Builder of software, software engineers, and software teams. Opinions are my own and are subject to change.
Austin, TX
Joined October 2008
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Brandon DuRette retweeted
If you commute in traffic and don’t have FSD you are doing it wrong.
Borrow a Tesla. Try FSD.
Your soul will thank you.
Took my youngest to the @austinstemcntr Grand Opening today. I've never seen him so geeked out. Very cool space and a much cooler mission!
Thank you to @pwang and the team! Austin has needed this for a long time!
Tesla Sentry Mode win: Allstate declined my claim because their insured party "denied the accident happened." I appealed with the video evidence. They accepted fault immediately.
Denial was a bold choice. I told him I had it all on video; including him inspecting the damage.
Hard disagree. In <10 total miles ("upgraded" last night), I've had to disengage 3 times. Twice it tried to make an illegal left hand turn. Then it tried to enter the oncoming lane before an upcoming left turn lane. Disappointed. I was looking forward to it based on reviews.
Documentation of security features should be written by security pros. Many people have bad mental models of how security works and ambiguous or incorrect documentation is a factor. Bad models lead to bad practices and make us all less secure.
There are so many levels to this, it's fascinating. I just wish the buttons weren't red and blue, because that immediately puts this in a political frame in the U.S.
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
42%Red
58%Blue
98,539 votes • Final results Brandon DuRette retweeted
Software has _always_ been written by unreliable agents.
“We care more about measuring correctness now because agents write unreliable code” is a story that doesn’t hold up.
We care because testing used to be 50% of the work and now it’s 99%.
- Will Wilson @AntithesisHQ
#bugbash
As the (apocryphal?) story goes, when Jordan was told LeBron had won more NBA Championship Game 7s than anyone else, his response was, "Good for him. What's Game 7 like?"
What metrics are you trying to improve that you should be systematically eliminating the need for?
As a Texan, I would love for Houston to have a shuttle, but the time for that was years ago. I would much rather see Discovery remain in one piece and in the Smithsonian at this point.
Brandon DuRette retweeted
Because apparently it needed to be said:
Space Shuttle Discovery should stay put and in one piece, so tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars can instead go toward solving real-world problems for Americans:
People who claim Excel is better than Sheets have never tried collaborating on a (private?) sheet. Pessimistic locking in Excel is a nightmare.
Bad error messaging misleads users or makes them feel helpless. Good error messaging conveys what's happening so users can resolve the issue. Great error messaging helps users form a useful mental model of how the application works, so they avoid issues in the future.
What good resources are out there for dealing with "legacy cloud?" Defined as:
1. Hand-built; lacking IaC.
2. Vestigial resources; past iterations, canceled projects, etc.
3. Lack of documentation; relies on oral tradition.