2024-03-16

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 06:39

@cinebox That makes a lot of sense.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 06:40

“Move fast and break things” was one of the worst core principles and we should have nipped that one in the bud.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 06:46

@b0rk I’m not sure that knowing how to implement a specific algorithm is useful, but not having that CS foundation, and not knowing the name and shape of algorithms, has been a communication blocker many times over my career.

Like — I’ve been doing the situationally appropriate manipulation of both ends of a list since it was push + shift and unshift + pop in Perl, but I only learned the other day that’s a double-ended queue.

It mostly bites me in interviews, but it’s also slowed things down in code review, design meetings, stuff like that.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 06:49

@farah It was an early internal motto at Facebook, and widely emulated in the startup world.

Supposedly Facebook etc have moved on, but I still see it in the bones of most startups.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 06:50

@farah IKR?!

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 08:43

Ain’t it good when things are going your way

hey hey

#NowPlaying

Happy Boy by Beat Farmers

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 08:48

BTW I know a lot of us tried to nip “move fast and break things” in the bud, but yeah venture capitalists and the code-crushing drink-up-attending techbros they loved weren’t gonna budge on that.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 14:01

@PsyChuan was listening to that album earlier today. Grace Jones is definitely one of the foundations of cool.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 15:31

Download one free book, and the upsell begins.

Anyways, Academia, this sounds like a you problem, not a me problem.

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 18:56

Yeah uh lock the doors and just keep driving. We aren’t ready for that one yet.

#Valheim

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 19:26

It’s not the new swamp camp, but I’ll be camping in it while I build the new swamp camp.

Which won’t be in the swamp. I remember the lesson of Swamp Castle.

#Valheim

hackers.town: 2024-03-16 Sat 23:59

We went to the loud blingy place so she could have fun and I’m very happy to report that she had fun.