[redleggedfrog]

As my buddy from Oracle likes to say, "No one cares what we do as long as the flow of streak, coke, and strippers doesn't stop."

He's a big Zed Shaw fan.

[legitster]

Anytime Oracle is brought up is a great time to repost the famous Lawnmower quote:

> "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." - Bryan Cantril

[pedrocr]

You elided the most famous quote from that diatribe. The lawnmower comparison is the expansion on:

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

To be fair to Oracle: the lawnmower doesn't hate people... yet. This millennium is still young. And we keep adding connectivity and llms into everything.

[neilv]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m

[ibejoeb]

"Everyone Else Must Fail" is a good read.

[xdavidliu]

what's "streak"? do you mean steak?

[bityard]

I thought it was some kind of trendy alcohol that I hadn't heard of, that probably comes in a brown bottle

[marcosdumay]

You can search for that word definition.

[rr808]

The problem is the people who have to use Oracle aren't the ones getting the steak or strippers.

[Aeolun]

Isn’t that a feature?

[keyle]

"Oracle, where the Sun don't shine no more."

[FlyingSnake]

I’m sorry but I don’t get this Zed Shaw reference, what did I miss?

[decompiled_dev]

He's a popular blogger: https://zedshaw.com/

[bigiain]

Weapons grade infinte snark, probably.

He seems to have stopped blogging a few years back. I kinda miss his epic rants and Learning $whatever The Hard Way stuff. Part of me hopes them and whoever used to run n-gate moved to Portland and are now running a bespoke hand made piano business together or something.