Bill C

Interests: data science, security, DNS, STS, banjo, philosophy. (All views my own, not necessarily my employer's.)

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

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.

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[Simon Willison @simonw]

90% of being a senior software engineer is having encyclopedic knowledge of string escaping rules for different languages and contexts

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

Other popular hits: "Well, I'm not sure I'd call myself a philosopher," "I have a three-part question (part 4)", "Let's make a distinction," and "You can ask philosophical questions about anything!" (B side: "I don't see what is distinctively philosophical about that").

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

Hi! I'm a philosopher. You might know me from such hits as "No, I don't have any sayings," "You must be thinking of psychology," "That would be begging the question" and its even more popular follow-up, "That's not what 'begging the question' means."

[Michael W. Austin @michaelwaustin]

Job Prospects for Philosophy Majors: Perception and Reality - Daily Nous https://t.co/5xabLTCY9B

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

"Why should the devil have all the good music?" Charles Wesley, 1746.

[John Dyer ⚡️ @johndyer]

Also please visit https://t.co/2OcmeQriYd and remind me to make a printed version some day :)

[Randy Olson @randal_olson]

Whenever someone speaks out against autonomous cars, remember the alternative.

https://t.co/plQMynHbQd

[Peter Adamson @HistPhilosophy]

I always tell new philosophy students, "I have good news and bad. The good news is, we will teach you how to win arguments for the rest of your life. The bad news is, other people won't realize you've won."

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Any 'great thinker' worthy of the label wrote on much more than s/he is valued for. Thus, scholars routinely airbrush if not photoshop the thinker as part of 'value maintenance'. This process can retard intellectual progress, which relies on perceiving imperfections.

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

Someone was recently telling me they were a "Code Ninja". I don't want to work with a Ninja, they leave a bloody mess. I want to work with a "Code Janitor". Comes in the middle of the night, cleans things up, you only know they were there because everything is organized and tidy.

[Ai x Summit @aixsummit]

The Six Stages of Computational Science https://t.co/cbJjcpMpwQ #odsc #DataScience

[DCBGRadio @BGCfound]

Elisa Zhai Autry with Sweet Yonder At Jammin' Java “Shady Grove” with Chinese Fusion: @SweetYonder @jamminjava #chinesefusion #shadygrove #pipa

[R. Keith Loftin, PhD @RKeithLoftin]

Nice https://t.co/hD9sNTlgwX

[Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor]

Why Is Philosophy So Hard? https://t.co/FniCBLKNqR

[Bill C @cuwac1]

@MaxFromMontreal @ISOCDC @CenDemTech @publicknowledge @OTI @EngineOrg @Arin @VERISIGN @LauraDeNardis @mebuell @freedomhouse https://t.co/dSdBhLvQCn @STGlobal2018

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Why study philosophy?
Greece: to live the good life.
England: to understand the world.
Germany: to change the world.
America: did u know philosophy grads have the highest average salaries of the humanities?

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, 'lasagna code'. Too many layers." - Roberto Waltman

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

“ Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Poster is apropos my @ConversationUK piece and courtesy of @berrydm: https://t.co/wWObtOA55X