Thread: I ****ing hate Science

Being defensive when developing automated systems

L 9 pts 2 comments by jcs Jul 18, 2013 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Twilio is currently having a [problem](http://status.twilio.com/services/account-portal) double-billing customers and then automatically shutting them off because their balances are too low. My own account had its credit card charged 3 times this morning for the same amount. Earlier this week Go...

PLOS Biology: Best Practices for Scientific Computing (plosbiology.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by ajdecon Jan 9, 2014 practicesscience Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Improving GitHub for science (github.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by mikemccracken May 14, 2014 programmingscience Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread

Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming (2010) (blog.jot.fm)

L 4 pts 1 comments by pushcx Dec 11, 2014 compscipracticesrant Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Stop Misquoting Donald Knuth! (joshbarczak.com)

L 10 pts 3 comments by iv Jan 3, 2015 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Software Engineering Principles and Practices Exam Specifications (cdn.ncees.org)

L 1 pts 1 comments by mikemccracken Feb 27, 2015 pdfpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Topics and Section descriptions for the NCEES Software Engineering [PE Exam](http://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/). I'm just learning about this. As I understand it, it is currently being used to formally license Software Engineers in the US. The methodology is described in this (paywalled) paper from...

My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books (catonmat.net)

L 7 pts 1 comments by superpat Apr 27, 2016 bookprogrammingscience Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Testing, for people who hate testing (eev.ee)

L 23 pts 4 comments by calvin Aug 22, 2016 practicestesting Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Science of Debugging (and Neutrinos) (medium.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by SteveH May 1, 2017 debuggingscience Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics thread

My Logging Practices (monotonically-unstable.github.io)

L 7 pts 2 comments by calvin Jun 15, 2017 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Good enough practices in scientific computing (journals.plos.org)

L 10 pts 0 comments by mjn Jun 23, 2017 practicesscience Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Drive Mirroring solution for OpenBSD (2000) (marc.info)

L 9 pts 2 comments by stsp Oct 13, 2017 hardwarehistoricalopenbsdrantsciencetesting Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I hate programming, and you should too (hackernoon.com)

L -3 pts 4 comments by yumaikas Jul 22, 2018 practicesrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You (medium.com)

L 27 pts 7 comments by tacaswell Aug 15, 2020 apipracticesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

I ****ing hate Science (buttondown.email)

L 92 pts 40 comments by hwayne Jul 20, 2021 practicesrant Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

My Logging Best Practices (2020) (tuhrig.de)

L 19 pts 6 comments by xojoc Oct 5, 2021 debuggingpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Masterclass: Cross-Checking (danielbmarkham.com)

L 4 pts 9 comments by DanielBMarkham Jan 1, 2022 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (world.hey.com)

L 53 pts 43 comments by skleinxyz Jan 23, 2023 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Productivity / Career / Business thread

Darktable: crashing into the wall in slow-motion (ansel.photos)

L 19 pts 10 comments by calvin Nov 27, 2023 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Exploring the intertwingularity of a docs site (technicalwriting.dev)

L 7 pts 2 comments by kaycebasques Oct 17, 2024 networkingpracticesscienceshowweb Web Development Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation? (stackoverflow.blog)

L 3 pts 24 comments by kaycebasques Dec 19, 2024 practicesprogrammingvibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Understanding task types in the Gemini Embedding API (technicalwriting.dev)

L 1 pts 0 comments by kaycebasques May 15, 2025 practicessciencevibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good (michiel.buddingh.eu)

L 68 pts 35 comments by michiel Jan 26, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Landing Timeline: What to Expect Tonight (spectrum.ieee.org)

L 6 pts 0 comments by jcs Aug 6, 2012 science Science / Math / Physics thread

Ten Things I Hate About Working at Facebook (worldofsu.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by mc Aug 15, 2012 rant thread

Learning from a dropped refactoring – The Real Adam (therealadam.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by tundal45 May 3, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Why IPv6 and Content Centric Networking Matter

L 6 pts 4 comments by tehgeekmeister May 24, 2013 ipv6networkingrantweb Web Development Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

For some reason, it goes without questioning that networked applications of significant complexity require a centralized server. Much of the nature of the web and the cloud are basically a result of this. In a number of cases, it's relatively legitimate. Some things just are significantly easier whe...

Checking Your Derivers’ License - BSD License Problems (spin.atomicobject.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by silentbicycle May 31, 2013 lawpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Is Cryptography Engineering or Science? (schneier.com)

L 8 pts 1 comments by wally Jul 5, 2013 personrantsecurity Security / Privacy Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

LXC – Running 14,000 tests per day and beyond! (Part 1) (codeascraft.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Sep 24, 2013 practicesscaling Productivity / Career / Business thread