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Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people.
— Douglas Crockford
My wife has a samsung phone. A new update changed the function of the side button into a gemini button. We had to search the internet in order to find out how to restore the function of this side button as she was not able to shut down her telephone. In the end we found the solution. It happens often, that programmers think they are clever enough to decide what is good for users. Let people decide for themselves. So utterlyannoying!
#google #gemini #stupid #programmers
JOKE: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, that's a hardware problem.
Falsehoods #programmers believe about #aviation:
https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
My favorite one:
"Nobody will ever set their flight identification to weird things like NULL"
(thanks @ascherbaum)
Angle of Attack · Falsehoods Programmers Believe About AviationThere are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
Get out of the way of your developers or lose them to someone who will.
— Adrian Cockcroft
Dear #programmers, please add a fistful of leading zero before the version number of your program.
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. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
— Frederick P. Brooks
#Programmers that think #AI is #magic or is impossible to know how the AI works are the same that say that #maths are unnecessary to create software. At the end of the day AI is a kind of algorithm and algorithm is maths, the different is that AI uses complex maths so that's the reason some people thinks AI is magic. Also I know that the CEO of Antropic have said that AI could be an entity or they don't know how AI works. Of course this is marketing, they want to get money They have business.
A happy programmer is a productive programmer. That's why we optimize for happiness and you should too. Don't just pick tools and practices based on industry standards or performance metrics. Look at the intangibles: Is there passion, pride, and craftmanship here? Would you truly be happy working in this environment eight hours a day?
— 37Signals
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein
To all you beautiful nerds, this episode of Hyperfixed #podcast reaches all of you:
#typedesigners #musicians #programmers #circuitbenders #researchers #engineers
and it even comes with a #FreeFont download!
https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/little-by-little
A happy programmer is a productive programmer. That's why we optimize for happiness and you should too. Don't just pick tools and practices based on industry standards or performance metrics. Look at the intangibles: Is there passion, pride, and craftmanship here? Would you truly be happy working in this environment eight hours a day?
— 37Signals
A programmer does not primarily write code; rather, he primarily writes to another programmer about his problem solution. The understanding of this fact is the final step in his maturation as technician.
— anonymous