Alco @alcoduck

@[email protected] Joined January 2010

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Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev

a year ago

"Professional programmers" focusing on CrowdStrike disassembly/language is a coping mechanism that protects them from realizing that there is a remotely updated 3rd party kernel module that is deployed on significant part of the world. That is why real postmortems are important.

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Christoph Niemann @abstractsunday

2 years ago

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: christophniemann.com/detail/nyercov…

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

2 years ago

Who was the greatest artist of the 20th century? People talk about Picasso and Dalí, but here's a name you probably haven't heard: Hasui Kawase, the last master of Japanese ukiyo-e. It sounds oddly specific, but no other artist in history was so good at depicting the weather...

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Poppy Northcutt @poppy_northcutt

2 years ago

Am celebrating the big 80 by attending final arguments in the Harris County election challenge case.

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Pinboard @Pinboard

9 years ago

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

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Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders

3 years ago

Once (2002) I had a student who hadn't learned to write well. We struggled 3 semesters in a row over composition, revision, everything. Inexplicable diction, rambling sentences, formless paragraphs, theses that tripped over their own dull incoherence. But then one day...

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しりもと @SHIRIMOTO

3 years ago

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Dan Luu @danluu

3 years ago

One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) engineering work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced to "the cloud" or open source projects A few examples off the top of my head:

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Batman: The Silent Motion Picture @thesilentbatman

3 years ago

Batman: The Silent Motion Picture "Opening Credits/A Night in Gotham" (1/60)

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/instituut voor de Nederlandse taal/ @ivdnt

3 years ago

Omdat sciencefictionschrijver Douglas Adams op 25 mei 2001 overleed, vieren we sindsdien de Dag van de Handdoek. Hoe dat precies zit en wat een handdwaal is, leest u in Terug in de Taal. #handdoek #towelday #DouglasAdams #handdwaal #dwaal #dweil ivdnt.org/actueel/woorde…

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Vladimir Kostюkov @vkostyukov

3 years ago

A few takes on how hardcore @TwitterEng has been. Let's talk about @finagle and Scala for a minute.

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eevee 💨 @eevee

4 years ago

working on something

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Markus Deserno @MarkusDeserno

4 years ago

May I invite you to a fun thread about a delightful quirk of relativity theory? Starting with a simple fact about rotations, I’ll hope to give you some intuition about something that’s considered wildly counterintuitive: velocity addition. Intrigued? Buckle up!

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Daniel Foppa @DFoppa

4 years ago

50 Jahre «Smoke On The Water»: Das berühmteste Feuer der Musikgeschichte ⁦@MontreuxJazz⁩ srf.ch/kultur/musik/5…

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Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram

4 years ago

A surprising and undervalued aspect of mastery comes from narrow-scope "microskills". In software, these would be things like - Python list comprehensions - Grep flags - Debugging specific error messages - Using a window manager We can, and should, do targeted training.

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Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney

4 years ago

Agility ≠ Speed "Teams have created currencies of story points and have ritualised development velocity. They have mistaken a weak proxy measure as a meaningful system of estimation, an indication of progress and a mark of quality. This is not agility." kevlinhenney.medium.com/agility-speed-…