ingeniero de software en Workera | Geek de medio tiempo | Lector ocasional | Colombia.
Tunja, Colombia
Joined January 2013
- Tweets1.4K
- Following80
- Followers142
- Likes418
Alexander Castro retweeted
so far we have about 40 pages of debugging strategies and trying to organize them is a struggle :)
here's a draft of the table of contents (though it's SO FAR from being done, note the "unsorted pages" section haha)
Alexander Castro retweeted
“Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers.”
Alexander Castro retweeted
yo I don't understand how people can simultaneously be a programmer and think the world's problems can be solved with programming. like, you've seen the state of most software right?
Alexander Castro retweeted
I think it's good to resurrect the term "unit test." Sure, people will ask what a unit is, but unit testing gives us an answer:
- a 'unit' is whatever we can test in complete isolation without pain.
Alexander Castro retweeted
"Deadlines are often arbitrary, almost aways flexible, and hardly ever trigger the consequences we think - or are told - they will."
from "Never Split the Difference"
Alexander Castro retweeted
Good code is simple. Code reviews are a great way to train teams to write simple code. Don't be afraid to say "this is hard to understand".
Alexander Castro retweeted
How to mislead with data visualizations, lesson #314. Scale the data to tell the story you want. Note the blue circle doesn't even crack 1 pixel if this was done to scale!
Alexander Castro retweeted
Can you detect COVID-19 using Machine Learning? 🤔
You have an X-ray or CT scan and the task is to detect if the patient has COVID-19 or not. Sounds doable, right?
None of the 415 ML papers published on the subject in 2020 was usable. Not a single one!
Let's see why 👇
Alexander Castro retweeted
Engineers claim to prefer simplicity and yet, the first tool most reach for is another layer of abstraction. If you have problems, try removing some layers. That’s usually better and it’s almost always simpler.
Alexander Castro retweeted
Public health experts: don't bring students to campus, there will be outbreaks
Profs: please don't require in-classroom teaching, there will be outbreaks
Staff: this isn't safe, there will be outbreaks
<outbreaks occur, campuses close>
Admins: no one could have predicted this
Alexander Castro retweeted
“All of the fancy optimizations are optimizations to get you closer to the performance you would’ve gotten if you just hadn’t used so much technology” ☝️ macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa…
Alexander Castro retweeted
You know it's true…
Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.
