This Hacker News thread isn't useful at all. It's the same people that comment on every thread stating their opinions overconfidently. It's the same perpetually negative Wired article. These things would be the same no matter what is really going on, and so I can't use it to learn anything.
There's that section about how Meta executives got drunk on an airplane. And the only thing that happens is they sing karaoke. There's nothing inappropriate. They're a bunch of boring nerds.
Some random thoughts, might be interesting (or not).
Some things that really do fit into tables, where there's no empty fields in the rows:
- Relational databases
- Hardware circuit truth tables
- Assembly language opcodes
- FPGA compiler output
- Matrix multiplication. Or some GPU programs
e.g. if you want to have a conditional statement using multiply-add, then 'if (cond) then x1 else x2' would be 'out = (cond * x1) + (cond * x2)'.
Those things have good performance in one way or another. But it's not easy to make all the application logic fit into a table-based schema.
e.g. Why does someone choose a python web server framework which sends and receives JSON. It's really super easy to extend and add something without knowing what you'll need in advance.
But if you try to fit that into a table, you'll have to change the table schema for everything to try to best fit what the program does right at the moment. And then if there's one new extra complex or long-running function, it will never easily fit the same schema as the others. You'll have to break the big function down into some smaller common operations.
Great! I'm a programmer. And I've sure spent too much time on C++isms.
> (And I hardly think that analyzing speculating about the motivation for the author's chosen nickname is constructive.)
Nope! Gets right to it. This is really building C++ (but this time how I want). It adds work for every C programmer who has to check off a whole bunch of small tasks to keep a codebase living for many years.
Revenue from Wiz's customers will not make back $32 billion dollars even in 30 years.
Wiz's technology is irrelevant. I think Google already scans for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. And can build similar for low millions of dollars.
Yeah, but Instagram and WhatsApp have billions of users. Everybody has heard of them. Advertising on Instagram generates revenue.
Wiz is a SaaS b2b startup. Even on a forum for startups most people haven't heard of them.
Wiz reportedly has a revenue of 750m. It would take Google 30 years or more to break even on this deal. But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquired.