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Alvaro Videla

6 years

A Computer Of One's Own We just launched an advent calendar to highlight the lives of the pioneers of the computing age. #aco3

Ada Lovelace — The first programmer

In the beginning there was Ada Lovelace, as you might already know, but an advent calendar has to start somewhere. This one that seeks to…

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CSS can kill you http://t.co/LnJENp2fFS

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I've built my own crypto http://t.co/8AZlTT8THi

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Your Unit Tests are Passing http://t.co/GGcO90tb5P

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Gimme Google, Stack Overflow, and this keyboard, and I'll program you anything. http://t.co/H9YsiekQO6

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When you discover that The Cloud was just a bunch of Go scripts held together with some Bash

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I'm happy to announce that I'm joining Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate. I'll be working with @jawache @chanezon and so many other cool people. This is a great opportunity for me, to keep helping communities and doing what I love with the support of Microsoft.

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When you want a Type System but all you have is Javascript

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I’ve built my own crypto, Take 2

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Princeton rejected her application, because they didn't accept women at the time. She went somewhere else to get her education, and ended up changing the programming world forever with Abstract Data Types. Here's Barbara Liskov. #aco3

Barbara Liskov — Inventor of Abstract Data Types

She might have done her PhD thesis about Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of John McCarthy, or have a programming principle…

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Time to do "BorgesConf". A conference where we relate concepts from Borges into Computer Science/Software Engineering: Garden of the Forking Paths: multithreading Circular Ruins: recurrence Funes the Memorious: abstraction Pierre Menard: AI The Other: working with legacy code

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“Your progress is the only thing I desire” Ada Lovelace’s letter to one of her mentees is beautiful.

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Your password cannot contain special characters

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Them: Alvaro, why are you putting that backpack on? Me: This meeting should have been an email

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This backpack could save many lives when disaster strikes

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We don’t test our integrations

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This is why I only shower for 39 seconds and stopped eating beef.

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Traffic departing Las Vegas following the Super Bowl. 525 business jets departed the Las Vegas area after the game ended.

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Do you still remember _why? I do

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Debugging in prod

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"Betty said she spent half her time trying to figure out what people needed in computers, and the other half convincing an engineer it was his idea, so the work would be done."

Elizabeth Holberton — Inventor of Breakpoints

Our second pioneer is no other than Elizabeth “Betty” Holberton, one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC.

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Este gurí es más inteligente y tiene más tacto que varios profesionales que me cruzo día a día. 1) Arranca diciendo que no es de él la solución, da crédito a otros. 2) Dice que es fácil, "si tenés las herramientas" 3) Explica el problema y la solución 4) Acepta feedback

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CTO: “I can write that code.”

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Engineer: “I can write that code.” Senior Engineer: “Should we write that code?” Staff Engineer: “We should delete that code.” Principal Engineer: “Delete all the code.”

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The problem with the "10x engineer" is that it's full of unidemnsional guys out there that think they are a 10x engineer. You think you are Freddy Mercury at Bohemian Rhapsody, when at best you are the nickel back guy

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9 years

Footage of entitled user reporting issue on open source project http://t.co/Czl8E2VZ1J

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9 years

Using locks to solve your concurrency problems http://t.co/YfDnHwDZJu

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7 years

Here it is "Become, How I went from selling food in the street to working for top firms in tech" my personal story

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6 years

David Bowie, wrote the first paper about Distributed Systems back in 1969 "Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom?" Is the node alive or taking too long to respond?

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4 years

Midlife crisis mode on

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20 years ago I was selling food in the streets. Had no clue about programming Today I gave a presentation about Microsoft Fabric at the Microsoft AI Tour stop in Bengaluru. Same stage as @satyanadella earlier. Can’t believe it TBH. @arunulag

🪷Raghavendra K 🔜 Solana Hacker House

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Microsoft Fabric Data Analytics for the era of AI @msdev #MSAITour @Microsoft @nvidia

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4 years

Yes, every millennial whose parents could afford a computer. I could probably count with one hand the kids in my hometown that could actually have this picture

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5 years

Here's an idea: close all your browser tabs and forget about them.

