Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk So many lessons in the Mythical Man Month that people insist on re-learning the hard way. This book should be required for any CS major: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMythicalMan-Month

This seems like a chilling conversation for Americans:

Attention kids studying Geometry: today I had to recall the equation of a line, and how to calculate discrete points on a line, for my high-paying programmer job. So … “will you ever really use this”? Yes, If you’re lucky.

Somehow, I’m not even a little surprised Samsung’s $2600 phone — that folds in half — is having major hardware problems.

An unexpected quiet afternoon means time to work on the ol’ website.

@aaronpk I’d rather have no outlet over the tease of a working one. At least I know where my bar of expectations is set.

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

me_irl

Fortunately, it was not.

https://xkcd.com/1273/

@jamey also, 1 calorie is defined as the energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1 °C -- so because ice cream is colder than your body, it's negative calories