Sam Kottler
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engineering at ~~stealth~~. used to work @planetscale @github @digitalocean @venmo . opinions are mine and none of this is advice. #blacklivesmatter
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As a person who evaluates engineering performance and has done so across several organizations: this is in no way true.
Here is a big co secret (esp engineers whose main job is to code) — People will look at lines of code written to decide if you’re in or out. You can cry all about how it’s gameable, it’s not efficient etc. But that’s a metric all big cos use to assess poor performers.
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It's my last day at
@PlanetScale
. I've learned a lot over past 3.5 years and will be forever grateful to the people I got a chance to work with.
If you're hiring - a lot of people I'd highly recommend have been impacted across a broad swath of roles. Happy to make introductions.
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y'all are out here comparing the cost of two cabinets of compute and storage with a service that has 17 9s of durability...
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Even the worst managers I’ve encountered have avoided using lines of code as a productivity metric.
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I will ask the question that's on everyone's mind: what is a bank
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I'm not unemployed, I'm the interim director of my family office.
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it's wild how you can make a bank insolvent by telling everyone it's insolvent
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Over the past year we've overhauled the
@planetscaledata
edge network and disaggregated connection handling and query processing. In this post
@mattrobenolt
talks about how we've now introduced HTTP/3 support - .
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Kris was an absolute force of nature. This is so sad.
Last Wednesday evening Kris Nova had a climbing accident and died.
All of us that loved her are heart broken and stunned. She was an amazing person that lived out loud and built connection and community wherever she went. She will be horribly missed.
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love how all b2b saas now costs "contact us to find out" dollars
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the look of disappointment on my husband’s face when a new computer shows up in the mail…
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I am going to, and I do not mean to offend in saying this...I am going to take a nap.
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new fear just dropped
This morning I ran `source ~/.bash_history` when I meant to run `source ~/.bash_profile`.
It was not pleasant. 1/10. Do not recommend.
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free business idea: save small startups $50k by charging them $10k to not do SOC 2 and instead help write a security page that actually explains how the system works
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I'm going skiing for a couple weeks and then very much plan to be back on my bullshit. ⛷️✌️
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people who live in washington dc are like 33 years old and dying to tell you their high school GPA
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@mattckrell
@isamlambert
It repacks workloads, gives us the latest kernel and OS packages with guarantees around their use without rebooting, and reduces state drift to approximately zero.
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AI safety is a real issue, but most AI safety theorists are grifters who lack a basic understanding of computers
aii, let's do this... AI/ML version
what’s your critical hot take on AI/ML that would have you in this position
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lost weight while in europe and might turn it into discourse. watch this space
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I'm in the North Atlantic Basin trying stuff. Some will work, some won't. But always learning.
Can someone honestly tell me what is stopping us from filling all this ocean with land and expanding the size of America?
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oh my god, please get a lawyer
BREAKING: SBF of FTX said that he "couldn't have built a back door" to access FTX funds illegally because "I don't even know how to code."
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what's the most impressive data system ever built and why is it s3
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I'm a lot like the federal government (always on the verge of shutting down)
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louder now
The same people that want to do ‘strategy’, run away when it’s time for ops. Strategy is dictated by the people willing to operationalize it
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watching thousands of computers get created and destroyed is one of life's simplest pleasures
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circa 2017/2018 startups stopped getting blocked by the requirement of a functioning and differentiated product for raises beyond series A for access to further capital.
I don’t care about hurting startups by saying their product sucks if their product sucks . Participation trophy ass generation
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nonviolent entrepreneurs
UNPOPULAR OPINION: Elizabeth Holmes poses no further risk to wealthy investors who are more interested in virtue signaling by investing in a woman-owned startup than doing basic due diligence. 11 years in prison isn’t going to help anyone. Nonviolent entrepreneurs who mislead
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replying "putting barbara on this" whenever I feel I am being undercompensated
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he's in your DMs, I'm reading the department of commerce guidelines for a software bill of materials. we are not the same
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you couldn’t make a sign that would more quickly lead me to do exactly what it says not to
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if you have an air purifier, furnace, air conditioner, heat pump, or literally any other device that handles air and you haven’t cleaned the filters recently please do that today
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"are you going to be in las vegas for conference X?"
the answer to that is literally never going to be yes
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thinking about getting a drone, but extremely worried I'll become a Drone Guy ™
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is there any historical precedent around the destruction of ~$60-70B of notional EV in approximately 72 hours by the company's own board?
