Putting the engineering in computer science and the science in software engineering. Married to the exquisite @stacyhochstein. Surfing complexity at Netflix.

San Jose, CA
Joined February 2008
I want to live in the world where everyone learns programming in K-12 and the idea of teaching everyone precalculus is considered absurd.
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And, lo, the wisdom of the crowd has come to pass!
What’s the most likely Parler scenario next week?
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Lorin Hochstein E_TOO_MANY_FAILURE_MODES retweeted
Whenever I get discouraged and want to quit something, I remember the words of my then 3 year-old after she puked carrots all over the living room floor: "I'm gonna need more carrots."
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This is why I don't miss academia.
all I do is write grants write grants write grants all I do is write grants grants grants grants
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Lorin Hochstein E_TOO_MANY_FAILURE_MODES retweeted
Replying to @mollylambert
Downtown Montreal has this statue of a student reading a news article about Steve Jobs being dead (??)
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We should be able to enable transactional notifciations while disabling marketing notifications.
I hate it when mobile apps abuse my "trust" w.r.t. notifications. I kind of want Uber/UberEats to be able to notify me when a car arrives or something like that, but I don't want to leave them open to randomly spam me with discount offers, etc.
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“That’s when I realized something about everybody involved in all of these arguments. They’ve never built a bridge. Nobody I read in these arguments, not one single person, ever worked as a “real” engineer.”
In 2019 I started the Crossover Project, where I studied how software and "real" engineering relate by interviewing people who've worked in both. 17 interviews, 12 hours of recordings, and untold hours editing later, I'm finally ready to share my findings! hillelwayne.com/post/crossov…
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I think @hillelogram should get a Turing Award for doing this research. It’s a bit of an embarassment to the field of software engineering research that nobody has ever done it before.
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