Notices by Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social), page 5

As far as I can tell, _every_ software development process works if the people using it are well rested, knowledgeable, respect each other, agree on goals and methods, and have achievable deadlines. Just sayin'…

Here's hoping someone creates a Karikó Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.

Please, please read the entire thread https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275 anyone doing this for Canadian grocery stores (which are committing exactly the same crimes without any meaningful government action)?

Ad firm plans to use people's data in targeted campaign to sink data privacy bill in California: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/18/ad-giant-data-regulation-bill-00111849

I am _seriously_ tired of books and blogs and TED talks telling me how to grow a business. I want to know how to _sustain_ one at a comfortable level. My dentist isn't looking to 10X his practice; neither is my accountant or my lawyer, and they're all (a) happy and (b) not regarded as weird or as failures. Where are the best-sellers on how to maintain a business until you're ready to pass it on to the next person?

I still don't understand what problem NoSQL databases actually solve.

@emilygorcenski and _we_ all now need to decide whether you're telling this story in order to throw off suspicion, because honestly, if I had to make a list of people I know who would be able to plan and execute a heist from a secure bank vault in the middle of Berlin…

Don't screw around with librarians. Seriously.

But it turns out there are a _lot_ of details.

Be kind: the rest is details.

@mhoye Lua is pretty close to being a perfect little programming language.

@gnomon @nelson @mhoye https://luau-lang.org/ is on my list (but so are a lot of other things...)

The "use ChatGPT as a fake therapist for thousands of people without any ethics oversight" story has me wondering again: what can we teach undergrad software engineers that will _convince_ them that this is wrong? We can _tell_ them, but from experience, if they don't already believe, they tell us what they know we want to hear on the exam and nothing in their behavior changes. cc @seresearchers 1/

Trans rights are human rights. More out and visible trans people is good for society.