SRE. Math. Some kind of plantimal. Likes are bookmarks. Trans rights are human rights. Moses was a very good cat. Don't talk to cops. he/him.
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
This Juneteenth I would like to remind everyone that, slavery is not yet abolished in the United States of America.
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
i want 'programmers looking down on spreadsheets' discourse but like the opposite, like spreadsheet people looking down on programmers
'how can programmers stand not seeing the concrete data they're operating on' 'how can programmers tolerate not being able to live edit code'
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
Adding helicopters near the start of game dev:
"A Helicopter is a Vehicle."
Adding helicopters late in game dev:
"When you think about it, a Helicopter is just a very advanced type of Door."
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
"A number of readers of the K&R C 2nd edition book believed that pointers and arrays are the same, due to the non-optimal pagination."
![One of the early goofups in typesetting is also incidentally in the K&R Book, written by Brian Kernighan, brought to my attention by my friend and colleague, Olve Maudal. A number of readers of the K&R C 2nd edition book believed that pointers and arrays are the same, due to the non-optimal pagination. "As formal parameters in a function definition," [pagebreak] "char s[]; and char *s; are equivalent"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq0jRqfXoAEck7l.jpg?name=orig)
ALT One of the early goofups in typesetting is also incidentally in the K&R Book, written by Brian Kernighan, brought to my attention by my friend and colleague, Olve Maudal. A number of readers of the K&R C 2nd edition book believed that pointers and arrays are the same, due to the non-optimal pagination. "As formal parameters in a function definition," [pagebreak] "char s[]; and char *s; are equivalent"
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
junior/mid people: learn to use your self-doubt like a tool. it works to your advantage.
that unsureness is what drives people to test things, to find out *why* existing things are like that, not to reinvent mistakes, and to understand what parts are doing their job just fine
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
passing on someone elseβs reminder:
might want to check if you have any accounts where your only way to log in is through twitter authentication
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
whatever you do, as always with backups of any kind, make sure to actually run through your "restore" procedure fully. otherwise you may discover too late that it relies on something you won't really have when restoring, or whatever.
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
as we all check out other social networks, I would like to propose, as an evaluation metric, the Dril Test: a given network may suffice as a Twitter replacement if its affordances could theoretically allow the rise of another Dril, or if Dril could have come from there originally
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
Several years back, someone at work paged me to help with a thing. And it turned out that they were working on something very important and had not slept or left work for 24 hours. And unsurprisingly, they were too fatigued to read the error message they were stuck on.
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
I can count hundreds of execs in this industry who don't think operational excellence is real work. Here I said it, they don't have the technical capacity to understand it is real work.
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
It's easy to think of risk management as being synonymous with risk mitigation, but a significant part of risk management is actually risk _allocation_: efficient distribution of risk.
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
Soon we're going to be at the level of traffic where we can just API-scrape the whole of Twitter into Microsoft Comic Chat, like what happened with #freenode
Nathaniel Reindl π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ retweeted
personally, i have beef with the idea that federation will save us, i'd rather have a decent native client and several different accounts, over crossing my fingers and hoping two different admins are on good enough terms to share content, and have the resources to do so
