Edgar Gonzalez
@edgar
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Current iteration: Director of Engineering @StreetEasy (Zillow) • Previously: Director DevOps & Data @BlueApron • Co-founder & CTO @ Piictu 🦣 @[email protected]
New York, NY
Joined March 2007
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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NIST is updating their password guidelines, finally getting rid of - password rotations - complexity rules - adopt phrasing instead
Please share this far and wide. As far and wide as you can. NIST Password Guidelines for 2024 are in the process of being updated. This is a HUGE pet-peeve of mine (when vendors in particular are still operating like its 2017 and keep changing passwords every 60 days, STOP DOING
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From the Carter Center (who in the past validated the results of several processes that declared the Chavismo winner of the elections)
Venezuelans have a difficult choice to make this morning - go to peaceful assemblies en masse to demonstrate their rejection of the Maduro regime in the midst of terrible persecution and repression, or stay home in safety but allowing the regime to consolidate power from fear. 1/
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🗳️ Puedes consultar el acta de tu mesa de votación en:
macedoniadelnorte.com
Consulta de actas de las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela 2024
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Esto 👇 También a la orden por acá
DE PANA, si alguien conoce al equipo que está armando la página de https://t.co/ZW7uofH0VB y necesitan apoyo de ingenieros super top que en su día a día manejan de forma rutinaria millones de requerimientos y ataques DDoS mis DMs están abiertos para echar una mano con lo que sea.
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https://t.co/ENwWFnC3Fx Wirth was one my CS heroes, I used two of his languages: PASCAL and MODULA He made enormous contributions to the field of Computer Science
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Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89
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Yeah, everything in JS is an object … but still #wat
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Interesting post 👇
I wrote a piece on the challenges of staying on top of things as an engineering leader + a lil' update on what I've been up to: https://t.co/0j39fskMLO
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Generative AI is potentially harming itself
platformer.news
Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
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It wasn't until I'd *taught* algorithms a few times that I finally understood why sorting is in the CS curriculum. Unfortunately, most curricula don't explain this! It is NOT because sorting is an important algorithm to learn to implement...
As a 41 year-old software developer do you know how many times I've had to manually implement QuickSort? Zero. Maybe we should test for more useful skills like taking a slow SQL query and optimizing it.
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Effective Java is banned in Ohio prisons! I am not making this up. Thanks to @Cidmonster and the @MarshallProj for their fine investigative reporting.
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“Just as one can thoughtfully and responsibly use financial debt to accomplish goals, one can use technical debt to do so,but it is critical to do so thoughtfully and responsibly.This isn’t a new idea.This idea is central to Cunningham’s original metaphor”
ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor underlying the term technical debt in a 1992 experience report, where he described how his company incrementally extended a piece of financial software:
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The best thread you can watch today
Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number
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May the 4th be with you
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