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Lorin Hochstein Student of complex systems failures, resilience eng, cognitive sys eng. Will talk your ear off about @LFISoftware. @[email protected]
San Jose, CA
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    Jul 19, 2024
    I have no information about how this incident came to be but I can confidently predict that people will blame it on greedy execs and sloppy devs, regardless of what the actual details are. And they will therefore learn nothing from the details.
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    Dec 27, 2021
    As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/
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    May 11, 2021
    Chaos Monkey but it randomly cancels meetings.
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    Mar 25, 2022
    Never a good sign when you have the JIRA ticket number memorized.
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    Aug 18, 2021
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    Mar 20, 2020
    Replying to @MilesKlee and @MikeJudge
    Because he thinks it’s all a conspiracy.
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    Oct 30, 2018
    Software engineer (quoting Fred Brooks): The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. SRE: Your service fell over after it ran out of file descriptors.
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    Sep 25, 2022
    A boolean type that also accepts a value of "it depends".
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    Feb 16, 2022
    You’re not a real programmer unless your primary editor is one that you wrote yourself, running on an operating system that you wrote yourself, running on a CPU that you designed yourself.
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    May 2, 2019
    Let’s play a game: using five words or less, utter a phrase that will elicit a great story from a software engineer with years of operational experience. I’ll start: “health checks”
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    Oct 17, 2022
    My manager once asked me how long it was going to take to implement a small thing, and I said “two weeks”. “Two weeks?” he exclaimed. “Why is it going to take so long?” “Well”, I said, “two weeks is my lower bound estimate for all dev work.”
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    May 2, 2021
    Oh, you want relevant interview questions, eh? Scenario: your team is building a new product with functionality that overlaps a product owned by another internal team. Yours is better, but politically theirs can’t be killed. Let’s roleplay an interaction with that team’s manager.
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    Oct 28, 2022
    “This code is incomprehensible!” they’re going to say, because that is every engineer’s reaction to an unfamiliar codebase.
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    Oct 27, 2022
    Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter's code base to tell Musk what Twitter needs to do is...interesting
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    Dec 2, 2022
    How did JetBrains succeed in creating a viable business selling developer tools where so many others have failed?