whiskeytuesday

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by whiskeytuesday 4y ago
Brex was pretty rude to me in twitter DMs about two and a half months ago when I had had trouble trying to sign my startup up for their services. They said that my business wasn't appropriate for their service even though they had no i
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by whiskeytuesday 4y ago
> grug understand all programmer platonists at some level wish music of spheres perfection in code. but danger is here, world is ugly and gronky many times and code so also must. humility not often come big brained or think big brained e
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by whiskeytuesday 4y ago
Well, it seems not seeing this response in a timely manner has worked out for me as Bryan himself responded already but the joke was that he's often talked about being sidelined by doing journal study and/or obsessing over old man
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by whiskeytuesday 4y ago
RIP Oxide computer company. Cantrill's productivity is about to go to zero for a while.
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by whiskeytuesday 5y ago
There's also some good 2600 discussion in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Personally I found both of them sort of middle quality books even though I admit that Hackers is a kind of required reading. I think I was spoiled fo
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by whiskeytuesday 5y ago
F for Fake remains one of my all time favourites, it's not quite a documentary, it's not quite a video essay, it's not quite a movie. I've still not seen anything else that skirts the line in exactly the same way, and ce
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by whiskeytuesday 5y ago
Yeah, but when he's done authenticating a previously unknown Van Gough he probably doesn't get to marry Audrey Hepburn. On the plus side I guess he didn't have to get shot with a flintlock either.
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by whiskeytuesday 5y ago
I would think that the recent computerphile video "Cracking Enigma In 2021" would be a good place to start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWB5jL5RX0
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by whiskeytuesday 5y ago
Wow is this ever condescending
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by whiskeytuesday 6y ago
+1, probably my favourite talk on the BEAM too, even allowing for the fact that listening to Joe Armstrong himself was always a distinct pleasure.