Rares Rusu

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

@RnaudBertrand This is also true in Eastern Europe. People easily get out of the strict rule abiding mindset to solve problems and compensate for limitations in regulations. As a downside, they have less respect for the rule of law.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Hey @wizzair . You have cancelled my flight. Contrary to what you are advising customers, there is no option in your site/app to request a refund. I am on the online chat waiting for an operator for an hour now (not sure if there is one really). Lies & deceitful behavior!

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

@IonutGe76 Eronat. Afirmațiile astea te liniștesc pe tine că poți înțelege un lucru atât de divers și complicat precum o societate.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Traveling to the UK now bares a stark resemblance to travelling in the 90's from Eastern to Western Europe: passports, tests, where will you stay... History moves in spirals.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

@ProfFeynman You should give credits when using such images to their authors - that would be a true open spirit, not just an attempt to capitalize on someone else's work. Credits: Pawel Kuczynski.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

@Elif_Safak what a joy to see your interview with #CatalinStefanescu on the Romanian television. I admire your work, I'm inspired by your message of understanding and respect between individuals and nations.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

The limitations of living online are obvious by now, so I suggest dialing in into random Zoom meetings, to simulate bumping into people in the old, real world.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Together with @alexobjelean we'll be hosting a session at @BigData_LDN. Stop by if you can, you can register for free. https://t.co/anmO0AKLcA

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

I was sitting down with a colleague, almost finishing a simple implementation that nobody thought possible just two days ago, when the scrum master bursts in, demanding presence in the refinement session... all progress stopped, ceremonials kicked in.

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour.

What you “see” is what your 🧠 predicts the reality to be, given the imperfect information it gets.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

"Common sense is important not just because your mom taught you so, but because computers don't have it". Hard to pick a line out of this excellent book by @pmddomingos. It's an insightful state of the union on AI and where things might lead us!

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

I keep stumbling across this ideea that we should do this temporary little thing now and do the proper thing sometime later on. Unless somebody actually holds a secret to this, sadly there is no other way to get to the right thing than painfull small iterations. Painfull that is.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

On the up side, this shirt advertises women in science. On the down side, it is only available as women clothing. We can do better.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Oh, I have seen the agile apocalypse. Everybody works in sprints. So simple stuff just takes weeks instead of minutes. 'I need a DNS record' - 'Yes, next sprint'. 'I need to remove a load balancer rule that drops all traffic' - 'Sure, it will be next sprint'. #agilepocalypse

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Let's make this compulsory reading for adults! It teaches you to look for facts, numbers, trends and to stop dividing the world into 'us' and 'them'. Pretty much everything that the media & general public do not, or even worst - cynically exploit.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Similar to the democratic principles, some hard-won software achievements have to be defended every day from ignorance & oblivion: two decades on continuous integration now, and I see teams advertising the advantages of deploying from branches to separate dev environments. Don't!

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise." - Grace Hopper

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Give yourself a gentle pat on the back if you've ever added some piece of monitoring that led you directly to the root cause some months later.

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

Me at the job these days... https://t.co/fGgjXrmMVl

[Rares Rusu @omulplajei]

"...stimulate engagement between teams with meetings...". Err, no, that won't help either.