Jason Elbaum

Software engineer in Israel, amateur Torah reader and chazzan, youth baseball umpire.

[Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ @MarkZlochin]

¹ Thanks to the work of @bandlersbanter, @AshleyRindsberg, @EllaTravelsLove and @shlomitlir, there's growing awareness of coordinated ideological takeover of Wikipedia's Israel/Palestine coverage after Oct. 7

So I decided to measure its extent and the results are extraordinary🧵

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@GiladNoamHadari אני מכיר את אליסטר הית'. הוא לא כתב את המאמר הזה. הטקסט המקורי נכתב על ידי ברל סולומון:

https://t.co/Nng29G1EM4

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@soccerdhg Fatalities per miles driven is a better metric of road safety (though every metric is flawed). By this standard, Israel is around the OECD median.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@soccerdhg Morality rates per population are not the best metric. They are significantly influenced by how much people drive. And most per-capita statistics for Israel are misleadingly low, due to the high birth rate. Children don't drive.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davefarley77 Your estimate?

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@Sil58987821 You tagged the wrong Elbaum...

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davidhazony Oh, you mean something like this?

https://t.co/JSVcH311Ly

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

What is a refugee?

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davefarley77 Colleagues who are happy to help and know how to communicate.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@LaEnzaDel9 You tagged the wrong Elbaum.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davefarley77 Containerization

[גאיוס @il7217]

פרופ' משה כהן-אליה באמירה ברורה מאוד על הדיון בחוק הנבצרות ועל תפקוד היועמ"שית

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davidhazony That depends. Is this before or after the public shaming?

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davefarley77 When you can't open a random source file and quickly know what it's doing, how and why.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davefarley77 There are too many different ways software can be poor to give a simple answer to that question.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@davidhazony @amichaishilo Or perhaps it's the hallmark of poor satire...

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@KevlinHenney Implementation inheritance, and deep inheritance hierarchies more generally. I think the whole industry went through a learning process about this.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@johnFneuhaus @mattfahrner @tottinge Bad identifier names don't break your code any more than bad comments do. And they don't get magically updated when they're out of date. They can actually be harder than comments to keep updated, because other code depends on them.

[Jason Elbaum @elbaum]

@johnFneuhaus @mattfahrner @tottinge Someone who doesn't update comments when they're out of date also won't update names of variables, functions, classes and files when they're out of date.