Geoff Denning

Director of Engineering at @ElasticPath ecommerce. I seem to be interested in hamburgers. he/him

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@brunoborges @NiestrojRobert If you mean missing a remote control, the newest generation comes with one: https://t.co/Ns5BsDTDai

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

What I’ve found in my dabbling (and it is very compelling…I’ve had to fight to keep myself out of it) is that the argument becomes the product I’m selling, not a conversation or a quest for truth. Extending the argument forever becomes in both parties best interests. The only thing thing that matters is whatever my opponent said last. You just dig deeper and deeper, and you always feel like you’ve won, but you’re actually always driving people deeper into their pre-conceived sides.

Empathetic, thoughtful conversation can convince and find truth, but it can’t happen with hot-button issues in public forums because the goal is never to listen and empathize, it is to win. And the side that does the most listening and is the most empathetic is the side that is losing in the format of a debate.

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@omniprof Although exec:java runs the jar without the embedded dependencies, I think it will automatically add a classpath argument pointing to all the dependencies.

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@celeste_horgan Are you on Mastodon yet?

[@[email protected] @Nick_Craver]

I have personally deleted more lines of code than I have written in my career, by far. I imagine that’s true for other folks as well. So anyway, if we’re going by LOC, I’m a really terrible engineer and you shouldn’t hire me unless you want negative productivity.

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

Anyone else have a random alarm go off on their phone at 1:00am? Seems like a daylight savings time bug. I'm on a Pixel 6a on Android 13.

[CCTV_IDIOTS @cctv_idiots]

Happy Halloween 🎃 �

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas

[Worms @MarcoWorms]

bad and good error messages

[HackerNewsOnion @HackerNewsOnion]

Engineer: "Let's use Postgres for the database"

Senior engineer: "Let's use Postgres for the message queue"

Principal engineer: "Let's use Kafka for the database"

[Tony Pann @TonyPannWBAL]

Once a year, for a rare moment at 7:15 AM EDT on July 8th, 99% of the world's population will be in the Sun. About 6.4 billion people in the daytime, while more than 1.2 billion people experience twilight. How cool is that! Source: https://t.co/5fN1IaFR3c

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@celeste_horgan @tef_ebooks OSGi was made by the devil to fool us into thinking it's a good idea.

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@GabrielBauman @YVRHousing @kellyma_michael Wow, thanks Gabriel, that's incredibly kind. I remember interviewing you well, and you were a great candidate. I think we missed a huge opportunity by not hiring you.

[Liron Shapira @liron]

Today @pmarca was asked by @tylercowen to explain a Web3 use case.

I clipped this gem from 28:08 of Conversations With Tyler.

Highly recommended...

[jaynecobb @jayneco04310055]

I have no idea where this is located, but now I have a quest

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@_mcbride Marie Kondo would approve.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

To recap: Police claim they shoot unarmed black children because they "fear for their lives" but police also claim they do not shoot armed gunmen killing children because they "fear for their lives."

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

Ah yes, the month of BEF, between JAN and MAR.

[Geoff Denning @gdenning]

@apsmurf At least it wasn't on Slack general this time. Lol.