I'm gonna bet Basecamp gets sold to some company that fires the rest of the staff and puts the app on coast, like http://half.com, or http://mint.com & so on. https://x.com/CaseyNewton/status/1388212468510380034
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There is some connection between crushing a tech interview and being able to teach. If you can teach people what you know, you can demonstrate you know your skills.
META: in addition to trending names, add a "Not Dead Yet" list of trending names
So with normal govtech cycle times, in another three years we should start to see vaccination websites.
Looking at the games on sale at Steam today, I suppose the same way people compare and contrast starting a heroin vs methamphetamine addiction.
Amazon will reboot your server, Zappos will reshoe your server.
I'm a modal antirealist today. I believe that there really are infinite real universes, but all the other ones have been prevented from coming into existence by internal contradictions.
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Modal realism has the most promising application for:
- jokes
- sci fi
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If I close my eyes, the pain in my head goes down 66%, but then I can't see what I'm typing
The sheer number & range of "karma test runner can't connect to browser" is starting to make me think the jasmine-karma-angular stack is fundamentally broken. I'm finding the blog posts of people who switched to Jest because of this mess.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21513650/karma-not-running-unit-tests-due-to-no-captured-browser-message
But let's be positive, the earned media stats for Basecamp are stellar, you can't pay to get this much negative attention, even if you wanted to. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1387482468991832064
You'd think people who've triggered the biggest PR debacle on twitter in as long as I can remember would start running their ideas past someone with better intuition for these things. Offering to pay everyone to quit seems like the gasoline on a fire approach to PR.
This karma test runner is going to get what it has coming to it.
Psst, wanna "cloud browser"? Fire up an a1.medium for $18 before parking and you can get up to 10Gigabit of network bandwidth. Futz with vnc or use lynx or browsh, your choice.
Rent vs buy in Herndon VA
Rent $2200-2500mo
Buy 0% down $3100mo
We need a 3rd option, AWS Home, where you spin up a home just for the hours that you're in it.
Who just wasted about 2 hours troubleshooting why docker can't COPY a bash file with windows line endings? This guy.
And after you fix the line endings and rebuild, docker fails to redo the COPY because it thinks the file stayed the same.
Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57366007/standard-init-linux-go211-exec-user-process-caused-no-such-file-or-directory
This pandemic & national switch to remote really messes with my overall twitter strategy. I got 4, count 'em, 4 regional tech twitter accounts: CO, DC, NY, MA. I really needed them to be by *timezone*. East Coast, West Coast, Central.
What a mess.
So what is easier? Assume we are in a universe with cheap fusion or the universe where ours is a simulation & thus subject to overflow attacks, i.e. change the air pressure variable until it overflows & overwrites the x, y, z, t coordinates & moves us to wherever we'd like. https://x.com/ZachWeiner/status/1386708806109995014
Corrupting the runtime of our simulator would be more cost-effective than any course of action that obeys the physics engine's ruleset.
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I have mask anxiety dreams now. I dream I'm in a room packed with people and no one is wearing a mask and I forgot to bring my mask.
Some code has irreducible complexity, it doesn't matter how you code it is going to be complicated. Everyone making conf talks about microservices seems to be facing some irreducible complexity problem because everyone is saying microservices are awful unless you do it perfectly
(some *problems* are irreducibly complex).
I think I could find a 30 min youtube conf talk for each of these from very confident Architects
-Anemic domain model? Bad!
-Rich domain model? Bad!
-Many repos? Bad!
-Mono repo Bad!
-Fan out? Bad! (MSs call MS)
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McDonald's Taylor Ice Cream is a real-world example of industrial sabotage, where companies have an incentive to make the mechanics & software crap so they can get $$$ through repair fees. Taylor only exploits McDonalds though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
The Alexas are taxing my knowledge of English.
Me: lights on!
Alexa 1: <click>
Alexa 2: "I'm having trouble connecting to the internet"
Me: The lights are already on... other Alexa.
But I have to whisper the name, it's an antivocative. Say it too loud & they'll both answer.
Each additional language in your microsystem architecture linearly increases the work of automating your build. 3 languages = you need 3x as many build masters, terraform script writers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ow-UemzBc
This guy in the video would be highly skeptical of the idea that a microservice is a containerized blackbox with a REST API, the particulars of the contents leak to how the build pipeline works & how the infrastructure works.
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Buggy audit software destroys 100s of employees' lives when the code wrongly accuses them of theft. But don't worry, "[the] chief executive of the Post Office said that Horizon would be replaced with a new, ***cloud-based solution.***" https://twitter.com/EmilyTav/status/1385953866487828484
UI/UX job at Library of Congress, I know these people, they're doing good work.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/599017500
defusedxml is sloooooooooooooooooow. If defused xml wanted to get people to switch to a secure XML library, they'd make it 6x faster, because right now lxml is 5x faster.
Make any library secure by adding sleep(infinity), then insecure code won't run
US: Soylent
Ireland: Guinness
Sweden: https://x.com/olafurw/status/1385679862975893504
Docker security, for a non-abanded image (e.g. AWS linux) apply security by
I'd imagine that each org has to hire a person to choose a VPN vendor, who will be a short-timer because they will hear nothing but complaints for the rest of their career until they resign in disgrace.
I wonder if NARA still bans instant messenger use because it uses too much bandwidth.
Govtech folk, what is your cycle time (idea to production)
This is the fastest govtech cycle time I've ever seen reported from USPTO
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thought- so if your burndown chart isn't a perfect cliff, it means you didn't put it through the most possible hand-offs (test, approver, re-approver, nitpicker, acceptor phases) & were reckless in closing tickets. The gently bowed curve is the time to first hand-off.
A pet alligator will keep people away. Looks like this one bit off the hands that feed it. https://x.com/mcrowder65/status/1385560355699630080
Malaria is expected to make a return to US cities due to climate change, so this is good news. https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1385554403969613827
Nobody expects a chaos monkey.
`E TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'chaos_monkey'`
Is there a package manager for "just files"? i.e. all the features of pypi, npm, etc except no relationship to a programming language?
Internship job - @richgautier - is that working for you? https://twitter.com/richgautier/status/1385236585327730689
41% of people are considering taking a pay cut to stay working remote-- if they're in tech, they'll probably get a raise & a new remote schedule. Only 10% are eager to get back to the office all the time.
https://www.newsweek.com/2021/04/30/employees-balk-end-remote-work-going-back-office-stupid-1583059.html https://x.com/JoeMiscavige/status/1385195106412765188
I am capable of deciscale computing, 5*(10^-1) FLOPS.
"Speed of the average human mental calculation for multiplication using pen and paper"
Seems optimistic. I think I could do maybe 6 FLOP/minute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_performance_by_orders_of_magnitude