bjclark

I work at a smallish public tech company and while this may be true at some companies, it's not true at all of them. We have almost no SaaS vendors. If we do have to buy software, we're almost only interested in On-Prem.

Ruby’s performance has not been a bottleneck for multiple companies that have IPO’d and are worth billions of dollars.

I came here to say this! Ward taught me this when I paired with him every day when we worked together. It’s his, dare I say, mantra when starting a new feature.

Have you used gitlab every day in anger? I don't think you'd feel the same if you have.

You should actually read the paper. N size of 16. Only 1 of which had used cursor more than 40 hours before. All people working in existing code bases where they were the primary author.

You’re both focusing on “doing blackmail” and the real WTF is that it’s doing it seemingly out of a sense of self preservation (to stop the engineer from taking it offline). This model is going full Terminator.

As someone with an 18 yr old account here, this site turned into engineering LARPing much farther back than 2 years ago.

The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.

The author wrote a whole coffee table book called “Shift Happens”. But it was a one and done kickstarter.

Someone at Google actually got Apple to kill the Juno app on vOS because they decided to make this. Imagine that being your job.

Distributed startup founder here. We love Figma, keep in touch with Gather.town, and have been very happy with Flat.app for keeping us from Asana/Slack hell.

Piracy here means that you can sell 50k tickets to the same seat with a real valid rotating barcode.

And if you disbelieve this or want to see proof, check out Live Nations 10-k from 2015.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525816...

"Ticketing. Our Ticketing segment is primarily an agency business that sells tickets for events on behalf of our clients and retains a fee, or “service charge”, for these services. We sell tickets for our events and also for third-party clients across multiple live event categories, providing ticketing services for leading arenas, stadiums, amphitheaters, music clubs, concert promoters, professional sports franchises and leagues, college sports teams, performing arts venues, museums and theaters. We sell tickets through websites, mobile apps, ticket outlets and telephone call centers. During the year ended December 31, 2015, we sold 69%, 21%, 7% and 3% of primary tickets through these channels, respectively. Our Ticketing segment also manages our online activities including enhancements to our websites and bundled product offerings. During 2015, our Ticketing business generated approximately $1.6 billion, or 22.6%, of our total revenue, which excludes the face value of tickets sold. Through all of our ticketing services, we sold 160 million tickets in 2015 on which we were paid fees for our services. In addition, approximately 297 million tickets in total were sold using our Ticketmaster systems, through season seat packages and our venue clients’ box offices, for which we do not receive a fee. Our ticketing sales are impacted by fluctuations in the availability of events for sale to the public, which may vary depending upon event scheduling by our clients. As ticket sales increase, related ticketing operating income generally increases as well."

$1.6b of revenue selling 297m tickets. $5.79 per ticket. So you are paying $20 fees on a ticket, who do you think gets that money if it isn't Ticketmaster?

Zero to one is considered “R&D” and that’s what this entire thing is about.

99% of page views? Absolutely. Mr Beast absolutely has a YouTube contract and absolutely drives percentage points of traffic.

> Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production, or to license the creator's existing content to distribute via youtube/twitch

That’s exactly how it works. And the fractions (on Twitch) are between 50% to 70%.

When twitch was acquired by Amazon the rumor was that they were the single biggest AWS customer and they were going to go out of business because they didn’t have the cash to pay the bills. It would have been bad for AWS and Amazon was investing in games. If you read between the lines that’s basically said in this article from that time. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/26/6067085/amazon-twitch-tv-video...

I’m the founder and cto of a niche streaming platform. You don’t need to be google scale. You do need a different business model.

You’ve never heard of partnered twitch streamers or YouTube rev share?

> all documented in detail

Thanks for the giggle.

The flaw in your logic is that "S3 is front-and-center the source of your business" is never true with AWS.

To do anything in AWS there's at least 3 or 4 vaguely connected services, including IAM and RAM as a completely separate UIs. Usually with S3 you also have Cloudfront or some other CDN. You probably also have Cloudwatch logs and CLoudtrail event tracking. You might have VPCs involved. Some or all of these things, in an org like Twillio, could have entirely different teams managing them.

The problem isn't that S3 is hard. The problem is, as OP suggests, the UX of actually doing anything non-trivial across half a dozen services is somewhere between abysmal and war-crime.

It's not a purse, it's a european carry-all.

Log off.

Huh?

Pretty glad Mapplethorpe only ever used prime lenses.

Don't buy a Ferrari unless you're going to race it in Formula 1.

Someone actually does interesting computer science in the field of ruby and it's crickets around here. Huh.

I moved here from a place in Colorado with 300 days of sunshine a year. Everyone said, upon hearing I was moving "You know it rains a lot there?". Buy a jacket. Go outside when it's nice, don't when it's not. Living your life by the weather is pretty silly.

He's wrong because he's a highly successful artist (http://twitter.com/danielpunkass/status/83909442583793664) and @waxpancake is a cool web dude who is friends with other cool web dudes and that seems to be how the internet works now.

The same reason you don't have Programming, Motherfucker conference, I'd guess?