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Lorin Hochstein Student of complex systems failures, resilience eng, cognitive sys eng. Will talk your ear off about @LFISoftware. @[email protected]
San Jose, CA
Joined February 2008
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    I have no information about how this incident came to be but I can confidently predict that people will blame it on greedy execs and sloppy devs, regardless of what the actual details are. And they will therefore learn nothing from the details.
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    As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/
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    Chaos Monkey but it randomly cancels meetings.
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    Never a good sign when you have the JIRA ticket number memorized.
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    Software engineer (quoting Fred Brooks): The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. SRE: Your service fell over after it ran out of file descriptors.
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    A boolean type that also accepts a value of "it depends".
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    You’re not a real programmer unless your primary editor is one that you wrote yourself, running on an operating system that you wrote yourself, running on a CPU that you designed yourself.
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    Let’s play a game: using five words or less, utter a phrase that will elicit a great story from a software engineer with years of operational experience. I’ll start: “health checks”
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    My manager once asked me how long it was going to take to implement a small thing, and I said “two weeks”. “Two weeks?” he exclaimed. “Why is it going to take so long?” “Well”, I said, “two weeks is my lower bound estimate for all dev work.”
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    Oh, you want relevant interview questions, eh? Scenario: your team is building a new product with functionality that overlaps a product owned by another internal team. Yours is better, but politically theirs can’t be killed. Let’s roleplay an interaction with that team’s manager.
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    “This code is incomprehensible!” they’re going to say, because that is every engineer’s reaction to an unfamiliar codebase.
    Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter's code base to tell Musk what Twitter needs to do is...interesting
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    How did JetBrains succeed in creating a viable business selling developer tools where so many others have failed?
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