mlen @ mlen @awful.systems

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I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

Thanks, I hate it

So does Java. /me runs

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

It's called "data chauffered": instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

And nothing of value was lost

A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.

I'd rather drop the religion from that list. Some religions propagate harmful ideas too and historically sided with fascists.

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.