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I'm gonna quote this part:

> and he sees the same game being played that has been played by the Left for centuries to gain control of institutions and then completely subvert them from their original purpose

"""Out of context""" that looks REAL similar to a certain other group that seems to be making a name for themselves in this thread. Glad to know he's a conspiracy theorist and so are his current followers.

You know, this really sucks for me personally. Not the ban, but the sorts of things Eric appears to stand for. I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar when I was 13, and it was probably my gateway into advocating for open source. Somewhere around that age, I ended up speaking on a panel, among other OSS advocates, that successfully sold one of the local school divisions on OSS (we also helped them integrate it, on-site :). To be honest, I don’t quite remember the book or quite what I thought of it, but I know it had a profound influence on me at the time.

Then I see Eric write this:

> Usually (and in this case) accompanied by a lot of bafflegab about “inclusion” and “diversity” so thay anyone who isn't a fan of the new, censorious rules can be cast as some sort of bigot.

:/ Eric, we can have it both ways. I hammer it home into the engineers I’ve lead that code is the ultimate source of truth. I‘ll guide them from, for example, “do we need a mutex here” through to object code to generated assembly through to an intel reference manual, because I want to demonstrate that as engineers, we are in full control of our creations. The engineers I work with all challenge each other, and ask difficult questions, and put ideas through difficult tests. Because we’re mature adults, we can do so with language more advanced than “this is shit” (an open source favorite). It’s real easy. How about, “what happens when <state concern>” or “have you considered <alternate approach>”.

In fact, by soliciting more feedback and criticism, you are being more inclusive - as long as the conversations play out in a constructive way! Yes, it can be hard to teach that, but that’s why we pay people managers and technical leads to do a job.

Honestly, though, what sucks most of all is when you see that people who were so influential to you early in life would apparently look down on the person you are, just because you would ask to be respected in return.

Repeating a point without adding proof doesn't make your point more valid. When people say "code wins arguments", they're referring to using source code to prove something, not "it wins because it has more source code" (???).

Yes - I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people who appreciate fine arts feel this way.

Tech is more of a, “why is a painting of a triangle worth so much!?” crowd (see: other comments).

You may have accidentally reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban :)

> 90% of the time, the gains from streaming aren't worth the added effort.

I gotta disagree with that estimate. Virtually any time I have a backend service operating on (mostly) arbitrarily-sized user input, I use streaming so that I can make better guarantees about how much memory my service needs. This, in turn, lets you give your customers much higher service limits (unless you want to scale your fleet's memory just to handle 100th-percentile style use cases).

The number of times I've seen backend services fall over, with a heap graph that looks like a repeated sawtooth pattern to OOM, because a customer's objects were unusually sized (but within limits..)..

Apple Music, and particularly iTunes Match, are the opposite of "just works". I wanted to switch back from Spotify, but I found that Match had made a complete mess of my library. Half of my album art gone. Albums were striped with some tracks that were replaced with the iTunes store versions, and some left as my uploaded MP3 V0 versions (most obvious because, even with Sound Check on, the volume levels between each track differ greatly post-iTunes Match).

I've been able to look past a lot of the decline in Apple's software quality, but the data corruption problems springing up (Catalina Mail, iOS 13 Photos incidents also come to mind) are a bridge too far. The primary reason I avoid turning on a new Apple cloud service is that it's likely it'll do something highly undesirable to my data.

I don’t follow - are you asserting that, by contrast, the greatest programmers in the world can write bug-free single-threaded code?

> I'm in a software leadership role.

> Tomorrow, I hope someone asks me for an update on my progress ; )

Suggestion to take or leave - instead of being asked, volunteer your status and set the tone for how you'd like others to make use of standup (format, brevity) :).

Ah, so you’d also agree homosexuality is a mental illness that “political groups” lobbied to change? Because, from the perspective of someone who isn’t a conspiracy theorist or bigot, it looks like the DSM updated their definition as more research and academic interest rendered the old definition outdated.

Ah, the what.cd strategy. Minus the exclusive content.

It's funny to think that, of all the products Google kills on the regular, the one thing most everyone wants them to be done with (AMP) is probably gonna stick around forever.

Does the content on wikihow not deliver on what it promises to do? And if so, have you considered editing it - given that it’s a wiki?

Of the things destroying the internet (Google AMP, and Pinterest, in that order), I wouldn’t include wikihow.

> I suspect IEEE and ACM have much more complicated infrastructure to handle submission, peer review, production, etc.,

To the tune of a hundred million dollars? I can’t even remotely imagine how. If someone asked you to design a system to do all of those above things, would you actually come to the conclusion it’d cost a cool hundred mil yearly to operate?

Just a point of clarification that I found helpful - the patches offered to correct soundness problems, in this case, didn’t significantly impact performance. Your hypothetical still stands, but it’s not necessarily a huge trade off.

I find PayByPhone pretty convenient, especially now that it's got a few years of polish on the app. The key thing is that the signs are legible, and have the number you care about (parking zone?) right there in bold print. And hey, - at least that money isn't going to Impark.

> What if you were labeled as a bigot for refusing to participate in mandatory diversity training?

"The gay guy who wouldn't go into the room we labelled as 'for homos' is such a bigot for not Going Along"

This diversity exercise was so poorly conceived it was used as a plot for a mainstream sitcom. Evidently, NBC thought that - even for mainstream television - the exercise is enough of a farce that most of their viewers would see it as such, and find humor in it.

If a company is so spineless and devoid of morals as to gate promotions against such a poorly-thought exercise, maybe it's not the most worthwhile promotion to have on a resume to begin with.