I could never be a programmer. All of their tools are really pretty terrible except for a very few, and the documentation is beyond terrible. Just inexcusably bad for nearly everything.
By comparison, enterprise toolkits for infrastructure are often by comparison well-documented and very discoverable, though often no less complex below the surface.
🗣️Special licensure requirements for drivers of large trucks SUVs and super high-horsepower cars, especially if they drive in major cities.
— Angie Schmitt 🚶♀️🚴♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) January 30, 2020
I’m fine with this. I drive a car with 415 horsepower. One of the main reasons is because a high-HP car has much, much better brakes than the average car. There is usually no way to get such excellent brakes on a regular car, even as an aftermarket part — they simply won’t fit. My car is safer than most similar cars for just this reason.
My car can stop from 60mph to 0 in around 108 feet. The average large SUV is going to need at least 135 feet. The Toyota Camry takes 126 feet.
I think people who have never driven a car like mine don’t realize how much of a superpower having really great brakes is. I’d sooner give up the horsepower than the brakes. And it’s not just stopping distance — there is no fade, they don’t easily overheat, water doesn’t impede them as much, and they do exactly what I want them to, every single time. By comparison, using the brakes of a regular car feels like near-suicide.
What goes through people’s minds when they charge at someone carrying a baby with their car?
— Angie Schmitt 🚶♀️🚴♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) January 31, 2020
Maybe “Babies count for double points!”
I earned my CISSP for two reasons. The first was that I wanted to know more about security and that’s the way the industry is moving. Coequal with that it’s prestigious enough that even people with PhDs throw it up after their name:
Will never have a PhD, so the CISSP will have to do.
Spite is—and I mean this sincerely—an excellent motivator.
My PhD is for my 5th grade teacher who accused me of cheating on spelling tests and told me that considering how I acted, it was no wonder I didn’t have any friends.— Dr. Krista Benson (@klinb) January 26, 2020
At least some of my success is due to my sixth grade teacher, who told me that though I might be smart, I was lazy and would never amount to anything.
This is after I refused to turn in her busywork assignments.
Fuckin’ CTO, Mrs. Morgan, you bitter old beldam.