Aaron Patterson
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Back in my day, we used spare CPU cycles for folding proteins and searching for aliens
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I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug
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I'm so excited because today is my first day working at
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Microservices are great for turning method calls in to distributed computing problems
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I'm working on a new programming language that completely prevents all programming mistakes by not allowing you to write any code whatsoever
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I like to take bad code, mix it with good code, turn it in to AAA rated technical debt, then sell insurance on the debt
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Twitter feels kind of slow today. I bet it's because of the 1000s of non-batched RPC calls just to render the home timeline
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With most sales being done online, we've eliminated the need for traveling salesman thus solving the traveling salesman problem
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Today is my last day at
@GitHub
. Working with my team to upgrade infra and fix weird bugs was some of the most rewarding time in my career. The projects were fun but what I'll really miss is spending time with all the great people. I'm sad to leave but excited about the future!❤️
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I'm excited to visit the Microsoft Office. I heard all the buildings have Windows
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I learned a new slang in Japanese today: 草生える. I will now explain it
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I'm really excited about Ruby supporting WASM because it means we can finally run Rails in the browser and React on the server as was intended
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Found a photo from that time I tried doing pear programming
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I have no idea what I planted in my garden because I heard that using random seeds is more secure
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If coding doesn't feel like typing some stuff in to an editor and then spending hours wondering why the f it doesn't work, you have at least another level to master before calling yourself a programmer.
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Now that the Suez Canal is unblocked, it can start on the next story from the kanban board
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This is a great design because it encourages you to learn keyboard shortcuts while your mouse is charging
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My only home automation is this light that turns on when the toilet seat is up, but nobody else in the house is as excited about this technological advancement as I am
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It's not a bug, it's just taking the code path less traveled
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Spent ~2hours or so on a problem yesterday evening and couldn't solve it. Solved it within 5min of sitting at my computer this morning
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If Slack is down for 15 minutes you get to go home. It's the law
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You can tell Mr Robot is fictional because they’re using webcams on Linux
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One thing I like about working from home is that you can cry in your office instead of the bathroom
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エヴァンゲリオンはガンダムじゃないんだっけ
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But "wwww" looks like grass growing, so it's similar to 草生える, which means "grow grass" but means "lol"
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There are only two hard problems in CS:
1. Cache invalidation
2. How to quit Vim
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Surprised that Go is still on version 1.x. If they bumped the version, I think it would be way more popular as a Go 2 programming language
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このツイートは神話になれ
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I've decided to stop "programming in C" and to start writing "C shanties"
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Sometimes the hardest part of programming is figuring out easiest way to do it
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You're not a lead dev if you're not helping teammates level up
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Built a team to design a tic tac toe game, but we only hired ten X engineers. Need to hire ten O engineers next
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You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years?
These are the 3 major things you should focus on:
- AND gates
- OR gates
- NOT gates
© 1971
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I feel like "legacy code" is a pejorative and I wish it wasn't. I find the challenge of adding features and refactoring existing code to be a very fun puzzle, and I wish there was a label that reflects that
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I'm at best a two star C programmer. Maybe someone can give me more pointers?
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I know every election website does live updates but I refresh every minute anyway because what if the websocket disconnected?
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Vaccines wouldn't have side effects if they had written them in Haskell
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I have a massive trade deficit with the grocery store so I’ve decided to impose tariffs on Kroger
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Ruby is the first programming language I used at work that made me actually enjoy my job. I love being a Ruby programmer!
#ruby25th
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Soy sauce packets all ready for tonight's trick or treaters! Kids love soy sauce packets
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I really don't understand why people would write something in JS when they can do it in pure Kubernetes
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草
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I'm a 10X engineer, but I know other status codes too especially in the 50X and 40X range
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*open new terminal window*
*stare for a few seconds*
"what was I going to do?"
*close terminal*
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How are people supposed to work long hours when all hours are the same length?
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360 reviews are fine, but I feel like 2π reviews would be more rad
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If open source software is free does that mean I'm the product?
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Apple switching their processors to ARM is a pretty big RISC
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I feel like we've done enough tests on A/B, it's time to move on to C/D
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Common Big-O complexity list:
1. O(1)
2. O(n)
3. O(n log n)
4. O( I can't understand wtf this code is doing )
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I guess if you have a poor work environment you'll end up with 10 ex-engineers
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Working from home isn't always great, but I guess it's better than being in the Office 365
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Everyone seems to be talking about Eclipse, but I'm sticking with Vim
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Many people don't know this, but Rust's borrow checker actually runs a credit check before allowing you to take on more technical debt
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I have some very sad news to share. Our cat Gorby passed away yesterday.
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Honestly I didn't appreciate mechanical keyboards until I tried typing on one, and then it just clicked
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I think if "dependency injection" was just referred to as "passing stuff in", nobody would care so much
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I used to work with a project manager that was a morning person. He was an AM PM
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It's awesome that
@Netflix
is using Rails, but it's even more awesome that they are sharing some of their work!
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Ruby: Everything is an Object
Lisp: Everything is a function
C: Everything is a segfault
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Any app can be a Single Page App if you reduce the font size enough
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Sorting git branches by "last activity" is much more helpful for me than by name. Here is an alias I use to list branches by activity:
git config --global alias.recent 'branch --sort=-committerdate --format="%(committerdate:relative)%09%(refname:short)"'
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Had some plumbers come to our house because the toilet was backing up. Turns out the sewer line is cracked and plants growing in. When they showed me the video I said "looks like you found the root cause!" but nobody laughed
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Public speaking pro tip: the audience reaction doesn't matter as long as you laugh at your own jokes
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