This is for people outside Malaysia to understand the Network School kerfuffle that Balaji walked himself into like a juvey, though it may also be helpful to some clueless locals.
Network School : is basically a coworking space, cum tech incubator, run by a cryptobro who wrote a book on one of those run-of-the-mill "virtualised software thingy" projects, calling it a "network state" . Instead of a cryptocurrency governed by an decentalised NGO bank, the "thingy" is ostensibly a nationstate. What's a virtualised nationstate? Well presumably it merely does all the things any common nationstate does, minus having geospatial loci - that is, until it claims a rock somewhere, or buys one from anyone else.
The klutz move here is that Balaji ( regardless of any political connections ) explicitly used the copy ( word choice ) "tech zion", to describe this. He subsequently set up Network School in Malaysia, a nation that doesn't acknowledge the legal existence of Israel because ... for the most part, though of course not comprehensively, Malaysia's citizens hate the actions of the nationstate of Israel, and Malaysian politicians are more than happy to capitalise on this issue to rally support for themselves from time to time.
A klutz move. A complete, klutz move.
Following a mid-term election cycle, where every possible issue that could be used to attack the federal government party was hauled up from the marshes, this then became a hot issue. Network School is built on a literal swamp - an artificial island and ecological disaster that has its own fascinating history in the economic development of the state of Johor. Incidentally the Johor Sultan is Malaysia's current Agung ( rotational king ), and state investments are tied up in the buildings where Network School is located.
Malaysians are understandably ( given what I've told you about them so far, even if you don't empathise ), pissed. They're even taking offense at the fact that Network School's marketing copy referred to it as located on an artificial island near Singapore instead of explicitly in Malaysia. Balaji seemed to be digging his own PR grave a little deeper by speaking as a businessman in curt public statements, instead of as a face-saving collectivist Asian.
Where is all this going? Absolutely zero Malaysian political figures want to touch this with a ten-foot-pole, given the stakeholders involved. The Johor state government, and prince, have both pointed to the Federal government as the decider of foreign policy regarding any possible "Zionist infiltrators" which might be in Network School. The Prime Minister has haphazardly announced that while previously, Israeli passports are not recognised for entry to Malaysia, Malaysia now will actively seek to identify holders of Israeli passports regardless of their other passports, and deport them - with further warning that active IDF members will be imprisoned.
Great : from your literature, Vercel's FaaS is basically AWS Lambda with plumbing.
Since Netlify appears to be a smaller player (40% of your revenue) and since they similarly don't talk about their stack much, I'm going to presume that they're doing the same thing hehe
Don't start in the obvious places, because you can get stuck there for a decade before figuring out what else is going on ( I did, you shouldn't ) ( quick dive ; quick dip )
1. do a quick read on how UNIX and Linux kernels were designed, particularly what "file handlers" and "sockets" are ( day 1 ; 30 minutes )
2. do a quick read on the difference between "command prompts" (1-dimensional) and "pseudo-teletype terminals" (2-dimensional) ( day 2 ; 15 minutes ) ... note that both are varieties of "shell" ; shells are opposed to kernels
3. do a quick read on what "display managers vs window managers" are ... and if possible ( now this is quite hard, as the docs are messy ) ... how the kernel, talks to the shell, which talks to a pseudo-teletype terminal, which is a display client to the display server, which talks to the display server, which talks to the window manager ( it may not be exactly like that, but this is a good assumption to make until you get a clearer view ) ( day 3 ; 2 hours )
4. then learn a shell scripting language
5. then do something like "espeak 'oh hi there'"
Alternatively, do this in reverse numerical order.
Herd immunity implies herd infection. I am sure you are already aware of the mortality rates for infected citizens. All the best to this test. You are taking one for the global team. #forscience
What is wrong with you... Markdown is structured enough to be ingested by a parser. You can input or output Markdown from and into any other structure you prefer... :D
Technologies: I like math. I use Vim, Ubuntu, HTML, CSS, PHP (CakePHP in particular), spreadsheets and slides (the usual suspects, hosted and offline), Ruby (Rails in particular), Erlang (exercise: I wrote a code basic MVC and code interpolater), Haskell (exercise: I wrote a basic MVC framework with interpolation and RESTful sessions), MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB, bits of the necessary web-servers.
My career is about intellectual history and the quantification of human experience (which leads me to hobbies like machine intelligence, and rewriting mathematical systems). I'm not a specialist in anything commerciable, except quantifying, acquiring, and distributing transferable skills, and general human/organisational conditioning. I do have experience across a swarth of industries, and notable experience with fledging companies. I am in an ambiguous patch where I'm 15% into a decade of focus on optimising for cash returns, just to play the game... to say that I spent a bit of my life giving it a shot. Hit me.
Network School : is basically a coworking space, cum tech incubator, run by a cryptobro who wrote a book on one of those run-of-the-mill "virtualised software thingy" projects, calling it a "network state" . Instead of a cryptocurrency governed by an decentalised NGO bank, the "thingy" is ostensibly a nationstate. What's a virtualised nationstate? Well presumably it merely does all the things any common nationstate does, minus having geospatial loci - that is, until it claims a rock somewhere, or buys one from anyone else.
The klutz move here is that Balaji ( regardless of any political connections ) explicitly used the copy ( word choice ) "tech zion", to describe this. He subsequently set up Network School in Malaysia, a nation that doesn't acknowledge the legal existence of Israel because ... for the most part, though of course not comprehensively, Malaysia's citizens hate the actions of the nationstate of Israel, and Malaysian politicians are more than happy to capitalise on this issue to rally support for themselves from time to time.
A klutz move. A complete, klutz move.
Following a mid-term election cycle, where every possible issue that could be used to attack the federal government party was hauled up from the marshes, this then became a hot issue. Network School is built on a literal swamp - an artificial island and ecological disaster that has its own fascinating history in the economic development of the state of Johor. Incidentally the Johor Sultan is Malaysia's current Agung ( rotational king ), and state investments are tied up in the buildings where Network School is located.
Malaysians are understandably ( given what I've told you about them so far, even if you don't empathise ), pissed. They're even taking offense at the fact that Network School's marketing copy referred to it as located on an artificial island near Singapore instead of explicitly in Malaysia. Balaji seemed to be digging his own PR grave a little deeper by speaking as a businessman in curt public statements, instead of as a face-saving collectivist Asian.
Where is all this going? Absolutely zero Malaysian political figures want to touch this with a ten-foot-pole, given the stakeholders involved. The Johor state government, and prince, have both pointed to the Federal government as the decider of foreign policy regarding any possible "Zionist infiltrators" which might be in Network School. The Prime Minister has haphazardly announced that while previously, Israeli passports are not recognised for entry to Malaysia, Malaysia now will actively seek to identify holders of Israeli passports regardless of their other passports, and deport them - with further warning that active IDF members will be imprisoned.
Klutz nuts, all around.