Peter Amstutz @tetron@octodon.social
Free software developer on http://arvados.org and http://commonwl.org projects. Programming, politics and dad jokes. Pronouns: who/huh/what?
Thinking back, the software we were working on included a map of Chorwon Valley in North Korea. I realize now that the US military has been thinking about NK for a very long time.
The second thing was when we asked him where he thought the US might be involved in future wars (this was during the Iraq war). His top prediction was North Korea. At the time I thought that was pretty unlikely. Why would the US want to hey involved in North Korea?
The first was his account of calling s strike of white phosphorous munitions on the viet cong. I'll never forget the haunted look on his face while he was explaining how it caused terrible burns because you couldn't just put it out with water, the phosphorus would just keep burning.
Some years ago, I worked for a defense contractor writing software for the US Army. We had a consultant who had been a company commander in Viet Nam. Mostly he was gregarious and would joke around, but a couple things he said stuck with me.
Hello, Octodonners. It looks like Alice's patreon in support of our chosen instance has plateaued. Please do what you can to help our friendly neighborhood cyberpunk queen, @CobaltVelvet
Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.
@tetron @xor it's https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 -- i promise cake for everyone when it's closed!
I remember reading an article back on the 90s about the software reuse crisis and how every project tended to reinvent basic components. Classic comp sci curriculum makes a lot more sense when you consider that it used to be the norm that you'd have to choose between arrays/linked lists/trees etc and then code them by hand.
@xor I'm very fond of octodon.social. There's a wide variety of interests, and friendly folk. I joined originally because it seemed people from metafilter were settling here when mastodon.social closed. I appreciate the no-nonsense moderation policy.
twitter is now the linkedin of microblogging platforms
like yeah you maintain an account cause maybe youll get a job from it but its just kinda icky cause you gotta censor yourself and put on your corporate twitter face
"Stop tootering and go to sleep!" - my SO
Hadoop is no longer cool any more, rapidly becoming legacy technology: https://www.datanami.com/2017/03/13/hadoop-failed-us-tech-experts-say/
"We had to upgrade some dependencies to support Ubuntu Xenial, and now the Centos 7 packages don't build, the test cluster is hosed, and the CI server is a smoking ruin" #programming
Live by the CI server, die by the CI server.
A pride of lions.
A murder of crows.
A federation of nerds.
Something tells me pretty soon United Airlines isn't going to have an overbooking problem anymore.
This is the kind of book programmers at witches.town read.
RT @adventuresofrob@twitter.com
The Programmer's Journey:
Why have these idiots done it like that?
I'm gonna redo this properly
Oh
Oh crap
I see why they did it like that
@bob Freedombone looks awesome, I've often had the thought why can't installing web apps on a personal server be just as easy as installing desktop apps.
