One of the reasons I love working at a startup… You may not always see it, but every day at work I make our website a little better.
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
- Joel Spolsky
Goodsie looks really fun. (From the guys who made flavors.me)
Ruby Can’t Scale (Don’t Listen to John Metta)!
This is a follow-up to Ruby Can’t Scale! by John Metta
I want everyone to believe that Ruby can’t scale. I want you to think that Ruby is an awkward, weird little academic language that shouldn’t be used in “real” production deployments. I want you to think that it’s slow, memory hungry, full of security holes and breaks the rules of proper programming.
I don’t want everyone to use Ruby. I want to keep it for myself. I want my company to build software faster, easier, and still be able to go home before it’s dark out while outbuilding you and your product. I want to have my pick of small startups and recruiters breathing down my neck to hire me because I know this weird, obtuse, little language. If you learn it, then I’ll have to work even harder to beat out the next guy.
So beware of Ruby! It has lambdas, class evals, blocks, mixins, and all sorts of scary things. These are weird and strange! Stick to what’s tried and true. Java and C++ aren’t going anywhere. They are stable, and besides, that’s what real companies use. Save Ruby for me.
Every time I hear about “stealth-mode startup” I instantly translate it into: “We don’t have a fucking clue. Our business plan has gapping holes and we haven’t even started coding yet”. Ideas are good, but execution is paramount.
