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Show threadhinkley1d ago
Just put a box top on the corner of your desk as a cat trap.
Show threadhinkley2d ago

The dumbest thing I’ve done in the last ten years was stick my hands in the mouth of a “docile and friendly” pitty to extract a screaming puppy.

Only afterward did I realized I almost destroyed my livelihood.

My partner Google stalked the owner and discovered that he’d been force to surrender another pit bull two years earlier.

Show threadhinkleyMar 11
That's going to be a problem for the education market though.
hinkleyJan 2

I get so many Second System Syndrome vibes off of IPv6. Surely other people must be picking it up too.

Future proofing it by jumping straight to 128 bits instead of 64. 64 would have been fine. Even with a load factor of 1:1000 by assigning semantics to ranges of IP addresses, 64 bit addressing is still enough addresses for 10 million devices per person.

If we become a galactic empire, we will have to replace the Web anyway because every interaction will have to be a standalone app or edge networking that doesn’t need to hear back from the central office for minutes, hours, days anyway. We could NAT every planet and go on forever.

Show threadhinkleyNov 11

We are by and large hired for cleverness, so there’s a lot of selection that makes that true even if undergrads are not far off from average.

It would be better if we were hired for wisdom. Don’t confuse cleverness and foolishness. You can be both.

But devs aren’t usually the ones treating their reports like children and then acting surprised when their prophecies become self fulfilling. You can blame Taylor for that.

Show threadhinkleyNov 11

There are worse outcomes than that. Software devs are clever people. Not all of us can be confrontational, and confrontation is not the only tool available to those who can.

If you as a boss find yourself to be very busy all of a sudden, it is likely because you have pissed off and alienated your reports by questioning and overriding their judgment too many times. Suddenly the team needs your “help” to make every decision, and every bad outcome of those decisions suddenly becomes a surprise to them.

They’re letting you choke to death on your own arrogance and control issues.