Jeremy

Someone thought it would be funny to make me an Engineering VP. I don't know whether I should be laughing or crying about it.
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[Jeremy @zaphar]

Verifying myself: I am zaphar on Keybase.io. rahJDBD6SXEinP8xOkT7AerrsOBuy7wUcEfQ / https://t.co/3IyRmLhUZh

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@jason_kint While the jury instruction might make sense. This was not necessarily malicious on Google's part. Deleting logs and messages automatically based on age is one core part of preserving privacy of individuals. This is standard corporate practice across the board.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@GergelyOrosz @bcantrill @oxidecomputer I really want @oxidecomputer to succeed because I want to live in a world where great engineering succeeds and is celebrated on it's merits.

[Jessica Hooten Wilson @HootenWilson]

@drmoore on why Halloween is so fun! https://t.co/3qjudCk3vu

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Confession: I’ve incorrectly assumed the far left doesn’t have an antisemitism problem. I believed our ranks were filled with people like me that opposed Netanyahu’s far right policies, not Israel itself.

That is clearly not true.

I’m embarrassed I didn’t see this sooner.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@patio11 I'm saving "The bumbling and incompetence was load bearing" for later usage. It's a great turn of phrase.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

This conflict weighs so heavily on me. I have Jewish friends and I have Muslim friends. I have a deep affinity for Israel and for Arab culture, and do a lot of work in the Middle East.

But let’s be clear about some things. Anti-Israel + Pro-Palestine demonstrations erupted around the world *before* Israel responded.

BEFORE.

Let's recap that sequence of events.

1. Palestinian militants wake up in the morning and decide to go and murder Israeli civilians, take hostages, and declare their intent to destroy Israel

2. Demonstrations erupt around the world supporting Palestine and condemning Israel

3. Israel responds to this threat

Go back over it again in case there is any ambiguity.

There is no moral grey area to inhabit here. No fog of war that one can hide behind.

Palestinian militants murdered civilians. In cold blood. They raped Israeli women. They set children on fire and beheaded them. Grandmothers were raped so brutally their pelvis was broken. A pregnant woman had her baby cut out of her stomach and beheaded, only to then suffer beheading herself. Palestinian militants murdered Jews, on a mass scale, in the most barbaric and heinous ways possible. And then vowed that they would keep going, to the thunderous applause of their sympathisers living in the West.

Members of our intelligentsia and elite students openly cheered Hamas, laying the blame *entirely* at the feet of Israeli policy. They justified the most barbaric atrocities under the banner of liberation and decolonization.

If you can't see the problem with that, I don't know what else to tell you.

It is easier of course to just keep quiet, to not talk about it. But I am compelled to.

Because 90 years ago, no one spoke up.

Yet.

It is important to recognize that this is war, and in this war, there are people are dying on both sides - children, women, civilians.

Many people have been trying to build bridges to bring about peace – and all their work crumbled just like that. The world before Oct 7 was a different world. Peace in the Middle East was achievable and now, we’re back to reliving ancient hatreds between the sons of Abraham.

One of the problems with discourse today isn’t just about the things we say; sometimes it’s about the things we don’t say.

Even when we think that “our side” may have not been totally right, we hold back from criticizing because we fear weakening the moral standing of “our side.”

So on one side, they cannot criticise Hamas, and on the other, they cannot criticise the Israeli government / IDF. But Hamas isn’t Palestine, and the Israeli government isn’t Israelis / Jews.

This distinction is important. And for those who say “but Palestinians support Hamas overwhelmingly,” please ask yourself exactly what choice you would have if you were born into the same cultural and social milieu?

You’ve heard the phrase the “bigotry of low expectations.” Sometimes it is compassionate to expect less.

Moral clarity is important, but so is being compassionate and not giving up on humanity.

When will we beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks? When will we no longer take up sword against each other, nor train for war anymore?

I recall the words of Rudyard Kipling:

“What profit to kill men?”

“Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now slain; it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

[Jeremy @zaphar]

There is no such thing as Enterprise software. There are just teams that use "Enterprise" as an excuse to take short cuts that hurt them long term. #RandomThoughtOfTheDay

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@bcantrill Ashley's point about the value of open source for larger established companies being the ability to legally collaborate together is I think a critically important insight.

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

Here are my thoughts on why bothsidesism on the Israel-Hamas War is a moral failure:

https://t.co/8JPDJ4oUWG

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Yossi Landau, head of operations of the southern region of Zaka told CBS reporters that he had personally seen the bodies of beheaded babies.

A direct eyewitness first responder.

People can now officially stop accusing good reporters on the scene of fabricating this story.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

An Open letter to the Harvard community from me and more than a hundred colleagues (so far): https://t.co/V7yH9kRZMY

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@harper Slackware in my case :-)

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@dalmaer That's not a factor of age. It's a factor of:
1. Level of compliance required in the industry.
2. Level of competence in the compliance department/person.
3. Number of incidents/close calls the company has encountered.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

So wait... Did #java 21 actually do a better job at #async than #Csharp?

https://t.co/iIGzpCIIXW

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@cramforce This looks cool. I'm in the waitlist now.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

Serious question: Is it possible to get the equivalent to UL for software? An organization that is independent and trusted enough that if you have their stamp it's a sign you passed a min bar in your software quality and security?

I've been in a "audit" and that ain't it.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@polotek @harper I'm entirely self taught, not even boot camp. I worked at Google for 7 years. So he can believe or not but I definitely exist.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@bcantrill @ralph_squillace @AdrianMester It almost seems generational to me. We revisit this stuff roughly about once a generation.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

Perhaps the one of the biggest QOL improvements a language can do for a developer is to support trailing commas. It's also usually backwards compatible so no reason any language can't add it if they don't have it already.

[Jeremy @zaphar]

@_msw_ My perhaps unpopular opinion is that they aren't actually sticking it to AWS, but they are sticking it to me as a user.