Modern programming.
— 1 hour reading blogs,
— 1 hour looking up docs and SO and googling for whether it’s done already,
— Writing 3 line’s of code,
— Removing two,
— Coffee, doubting the 3rd line,
— Asking about the 3rd on Twitter,
— Arguing about CS foundations and US laws
Pro tip: “your profile immediately caught my attention” belies the lack of effort necessary for the profundity of the profile to sink in. “Your profile slowly, but inexorably, came to dominate my waking hours, daydreams, and nightmares” is much better.
If you ever wondered how Hitler was possible in a democracy, observe self-organizing mobs of upstanding Americans on Twitter forming Stalinist collectives craving to punish, ostracize, and disappear people. All the driving forces and flocking dynamics is there to model it all.
@McFaul
By the same logic, US citizens must be taxed to restore Iraq and Afghanistan? How do you distinguish those who live abroad from those who reside in Russia? Those who travel are usually the least responsible for the regime’s crimes than those who stay. Etc…
Friends -- hundreds of Russian software engineers who are against the war are leaving Russia. Many have left already, often with great difficulties. They begin a new life. Please support them as much as you can. We all need to accept Russian political refugees with open arms.
For someone from the USSR, a victory of groupthink, of ideology over reason, the with us or against us mentality, deliberately ignoring opposing facts, dismissing complex reality, forcing everyone in line or else, is dispiriting and recognizable.
“the average programmer no longer has time to manipulate the binary muck, and works instead with hierarchies of abstraction, layers upon layers of code — and often with chains of code borrowed from code libraries. But an elite class of engineers...”
The
@Cardano_
is in
#Haskell
, such a beautiful project. I wish them every success to win in the platform space.
@EOS_io
is gobs of C++, going the way of
#bitcoin
in terms of maintenance.
@IOHK_Charles
created such a beautiful thing, I am brought to tears by their github.
So, Xoogler/“Facebook alumni” mean they survived a corporate treadmill, just with smarter people. Well-funded and overresourced, they learned from stuff others created. How is this a credential to found a startup? Or being a Stanford grad? So you were near Silicon Valley?
Startup dudes calling on the young to skip college should be put in the same league as anti-vaxers. A few will succeed, like a few of those dudes, but the bulk will perish, lacking social and scientific skills. Note that not a single woman advocates this.
On a regular Norwegian train there’s a playroom with cartoons and a two-floor structure. My son is horsing around with a bunch of local kids. Why is it not a thing in the US?
Follow reset. Over the years, I’ve followed thousands of accounts that do not reciprocate nor engage. I can’t follow more people until I clean these up. It’s not really feasible to review them one by one so I’ll drop all followees *except* those reciprocals who *like* this.
@McFaul
What about same Americans sending those Ukrainians $100B worth of weapons and military training and intelligence support? Is it not telling them what to do?
When a company like Yahoo is going down, engineers go on long walks, circumnavigating office buildings in pairs, bitching and lamenting. This Palo Alto startup uses drones and low-orbit satellite imagery to quantify the “bitching engineer walks” trend to recommend stock actions.
@BillAckman
Bill: as a
@Penn
alum, we’re fortunate to have Marc Rowan lead the way. Will you call for the current president to resign, as Marc did, leading to results?
From a future startup hiring ad. Our startup
-- has no open office plans
-- has no silly foods or drinks
-- don't have to bring dogs
-- VCs don't meddle and actually understand software engineering
-- does not force you to use Slack or perform other distracting fake activity
Kenya makes strong statement opposing the undermining of the sovereignty & territorial integrity of
#Ukraine
during the emergency meeting of the
#SecurityCouncil
at 9pm on 21st February. See full statement delivered below 👇🏿
My son had just solved the homework problem yo compute 5^6 by saying “hey Siri how much is 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5 times 5“ and writing down the result. What should I do?
As a tiny push to dialogue for peace, I’ve helped my friends
@KSHN
and
@McFaul
discuss Russia and US future — and they talked here, in Republic, and now, on April 12, at 10am San Francisco time, Michael will join Oleg’s stream !
