Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.
Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.
A perennial viral complaint I've seen on FB, reddit, etc., for ~5 years is parents saying that kids the same age as their own kids have weird/ridiculous/bad names.
The comments of these posts are full of people saying things like "don't these parents realize how stupid these names are? Not like my kid, who has a normal name like Gary". But if the complaint is that almost all kids in the class have a "weird" name, aren't these "weird" names going to be normal for the kid and the kid's peers?
@skyfaller@danluu Purchasing a McMansion is a Nouveau Riche thing to do. The Nouveau Riche have been a target of scorn and comedy for a long time, and I think it's fair to say some of that comes from a "they might have more money than me but they don't deserve it" view. So I don't think Dan's off base.
MMH is more palatable than the Walmart thing because the people are anonymous and off stage.
This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s. https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433
@bagder "The system is designed for good-faith reporters against bad-faith product organizations."
The tricky part is in the real world there are bad faith actors at both ends. There needs to be some way to determine ground truth of a report without fully trusting either party.
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I find the set of topics that programmers absolutely lose their minds about absolutely fascinating.
One example is "furry-style" cartoons. As mentioned in https://twitter.com/altluu/status/1479541394884771847, lobste.rs had to ban everyone who loses their mind when they see these cartoons; before the bans every discussion on a post with these kinds of cartoons turned into a flamewar about whether someone can be taken seriously if they have cartoons on their website.
@danluu Since the whole Sokal affair a subset of STEM folks have apparently felt that anything which uses any terminology from the social sciences can be dismissed out of hand as nonsense, without any attempt to understand it.
I'm reading Lamport's new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" and am amused that sometimes he refers to algorithms as being "invented" (e.g., Paxos) and at other times refers to them as being "discovered" (e.g. an N-process mutual exclusion algorithm).