Life is an ongoing migration.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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"Biology is the first half of the periodic table coming to life."
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I miss the sense of accomplishment of going to sleep while letting the defraggler run for the night.
And the noise of the hard drive working.
One day you want to learn to code.
And the other, you start to notice React apps that handle pending states, errors, optimistic updates, and sequential requests the wrong way.
When you tell ChatGPT that it's wrong, it apologises and tries again.
That's when you realise it is not human.
"When deciding between organizing functionally and organizing along business units the right answer is always the other one."
- Andy Grove
"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it."
- Seneca
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
“Human beings fight not because they are different, but because they are the same, and in their attempts to distinguish themselves have made themselves into enemy twins, human doubles in reciprocal violence.”
- René Girard
To me, it is this architecture, the one which is in the heads of those writing the code, that is the most important.
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Google does not judge you when you ask. It helps you based on the quality of your question.
Be more like Google.
My whole life was basically trying to optimize things. You don't just save parts, but every time you save parts you save on complexity and reliability, the amount of time it takes to understand something. And how good you can build it without errors and bugs and flaws.
- Wozniak
By the time all children are 10 they know what it takes to get ahead in school and please the teacher—a lesson they carry forward through their careers of “pleasing bosses and failing to improve the system that serves customers.”
- Dr. Deming