Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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Chris Ellis
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It's because Larry Ellison is a genius. I know he is a genius because of what happened last time I visited the old Sun Labs building.
I walked through a floor of empty offices. The entire team working on a new product had a just had a quarterly status meeting and Ellison had said 'there's no market for this product' and fired them all.
The product? An accelerator that was really fast at multiplying matrixes.
The date? Late 2019.
In 2019, he identified that there was no market for a cloud provider to offer a service that can do matrix multiplication quickly.
Truly a visionary.
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"Programming is building a mental model. It is not mechanical code production. The shared mental model in developers' minds is the real product. A program is "living" only while the team understands this theory. When programmers leave, it becomes "dead". Without the original theory, new maintainers treat software as a black box, creating patchwork fixes that cause side effects and architectural decay."
Absolute truth.
Originally from Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985)
Chris Ellis
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A nice discussion of passkeys.
They're for the company's convenience. They don't protect the user.
Chris Ellis
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It's a wrap, friends. Join us for PGDay Lowlands 2027, in... TBA!!
Stay tuned: https://pgday.nl #PostgreSQL
Chris Ellis
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@thepanz @vyruss @pgdaylowlands thank you, I'm glad you found it useful and fun.
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