Andy Bakun

Gentleman Hacker; Artifex; Raconteur; At Large; Coder laureate; Victim of Arbitrariness; people think I'm a Consummate Snowball Artist
• @RebelKing @entrauge ... Markets are created when people agree on prices, not when prices are demanded.
• @RebelKing @entrauge this means that musicians continue to overvalue their product, which is their prerogative...
edw519: How programmers know what to build: 1995: Detail specs explaining exactly what 2005: Rapid iterations, yes or no? 2015: Let's have a meeting - https://twitter.com/edw519...
GonzoHacker: Kids today don't understand that real music is constrained by the technology that was available when I was a kid - https://twitter.com/GonzoHa...
mountain_ghosts: joke's on you: I unwrapped all my fools last night - https://twitter.com/mountai...
That time "The Editors at Everyday Feminism" mansplained what other people *really* mean. http://everydayfeminism.com/2015...
clemdytan: You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to. - https://twitter.com/clemdyt...
— @sidereelLeah The fishes and loaves must flow.
davecheney: OH: "No, this bug is not an April fools joke" - https://twitter.com/daveche...
— @sidereelLeah I've downloaded "The 25th Reich", but can't bring myself to watch it. http://www.imdb.com/title... https://www.youtube.com/watch...
In Soviet Russia, montage watches you! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
My life is entirely B-sides, expressed as a series of montages, shown past the point where people stopped watching.
• @sidereelLeah There's a show about 🍔?! (But seriously, I find Jerry O'Connell mildly annoying, didn't watch it enough to get into it)
• @sidereelLeah I 💗 🍔
• @pwais eventually, we'll make it.
RT @pwais: @thwarted there is vast opportunity in consistency ahead. don't stop dreaming! it's about the journey, to consistency and beyond! #devops
RT @startupljackson: There are lies, damned lies, and Gantt charts.
4/4) Don't implement Y.
3/4) Y is available via outsourcing or an API.
2/4) Providing X requires orthogonal feature Y, which is not your core competency.
1/4) You plan on, or are early into, {disrupting,being a me-too play,being an also-ran of} industry X.
UncleDynamite: I tell everyone who's about to bring a dismal premise into a pitch meeting, "Hey, someone greenlighted 'Mama's Family.'" - https://twitter.com/UncleDy...
Back before "Like" really entered the social conscience. http://blog.friendfeed.com/2007... http://t.co/nwqzlwsvNg
RT @btaylor: At @FriendFeed, @paultoo taught me the virtue of laziness (leverage?) in programming. Read more in foreword to TEE - https://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/book
RT @btaylor: More effort ≠ more impact. Read The Effective Engineer by @edmondlau for insight on leverage in software engineering. http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/book
It seems like it's Schadenfreude w/ extra I-Told-You-So, and a side of About-Time. Served cold. And I got it all to go.
— @scott_triglia Rage? Nah, at this point, it's more head shaking and humor inducing.
What is the proper emotion for that?
The thing I wasted the last 9months on at my previous gig is being replaced with the service I said should have been used in the first place
Every new RPC protocol contains an ad-hoc, under specified, bug-ridden, half-implementation of ASN1.
"talk about 'eventual consistency' while what is maintained is actually inconsistency"