The Long Tail

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party When the music stops, some companies will not have chairs...

@edebill@wandering.shop @maaikees@sw-development-is.social "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." — E. W. Dijkstra

@dev@discuss.systems So, actual net present goose value =\= 74 - 3 = 71, but rather 74, as the goose laid all 74 eggs. If they can't even get that right, what the hell hope do they have for the more complicated stuff?

@brohrer@recsys.social "It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." -- Peter Drucker (1963)

@jerub@mastodon.social @robinsyl@meow.social @fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com Ha! You were lucky! What I wouldn't give for ten requests/hour, or even one! I have a service that has one transaction per month downstream, and one per year upstream.

@spectrum@xn--69aa8bzb.xn--y9a3aq @nikitonsky@mastodon.online The original talk was turned at some later point into a blog post. https://www.crockford.com/contextcoloring.html The original was in the early 2000s, it may have been part of his 'good parts' book.

@fivetonsflax Also very bad at counting:

@jerub@mastodon.social @robinsyl@meow.social @fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com Of course it is a Camel CDI Java service running on a k8 cluster.

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @aliceif@mkultra.x27.one Thing is, doing this as a one off out of necessity is okay, but doing it day in, day out all the time leads to a very dark place, irrespective of who the author is.

@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town "eXhaust, eXpire, errr... eXhume?" https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/14e99e75df785a056ac8bd8016db136b

@maxleibman The Romans?

@farbenstau @lin @kaye @LapTop006 That's because Emacs people are inclusive live and let live people, while Vi supporters are extremist isolationists.

@jackscottau @geekygirldawn We started this at Tate Media (the Tate Gallery's online collection) in the early 2000s. I went on to mention it widely at many Agile and Tech conferences over the next decade.

@baldur@toot.cafe This. This has always been the point. "The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." -- @jeffowski@mastodon.world

@zenspider@ruby.social When I did Ruby, minitest was my favourite test tool. Thank you.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I cannot favourite this enough times.

@farbenstau @lin @kaye @LapTop006 or for Emacs, M-x shirt

@db Another vote for SourceHut, been using it since the early days and it rocks!

@argv_minus_one @kaye Yes, this!

@farbenstau @lin @kaye @LapTop006 I've used vi since early SunOS, it was necessary because it was there only editor (other than ed) that was included on the installation media.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @microsoft@lea.pet

@qcoding@iosdev.space "Remote work for 7 years: I know how to have closer collaboration remotely than most teams have in-office." This. So much this. Good luck getting any hiring manager/exec to believe you though.

@kevlin@mastodon.social "If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait until you try hiring an amateur." -- Red Adair

@mjd@mathstodon.xyz Boosted. Good luck! I was a Perl hacker back in the day. Wrote a Global Compliance system for Deutsche Bank in OO Perl!

@tekin@ruby.social A great article. Sadly DHH and his followers are the reason I left the Ruby community years ago. Many like me will never return. Some may come back, but never while DHH still sits on the throne. #NoKings