How many job offers until you accept?
For me it is ~1 because of timing and at least around DC, the offers are always equivalent to ask, so they're being evaluated on likely supervisor attitude & commute
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Droid programmers school. Like School of Rock and Harry Potter combined, but with robots. https://twitter.com/DoctorRagnarok/status/1212557537360384000
Our is the last generation that will be able to read our Twitter feed as it in scrolls in real time.
(Anyone remember reading at 300 Baud, then at 1200 baud and 9600 baud?) https://x.com/sevensixfive/status/1215726364466257921
I am going to over commit, under deliver and blame others for when I make a mistake. This doesn't seem like this is going to help my professional reputation. https://x.com/thescottleese/status/1215627224650567680
I am MS SQL's better half https://x.com/AF_thescientist/status/1215405940960374784
VR? show with software developers. Sci-fi show by the guy who did Machinima. Seems to only be on Hulu. https://x.com/FXNetworks/status/1215340830417752069
AWS Elastic Pants has been announced.
ref: https://x.com/search?q=aws%20elastic%20pants&src=typd
2700 people share my name. The funny ones ask me to pass the message on to the other "Matthew Martin" or if I know how to get a hold of him.
ref http://howmanyofme.com/ https://x.com/eliza_audacis/status/1215326570115629057
Interview question I'd like to see: When in a meeting of 15 people for 1 hour, what is the right about to talk and what do you take into consideration when deciding how much to talk?
This skill is worth putting on a resume.
The Samurai-take-your-kid-to-work-every-day program https://x.com/mistersql/status/1215064410294833152/photo/1
Pushing that stroller with one hand over grass is going to be pure pain for his wrist.
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Seriously, Alt-F4.
No seriously, esq, ctrl-c, ctrl-x, ctrl-q and in some vims, you get help text on how to exit. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1215026432822403072
I notice that programming languages & styles assume most developers can type fast, accurately & have tooling to ID unexpected names.
20-30 years ago 'good' coding style was, single letter vars, 2 letter codes, abbreviate everything etc-all assumptions for hunt-and-peck typists
Azure & Powershell cloud devops guy on the DC market, move fast folk, plz retweet for reach https://twitter.com/DanielSPotter1/status/1214932618204131330
Like an insult generator & motto generator combined in one, except implemented in biological neural network instead of python. https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/1214771197952421889
just to sign into outlook (outlook from office 365), the SSO bounces across like 5+ domains. Those HTTPS certs you're supposed to inspect before giving your passwords? No way the user can participate
Stackoverflow podcast interviewing USDS guy - didja know that getting sample code from IT contractors you're hiring is a contracting innovation that no one in gov't had thought of before?
Is this true for all fed jobs, no one thinks to ask for portfolio?
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/07/podcast-matt-cutts-usds-google/
I used to arrive at interviews with sample code/portfolio work (not bidding on federal contracts, just regular jobs at contracting cos) and I couldn't ever get anyone to look at it. (being asked to solve a programming puzzle, yes, lots of times)
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Not the most useful logging message I've written:
2020-01-07 15:58:05,981 __main__ DEBUG: Starting main loop. If you don't see this, logging is broken.
Proof some shoppers on Amazon are time travelers: you can buy 2016 calendars.
https://www.amazon.com/AT-GLANCE-2020-2021-Recycled-70-260G-05/dp/B00WWVQ8WO/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=recycled%2Bpaper%2Bmonthly%2Bcalendar&qid=1578422464&sr=8-10&th=1
Heading home to do app deployments. It feels like the natural place to do app deployments, which is irrational because it only because of years of having to do deployments in maintenance windows.
You can only be used as a reference, can't be used by value. https://x.com/vcsjones/status/1214591117737508865
Zeno's kids: Are we there yet?
Zeno: We're halfway there.
Zeno's kids: Are we there yet?
Zeno: HALF LEFT TO GO!
no one:
no one:
me: This is the best K pop song right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTeiaCezwM
10 factor auth - when the 2 factor vpn auth system fails 5 times before connecting. So secure.
Alexa fills in a shopping list for me (accumulated in Todoist via an ITTT script)
I'm pretty sure no one said most of these. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1213877942226444288/photo/1
My new year's goal is to be filthy rich. I'm halfway there! So I'm off to the shower.
interviewer: What your greatest weakness?
me: Well, I..<15 minutes of me talking pass>... I ramble.
interviewer: <sorry they asked>
RealID keeps people from getting docs if their names change. Don't change your name.
This is an improvement-- I imagine this was probably happening to AWS every day, multiple times a day. Every time it happened someone gets a $100K bill, someone risks losing their job & I'd imagine some org wonders about if cloud stuff was the right decision. https://x.com/ludofleury/status/1212543547989274624
How do the reach the card swiper on the turnstile https://x.com/dcsteve5/status/1213210269876400128
I ran about 236 times last year, for 118 hours, or 679 miles. I'm back to running a mere 2x a week, maybe I'll get back to daily again.
(all data from Strava's free version, using a fitbit versa)
Tolerating bugs in code speeds time to market, time to ship
Seems like the cost of preventing, removing a bug matters here and that is a really hard thing to estimate. The bug you are planning to write so you can ship faster, what are the costs of living with it, shipping it, removing it? What? You don't plan to write bugs & can't say?
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This SAFe stuff is just Federal SDLC all over again. People outside of the software dev team do lots of meetings, the dev team ignores the process & tries to ship code in the dysfunctional environment they find themselves in. Team leads focus on a processes' "teeth" https://x.com/mistersql/status/1213107920910606338
A processes' "teeth" are all the points where you are forced to make someone happy in order to move to the next step, i.e. to ship code, hire staff, add a feature, fix a bug, communicate with the user or client. Only the teeth have any impact, the rest is just paper work & ritual
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SAFe is a waterfall methodology used to sell Rally, a Jira-like product. Every 10 weeks you have a 16 hour, two day planning meeting. (whut) Retrospectives in a large org could have meetings with 100 people. https://x.com/greggersh/status/1213098675326595072
My uninformed prediction: there will be a retaliation, similar to the Beruit Marines barracks bombing that killed 200 people. And that will be the end. So we're trading a bunch of grunts for one senior manager.
And by we, I mean, one guy in the Executive branch is.
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IDEA: let's adopt metric, but have 12 cm to the meter, 5280 meters to the kilometer &16 grams to the kilogram.
This word list will mute all those tweets injected into your newfeed from people you don't follow! https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1212902068739919872
!! - bang bang you're a boolean
& - ...and your a pointer now
This is how I'm counting down 2020:
https://pythonclock.org/
7hrs and no more python 2