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IDEA: Chaos monkey but for feature branches. Source control branches are deleted after a random 2, 3 or 4 weeks.

Something to force a team to face their fear of merging, the irrational idea that main was somehow bug free at point of branch & feature branches only have bugs.

There is a book on the anthropology of bullshit jobs, by Graeber, a book "On Bullshit" by philosopher Frankfurt.

Has anyone done an academic study on complete Assholes?

IDEA: chrome plug in to provide the age & actuarially correct remaining life expectancy of each senator mentioned in an new article.

(Just checked on a certain 77 year old one & he's expected to last until age 91. Sigh)

void foo(){return void;}
x = foo()
y = x.scream()

Uncaught exception, void says "shut up" https://x.com/vcsjones/status/1103700864198418432

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🎵 Don't know like an Egyptian 🎵

GDPR: Looks like companies get fined $5K - $20K for small(ish) violations. Interesting to see what triggers a fine in the real world. From reading about the law, it sounds like all sorts of things could trigger a fine if the GDPR enforcers could only find out about it. https://x.com/ameeriklane/status/1103687557056000000

Kubernetes & AWS auto-scale groups are going to become the garbage collectors for apps that leak memory. (by dealing with memory leaks in an app by killing & replacing an instance)

How to revolutionize your fitbit exercise program & get 3x more steps per week

1) The the #$!#$ thing charged
2) Keep it on your wrist
3) Get it off the charger & back on your wrist ASAP

This survey didn't ask people about specific agencies. I doubt that Amtrak, USPS, Park Service, Social Security, Medicare, are going to rank dead last

Similarly, I don't see folk ranking the Army, Navy, AF, Marines dead last as worst orgs. Military is >54% of the federal budget https://x.com/lewisshepherd/status/1103249275994152961

This is a better interview question than fizzbuzz. https://x.com/witchwrenna/status/1068598639940067333

Cool website- Library of Congress crowd sourcing the transcription of texts that otherwise can't be scanned. You visit the site & they give you a page of text to transcribe.

https://crowd.loc.gov/

Let's find the person who keeps making these tornados and fire them as an example to everyone else on the team. https://x.com/danmactough/status/1102992216803430400

So, search engine, you're saying there is a chance

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PG01&Query=laser+AND+shark https://x.com/mistersql/status/1102684707102359552/photo/1

Trying to read up on ITIL. I'm getting flashbacks not of my days of being a SQL DBA but of business school Management class. This looks like ordinary, generic process improvement

cf Scrum, which generally includes specific practices-source control, unit tests, etc.

Am I wrong?

Generating this series ["snow", "snown", "snowain", "snowrain", "snrain", "rain"] with phonotactically valid words is hard. Maybe do all the possible splits and combinations & using a natlang detector to throw out the impossible combos.

I think I'm skinny enough for this Jenkin's step. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1102306452683792386/photo/1

My DC area co-worker is on the job market- He's a highly skilled devops, python & native code developer with a proven track record doing AWS, terraform, docker, python app dev, big data work on Redshift. Green card.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vloskutov/

also contactable at @en91nerd

> pip search --latest-stable matthew_martin
matthew_martin (version 2016.1.1)

# this option doesn't exist, which makes this joke 25% less funny.

IDEA: instead of alt-text, an IMG tag should have an attribute of the ID that says what text is talking about that picture. Google image search has no idea sometimes what an image is about.

Unautomated change requests are lies. If a CABs and CCBs approve a 200 page word doc of promises of what a change will be, but if it is all manual, the implementation gap is big enough to that it is just fraud. This is true for 2000 pages, 20,000 pages and even 2 google pages.

wow, you can patent software development processes (or similar such)... maybe someone could patent Waterfall and aggrieved developers could collaborate with patent trolls to sue Waterfall loving dev shops.

example: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070100892A1/en

Watching guy on youtube complain about orgs with change management probs with "improper documentation" .. what about "no one wants to read documents" We personally notice missing docs, but the sign of no one reading docs is generalized failure. #ITIL

mvn save_for_retirement vacation_in_new_mexico learn_maven

Ok, got goals set up, how do I install maven in my brain?

I think there is a heavy metal band playing at my office https://x.com/mistersql/status/1101591359394365441/photo/1

Ok, I'm all but off the job market again. USPTO, here I come.

I want to retweet this, but retweet isn't enough. I want it to show up on every screen in the world, like that sci-fi trope in lawnmower man, max headroom and Johnny Mnemonic. https://twitter.com/pwthornton/status/1101537126770970624

desired_state.yaml
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state: new_mexico
person: matthew martin
food:
- chimichanga
- Sopaipilla
- enchilladas
- Bizcochitos
food-location
- stomach

kubectl apply -f desired_state.yaml

Found this gem in my Kubernetes training video- in 1999 For hardware & software alone to set up a public facing/high traffic website, half a million bucks. Labor must have been another half a million bucks

It's all cheaper now, but still you need deep pockets if you want to play https://x.com/mistersql/status/1101194094267826178/photo/1

"I'm a back end developer, I can use 3rd party templates, but don't have the art school chops to make beauty"
"Ok."
<later>
"Oh, I hate all the colors you've chosen." https://x.com/aCraigPfeifer/status/1101190083070357504

IDEA: Horror movie, but it is mostly people filling in long web forms then seeing this just before the final submit https://x.com/mistersql/status/1100872870392139780/photo/1

This is frickin' genius. This is like finding a way to iterate what you thought were sequential but random guids. https://x.com/jasonbaumgartne/status/1100215656228798464

Who is taking these senior tech jobs where you have to wait 2 months to start? Who starts their job search 2 months before they are ready to move on?

Also same question but for 4 months for these http://usajobs.gov jobs.

TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT. [in 60-90 days, okay?]

WAR WAR WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR.

Well, compressed packages for deploying applications to tomcat.

War by heart disease. Clever, but heart disease could take years to finish Kim. It is going to take A LOT of these diplomatic meals to get the cholesterol levels high enough to cause a stroke or heart attack.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/27/trump-kim-summit-vietnam-dinner-1191525

At first I'm like... aw man, I gotta do a coding puzzle? And now I'm like, hmm, I'm stealings this puzzle for the next time I need to interview someone. Can't say anymore. These puzzles have to stay secret.

Nameless DC area company- Glassdoor is really casting some shade on you.

Hard to decide what to do with this info, every company I've worked at had some degree of dysfunction and pockets of awful. Vast majority of my days at those same companies, work got done & life was ok.