Comment by kennykartman
1 month ago
Marketing is the thing that makes uninformed people adopt thing they don't need.
I dont think we need marketing, but rather education, which is the actually useful way to spread information.
If you think marketing is the way knowledge spreads, you'll end up with millions of dollars in your pocket and the belief that you have money because you're doing good, while the truth is that you have millions because you exploited others.
You complain about the very thing that lead to the experimentation and writing of this article, which is how one gets a real education:
"One of those techniques is static memory allocation during initialization. The idea here is that all memory is requested and allocated from the OS at startup, and held until termination. I first heard about this while learning about TigerBeetle, and they reference it explicitly in their development style guide dubbed "TigerStyle"."
Anyways, TigerStyle is inspired by NASA's Power of Ten whitepaper on Rules For Developing Safety Critical Code:
https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/ac75926f8868...
You might be impressed by that fact or the original Power of Ten paper but if so, it's only because NASA's marketing taught you to be.
If you think that publishing a paper is marketing, then we have quite different views.
Incidentally, I was aware of NASA paper before tigerbeetle was a thing. Not because someone marketed their work, but because I did my research over published ones.
marketing is how ideas spread. And ideas that spread are those that win.
That's why AI-sloppy software would go viral and make loads of money while properly engineered ones die off.
When people need knowledge, they know where to find it. They don't need marketing for that.
I think that's a very narrow view of our society dynamics.