Rob Colantuoni (@rgc) 's Twitter Profile
Rob Colantuoni

@rgc

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (I maintain my own code, so the as-if is true.)

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linkhttp://www.colantuoni.com calendar_today10-03-2008 14:52:23

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François Chollet (@fchollet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Software is this weird space where you can spend basically nothing and create a billion dollars of value, or spend a billion dollars and create basically no value.

Bilal Zuberi (@bznotes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your organization’s “culture” is not what articulately write and talk about in public presentations…it’s what’s your employees tell their spouses about your organization.

Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's a gantry crane operator at the Port of Singapore loading containers on trucks remotely. The 170+ grants cranes are autonomous, so they only bring in the operator when there's an exception that the robots need help with. Thanks for the tour PSA Singapore!

Greg Brockman (@gdb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Key skill to building a complex system that they don't teach you in school: how to add enough breadcrumbs — logs, metrics, alerts, etc. — for operators to understand what happened for events of arbitrary weirdness. Best way to learn is to do it wrong enough times.

Reuters (@reuters) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICYMI: Researchers say this is the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded. Boramy was released back into the Mekong river after being electronically tagged to monitor her movement and behavior reut.rs/39J0Sak

Kenton Varda (@kentonvarda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oh. My. God. CPU time: To start 5000 threads each with a signalfd: 60s To deliver a signal to every thread simultaneously: 140s(!!) To start 5000 threads using epoll_pwait() for signal delivery: 4s To deliver signals to all of them: 100ms.

CarlSaganDotCom (@carlsagandotcom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” - Carl Sagan

Chris Josephs (@chrisjjosephs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed Here’s examples of just how good they were

edburmila.bsky.social (@edburmila) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Universities pay staggering salaries to Presidents, Chancellors, VPs and provosts by the dozens, etc and in every administrative office there is a 57 year old woman named Peggy with a title like "Admin Assistant II" and that's the person who actually runs the university.