Gerbrand van Dieyen

@gerbrandvd

Freelance programmer, fp, ml, blockchain, twitter addict

The Netherlands
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Joined March 2009
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    Jun 7

    Wouldn't dream of telling you who to vote for, but please do vote. Especially you youngsters. Don't let us old buggers decide your future.

    939 replies 16,934 retweets 39,469 likes
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    Jun 7

    Yup! The intent of sprint review has been damaged by looking at it as a "showcase". it's opportunity for feedback

    2 replies 8 retweets 9 likes
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    Jun 5

    "COBOL was initially intended as a short-term solution to the problem of handling business data"

    1 reply 11 retweets 16 likes
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    Jun 5
    Replying to

    ... we generate the myth of chess playing gurus in business because it justifies inequalities that cannot be justified.

    3 replies 15 retweets 23 likes
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    Jun 5

    Let us face it ... 1) Most strategy consultancy is overpaid twaddle 2) Most success is luck. CEO impact is negligible to random chance ...

    3 replies 34 retweets 60 likes
  6. Jun 5

    If we'd stop believing the world is fair and everyone​ gets what they deserve we can get a world that is fair where one gets what they need

    An infant brain isn't a miniature adult brain. It's a brain that's awaiting a wiring plan.
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    Jun 4

    Jean Sammet, co-designer of COBOL and first female president of the ACM, dies at 89 (via )

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    Jun 3

    FUN FACT: If the police ever asks you to take a Miller-Rabin test, that means you're a prime suspect.

    39 replies 409 retweets 722 likes
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    Jun 4

    It's called 'leadership', Donald. The terrorists were dead 8 minutes after police got the call. If we need an alarmist blowhard, we'll call.

    At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!"
    11,815 replies 156,674 retweets 433,757 likes
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    Jun 3

    Terrorists and fear-mongering conservatives are twin halves of the same two-stroke engine.

    100 replies 3,311 retweets 6,259 likes
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    Jun 2

    For some international perspective on the Paris Accord, this is from Australia's .

    491 replies 22,859 retweets 42,026 likes
  12. Jun 4

    So ignore the comment section, don't spent time arguing online with alt-right populists. Spent your energy for real life.

    Propaganda doesn't need to be persuasive, only pervasive. Designed to exhaust you, not to convince you. This is why you don't debate Nazis.
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    Jun 2

    This but for literally everything. Like I want to see so many more mediocre women programmers, then I know we'll have made it

    There it is
    20 retweets 74 likes
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    Jun 2

    Let's put to rest the idea of the 10x developer and think instead about 10x communities and put to rest finding 10x and focus on growing it

    some reasons a programming language's ~community~ matter, unless you plan to start by creating the universe.
    1 reply 4 retweets 11 likes
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    Jun 2

    Y'know, I'm just really mystified by the resistance cheap bastards have to harvesting free energy from our local star and planetary dynamics

    6 replies 10 retweets 25 likes
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    Jun 2

    I am utterly shocked by this no wait the opposite

    10 replies 109 retweets 192 likes
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    Jun 3
    Replying to

    For the record, every prod deploy in HCIT scares the sh-t out of me. So a few of us take the hit for everyone else. :-)

    1 retweet
  18. Jun 3

    Which is a bad thing too. They create your software, they should be able to maintain it.

    Replying to @jxxf
    Fire the loser CTO who didn't secure the keys to the production system. Most of my engineers can't even log in to Prod.
    1 reply 2 likes
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    Jun 3

    If a junior developer accidentally destroys production on their first day, it's *your company's* fault, not theirs.

    309 replies 6,607 retweets 10,385 likes
  20. Retweeted
    Jun 3

    Boy, I wish tech conversations were at this level.

    “Never ask a lawyer if doing something is safe, for the answer is always no. Instead, ask the safest way to do it and what risks remain.”
    1 reply 8 retweets 45 likes

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