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He's actually quite nice over zoom so he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.

• overfeed 23d ago
  > he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him. Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
  • tgma 23d ago
    > If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first. If you have such luxuries, I bet you don't have enough scale to be really profitable for him.
    • overfeed 22d ago
      Oh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break. I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engines. I'd have to be mightily constrained to have this particular product as the only option.
      • tgma 22d ago
        Sure, I don't doubt your ability to do so yourself. I just question your ability to trust some random unknown figure with your data if you have enough scale. That's quite different, actually.
        • overfeed 22d ago
          TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.
• JeremyNT 23d ago
  Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Based on what I've read so far, with his shit-talking the competition, he seems like... a bit of an asshole.
• __s 22d ago
  https://x.com/samlambert/status/2083235983336865916 https://x.com/samlambert/status/2083235983336865916 very funny