Ask your questions here!
Would it be legal to have an old farts’ startup with (the lower) age limit of 50 to join? No fake enthusiasm, idiotic food, stupid emails, meetings, no VCs younger than the oldest engineer, etc. Better even self-funded and on track to be sold to the buddies of the employees.
@jeremyphoward
I always remember you as a founder. And you are the only guy who went on to popularize and teach data science. We love you so much! ❤️ and the whole community misses you in SF…
We are hiring a global Open Source Science Tech Lead. The goal is to work with
@NumFOCUS
to map all of science to OSS tools used in each discipline, and also advance cross-cutting concerns such as reproducible science, scalable generative methods, apply:
Our
@Jaguar
iPace with
@BoschSI
components can enter the
@Siemens
parking seamlessly using a smart contract with the gate. It is a PoC of the future decentralized mobility infrastructure
@Trusted_IoT
Just read the part of
@McFaul
book where he hopes to bring
@BarackObama
for a summit with
@KremlinRussia_E
, and builds it up with the visits by
@JohnBrennan
and Mueller. He hopes to shoot hoops with Obama and host him at Spaso House. And then
@Snowden
ruins his summer and all.
Once all the engineers move to the countryside to WFH, all that will be left in the cities will be unicorn visionary founders zipping in their Teslas to meet each other over coffee, to be able to touch each other’s leather iPad cases & admire the workmanship of the matching shoes
Year 2100.
Engineer: I deployed quantum program on a borg of transformers.
Devops: they are running like crazy all around eating furniture.
Engineer: worked fine in test. The jar is OK.
Devops: they started eating each other, did you test them together.
Engineer: hmm. Good one
@ylecun
The privacy concerns differ. Apple has a paranoid stance on privacy defying back door requests. It has on-device focus. It owns the device. iMessage works on all iPhones globally.
Please support
@fommil
's excellent work and if you can, pay the suggested price for his book, FP for Mortals. We really should encourage great works like this in the community.
Also let's keep asking questions so he never leaves!
A Book is a beginning.
Our cat was hit and killed by a car. He was three years with us. It's hard to process -- we managed to hide it from the kids and now have to think what to do. Kids loved him. Should we bury him in the woods, or in a pet cemetery? Our yard is very small... What do people do?
If you are a US resident paying taxes, you funded a $1Trillion Iraq war and got nothing back. If you were in Norway, you'd get free education and healthcare for it.
@johnlashlee
@DavidShuster
@BernieSanders
I think entrenched mafias are going to lose their jobs, just like Hillary’s did. A huge turnover of influence over budgets, prestige, think tanks, lobbies. They know they cannot buy Bernie and are terribly afraid and are squealing and hissing.
The correct stream link will be:
Tuesday, April 12
10am San Francisco
17:00 London
20:00 Moscow
Michael
@McFaul
Oleg
@KSHN
The future of 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Do not miss it!
As a tiny push to dialogue for peace, I’ve helped my friends
@KSHN
and
@McFaul
discuss Russia and US future — and they talked here, in Republic, and now, on April 12, at 10am San Francisco time, Michael will join Oleg’s stream !
Ask your questions here!
Codeless programming is here! You don’t have to see a line or code!
Here’s how:
1. Get an English major from Stanford or some such place
2. BS
3. You’re CEO!
4. Hire a Russian CTO, Vlad
5. Raise
6. Vlad hires more Russians to code
7. Send all code shit to Vlad!
#RussianHumor
-- Have you heard the news from Sweden?
-- What is it?
-- The new Prime Minister is the former IKEA CEO.
-- And what's he doing first?
-- Assembling the cabinet.
Long time no see my friends, I have been thinking of what kind of video to take for you? What would you prefer? Please let me know! Now I am gonna present you with 4 bottles of beer at same time.
Why is America so bad at work-life balance? Even "investor" must be a crazy person with hair on fire flying around, instead of a large, Gargantuan rentier of the old Europe sipping espressos on a terrace and rarely checking in with the accountant back in Paris via telegraph...