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@jmoiron @Nate_Cohn "In the judgement of the public" sure sounds like "officer involved shooting" but for journalists.

@jmoiron @mikefiedler @lapsu @jordanorelli Yes: https://t.co/Vsj6Wf5PSg What I don't get is people who seemingly take so much pride in their ability to employ complex language features that they consider Go's simplicity to be a personal affront to their intelligence.

@jmoiron @lapsu @jordanorelli @mikefiedler There is a famous rant titled "Go's design is a disservice to intelligent developers."

@jmoiron @lapsu @jordanorelli @mikefiedler The most recent version of this was on the orange site, and read: "The language doesn't scale with my ability and in some sense seems almost patronizing" Not the only example I've seen recently. Not absolving issues with the community, but it'...

@jmoiron I keep reading developers who praise Go's simplicity but have ultimately decided it's not for them because they've grown to find it "patronizing", and I wonder, do they sometimes just pick up a hammer and think "this piece of shit thinks I'm an idiot."

@jmoiron Even the fact that there were people who were 100% right back in 2001 about what the war in Afghanistan would become is being memory holed because we continue to interview the same set of people who either got it wrong or were the very architects of the calamity.

@jmoiron RT @solomonmissouri: Last time you was out here... Out here was different...

@jmoiron RT @glcst: I'll be talking at P99 conf about performance of async rust and how the existing executors compare. Stay tuned!

@jmoiron Every time I see a link that is about Datalog: "Oooh.. oh."

@jmoiron This is a nice rhetorical change in posture that I think would prevent a lot of common mistakes people make when they "let the data lead the way". https://t.co/75iKSX3d9S

@jmoiron Gutted to learn this morning that incredibly funny man and carrot-in-a-box world champion Sean Lock has passed away.

@jmoiron @alicegoldfuss The God Of Small Things

@jmoiron @dancmorell thank you for the kind words :)

@jmoiron RT @CoriBush: On Friday night, I came to the Capitol with my chair. I refused to accept that Congress could leave for vacation while 11 mil…

@jmoiron @amontalenti The comp & power structure of engineering orgs have management at the top. That's a really powerful incentive. Most people would be willing to do something they enjoy less if it meant they were better compensated.

@jmoiron @amontalenti For professionals like artists, surgeons, lawyers, designers, etc; the comp structure at the "top" of those fields has them paying teams to manage an org that relies on their prestige & skill. They're the boss, but they are still a practitioner. Engineering is...

@jmoiron RT @JohnOusterhout: I'm excited to announced that I've just released the 2nd Edition of "A Philosophy of Software Design". See https://t.co…

@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR If you're willing to burn ~$6bn/year, you can offer your customers great rates.

@jmoiron People hate this trope; they think others outproduce the median only through self sacrifice, setting a toxic example. That isn't how it manifests: consistently doing things modestly better and avoiding fruitless tangents compounds to 10x impact quickly, esp. with broad scope. htt...

@jmoiron Vaccine hesitancy is an public health emergency and we need to treat it like one. https://t.co/RXpBJvQvXi

@jmoiron RT @ahmetb: Dropbox just shared their Software Engineer (and other) ladder definitions. I hope more companies can follow on this lead and d…

@jmoiron Be wary of taxonomy masquerading as abstraction.

@jmoiron RT @Simone_Biles: let me tell you one thing if they have fried pickles I will order them

@jmoiron The most clever micro-optimizations feel great to write, but they have a limited shelf life, because they exploit finer details of the underlying platform that are more likely to change.

@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR Moral panic seems to be a consistent feature of our politics. Dungeons & Dragons, explicit lyrics, satanic panic, stranger danger, 90s "PC gone mad", super predators, metal music, violent video games, and more prior w/ prohibition, red scare, rock music, etc.