My train just ran over something pretty intense. Now we’re stopped a short distance away from a railway station. The power went out. I smell burnt brakes. Let’s hope whatever we ran over wasn’t alive before we hit it…
If you’re driving #Lyft or #Uber in NJ, now is a good time to head for railway stations on the NECL between Newark Penn Station and Princeton. East-bound railway traffic is on full stop due to electrical wire problems.
Thank you, powers that be, for imparting wisdom on the train engineer who stopped us safely, and the passengers who chose to stay on instead of endangering their life. Stepping on live tracks will earn you a Darwin Award.
What I hate about dealing with integrated systems, is that sometimes things will just fail without an easily discernable cause, and then they'll just start running normally again. I'm sure there is a cause, but it's going to take too much time to figure out. So if it happens rarely, just let it be: it'll catch up.
Bloody hell: don’t disable the copy and paste functionality in electronic input forms, dear software developers and managers! Doing so only makes it more difficult for people to enter their information. Do you want to frustrate people to the point of giving up? Scare them away? No? Then allow copy and paste. #usability#accessibility#ux
#usability: The error messages your tools present to a user, must be so helpful and clear, that a user immediately understands what to do to fix it. This is true for hardware (ERR_01 flashing on a LED), and software (“updates failed with error -214747939293641579495”), but also for programming language interpreters (“null is not an object”), build tools (“cannot resolve dependencies because this one dependency couldn’t be resolved”), and compilers (“reference not set to an object”). Do better.
Everyone still here? No? Who’s #missing ? Did they ascend into heaven as part of the #rapture ? Are we the ones left behind? What about you? Or, perhaps, the missing ones became victim of some #criminal and y’all just using the rapture to feel good about them being gone? Sounds harsh? You wouldn’t believe how many parents of #trans kids would rather have their child die than support them. Now that’s harsh. Abusive and/or criminally negligent, spurred on by your pastors and priests. Such “love”.
“If Sasha needs 10 minutes to saw through a wooden plank twice, how long does it take Sasha to saw the plank into 3 pieces (assume everything else stays the same)?” #learnmath#mathskills
The purpose of a question like that is not to test your skill at calculating. Instead, it tests your reading abilities:
can you grasp the language?
did you fall for the trick question?
do you understand how the trick works, so you can avoid falling for it next time?
How is it, that I can be so clueless about things, that I don't even see it?
Sometimes I recognize when others are clueless about a particular topic in which I have taken interest. That's OK: we all have different interests.
But if I don't even know about something? How do I recognize that? Unless someone kind enough points it out to me (and here on social media that happens a-plenty!) I'd never realize.
I just spent a week debugging that code. I went over all tests, all assumptions, returning more and more debugging information at every turn. And all it was, was those backticks.
I do this for a living. No better way to stay humble than recognizing your own mistakes.
#wordfeels Don't you sometimes feel like an #onomatopoeia doesn't quite match the sound it's supposed to put into words? Like the word "shriek". It feels too short. It could do with some extra letters. Maybe "shreaque"? Not quite right. More like "shreeeeeeeeeee"... #poetry