Rob Menke

That I leave the office each day without a single gunshot wound amazes me to no end.

We lost #PenelopeKeith. “To the Manor Born” will always be a classic.

Some idiot is using my email address for @UberEats and there’s no way to contact customer support to get it removed except by creating an account first. That does not bode well for customer UX on the site should I ever consider using it.

@stem_feed And water is one atom away from being a poisonous gas. Reminiscent of the dihydrogen monoxide scare that duped a bunch of city officials. People are idiots everywhere. nbcnews.com/id/wbna4534017

That's not how chemistry works

every acquisition announcement from a tech company

I wonder whether there will be a mass at his funeral?

@gregdare @Political_Kris @WorldBollard @TonyHom33 And he had the green “walk” light for a full three seconds if not more. The car ran the red.

@Political_Kris @WorldBollard @TonyHom33 Blame? It's a fkn pedestrian crossing!

This could actually catch on. #WorldBollardAssociation @TonyHom33

We lost #RichardMoll. Surprised to learn that he was 80 years old. Then I am annoyed when I realize that it has been 40 years since Night Court was on the air.

@witconomist @Grady_Booch Or an alicorn.

@Grady_Booch That’s a pegasus.

how javascript devs create new projects (subtitles)

Scrum is a cancer. I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does. Some anecdotes: 1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game. 2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing. 3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention. 4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint. 5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software. 6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points." 7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this. 8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously. 9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind. I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile. We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it. The result was always the same: It didn't work. Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control. But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team." Sure it is.

#BobBarker RIP. If they don’t play the sad version of “The Price Is Right” theme at his memorial I shall be very disappointed.

@Grady_Booch I realize why John Searle was so adamant about machines not having the capability of thinking. I still think his reasoning was specious, but I understand his motivations. This irrational exuberance lead to the first AI Winter and now it looks like history is repeating itself.

We lost #PaulReubens. I blame the change to 𝕏. I blame everything on the change to 𝕏.

Saturday in the Park with Paul.

#TreatWilliams, who played Roger Mortis in the greatest buddy-cop/zombie movie ever made, has passed on. (He did other stuff too.) “Well, that was… a movie, I suppose” — Actual audience member reaction from the first screening of “Dead Heat” in Berkeley, CA.

@klerk79383390 @analyticsaurabh @ryanjanssen @Grady_Booch I refuse to accept criticism from a company that won’t allow their programmers to use unsigned integers in C++.

@analyticsaurabh @ryanjanssen @Grady_Booch the original problem is caused by an assumption. here's another one in the fix (?) shift right implementation makes assumption on how int's behave on an overflow. iirc in the C standard, on an overflow the result is undefined if the int's are signed.

Noise Filter xkcd.com/2777

“In a stunning twist, #DonLemon will be joining Fox News as their new reactionary rabble-rouser, and #TuckerCarlson will go to CNN to do critical analysis of the MAGA movement.”

The number of times I have had to debug code where the programmer assumed floating-point numerals had infinite precision…