Erik Novales

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A long time ago, I was against the use of the term "haters," thinking that it sounded silly. I was wrong - "haters" has carved out its own unique usage, connotation, context, and history. Our modern day discourse would assuredly be poorer without it.

Fuck the haters.

Not really grasping how some people appear to be in denial about how a Katrina-level natural disaster is currently unfolding, which will define a generation for a portion of the US
Does anyone have a great 2/3 monitor laptop/desktop KVM setup they love for programming? Or is one gigantic 5K/8K monitor with a built-in KVM the way to go?
just reminded that I used to work with a bunch of people who were really good at running a social network, and we punched way above our collective weight
How can you tell who is a veteran developer/IT person? They're the ones who aren't gloating or popping their mouth off right now, because they know the fragility and exposure that every large system has to catastrophic failure, and how difficult it is to build truly reliable systems.
It's always fascinating to see how companies try to squirm out of their legal obligations, and how quickly they usually give up the ruse when they realize that you are well aware of your rights, and the law is 100%, indisputably, on your side. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/index_en.htm
If you ever need more motivation to spend time with your children while they're still kids, consider that 1 week is slightly more than 0.1% of their childhood.

Promotion driven development and the idea of level appropriate work are the bane of big companies.

Once you get to a critical mass of senior people at a company, you start incentivizing complexity and redundancy because for those people to get promoted they need to show company-wide or organizational impact.

Why do you think Google has so many chat apps instead of everyone just working to make one or two of them great?

Working on cleaning out the garage today.
#TearsOfTheKingdom is like the realization of all of the dreams of Havok physics demos from 15+ years ago. But as it turned out, "physics-based gameplay" is more like an expensive luxury, than something you can get for free in every game through a commodity library.