Notices by Real Programmer (sleepyfox@hachyderm.io)

@dalias @gabrielesvelto There is no algorithm that can generate all possible other algorithms, this is in essence Godel's incompleteness theorem.

@thomasfuchs Video killed the radio star

@inthehands "a costly myth"

@inthehands You get what you measure.
But you get only what you measure, because now you're measuring, nothing else matters.

@inthehands @itty53 So, completely unknown and unknowable for all the execs and C-suite then?

🌶️ take from Anil Dash:
https://mastodon.social/@Barredo/111428459395482229

Sorry @anildash, didn't realise you were on Mastodon.

@thomasfuchs would you like chips with that?

So Google is measuring the productivity of programmers based upon: "wall-clock coding time" and "The number of times developers ran a build each week and the number of lines of code they submitted".
Really?
Have we learned nothing?
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2023/04/10176199/1OAJyfknInm

@inthehands @dabertime I live in a land in which the apex predator is the badger.
Stay away, they can give you a nasty nip!