jessek

Science is good and cool. Uncultured yet internet-savvy. Software Developer at CERN. He/him. @[email protected]

[jessek @jkrshw]

@sus_admin I’m waiting for a second hand Falcon 9 booster to go on sale

[jessek @jkrshw]

Wow, every 5th tweet on the tl is an ad

[jessek @jkrshw]

To be clear, fuck those price gouging bastards. If a tweet can do that please keep going. We need more data!

[jessek @jkrshw]

I only come here for the dunks on twitter, but some people are forgetting that correlation and causation are two different things. Stock prices rise and fall all the time. The LLY dip really doesn’t look out of the ordinary over the last month or 6 months.

[jessek @jkrshw]

Trying out mastodon https://t.co/Tb3n6Kjk6E

[jessek @jkrshw]

@RachelRayner Even at +2000m altitude and sub zero temps I’d still prefer and ice cold aperol

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

a thing to keep in mind about your company's legacy code is that it's the reason you have that job in the first place

[jessek @jkrshw]

@polotek Sorry if this has gone off topic, I’m not close to being an MD so I don’t know what you have more influence over. Hiring or changing culture. I think that we agree that these are desirable and necessary skills for a great engineer.

[jessek @jkrshw]

@polotek Of course not. I guess the point I was trying to get to is having the right people is better than getting people to do things they don’t want to. And having the right people is hard when the industry disagrees on what we think is important.

[jessek @jkrshw]

@polotek The whole industry values delivery of code over “soft” skills like docs and qa. Interviews test for writing code and getting a new jobhh is more financially rewarding than a promotion. So engineers optimise towards that instead of developing the other (less?) necessary skills

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@polotek It’s not about getting anything they want but using what they have differently, trading off on reducing delivery and to quality. That trade off can be in headcount or in getting engineers to do something they’re not good at and that the industry doesn’t reward instead of delivery

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@polotek @phirate Doesn’t this indicate the organisation culture is biased towards roadmap delivery over quality? I think the point here was that if the org won’t accept reduced roadmap delivery to improve quality in terms of headcount/budget, individual engineers won’t either in terms of output

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@Tamora_Tea It’s so good

[jessek @jkrshw]

Hello old friend, it’s been too long

[jessek @jkrshw]

@Orthanc It’s as if @RachelRayner and I were merged into a single person

[jessek @jkrshw]

@RachelRayner I know a little Airbnb in the country…

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@RachelRayner It’s spring! Find some lambs

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@RachelRayner One could say you were... surprised... by the bread?

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Finally found a drink I can use this mug for

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@sus_admin @RachelRayner *takes notes*