I think Mike and I should get together and form "The Association of Luddites Named Mike". That quote gives the term "syntactic sugar" a disturbing twist.
On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:27 PM, David Avendasora wrote: > I just have to say, Mike is on a role this thread: > > 1) "If you DO become iTunes, Google, or Twitter, your app won't scale. > Period. I've never seen a system that scales without investing substantial > engineering effort in profiling and rearchitecture after deployment." > > 2) "The moral of the story is that every technology sucks, so you might as > well just build it fast so it can suck in production faster and you can move > on with your life." > > And Last, but certainly not least (and my favorite): > > 3) "Of course, the sad reality is that our industry loves to just > syntactically masturbate with different languages and pretend that we're much > better for it when the reality is that basically nothing has changed in 30 > years in terms of how we actually solve problems." > > With the direction he's going, he's going to describe the relationship > between Scala, Java and Ruby as some kind of twisted three-way. > > I can't wait! > > Dave > > > On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: > >> Of course I meant "except ours" :) That's why my title is "Senior Engineer >> of Martini-Pouring Services," making sure we're all comfortably numb while >> we kick back and relax. >> >> ms >> >> On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Alan Ward wrote: >> >>> >>> Mike, couldn't you just have just left everyone with the cosy misconception >>> that >>> we wrote all this code 7 years ago, got it "right" first time and haven't >>> had to touch it since? >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Michael Gargano wrote: >>> >>>> "If you DO become iTunes, Google, or Twitter, your app won't scale. >>>> Period. I've never seen a system that scales without investing substantial >>>> engineering effort in profiling and rearchitecture after deployment." >>>> >>>> This made it to my wall. I'm going to point at it whenever someone gets >>>> another crazy idea. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you DO become iTunes, Google, or Twitter, your app won't scale. >>>>> Period. I've never seen a system that scales without investing >>>>> substantial engineering effort in profiling and rearchitecture after >>>>> deployment >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>>> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/award%40apple.com >>>> >>>> This email sent to aw...@apple.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/webobjects%40avendasora.com >> >> This email sent to webobje...@avendasora.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/mgargano%40escholar.com > > This email sent to mgarg...@escholar.com >
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