*Submits non-urgent thing to pediatrician's office message portal*
Office staff, quite reasonably: Give us a quick call and we can sort this out, no problem.
Me: *gnawing off own leg to escape*
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3) Any system proposed by people starting after you misunderstands the complexity of the domain and the constraints you were operating under
These laws are fundamental laws of the startup universe. They are always and everywhere true.
Fred Wulff retweeted
Ah, yes, the Three Laws of Hypergrowth Startup Dynamics:
1) All systems that existed before you were unscaleable, unmaintainable nightmares
2) Any replacement system you proposed and worked hard on was extremely challenging, saved the business, and merits your promotion
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‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’ star Donald Trump has been indicted on criminal charges.
Well if you charge $8 for lunch at Twitter HQ, you don't need badge readers either so the savings add up
Elon Musk tells Twitter staff bankruptcy is possible, sources say.
Yoel Roth, the head of trust and safety, and Robin Wheeler, who was leading that big Twitter spaces call with advertisers, are both now out, sources add.
Also, no more free food.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
If anybody in the systems-y backend/SRE space is interested in a job at a fully remote, profitable startup with interesting scaling challenges not run by _gestures vaguely at the timeline_, DM me!
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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Love that @googlecloud has decided to embrace "industry standard" support pricing of 3% of spend but not the "industry standard" of actually giving support.
Analytics teams only make dashboards when they're in extreme distress! It's easy, but buying an analyst from Deloitte or McKinsey contributes to the problem when you could staff your team by waving pizza slices around your local university stats department. #AdoptDontShop
Excited that we're fully open sourcing InboxSDK (our framework for building Gmail-focused Chrome extensions) and announcing full Manifest v3 support: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I feel deeply for all affected and I'm aware I'm old, but I just cannot get past how "multiple people fractured bones in the ballpit" and "security yelled at Blorbo from my streams about their costume" carry the exact same gravitas in the TwitchCon community reaction