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No me gusta hablar mucho de la política de Uruguay, pero hoy amerita hacerlo. QEPD María Auxiliadora. La conocí de forma fortuita en Shanghai. Cuando le pedí una foto al presidente ella lo cinchó del brazo y le dijo “vení que este chico quiere sacarse una foto”.

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Software Projects, a metaphor

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Composing Microservices

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El día que tu AI entienda este chiste avisame

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7 years

In this list of books I share those that I think can help towards making us better software developers

Some Books For Your Consideration

At the end of last year, some people asked me for book recommendations or lists of books for them to read. Lately I’ve been finding that…

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Y de Argentina te digo esto. Si tomás la ruta 3 y la seguís hasta el punto más al sur en Tierra del Fuego, literalmente donde termina el mundo, qué te encontrás? Una cancha de fútbol. La pasión por el fútbol no se fabrica en laboratorios.

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3 years

Time to share some news. I got promoted! Thanks @lenadroid for being a wonderful manager, always advocating for me, and helping me succeed!

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Another proof the World Cup is fake. The same country is playing against each other. What's next, Uruguay vs Paraguay? #SWESUI

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Unit Tests http://t.co/Kxx2QMVIl9

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Just found out about this poster that seems to be at Facebook offices. People find it "funny". Of course there's no talent in South America

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This quote about programmers

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The best conspiracy theory I've heard is the one that claims Disney released the movie Frozen so searches for Walt Disney Frozen body would return wrong results.

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"Favor Composition over Inheritance”

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It took just 20 years to create the overnight success of Pokémon Go

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Tumblr: male-presenting-nipples vs female-presenting-nipples @farbandish : The Misgendering Machines: Trans/HCI Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition

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Hi mom, I just gave an AI talk at the Louvre in Paris. Do I believe it? Nope 😅 Acabo de dar una charla literal abajo de la pirámide del Louvre en Paris #msaitour #azure

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Paxos Explained from Scratch: a 10 page tutorial to build Paxos step by step http://t.co/haAxzvFk3u #EUC2015

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Describe software development in one paragraph

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3 years

Just got my first shot of Moderna, the Dolly Parton vaccine!

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@davecaos Java no tenés Memoria gastás No sabés ni cuando compila Te querés matar

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One year ago many of you thought I was joking 😅

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I'm happy to announce that I'm joining Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate. I'll be working with @jawache @chanezon and so many other cool people. This is a great opportunity for me, to keep helping communities and doing what I love with the support of Microsoft.

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Silicon Valley Company: we don't know that Uruguayan university, not sure we should hire that person. Uruguayan student from the university: hold my mate

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Student awarded $36,000 for remote execution flaw in Google App Engine

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Chinese philosophers already had trouble with JavaScript this 2000 years ago

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GitHub Codespaces are a game changer in open source. I got so excited this afternoon that I recorded a demo running the @RabbitMQ tutorials directly from my browser! Here's the uncut, unscripted video, because excitement can't wait!

GitHub Codespaces - A Game Changer

In this video I show how GitHub Codespaces is a game changer in the open source world. Thanks to Codespaces we will be able to collaborate like never before....

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A book, and idea, a pamphlet, a complot, all of it. Started to flesh out my book proposal on the Human Side of Programming

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Programming advice from 1976 by Glenford Myers from IBM Research “The programmer’s goal must be writing source code for the primary audience of people instead of machines”

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Proud engineering moment: a former colleague from China just told me a RabbitMQ service I wrote over 10 years ago is still working well in production.

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A Chinese dude 2500 years ago knew more about leadership than most managers I've seen in tech today. Don't @ me.

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If you ask me what to read to advance in your career, I'd tell you: Read about Feminism, Diversity, Equality, Design Thinking, Narrative, Philosophy and mix some Fiction in it. The technical stuff? You _will have to_ read about that, don't worry about it.

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I never thought I would have to mute the word recursion

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Our free and secular university in Uruguay just developed a test for coronavirus. Yep, free education in a socialist country.

