Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Based on what I've read so far, with his shit-talking the competition, he seems like... a bit of an asshole.
> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.
Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break.
I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engines. I'd have to be mightily constrained to have this particular product as the only option.
Sure, I don't doubt your ability to do so yourself. I just question your ability to trust some random unknown figure with your data if you have enough scale. That's quite different, actually.
TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.
This is indeed a huge plus and super important! I'm not gonna name names but there are certainly some languages that have a nicer communities than others!
I don't know of any off the top of my head or a quick google search. I do know, from the latest ElixirTalk podcast, that it's very careful about what it sends over the wire, only the parts that have changed. If you're interacting with an API to get the same information for a SPA you're probably going to have similar latencies.
Buying research data from a third-party academic and using it for campaign purposes is not the same thing as a campaign creating an app and then using the available data.
Of course. There are a lot of things that aren't the same. But can we at least all agree that surreptitious, unapproved use of your Facebook data by political campaigns is wrong? Whether they got it from my friends getting an app or my friends (or myself) filling out a survey doesn't change the main issue.
The only real story here is media coverage and subsequent outrage. Otherwise, it doesn't really help the problem and it definitely reeks of side-taking to point out collection strategy differences when the main issue remains.
