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You've lost a Russian IT meme in translation. We use the verb "to use brakes" to describe that something works slowly. There was a long story of threads about
by chupasaurus 7y ago
You've lost a Russian IT meme in translation.
We use the verb "to use brakes" to describe that something works slowly. There was a long story of threads about Java performance, until the meme was solidified after the news from 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge (racing competition for autonomous robotic self-driven cars): a car named Tommy by Jefferson Team which was running Java under Linux haven't used breaks before a turn and crashed to the wall at 70 mph, hence Java runs fast and Java doesn't use brakes were both described perfectly by the same sentence.
Yandex used the meme to advertise Clickhouse for engineers.
edit: formatting
edit2: brakes instead of breaks, wtf
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- nkrisc 7y agoI think you mean "brakes," as I thought you meant "breaks" like in an iterator. Not that familiar with Java though, just assuming based on the reference to a vehicle failing to brake before a turn. I thought maybe it meant using break statements in your loops slows things down or something.
- chupasaurus 7y agoYeah, my bad.
- PeterZaitsev 7y agoI think this is poor translation. In Russian "Тормозить" may mean to "use brakes" when applied to a car or just "be slow" when applied to a program (or a person). "MySQL сегодня тормозит" would mean MySQL is acting slow today, not what it is using brakes. So that meme I think is best translated as "Clickhouse is never slow" or "Clickhouse never acts slow"