re rotating beans and corn every year. (“Roundup ready” of course) Wheat is on the marginal drier land. Not th…

No.

The US is All Keynes All The Time.

Reducing opex to invest more into capex (at least for companies that can like MSFT etc)?

How is he dunking on .net? I think one of his main points is server .net was (and is) great. But the UI part of it was cloudy. I see it as complimentary to the post not contradicti…

The guy getting std’s from Russian girls who Warren Buffet doesn’t talk to anymore. That Bill Gates? Seems he might have other priorities these days?