Brutkey

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

I tried to read this interview, but nobody uses the web any more, so I couldn't. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/khosla-ventures-rabois-ai-changing-everything-startups

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

It is very, very difficult for me to take Keith Rabois seriously.

Keith Rabois, public statement on what-used-to-be-Twitter: "Nobody is going to be using the web soon", November 29th, 2013.
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

I want to thank you 💛💛

You're a pal and a confidant
I'm not ashamed to say
I hope it will always stay this way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

@dangillmor@mastodon.social you can't scold people into submission. It doesn't work. In fact, it has the opposite effect. Look at all the mars mission testing data. Give them great alternatives and encourage them to take advantage of those alternatives, and furthermore, make the alternatives amazing.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM (2012)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

You gotta love Donor Advised Funds. What are we gonna do? Amass 251 billion dollars. What are we gonna do with it? Well, we're not entirely sure yet. Give us some time. Maybe one day... something, eventually. If we feel like it. https://www.nptrust.org/reports/daf-report/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

wow, ok, so this book was given to the Internet Archive by Ray Ozzie? https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/

inner cover of the book "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely, signed "To Ozzie, who already knows this stuff! All the best! Bob Cringely 11-'92"
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

This is extraordinarily well done. https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1i02pcx/a_cool_guide_for_crossover_in_principles_chekhovs/

A guide for crossover in principles, presented as a 4x4 grid with Gun, Cat, Razor, Law at the top and Checkov's, Schrodinger's, Occam's, Murphy's on the left.
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

This is very aggressively (perhaps too aggressively) stated, but he's absolutely right. People are all worried their ideas are gonna be "stolen", and my friends, I can assure you that won't be the problem.

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats" -- Howard Aiken, Computer Engineer, via IEEE
Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

Fuck yeah, Bill Gates. LET'S DO THIS. (Via The Information, email subscriber only newsletter, a few hours ago) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html

For the wealthy and powerful who want to change the world, Bill Gates has long been a North Star. His Gates Foundation and his efforts to spread the gospel behind the Giving Pledge—a vow taken by more than 240 billionaires to donate their entire fortunes—have defined much of modern philanthropy for the past quarter century. In those efforts, Gates pushed his peers to not only give more but give smarter. And with one fateful new action this week—his decision to close the Gates Foundation in 2045, much sooner than expected—Gates has become something else: the resistance to President Donald Trump. Or at least he’s offering a model for how a smart resistance might assemble. Between now and 2045, the Gates Foundation will dispense its entire endowment and much of Gates’ personal fortune, spending well over $100 billion. This spending will intensify his philanthropy in the coming years as the foundation’s investment horizon shifts from decades into the future to a faster-approaching one (at least in philanthropic terms). Gates is partly making the change to spend more on health initiatives at a time when AI and biotech could vastly change medicine. There’s another obvious reason: It’s an obvious indictment of Trump and the person who has been Trump’s left-hand man, Elon Musk. The recent Musk-led cuts to U.S. foreign aid amount to murder, Gates said in an interview with The New York Times about the foundation’s future. And, no, I’m not grossly misparaphrasing him, who told the Times this: “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” To combat Trump, Gates might’ve just cut the Democrats a big fat check. But political giving has never been his style, and why change now? The party is in clear disarray. Yet he is very much combating Trump in his decision to spend so much more in the coming years—doling out the funds directly to the on-the-ground efforts that matter most to him and to fill holes in support created by Trump. The billionaires who also want to fight against Trump might try Gates’ approach rather than entrusting their money to rudderless politicians.