Slava Pestov

@slava_pestov

Aspiring programmer

Hudson Valley NY
Joined June 2015

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  1. Feb 1

    A friend commented that this time my trip was very touristy, and he’s right. As time passes I become more and more of a tourist. I guess next time I’ll have to go to Fisherman’s Wharf and buy an “I ❤️ San Fran” T-shirt

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  2. Jan 31

    Earlier today at work I was presenting some slides and I was handed a combo USB-C cable that would charge my laptop and do video out at the same time and that’s when I realized I no longer understand technology

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  3. Jan 31
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  4. Jan 31

    Strong type systems, memory safety, automatic memory management and so on have had zero effect on software quality, because all the extra slack was consumed by new features instead

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  5. Jan 31

    Doesn’t mean languages shouldn’t add new features of course, just that nothing is truly “essential” and maybe language implementors should spend a little bit more time on tooling instead

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  6. Jan 31

    I must be stuck in the past because my criterion to evaluate the relative importance of a language feature is still roughly “did Java 1.1 have this”. If not, you can *probably* be a productive developer without it

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  7. Jan 31

    Dodged an ABI bullet here. Underscored keyword was broken... but thankfully the broken case wasn’t exercised in the standard library

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  8. Jan 31

    Pro tip: every phone number with a 408 area code is telemarketers/scammers

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  9. Jan 30

    This is going to generate so many promotions

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  10. Jan 29
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  11. Jan 29

    Looks like building housing remains illegal in California for the foreseeable future

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  12. Jan 29

    What’s really funny is that some tech firms won’t even let their employees work from home one day a week. Like is that extra 20% of Spontaneous Collaboration™️ really going to make or break your shitty gig economy app?

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  13. Jan 29

    The only correct answer is that regardless of where your workers choose to live, if they spend most of their work hours in front of a computer or in meetings there’s no good reason for everyone to travel to the same place at the same time every day

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  14. Jan 29

    I decided to stay in SF this time like an authentic tech hipster and now I’m spending almost 4 hours a day commuting. How do people do it?

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  15. Jan 29

    What do you call the opposite of working remotely?

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    The worst part about retrocomputing is, after you’ve tracked down all the rare vintage components, found and fixed all the electronic issues, cleaned up the chassis, and gotten the thing to boot, you have to actually use an old computer

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    programming books that are more than a decade old are either: A) useless or B) timeless there is no middle ground

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    Jan 28
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  19. Jan 28

    And yes I know I lack the right ~context~ and they’re trying their best and I shouldn’t criticize but it seems like installing 50 miles of overhead power lines should not be a major engineering challenge in 2020?

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  20. Jan 28

    I remember when I first read about Caltrain electrification it was slated to be completed in 2017, which seemed impossibly far in the future. Now it’s pushed back to 2022. Does anyone seriously believe it will actually happen?

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