@EriPDev
@polotek
Mostly beating my head against terraform and wondering at the many ways cloud tools can be misused. Knowing how to cloud properly is indeed a crazy valuable skill.
@dhh
20 years ago a colleague, after hearing suggestion that we get slower computers to encourage more efficient code, opined that we’d probably write more efficient code if we also put sharp pins on all of the keys on our keyboards.
@cliff_hayden
@Grady_Booch
The fun parts were always like this for me. The necessary parts were often towards "nurturing in to being." But hunting? Wat.
Some of the best software people I know are lit majors, film majors, dropouts, etc., and that very much includes incredibly talented machine learning folk. Ability to learn and think creatively is far more important than academic pedigree.
In some circles,
@ftcteams
Kickoff is a far far better thing than the superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one.
#omgrobots
Today's the day!
Sometimes I try to do things
And it just doesn't work out the way I want it to
And I get real frustrated, and like I try hard to do it
And I take my time, but it just doesn't work out the way I want it to
(an ode to Confluent's python kafka library.)
We decamped to the in-laws' place today to escape Monrovia's 350 AQI. Thinking about all of my norcal, Oregon and Washington people today. Stay safe out there.
Holy crap, they made it again! Send the Suit Bots to Spokane so they can find another Washington state pool hall to call home for a weekend. (While they're not competing, obvs.)
I strongly encourage all game developers to take steps to archive their development environment so you are confident you can rebuild things years in the future, which does not automatically happen!
Came home to find the boy lounging in the living room reading Randall Munroe's new book, drinking tea and listening to a Coltrane LP. Is it OK to be proud of your child for their ability to Saturday quite so well?
Upgraded to U20.04. Wifi worked perfectly. nVidia drivers, with new hardware, work perfectly. No audio, whether it's line out or bluetooth. Linux, never change.
First annual SoCal coaches league: roaring success. What a fun day hanging out with folks who also plan on spending the next eight months teaching kids about engineering. Next year's game: Ring-It-Up! again.
This whole thread, but holy moly how on earth does anybody justify the manager in question here not being immediately shown the door? You don’t have those discussions *at all* with coworkers, let alone with your reports.
Ultimately my last manager, his manager and HR decided that the best way to shut me up was to fire me. My last manager had his ego bruised FROM JUMP when I refused to discuss my sexuality with him (once asking me which of my teammates I would sleep with-TF)
As president, I'll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team.
I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions – never for tweeting – but the rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: with the team.
I shouldn't have burned bash and awk on the first two days of Advent of Code. Need to save the languages I know for the harder problems! (Nim was pretty fun!)
Is slack/email-induced anxiety a thing? It's (at least part of) my job to help people figure out weird stuff. Can't do that without slack or email. Can't get anything else done when one of the two of them is pestering me every 30-45 minutes. This is vexing.
Getting FORTRAN out of the way on a problem pretty well-suited to the language is a relief. But now I kind of want to add in COBOL and see how much of the rest of this I can do in a retro-computing style.
Tip: a fancy motorized uppy-downy desk is much easier to assemble when the motorized part is in your home as opposed to sitting in your cart on amazon.
Just spent the last hour wondering if I was going to get evacuated. (Brush fire half a mile up the hill.) Firefighters have it sorted now, so I do believe I'll celebrate their efforts with a tasty BEvERage.
In some circles, FTC kickoff is a far greater thing than the Kentucky Derby, the Super Bowl and the Lower Oakland Roller Derby Final all rolled in to one. Get psyched for tomorrow morning, folks.
#omgftc