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Now where's the TC retraction? (oh, forgot, there's no link-bait in boring stuff like accuracy)

by dhh 18y ago

merrick33 18y ago
retraction or correction? TC is only partially right/wrong... Ev's says: "Lots of our code is not in RoR, already, though" Sounds like an ongoing process rather than a new thing
- simonw 18y ago
  Twitter has been mostly not Rails for a very long time. You can't build a service like Twitter on top of a traditional relational database stack, so much of their infrastructure is based around custom message queue stuff.
- dhh 18y ago
  Let me give you a scoop, then: Lots of 37signals code is not in Rails, either. We run Solr for search. We use a C-based poller for Campfire. We call out to ImageMagick for transformations of images. Most successful LAMP sites use software from more than one bucket. That is not news.
gojomo 18y ago
Oh, there may yet be. Melodramatic mea culpas can attract traffic too. Getting a story wrong can thus provide a two-fer: one batch of attention for the sloppy, inflammatory first piece, then another for the contrite (or alternatively, defiantly unapologetic) correction. Ever see the movie 'The Corporation', which diagnosed the 'person' of a corporation as being psychopathic? Well, the DSM-IV diagnosis for an ad-supported blogging site will tend toward Histrionic Personality Disorder†. Clickonomics almost demands as much. † http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
- deleted 18y ago
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wumi 18y ago
unless it's a major mistake, most publications don't really publicize corrections (especially not with blogs being able to edit their content.) UPDATE
- mhartl 18y ago
  Indeed: the story (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-aban...) now has an update: "Update: Regarding Evan Williams’ statement here [link to http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348 http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348], all I can say is that multiple sources claim that Twitter is telling people they are planning on moving away from Ruby on Rails. This is not the first time a company has denied something that has turned out to be 100% true."
  - PieSquared 18y ago
    Looks like they chose the "defiantly unapologetic" correction. I wonder, have they done any studies on which type of correction gives them more traffic? Might be worth it.

Now where's the TC retraction? (oh, forgot, there's no link-bait in boring stuff like accuracy)

by dhh 18y ago

Now where's the TC retraction? (oh, forgot, there's no link-bait in boring stuff like accuracy)

retraction or correction? TC is only partially right/wrong... Ev's says: "Lots of our code is not in RoR, already, though" Sounds like an ongoing process rather than a new thing

simonw 18y ago
Twitter has been mostly not Rails for a very long time. You can't build a service like Twitter on top of a traditional relational database stack, so much of their infrastructure is based around custom message queue stuff.
dhh 18y ago
Let me give you a scoop, then: Lots of 37signals code is not in Rails, either. We run Solr for search. We use a C-based poller for Campfire. We call out to ImageMagick for transformations of images. Most successful LAMP sites use software from more than one bucket. That is not news.

gojomo 18y ago

Oh, there may yet be. Melodramatic mea culpas can attract traffic too. Getting a story wrong can thus provide a two-fer: one batch of attention for the sloppy, inflammatory first piece, then another for the contrite (or alternatively, defiantly unapologetic) correction. Ever see the movie 'The Corporation', which diagnosed the 'person' of a corporation as being psychopathic? Well, the DSM-IV diagnosis for an ad-supported blogging site will tend toward Histrionic Personality Disorder†. Clickonomics almost demands as much. † http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder

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wumi 18y ago

unless it's a major mistake, most publications don't really publicize corrections (especially not with blogs being able to edit their content.) UPDATE

mhartl 18y ago
Indeed: the story (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-aban...) now has an update: "Update: Regarding Evan Williams’ statement here [link to http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348 http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348], all I can say is that multiple sources claim that Twitter is telling people they are planning on moving away from Ruby on Rails. This is not the first time a company has denied something that has turned out to be 100% true."
- PieSquared 18y ago
  Looks like they chose the "defiantly unapologetic" correction. I wonder, have they done any studies on which type of correction gives them more traffic? Might be worth it.