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Mario Fusco
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Mario Fusco
@mariofusco
Java Champion ~ Open source advocate ~ Frequent speaker ~ @jugmilano coordinator ~ @QuarkusIO and @langchain4j committer at @IBM ~ Pragmatic dreamer ~ Europeist
- Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the covid vaccine. In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal and I believe that putting it in the covid vaccine has been an excellent idea💡
- When you replace your non-working code with something copied from StackOverflow
- When I was young I was a very bad programmer. But after decades of gaining experiences at work and attempts to learn stuff the hard way, I'm finally no longer young.
- 4yo: "dad, what are you writing?" me: "tests" 4yo: "why?" me: "to find and remove errors in my program" 4yo: "why did you put errors in it?"
- Blockchain exists since 15 years now. It is no longer possible to say that it is an immature technology and we're still experimenting with it. Show me a compelling use case for it or please let's finally admit that it is a waste of time, energy and money and move forward.
- There's a simple O(1) algorithm to check if a number is prime that works in 95%+ cases. Of course this is a joke, but it also comes with an important lesson: when estimating the probability of something never forget to take count of the base rate en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate…
- Unpopular opinion: this book is almost 30 years old and in all honesty didn't age very well. If you own a copy do yourself a favor: bury it deeply in your bookshelf and forget about it forever.
- The most important superpower of a developer is complaining about everybody else's code #vdt24
