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* "The worst feeling it is possible to have as a programmer is when you're testing something, and you make a change, and it doesn't fix the problem, so you make a change in a printf to test if you're running the right exe version, and it runs and prints the //old// printf, and you're like aha! I've fixed the problem! It's running an out of date exe! And then you go to fix that and you discover you can't figure out why it's running an out of date exe or how to make it stop"
* "if a trained cardiologist sometimes causes cardiac arrest inadvertently via an operational mistake i should be allowed at least that many nines of uptime off my back"
* "if, when faced with an event, your response to it is to go "I'm sure somebody's affected! Let me go find who it is by piping the results from an `inurl:.xml` search directly into a discussion" this is a reactionary impulse and should be examined as such"
* "but upon thinking more, you're allowed to do whatever you like on your own property, and if you want to recreationally launch anti-nuke missiles then that's fine, and if someone else also wants their nukes to travel through the same point in space they should have coordinated."
* "but upon thinking more, you're allowed to do whatever you like on your own property, and if you want to recreationally launch anti-nuke missiles then that's fine, and if someone else also wants their nukes to travel through the same point in space they should have coordinated."
* "This is what true diversity of thought looks like: founders from every stripe, color and background, from rich white undergraduate dropouts from Stanford to rich Asian graduate school dropouts from Berkeley, all united by the conviction that every human problem is actually a conversion funnel that hasnt been properly optimized yet."