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Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Very sad news that Fred Brooks has passed away today. 😥
I was fortunate to meet him at @HLForum in 2018. He made monumental contributions to the practice of software engineering. His book "The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering" is full of timeless observations.
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Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Happy 20th birthday to Redmonk!
Today, the tech industry takes for granted that developers and OSS communities decide what SW we use
Gone are the days of Sun, HP and IBM boxware sold to COOs
No team has done more to establish this truth than @monkchips and @sogrady
Cheers! – at Wytham, England
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Sad to learn of the passing of Richard Cook @ri_cook. Richard's talk, and article, "How Complex Systems Fail" is an absolute classic in the field. Absolutely worth your time: youtu.be/2S0k12uZR14
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
A City in a Bottle 🌆
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Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
While I wait for the GPU to churn through 2*26^11 possibilities, a brief recap of how we got here. It started when I noticed this bit of code in the @GitHubCopilot Visual Studio Code extension that detects naughty words in either the prompt or the suggestions.
ALT Screenshot of the Github Copilot Visual Studio Code extension, showing an obfuscation (hash) function and the start of a large array of hashes.
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Tempo, a new leaderless State Machine Replication protocol that can handle both full and partial replication settings. It is presented this month at @EuroSys_conf, and can be previewed here vitorenes.org/publication/en…. @vitorenesduarte is 1st author and PhD student.
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Women of Computing.
A Lego proposal you can back here:
ideas.lego.com/projects/3bf5…
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Less than 3 days since I started working on my new side project, and it's already almost done! Title TBD but it's a password puzzle game:
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
just @weaveworks playing around, provisioning @awscloud EKS clusters with GitOps workflows from a @Spotifyeng Backstage portal weave.works/blog/implementin…
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
John Horton Conway has died.
Sigh.
One of the most unique mathematicians and human beings who ever lived.
Five years ago he was game for this April Fool's prank
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Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
I’m late with this, but geez, what a big decade the 2010s were for science. We got: the Higgs boson, CRISPR, gravitational waves, deep learning, quantum computers, 1000s of exoplanets, black hole photo. Looking at you, 2020s.
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
The list of accepted papers for NSDI looks 😍
- Gandalf: An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure (MSFT)
- Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications (AWS)
- Meaningful Availability (Google)
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Santa is a fastidious LISP programmer:
- he's making a list
- he's checking it twice
- also have you seen that beard
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
Remember: Just because you made a game in 1994 when you were 12 and only gave away one copy, doesn't mean it won't smack you in the face 25 years later emulated in the browser on the Internet Archive. xitter.cf/rickbrewPDN/status/120…
Niklas Gustavsson retweeted
A small s**tstorm is heading your way, if you're in the business of running code on Intel computers.
Here's a sad story about the state of computing in 2019.
It'll take a couple of tweets, but it's actually kind of important (?), so please retweet so this gets proper attention: