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Did ancient Egyptians invent Wi-Fi? @sherifhanna

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• Quotable Quotes:
  • Broad Band: By the mid-twentieth century, computing was so much considered a woman’s job that when computing machines came along, evolving alongside and largely independently from their human counterparts, mathematicians would guesstimate their horsepower by invoking “girl-years,” and describe units of machine labor as equivalent to one “kilogirl.”
  • thegayngler: Most engineers would not hire themselves. That has been apparent to me for awhile now. I’m not sure why they expect people to be to be better than they were when they were hired. I don’t expect engineers to be better than me. I have but one qualification. Can they do the job? Are they strong enough that I can guide them into the position I need them at if it is required.
  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Heart liked working with small, tightly knit groups composed of very bright people. He believed that individual productivity and talent varied not by factors of two or three, but by factors of ten or a hundred. Because Heart had a knack for spotting engineers who could make things happen, the groups he had supervised at Lincoln tended to be unusually productive.
  • @AllenDowney: Can someone explain why, if you write an idea in math notation, that's "theory", which provides deep understanding of the math "behind" it, but if you write the same idea in a programming language, it's just hacking? This bizarre prejudice is the bane of my professional life.
  • @kwchang: 'The internet went from a democratizing free space to having power very centralized; crypto decentralization is a reaction to that' - @starkness #Angels #cryptointro
  • Lynn Langit: To me, containers are the new VMs. All this frenzy about containers, and more specifically container management systems — look, somebody has to manage the things. I want to pay the cloud providers to do it so I don’t have to.
  • @kellabyte: Many-core servers are a huge problem. We have no idea how to write software to actually use the hardware properly. For example, in Go, there’s no IO library that can go faster than 10GbE.
  • Markus Winand: Don’t say relational database when referring to SQL databases. SQL is really more than just relational.
  • Catalin Cimpanu: A loud sound emitted by a fire suppression system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
  • dmoy: My mother in law is already paranoid, warning us not to talk about certain topics with her. Scary stuff. I should point out that my MIL is a completely apolitical person who worked in the Chinese government for her entire career, spending most of that time just helping poor people, without a shred of corruption. She has nothing to worry about, doesn't care about politics, and even she's paranoid about this.
  • vkjv: +1 for Neon! The best part about Rust is that it changes this question to "what language AND Rust?" Node + Rust is a great experience.
  • There are lots more quotes. Click through for complete enlightenment.