He spent millions to bring down Gawker because Nick Denton wondered aloud in the comments of an article why Peter Thiel was still in the closet.

Finally identified the real villains — people who want public healthcare.

Oh good, more carbon diox — hey, wait a minute!

She can’t afford it.

No.

Are rustaceans cantankerous?

Okay, I’ll go tell management they’ve failed. 🙄

Show me a place where this isn’t the case. Because I’ve never seen it not be the case in 20+ years in the field.

I mean, what we have now is a clique of ideologically-aligned people who insta-approve each other’s bad PRs outside their domain and ignore or jam-up the PRs of people outside their clique.

You can say it’s a failure of management, but this is the primary tool used by the ideologues. And I’ve seen it used so at various places.

What I haven’t seen is a real dissemination of knowledge about the code via review. At least not above and beyond what can be achieved by looking at the code and using blame to see the changesets and looking at the associated issues.

The signal-to-noise ratio of reviews is nearly zero in my experience. It’s for the least productive people on the team to argue about spaces or gotos or grind other ideological axes.

I find PRs really dumb things down, but not in a way that makes code more understandable. And it certainly doesn’t improve quality.

Why would you ask permission to do something necessary? Just do it any time you have a ticket in the area.

One place I worked at had a rule forbidding pure refactors. One, it’s no other department’s (or manager’s) business that you massaged something to be more useful. Two, what is QA supposed to do with a change that has no new features or bug fixes? Three, are you going to put “refactor” in your release notes? Four, why are you refactoring things out of the scope of a feature or bugfix?

Peace prize please.

Race is made up nonsense by racists to justify discrimination.

If pigmentation isn’t race, what is race?

Considering gender is a social construct and pigmentation isn’t…

You’re telling me lawyers for ICE are liars?

Ditto.

The entire concept behind genAI coding is you can pay a recent grad peanuts to babysit (read: be liable for the mistakes of) a computer to program itself.

I don’t understand the articles breathlessly saying that there’s skyrocketing demand for senior engineers and plummeting demand for juniors. What is the expertise for if AI is so smart?

Or are we finally saying the quiet part out loud — that genAI is making subtle mistakes that take experience to spot?

Mamdani.

Assumes facts not in evidence. Polls show progressive ideas are incredibly popular. Liberal Democratic politicians aren’t.

The road to progress isn’t through Gavin Newsom.

Yeah, we need more John Fettermans and Joe Manchins and Krysten Cinemenmas.