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This whole thing is about some people being more equal than others.

This really doesn't seem like a good idea. I've seen exactly this situation before and it went to hell pretty quickly. The new engineers genuinely have no idea what they have on th…

Actually on dating, whatever grabs attention grabs attention. What wins is the genuine connections made. Twitter lacks the latter. It's just attention.

Just a heads up. Powerpoles melt too. Nasty things.

I would be happy to produce something that ended up in there. At least it would serve an educational purpose :)

Amazing you can apparently start a scam call centre with less administrative effort …

Yes you’re not going to get anywhere from inside the system but the system is propped up by a faction of people who have vested interests in making money out of short term thinking…

Look up Roger Hallam. Tied to XR as well. There’s plenty of people distancing themselves from him now including XR.

Actually the guy who set up Just Stop Oil was interviewed a while back and said it was never about climate but being against the system. Managed to loop a bunch of lunatics into do…

Honestly I don’t write that many tests these days other than integration and functional tests. The assertions are incredibly good at breaking those if anything goes wrong so you ne…

As an engineer I regularly get pulled into customer calls. It's really important to know how disconnected you are from customers. On every single occasion at every organisation I h…

Fail fast. Adding assertions everywhere helped me write software which does less unexpected stuff and is more reliable.

I am here now as well.

About ten years ago I deleted the 10 gig of email I had floating around. I delete everything now. Haven’t needed any of it yet. If I do need to keep something I print it to a pdf a…

Yeah I have a vimrc but it’s only about 8 lines long. I usually type it from memory.

All tools are compromised in one way or another. That had a decent balance of compromises.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro. I found that Android is almost a brick the moment you lose an Internet connection where as the iPhone is still productive and I can do stuff offline and it…

After 23 years now I pretty much use it as it is out of the box and still only know a small subset of commands. It has been my primary editor that entire time other than when I had…

The scary thing is it's the least bad option when it comes to overall reliability.

VBA is one of the best things Microsoft ever produced from an actual business perspective. The killer problem is that people run any old untrusted shit from anywhere.

Word is a useful vector because a lot of hardening software throws a load of stuff on the Windows UI to stop you executing anything but does not touch VBA. I've had to use VBA many…

Interesting. On the trifecta of money vs pain vs speed, Go seems to be a reasonable compromise.

That's the tow line here. Really everyone I know who turned a hobby or a side hustle into a job now hates it or nearly bankrupted themselves. I hate what I do but the money is exce…

This is by far the funniest and most accurate thing I've seen here. The whole film was absolute garbage.

I think they're mostly trying to kill off the old Intel Macs now. And any ARM devices that don't have Neural Engine. I expect the more modern Apple Silicon based ARM devices to hav…