junedev

(comic) Keyboard Warrior

Say what you want about #Coldplay - creating four singles in one concert has to be a record.

Weiler's Law:
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

Remember, if it's not from the Silicon Valley region it's just a sparkling public bus.

Ever sit around playing a video game and asking yourself "do I add business value?"

Normally having an idiot tragically misuse your product wouldn’t be a marketing win.

Howmstever…

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.

-- Jeff Hammerbacher

If you already know the conclusion you want them to come to, “asking questions” can be a pretty condescending way to “lead” professionals.

We work hard all week, there's really no guarantee that once weekend comes, your brain can disengage or that it's given back to you in the same state when the week started.

If you have a really tough week, it takes time to untangle.

They never made the sequels to "Interview with the Vampire":
"Salary and perk negotiation with the Vampire", "Onboarding the Vampire",
"Working with the Vampire"
"Putting the Vampire on PIP",
"Letting go of the Vampire because it hurt share price"

In the age of AI, short form video and hot takes, the competitive advantage of the future is the ability to go deep, read the docs, build something new, learn hard things that take time.

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.

so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex

My main problem in life is that it's real-time multiplayer and not turn-based.

Plan: "Oh boy, almost no meetings today. Time to block off my calendar and catch up on some long term planning and organizing"

Reality: *moving between 7 simultaneous slack conversations at any single moment for 5 straight hours*

Ganz vergessen, dass Dreijährige drei Teller Kartoffelbrei mit Schnitzel zum Abendbrot essen können und dann doch weinend im Bett sitzen, weil sie glauben, ohne Banane nach dem Zähneputzen zu verhungern.

Opinion | Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? It’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like an unreliable intern.

"Of course, A.I. companies are always promising that an actually useful version of their technology is just around the corner."

Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...
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I've worked out why I don't get much value out of LLMs. The hardest and most time-consuming parts of my job involve distinguishing between ideas that are correct, and ideas that are plausible-sounding but wrong. Current AI is great at the latter type of ideas, and I don't need more of those.

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse.

-- Rob Pike

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.

-- Mario Fusco

*on deathbed* My only regret is not googling more stuff before Google started sucking

I’ll tell you what are underrated: comfort zones.

Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong.

-- Brent Welch

Keep in mind that processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.

(from The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities)

Hannah Arendt als als junge Frau, die aufmerksam in die Kamera schaut

Es ist eine traurige Wahrheit, dass das meiste Übel von Leuten angerichtet wird, die niemals über Gut und Böse nachgedacht haben.«
Guten Morgen mit Hannah Arendt
14. Oktober 1906 - 4. Dezember 1975

Bei vielen Berufen gehört es zu den schwierigsten und anstregendsten Tätigkeiten, seine Gesichtszüge unter Kontrolle zu halten, wenn ein Vorgesetzter etwas unfassbar Dummes von sich gibt.

Super, habs gerade gekauft.

Wie sind denn die Maße ungefähr? Ich habs auf der Webseite nicht gefunden in der Beschreibung. Und würde das in den nächsten 2 Wochen geliefert?