I work with Pat and kicked around some title ideas with him yesterday. It's interesting to see a title that he created out of a sense of fun and excitement being perceived as linkbait. I can see why that perception would arise, but I hope people think of him as a good writer trying to have fun rather than some dude writing linkbait titles trying to get attention.
Some other title ideas:
* 23 characters ought to be enough for anybody
* 23: How Twitter could have solved their ruby scaling problem
No better. It is becoming a real problem if factual accurate titles don't go through. Imagine, I'm on a phone in China, most articles never load, I have to rely on title and comments to now what we are talking about.
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I work with Pat and kicked around some title ideas with him yesterday. It's interesting to see a title that he created out of a sense of fun and excitement being perceived as linkbait. I can see why that perception would arise, but I hope people think of him as a good writer trying to have fun rather than some dude writing linkbait titles trying to get attention.
Some other title ideas:
* 23 characters ought to be enough for anybody
* 23: How Twitter could have solved their ruby scaling problem
Heh. I would have gone with "Ruby Optimizations: Why short strings are an order of magnitude faster" or something.
No better. It is becoming a real problem if factual accurate titles don't go through. Imagine, I'm on a phone in China, most articles never load, I have to rely on title and comments to now what we are talking about.