ab·surd·li
The average needs no one, it’s a fact of nature.
Mediocrity on the other hand needs your help.
Living long enough to see the undoing of a few heroes and idols.
one step forward, two steps forward
And if you make brilliant fixes that improve memory/CPU/stability and nobody cares, maybe find a company where they do.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-easy-ones-three-bugs-hiding-in-the-open/
Kaspar Schiess on Twitter
Declare bankruptcy on your todo lists before the year ends! Start fresh with the things you really intend to do soon.
don’t make me use the flip flop
We’re in error and we know it.
– via Wide Awake Developers originally by Sam Newman.
The truth about it is that Java only gets you a good bang for your buck just a wee bit before it hits OOM.
from https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/907p1u/scalability_at_bux_using_an_actor_system_to_go/e2poaqe/ (top comment)
People seem to think that the blanket phrase, “I only work here,” absolves
them utterly from any moral obligation in terms of the public – but this
was precisely Eichmann’s excuse for his job in the concentration camps.
(fortune)





