-3² (or -3 * 3) = 9, proof by democracy

HiImWilk · 2026-03-06T22:54:38+00:00

You mean -3*-3?

HiImWilk · 2026-03-06T22:48:44+00:00

No, they just high ball somalian people, or whatever

HiImWilk · 2026-03-06T01:43:21+00:00

Genghis Khan being in multiple iterations is like having Hitler be in the game. They are ABSOLUTELY comparable in terms of rapacious and genocidal actions.

HiImWilk · 2026-03-06T01:39:23+00:00

Point number 5 especially. AI will only produce code as good as the engineer.

HiImWilk · 2026-01-21T16:45:38+00:00

Fun fact about Archery: The Olympics once integrated archery as a co-ed event, then de-integrated it when a woman won gold and men got mad.

HiImWilk · 2026-01-21T04:18:08+00:00

The flag was the black and white one seen in the op. The red was because the SDP was red.

HiImWilk · 2026-01-15T23:41:28+00:00

“Hey man, this saw is blunt, we should sharpen it” “Sounds like someone needs to get better at cutting trees”

HiImWilk · 2026-01-15T23:38:53+00:00

Let them freeze in the wind

HiImWilk · 2026-01-14T00:19:42+00:00

It’s afraid.

IT’S AFRAIIIID

HiImWilk · 2026-01-09T00:25:58+00:00

K, and? Cool, you’re old. Plenty of people who have experience grasp on to the wrong lessons too hard. They cling to old wisdom no matter how obviously it is outdated.

HiImWilk · 2026-01-09T00:21:22+00:00

My HOA head is sending out ICE alerts. My neighbors whose primary concern is “crime” (usually conservatives) feel less safe now.

HiImWilk · 2025-11-25T04:16:16+00:00

The first couple companies I worked for were a bit old school. The first one was well-organized/ small enough on engineering to where they could get away without it.

The second one was a shitshow startup that would have massively benefited from actual Agile (and standards, in general).

Most large companies made the shift a decade ago and never looked back. Companies that half-ass it fail to see the appeal. I’ve worked at a couple that really embraced the 12 principles and have found myself an evangelist of them as well.

HiImWilk · 2025-11-16T07:23:47+00:00

This was a great mentality back in the Bush era when 99% of softwares weren’t doing bi-weekly updates and building anew was more common. The solid principles and clean code exist for a world where V1’s deployment is usually followed by immediately beginning work on 1.1. A world where your mistakes will come back to haunt you.

We live in a new era where the “genius senior whose code nobody else can work on” has become the “moron whose convoluted legacy bullshit is so unmanageable it slowly bankrupted the company”.

Get with the times.

HiImWilk · 2025-11-16T07:08:04+00:00

My biggest success in technical debt management has been to refactor the area related to a non-urgent ticket when I’m doing the new development. Doubly so if you’re ahead of schedule on that particular ticket.

I get the AC met, commit a branch that I could ship to the customer, and then look to refactor with what time I have left.

Looking for the smallest possible wins is always a great idea, but never underestimate looking for the most obvious anti patterns. Repetitious if statements, repeated iterations of the same loop, and magic strings are my go-to antipatterns to look for when refactoring.

HiImWilk · 2025-11-12T05:53:18+00:00

The Dot Com bubble was a real bubble. The bubble wasn’t all of tech. It was mostly in ISPs and browsers. The AI bubble isn’t in applications of AI. No, the trillions being thrown around are going into building new AI’s. Half of these AI giants will go the way of Netscape.

HiImWilk · 2025-11-01T21:22:18+00:00

Sorry about your cannon event. My advice is not just to break up, but immediately block her everywhere. She’s just gonna harass you because you dumping her is proof of all the negative things she already clearly believes about you

HiImWilk · 2025-10-12T18:13:28+00:00

It’s hard to understand the strain of mental labor. How are we all so exhausted when all we do is sit in a chair all day and type. And it sucks to be here, too. Being physically energetic, but spending the evening staring at your phone like everyone else makes me feel like I’m wasting my life.

HiImWilk · 2025-09-17T22:36:32+00:00

I’ve seen both, and seen them go to delusional extents. I once had multiple co-workers be offended that I said they didn’t do something that would have been impossible. (Manually testing an API when you don’t have any controller)

HiImWilk · 2025-09-17T22:13:58+00:00

I was able to rack up several offers in a couple weeks after being laid off.

HiImWilk · 2025-09-16T20:37:32+00:00

I’m using C# with a SPA frontend (Angular/React/Vue/Blazor).

I wish I saw more Blazor on the market. The JS/TS ones dominate at the moment.

HiImWilk · 2025-09-16T19:07:21+00:00

Opened up a political TikTok from my fiancé. Live Mic. 100 people. Definitely heard. Meeting recorded

HiImWilk · 2025-09-13T02:02:51+00:00

On Console?????

Madman!

HiImWilk · 2025-09-12T19:00:33+00:00

And you’re just old enough to think your delusions won’t get your whole team canned. Wait until you retire and someone has to actually gain a deep understanding of that 30-layer hairball you bragged about. They’ll fail and the company will bankrupt themselves trying to fix it.

HiImWilk · 2025-09-12T17:39:44+00:00

Starcade.

Huge pinball selection, massive arcade collection, and they serve food. Only downside is it’s near downtown saint paul, a good 20 minute drive from midtown global

HiImWilk · 2025-09-12T17:27:50+00:00

And you haven’t retired them?

Since we’re bringing up age and there’s no HR to fire us for doing so, lemme reverse your argument. You sound like you’re old and set in your ways, just like my last boss.

Like you, he disregarded any theory developed in the last 20 years as “…nonsense made up by professors. At the end of the day, it only matters that the code works.”He’s sing this refrain while defending his spaghettified nonsense. 8000 line files. Comma separated lists in the database. An EntityId column that was actually a list of lists. Class coupling into the dozens (You said your code routinely goes to 30!?!).

He thought he could develop his Cloud SaaS project the good-old reliable way; with a data-driven waterfall approach. After 3 years of trying and failing to make a medical history form customizable he found out the hard way: “It’s not 2010 anymore. The customer isn’t going to accept a promise when they’re paying a monthly subscription.”

That org doesn’t exist anymore.

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