Hintron
@thehintron
Follower of Christ. Software engineer. BYU alumni. Proponent of economic and political freedom. Our world needs more energy and opportunity, not less!
Even with a perfectly efficient economy and a perfectly free society, it would all mean nothing without Jesus Christ. His Gospel explains the meaning of life, and he can change *your* life to be the best it can be! #BecauseOfHim #HeIsRisen
I've been thinking a lot about this as well. I have strong feelings about my faith and politics. What I have come to understand is that the prophet has a responsibility and stewardship over the entire world and all of God's children. There are no borders when it comes to…
My thoughts on illegal immigration and the Church This hit on some nerves when I first posted it, so I want to re-post when I can spend more time wording it. I'll share my observations and then I'll share my opinions. I have served in or with Spanish-speaking Church units most…
My🧵in response to members who hate guns: According to some people in the church, owning a gun is contrary to the commandment of being peacemakers. Often, I hear people cite the story of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s burying their weapons of war and covenanting to never use them again.
My thoughts on illegal immigration and the Church This hit on some nerves when I first posted it, so I want to re-post when I can spend more time wording it. I'll share my observations and then I'll share my opinions. I have served in or with Spanish-speaking Church units most…
My favorite angle used to be pi, but now it's tau
On what issue have you changed your mind 180 degrees?
A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic…
"Some applications need performance" - Literally the first thing you said in this video is wrong. "It will have a profound effect on the structure and readability of your code, generally a negative one" - Again, I could say the exact same thing about clean code and OOP. -…
Morning bathrobe rant at the cabin: performance.
Unit tests have lots of advantages, but cons are ignored: - Code must be split to testable parts. Often requiring more interfaces, which add code bloat and complexity. - Each call site is a dependency. Test case = +1 dependency. Added inertia to refactor and throw away code. ...
I'm convinced that this is what's going on in people's minds when they utter nonsense like "tests are not worth it".
Software decay is a great argument for careful planning and thoughtful use of external dependencies. This was something I took very seriously from the start when writing File Pilot. Especially when you look at the lifespan of some long established file explorers, they often last…
I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of… For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But…
Reading @Jonathan_Blow's comment today about how younger programmers have become accustomed to continual software decay, I was reminded of this thread I wrote a few years ago:
[1/*] If we take the chance that a tool (compiler, linker, batch, whatever) remains working for a particular codebase after one year as a given probability p, then the chance that build remains working after x years is p^xn, where n is the number of tools used in the build.
I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it: notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of… For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing. But…
Jeff Bezos literally dropped the most underrated winning principle
"Suppose this Church were so popular that a man could not be elected President of the United States unless he was a Latter-day Saint — we would be overrun by the wicked. I would rather pass through all the misery and sorrow, the troubles and trials of the Saints, than to have…
“Nurturing and protecting life that is yet unborn is not a political position. It is a moral law confirmed by the Lord through His prophets,” said Elder Neil L. Andersen at the beginning of the Saturday afternoon session of April 2025 general conference on April 5, 2025. “The…
It is just as much a tragedy when Palestinian children are killed in war as when Jewish children are killed in war. In some ways, it’s more tragic because the very people charged with loving and protecting Palestinian children often put them in harm’s way deliberately and use…
Who was Brigham Young? The stories they DON'T want you to know.
My good friend @walksatmidnight shared me this story from one of Heber J Grant's missionaries in Japan. It's a good one.
here’s an example of how corporate leadership values get things wrong if you ask managers what they do when a conflict between two people occurs they’ll have roughly the same answer they’ll talk about “getting them both in a room” and “mediating the conversation” and getting it…