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UNA GRAN NOTICIA Científicos uruguayos lograron desarrollar localmente el test para detectar coronavirus

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I'm really happy I never learnt Python http://t.co/XU8ksezyUq

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There has to be a way to solve this using Kubernetes

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I just published “Programming Languages are not Languages”

Programming Languages are not Languages

In my previous article I talked about how the metaphors used to present a problem, set the stage for how we are going to talk about the…

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4 years

I keep losing followers. Sorry folks, there’s life outside work, like vacation.

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@jessfraz The only good computers

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Programmers: program state is so easy to handle, I don't need FP. Also programmers: please restart the app for the changes to take effect.

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We cross the Atlantic to talk about Kathleen Booth, writer of the first Assembly Language, Machine Learning Pioneer, Machine Translation Pioneer, and the list goes on. Truly amazing. #aco3 #STEM

Kathleen Booth — Machine Learning Pioneer

Looking at the work of Kathleen Booth shows a person heavily interested in the usability of computers. She wrote the first assembly…

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You know what’s cool? Starting to read the history of computing from Italian sources. Definitely not the same history you hear from Silicon Valley sources.

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My mom's birthday. She collects my conf badges.

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If Jesus had made 1 USD per second since the day he was born, he’d be just at 63 billion USD That’s how rich Bezos and the others are

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Erlang Fault Tolerance: http://t.co/2TlqTXnP1G vs. all the others: http://t.co/pAGqQi0Lg3

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Some books on distributed systems I've been reading here and there http://t.co/Rupqb1KGQT

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3 years

Durazno llego a Microsoft 😅 #microsoftlife

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He went from street vendor to self-taught software engineer. Join the discussion with cloud advocate @old_sound about can do attitudes and giving back to his native Uruguay. #MicrosoftLife

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La empresa Suiza de uno de mis mejores amigos está buscando gente para trabajar de Systems Engineer en forma remota. Ideal para gente de Uruguay, Argentina, y el resto de LATAM. Salario USD 75k-80k anuales. El trabajo es remoto. #TrabajoUy #TrabajoAr

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My wife is having a conversation in German, English and Chinese :D Her native language is Spanish ;-)

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Civil unrest and a military junta forced her to leave Argentina. She settled in France where she became on of the pioneers of Logic Programming. Verónica Dahl by @flograttarola #aco3

Verónica Dahl — Founding Mother of Logic Programming

In the 10th day of our calendar we change continent to introduce you to Verónica Dahl, the Argentinean computer scientist that stands…

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I'm happy to announce that today was my first day at work at @faunadb

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As Isaac Newton would say, if you lack the emotional intelligence to understand a problem, you should have the decency to not comment about it.

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In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handgun Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.

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@grmpyprogrammer how test mocks work

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Imagine when some companies have the face to go out and say they lowered the bar when they hire people from South America. I mean… coding in a nationwide electricity blackout! Congrats to Luis for his persistence 👏👏👏

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Durante estos tres días sin electricidad en Venezuela, lo único que podía hacer era programar React-Native a lápiz y papel a oscuras😅. Hoy por fin con luz pude completar la Carrera de Desarrollo de Apps con ⚛ React Native de @Platzi . Gracias por tus cursos @LeonidasEsteban 😁

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What separates good programmers from bad ones? What make good programs different from bad programs? http://t.co/ouzqS9mNwB

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Me, a remote worker, naked: Did I close that zoom meeting?

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I’m writing an article on API design, so I’m filtering books to use as sources & inspiration for the article

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2nd dose of Moderna is in. Full 5g antena deployed! I’ll share the hotspot later

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Amiguines, para laburos en USA en empresas grandes (tm) eviten poner foto en sus CVs porque es ilegal por temas de discriminación. // @vickycharra ayudame a difundir

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2 years at Microsoft! Time flies

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I was just talking with a friend that’s feeling insecure about her current job, and... not sure how to tell this clearer to women, but that position you feel insecure about? A dude with half your qualifications applied and it’s probably gonna get the job

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How to win at Distributed Systems: 1) Open a Socket. 2) Increase the Timeout 3) ??? 4) PROFIT?^WIncrease the Timeout

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