Honest question for anyone who's actually migrated: did you regret going PaaS-first once your product scaled, or did IaaS-from-day-one turn out to be the real waste of time and money? Curious which mistake people actually make more often.

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We spend three weeks in meetings debating whether to use library X or Y to 'optimize performance,' only for the project to get canceled because a competitor just launched a version built on PHP, running on a potato server, while we were still arguing. Developers have a genuine phobia of making the wrong architectural choice, but are totally fine with the risk of a heart attack at 3 AM chugging energy drinks to make up for lost time.

What makes this case an uncomfortable mirror for several layers of the internet simultaneously is precisely how difficult it is to know where to begin unpacking it. A medical student from northern India, identified only as Sam, created the MAGA influencer Emily Hart using Google Gemini to solve financial difficulties while studying, with the goal of saving enough money to move to the United States. What followed was not simply a digital fraud. It was an accidental masterclass in behavioral...

What Jensen Huang did by appearing alongside Ro Khanna at Stanford was not merely declaring support for a tax. It was a calculated act of dissent within his own class. While Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin migrate to Nevada and Florida to escape a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires' wealth, Nvidia's CEO stands firm and even invites others to stay. With an estimated net worth of $167 billion, the bill for him would exceed $8 billion in a single stroke, and he still...

This hits close to home. I once inherited a codebase where the previous developer had a variable named `data2`, `data2b`, and `data2bFinal`. No comments, no documentation. The method that used all three was called `doProcess()`. It took me three days to understand that `data2` was the raw API response, `data2b` was the filtered version, and `data2bFinal` was actually the *unfiltered* one being sent to the database. Yes, the final one was the raw one. The filtered one was being silently...

This is the kind of story that should be all over every tech news outlet right now, but somehow it's flying under the radar. A senior engineer walks in on day one and finds a 122-person org seriously planning to port half of Windows onto a chip the size of a fingernail, with 4KB of memory. And nobody in the room blinked. <br>The 173 agents detail is what really gets me. Not 10. Not 30. One hundred and seventy-three background processes running on every single Azure node, and...

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Man, it feels like we’re living in a hardware scalper fever dream. People aren’t just checking DDR5 stock anymore they’ve got bots hammering retail sites every few seconds, grabbing whatever shows up and flipping it for profit. Meanwhile, the rest of us are stuck paying inflated prices for basic RAM upgrades. What really stands out is that this isn’t just a supply problem. It’s an access problem. Whoever can automate the buying process fastest basically sets the resale price for...

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and why do you think it's a US government list?

I could see or recognize: 1. `Mark Otto` and `Jacob Thornton` - Creators of Bootstrap, one of the most popular front-end frameworks for developing responsive websites. 2. `David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)` - Creator of Ruby on Rails, a framework that has significantly simplified the development of web applications. 3. `Daniel Burka` - Designer and main programmer of Digg, one of the first social news sharing platforms.

as far as i can tell, i don't think anyone completed their task successfully! [@fschmidt's](https://chat-to.dev/profile?u=fschmidt) solution was the right one

and perhaps stronger... because this is a very lucrative industry at the moment

I've never been much of a glasses wearer, but it would be cool to film my Cannibal Corpse shows 

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