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oh there's regulatory clarity, he just doesn't like the outcome
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does anyone on here have opinions about software licensing?
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longing for the kind of ego death required to ride a scooter as an adult
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to be clear, I think most companies with relatively steady, data intensive workloads should consider operating their own gear, but the characterization of two cabs of raw compute as being comparable in price or function to a public cloud is laughable
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Smaller companies are done a disservice by the constant pushing of SOC2 reporting; they can't reasonably most of the organizational controls anyways. Good documentation of the system, organization and its security features are what people want.
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D*H should be talking about marginal cost per new user, but he can’t
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still wondering if the $7M includes or excludes the cost of flying to south korea to convince a firmware engineer there is bug on a controller after 50 hours of debugging
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I, for one, think it's kinda fun how you can only order things on amazon dot com when you're okay with the item being fake.
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this is the first time I’ve actually thought this site might be over
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once I stop living for tomorrow and start living today it's genuinely over for you clowns
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usps notifications are like "we've created a label for your package and also it is delivered"
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this tweet is too loud
If you’re an AirPod owner, how many pairs have you owned? I suspect AirPods are actually a subscription business
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dudes rock
Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.
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??? they have a timer that reminds you to change the filter every three months???
Been using this air purifier for 3 years and today I realized that I never took off the plastic wrap for the filter inside.
I’m a genius.
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this is...extremely not good
Introducing
@NYCMayor
at a New York Public Library interfaith breakfast, his chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin says "in government, many times, it is said that one has to separate church from state."
"We have an administration that doesn't believe in that," she says.
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Lower marginal cost of software leads to _increased demand_
Open questions:
1. Why aren’t LLM’s massively bearish for software valuations as marginal cost of building software approaches zero?
2. Shouldn’t scaled incumbents trade at a premium due to distribution advantage, data gravity + ecosystem providing more inputs?
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holy fuck
Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.
Press release from the FDIC:
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one cool thing about 2023 is "diplo might be spreading ebola after being trapped at burning man" is not even top ten craziest things I've heard this week
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entering the “all my stuff reeks of sea water” phase of being in fire island
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squash heads hate this one weird trick
I just did a merge with main instead of a rebase. And it... was easier. I'm starting to question things 🤔
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very 2015 energy this morning...walked past someone wearing an all sa*nts jacket with that very distinctive shoulder pattern and then a new chvrches single immediately came on my airpods
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just say you love getting sued it’d be a lot easier
Things you absolutely don’t need to launch:
- a favicon
- unit tests
- a logo
- an LLC
- tax compliance
- VAT handling
- a merchant of record
- terms and conditions
- a privacy policy
- a copyright notice
- a trademark
- commit messages
- code reviews
- code comments
- a
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not my life insurance company calling their subscribers “our community”
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I went to the Yankees game yesterday and it was the first enjoyable baseball game I’ve attended -
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sorry just catching up here, so there's an ophthalmologist with a podcast about how to make your pee expensive and people are mad about him having sex?
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you invented an insurance company
[fintech guy adderall voice]
What about a reverse bank? Somewhere that borrows long and lends short?
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something tells me people would not line up to pay 6% per transaction...
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⛓️Confirmed, Intel OEM private key leaked, causing an impact on the entire ecosystem. It appears that Intel BootGuard may not be effective on certain devices based on the 11th Tiger Lake, 12th Adler Lake, and 13th Raptor Lake. Our investigation is ongoing, stay tuned for updates.
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huge day for puddles that look like pavement but are actually like four inches of dirt water
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@sophaskins
I know you’re mostly talking about the actual video quality but this is also the most measured and factual high-level explainer I’ve seen thus far.
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the calendly filibuster
What is the technical term for perpetually rescheduling a meeting instead of declining?
I’m on the receiving end of a truly masterful 6+ month punt.
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Now he's asking about the infamous real estate purchases.
He says that his parent's property was "intended to be the company's property" and they just happened to stay there while they worked with the company.
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